University of New Haven Athletics

2024: Earned Academic Distinction (Fall 2023) and Academic Honors (Spring 2024) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the fall semester …  One of four pitchers to make up the staff for the season … Led the Chargers pitching staff with a 4.36 earned run average … Made the most appearances in the circle, 21, starting all but one of her outings … Finished the season throwing a team-high 106 innings and struck out a team-high 55 batters … Pitched the full outing in seven games and finished the season with four wins in the circle … Earned the first win of the season, the first win for head coach Kelly Paterson and the first win of her collegiate career in a 3.2 inning outing, her only non-start of the year, against D’Youville (Mar. 11) … Opened up her collegiate career with a four-inning outing against Indiana-Pa. (Mar. 10), striking out four batters … Finished four games with five or more strikeouts, setting her career-high with seven against conference foe Saint Rose (Mar. 30), which was the final game in a four-game stretch where she racked up 20 total K’s … Finished with six strikeouts each against Caldwell (Mar. 20) and American International (Mar. 29) … Added five K’s in a home win over Post (Apr. 17), while closing out her season with at least one strikeout in each of her final seven appearances, concluding that stretch with 20 total strikeouts.

High School: Played three seasons of softball for the Skippers of Minnetonka High School … Closed out her senior season with a 3.77 earned run average and a 1.77 WHIP with 58 strikeouts … Named to the National Honor Society.

Personal: Daughter of James and Jennifer Kinney … Has one older brother Quinten … Majoring in interior design with a pre-architecture track.