St. John Fisher University Athletics

2025: The catcher earned first-team All-Empire 8 honors for the fourth consecutive season… led the Cardinals and set a program single-season record with 51 RBI… also set career highs in batting average (.358), slugging percentage (.772), home runs (13) and walks taken (13)... matched her career highs in doubles (12) and on-base percentage (.429)... had 44 total hits, the third most on the team… she struck out just nine times in 123 at-bats… behind the plate, she had 261 putouts and 20 assists… she threw out 11 runners attempting to steal… only allowed five passed balls… did not commit and error… was named Empire 8 Player of the Week on March 31… hit three two-run homers and drove in six runs in a doubleheader sweep of Houghton on March 27… in a doubleheader sweep of Nazareth on April 23, she hit a grand slam in the first game before smacking solo and three-run homers in the second ballgame… she had five hits in seven at-bats with 10 RBI over those two games… had three multi-home run games... selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All District Softball Team for the third year in a row.. had 169 career hits, tied for 10th in program history... batted in the third most runs in program history (130).

2024: Named to Empire 8 All-Conference First Team for third straight season...  Named to NFCA All-Region Third Team.. Played and started in 42 games... Finished with .383 batting average, 12 doubles, a triple, three home runs, and 36 RBI... Slugged .563 and had .429 on-base-percentage... During regular season, she was tied for fourth in the conference in RBI (29), tied for eighth in doubles (10), finished 10th in on-base-percentage (.446) and tied for tenth in hits (39).... Led conference in putouts during regular season (232) while finishing fourth in fielding percentage (.992) and tying for sixth in runners thrown out stealing (4)... Named Most Valuable Player of Empire 8 tournament and won spot on All-Tournament team, batting .467 (7-for-15) with two home runs, six RBI and five runs scored in the four games... She went 3-for-4 with a three-run home runs and two runs in St. John Fisher's 8-7 win in nine innings over Alfred University in an elimination game on May 10 and was 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI in St. John Fisher's 9-1 win over Utica University in the decisive game of the tournament on May 11.

2023: Named to Empire 8 All-Conference First Team... Appeared and started in 41 games... Hit .322 with four home runs and 20 RBI... Doubled 11 times... Finished with slugging percentage of .512...

2022: Earned Empire 8 All-Conference First Team and E8 All-Tournament Team honors as Fisher's starting catcher ... Started all 35 games played and was third on the team in batting average (.349), hits (37), and slugging percentage (.472) ... Her 23 RBIs and seven doubles ranked second ... Had a .981 fielding percentage behind the dish and caught 10 would-be base stealers ... Ended the season with a 13-game hit streak, the longest by any Cardinal in 2022 ... In the third game of that streak, she hit a walk-off grand slam as part of a 10-7 comeback win over Utica (4/23).

High School: Was a well-decorated three-sport athlete, earning varsity letters in softball, soccer, and basketball ... Earned the following awards for softball in both 2019 and 2021: All-State Fourth Team, Section V Class A2 Player of the Year, Monroe County Division IV Player of the Year, All-Monroe Country First Team, and All-Greater Rochester First Team ... Helped Honeoye Falls-Lima win Section V Class A2 Championships in 2019 and 2021 ... Is tied for fourth in New York State history with three home runs in a single game ... Was twice included on the All-State soccer teams ... Graduated from HF-L with the Herbet J. Worboys Award, which is given to the top three-sport senior athlete.

Personal: Mariana, or Mari, is the daughter of Carrie and Jeff ... She is majoring in Criminology and Psychology and is a member of the National Honor Society... She is minoring in Management... Her favorite athletic moment is hitting a walk-off home run against Nazareth her sophomore year... She started playing softball in the seventh grade after initially playing baseball... Her favorite professional sports team is the New York Yankees... Her superstition is bringing her stuffed pig "Her" to every game.