2019: First Team All-Ivy League … Twice named Ivy League Player of the Week … Three additional selections to the weekly Honor Roll … Led the Ivy League and tied Columbia’s single-season record in RBI (40) … Scored an Ivy League-best 36 runs, which ranks No. 2 in program history … Also led the league in hits (56) and triples (4), while ranking top five in total bases (86), steals (8), batting average (.397) and slugging (.610) … Had 23 RBIs, 19 runs and three home runs in league play, which all ranked among the top 10 … Ranked top 100 in the NCAA in batting average, RBI per game (0.89) and triples per game (0.09) … Started all 45 games at third base … Went 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI in a 10-3 win over Monmouth at the FIU Panther Invite (Feb. 23) … Posted her first 4-for-4 game, homering and tallying three runs and three RBI against Army down in Clearwater (March 16) … Drove in a career-high four runs in a game-two victory over Cornell (April 13) … Went a combined 5-for-9 with four runs and eight RBI to help Columbia sweep the Big Red (April 13-14) … Hit 3-for-3 with a triple, two runs and three RBI in a 10-2 win over Wagner (April 24) … Came a double shy of the cycle in a 3-for-4, two-run, three-RBI effort to defeat Brown (May 3) … Tied the Columbia single-season record in RBI in game two against the Bears (May 4).
2018: All-Ivy League Honorable Mention … Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll five times … Played in 31 games with 28 starts at third base … Ranked top 10 in the Ivy League in batting average (.354), slugging percentage (.608), on-base percentage (.452) and runs scored (23) … Totaled seven doubles, two triples, three home runs and 17 RBIs … Went 1-for-3 with a run in her first collegiate game against Florida Atlantic (Feb. 23) … Stole her first base while going 1-for-3 with a double in a 12-1 victory over Howard (March 4) … Registered her first multi-hit game on opening day of Ivy League play at Penn, going 2-for-3 with two runs, two RBIs and her first collegiate home run as part of 9-7 victory (March 17) … Doubled in a run as part of Columbia’s four-run sixth to defeat Yale, 4-1 (March 24) … Hit a bases-clearing, three-run triple to jump start Columbia’s 14-0 victory over St. Peter’s (April 5), finishing the game 2-for-3 with two runs … Hit two doubles in a 6-1 victory over Harvard (April 6) … Doubled and scored as part of a 9-1 series opening victory over Princeton (April 21) … Capped off her season by going 3-for-4 with three runs, three RBIs, two doubles and a homer in game one of the season-ending series at Cornell (April 28), also homering again later that day in game two.
Prior to Columbia: Four-year letterwinner at Citrus Valley High School in Redlands, California, near her hometown of Highland ... Three-time First Team All-Citrus Belt League (CBL) selection ... All-CIF Honorable Mention as a sophomore in 2015 ... Her 2014 squad won the CIF championship ... Two-year team captain ... Batted .520 as a senior, .463 as a junior and .457 as a sophomore ... Slugged a career-best .946 as a senior ... Earned two SoCal Prep Legends Girl Athlete of the Week nominations ... Member of Citrus Valley's Principal’s Honor Roll and National Honors Society ... Allso a member of the California Scholarship Federation and the National Society of High School Scholars.
Personal: Born May 1, 1999 in Loma Linda, California ... Daughter of Julie Ortega ... Sister, Sophia, played four years of softball at Bethune-Cookman (2012-16) ... Cousin, Danielle, played four years of softball at UNC Greensboro (2012-16) ... Cousin, Cassandra, played softball for Cal Berkeley ... Uncle, David, and cousin, David Jr., each played football for Cal ... Was also recruited by and chose Columbia over schools including Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Arizona State ... Enrolled at Columbia College and intends to study biochemistry.
