Columbia University Athletics

2023
Played in 22 games and earned eight starts as a senior … Went 5-for-26 at the plate with one homerun and four RBI … Named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete.
 
2022
Earned 16 starts and appeared in 27 games … Totaled four hits, five RBI, and one home run … Hit a home run in the first game of a doubleheader against Penn (3/19) … Recognized as an Easton-NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete.
 
2021
Season canceled (COVID-19).

2020
Played and started nine of the 10 games during a COVID-shortened season ... Totaled five hits, three doubles, five runs and three RBI ... Went 1-for-3 with a run, a double and three RBI in her collegiate debut against Providence (Feb. 21) ... Doubled and scored in games against Albany (Feb. 22) and Ball State (March 1).

Prior to Columbia: Heads to Columbia from about an hour south of Los Angeles in Laguna Niguel, California ... Three-year outfielder and senior catcher at Aliso Niguel High School ... Helped Aliso Niguel to the 2018 South Coast League title, as well as a runner-up finish in 2019 ... Served as team captain in both 2018 and 2019 ... Helped Aliso Niguel go on to the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section quarterfinals in 2018, marking its second quarterfinal appearance in Mandichak’s four years ... All-league selection for the Wolverines ... Played summer ball with fellow classmate Kat LoVerde for California Cruisers-Sievers 18U Gold, helping the team finish third at the Premier Girls Fastpitch Nationals in 2018 ... Also competed in water polo ... Four-year Scholar Athlete through her time at Laguna Niguel.

Personal
Born Dec. 18, 2000 in Irvine, California ... Daughter of Anne and Joseph Mandichak ... Has a brother, Collin ... Enrolled in Columbia College studying computer science.