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2023 Softball Roster

Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin
Eric Espada/Columbia University

8 Kat LoVerde

  • Position Middle Infielder
  • B/T R/R
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • School CC
  • Hometown Cypress, Calif.
  • Highschool Cypress

Biography

2023
Appeared in 14 games and earned one start as a senior … Named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete.
 
2022
Earned 11 starts and appeared in 19 games … Went 3-17 at the plate with one double and three RBI … Recognized as an Easton-NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete.
 
2021
Season canceled (COVID-19).

2020
Played in two games and started once in a COVID-shortened season .. Went 2-for-5 at the plate ... Went 2-for-2 in her collegiate debut in the season-opening tournament at FAU against Colgate (Feb. 23).

Prior to Columbia
Four-year letterwinner and shortstop at Cypress High School in Cypress, California ... In four seasons with the Centurions, helped her team to three California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section appearances, including the Division 2 title in a 2-1 win over South Torrance in 2019 ... Senior captain who was part of Cypress’s 2018 Empire League championship squad ... Finished league runner-up in 2016, 2017 and 2019 ... Played club ball for California Cruisers-Sievers 18U Gold with incoming classmate Danielle Mandichak, helping the team to a Top-4 finish at the 2018 Premier Girls Fastpitch National Championship ... Multi-sport athlete who competed in soccer ... Won the Empire League with Cypress soccer in 2015 and 2016 while being named the team’s Offensive Player of the Year in 2016 ... Graduated as a four-year Empire League All-Academic Team shortstop ... Four-year honoree on the Principal’s Honor Roll and four-year member of the National Society of High School Scholars.

Personal
Born Jan. 11, 2001 in Los Alamitos, California ... Daughter of Valerie and John LoVerde ... Sister, Christine, plays softball at Chapman University in Orange, California ... Chose Columbia over Penn, Pomona College, Chapman University and UCSD ... Enrolled in Columbia College.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2020First Year

    Middle Infielder
    5'6"
    8
  • 8

    2021Sophomore

    Middle Infielder
    5'6"
    8
  • 8

    2022Junior

    Middle Infielder
    5'6"
    8
  • 8

    2023Senior

    Middle Infielder
    5'6"
    8