CAREER: Closed out her career sixth all-time in home runs with 18 long balls … Also among two other career stat Top-10s with a .983 fielding percentage (eighth) and with 61 walks (fourth) … Among four different Top-10 categories in the season records, including tied for second with 10 home runs in 2018 and fourth with a .641 slugging percentage that same season.
2022: Played in 30 games, starting 29 of them as one of two primary backstops … Finished the season with a .240 batting average with 18 hits in 75 at bats … Closed out the year driving in 17 runs, second most on the team, with seven of her 18 hits for extra bases on three doubles and four home runs … Finished 15 games with at least one hit, drilling a pair of hits on three occasions … Finished a pair of conference series with three hits combined across the doubleheader, against Le Moyne (Apr. 10) and on Senior Day against Southern New Hampshire (Apr. 30) … Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll Fall semester.
2021: Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean's List following the Fall 2020 semester … Played in 33 games, starting in 31, as either the designated player or catcher … Closed out the season fourth on the team with a .287 batting average, scattering 25 hits, tied for fourth on the team, across 87 at bats … Drove in 18 runs, second most on the team, primarily hitting in the third and fifth position in the lineup … Led the team with 19 walks … Opened up the season hitting safely in each of the first five games, all in non-conference play, going 6-of-15 in that stretch … Hit safely in 20 games, while reaching base safely in 28 total games … Finished five games with multiple hits, while driving in a pair of runs on three occasions against Southern Connecticut (Apr. 7) and in both ends of a doubleheader against American International (Apr.27) … In that doubleheader against the Yellow Jackets, she finished 3-of-5 at the plate with four RBI, two walks and a sacrifice fly to her credit … Closed out the season with 64 putouts and eight assists, including a pair of occasions where she caught runners attempting to steal.
2020: Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following both the Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters ... Started all six games prior to the season being suspended due to CoVID19 … Finished the shortened season with a pair of hits in 17 at bats while driving in one run and scoring twice … Added three walks and a 29 putouts to her credit … Added two assists, catching a pair of runners attempting to swipe a base.
2019: Named to the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following both semesters … Played in 40 games, starting in 39 splitting time between catching and as the designated player … Racked up a .265 batting average collecting 30 hits and driving in 16 runs … Seven of her 30 hits went for extra bases, four doubles and three triples … Hit safely in 26 games, finishing five games with multiple hits … Drilled her first ever grand slam in the second game of the season with her lone hit against Felician (Feb. 15) … Closed out the season with four hits and reached base safely eight times in the NCAA East Region Championship.
2018: Named to the Northeast-10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll following both semesters and earned New Haven Dean’s List honors following the fall semester … Named NE10 First Team All- Conference …. Named NFCA All-East Region team … NE10 Rookie of the Week on April 23 after hitting .556 with 10 hits and seven RBI over a six game stretch … Appeared and started in all 46 games … Led the team in RBI (36), homeruns (10), walks (13), and doubles (13) … Hit safely in 33 games, knocking two or more hits in 14 games, second most on the team, and drove in two or more runs in a team-high 11 runs … Finished with a season-high three hits against Queens (Mar. 6), going 3-for-3 with an RBI which came on her fourth home run of the season … Opened up the season with a home run in each of the first three games, finishing that same stretch with five RBI on four hits … Strung together a 10-game hitting streak that spanned Mar. 25 – Apr. 8 … Finished that stretch with 13 hits and seven RBI … Finished a doubleheader against NYIT (Apr. 12) with six RBI on three hits … Closed out a three-game NE10 series against American International (Apr. 21-22) with six RBI on six hits.
High School: Was a captain of the softball team her senior year at Saint Joseph’s High School … Named First-Team All-Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference (FCIAC) … Three-time first-team All-State … First Team All-New Haven Register … High School team won FCIAC Championship three times … Had a high school batting average of .422 with 122 hits, 85 RBI, 10 home runs and 42 walks … Was a three-year principles honor roll student … Also was a member of the swim team and school band.
Personal: Daughter of Jack and Rhonda Hillman … Has one brother, Jack, and three sisters, Jenelle, Jessica and Julianna … Sister, Jenelle, swam at Western Connecticut College … Sister, Jessica, played softball at Springfield College … relative, Jay Hillman, played football at the University of Boston and went on to play professionally for the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers ... Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a concentration in forensic psychology in May 2021 … Currently pursuing a Master of Arts in community psychology.
