Columbia University Athletics

Honors & Awards:
- 2019 NFCA Scholar-Athlete

2021: Season canceled (COVID-19).

2020: Made four appearances in the circle during a COVID-shortened season .. Totaled 4.1 innings with a 3.23 ERA and five strikeouts ... Tossed a scoreless inning and struck out two in a season-opening win over Providence (Feb. 21) ... Also pitched scoreless frames in relief against Stony Brook (Feb. 22) and Longwood (Feb. 28).

2019: NFCA Scholar-Athlete … Made five appearances in relief, combining for 6.0 innings pitched with a 2.33 ERA … Made her collegiate debut against UMass at the ECU Purple & Gold Invitational, tossing 1.2 innings hitless innings with a strikeout (March 3) … Made her Ivy League debut at Princeton, allowing just a hit and two unearned runs while striking out two in 1.2 innings (March 29).

Prior to Columbia: Four-year letterwinner and two-year captain at El Segundo High School ... Helped the Eagles to Oceans League titles in 2016 and 2018 ... Was named Oceans League MVP as a senior, pitching to a 1.24 ERA while striking out 44 in 62 innings pitched ... Offensively, hit .427 with a .593 slugging percentage, 28 runs, 13 RBIs and eight stolen bases as a senior ... Went on to earn first team all-area honors ... Named El Segundo High School Female Co-Athlete of the Year ... Four-time all-league selection and three-time all-area selection ... CIF-SS All-State team for Division 5 ... Travel team, Firecrackers, won the 2016 Premier Girls Fastpitch national championship and followed up with a top-10 finish in 2017 ... Earned California Scholarship Federation (CSF) Scholar recognition four straight years for maintaining over a 4.0 GPA through each semester of high school ... Named the 2018 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) El Segundo Female Scholar Athlete of the Year ... Four-year member of the National Society of High School Scholars.

Personal: Born September 26, 1999 in Santa Monica, California ... Daughter of Tifani and Joseph Benjamin ... Uncle, Rick Janssen, was a member of the 1998 Indiana Tech baseball team that finished runner-up in the NAIA World Series, and was inducted into the Indiana Tech Hall of Fame ... Younger sister, Gaby, is committed to pitch at Loyola Marymount University as part of the class of 2023 ... Studying sports and enterainment.