2024: Earned Academic Excellence accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following both the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the fall semester … Appeared in 37 games, starting in 35 as the primary left fielder … Closed out the season with 11 hits in 76 at bats with one double and an RBI … Split her 11 hits across eight games, finishing a trio of games with two hits each … Her first two-hit outing was also the start of a three-game stretch with at least one hit with the multi-hit outing coming against American International (Mar. 29) … Her best series of the season came against Bentley (Apr. 5) when she combined to finished 3-of-7 at the plate with an RBI and a double across the doubleheader … Final multi-hit game came in a conference win over Southern New Hampshire (Apr. 14) where she finished 2-of-3 at the plate.
2023: Made an appearance in 25 games, starting in seven … Finished the year with six hits in 21 at bats, knocking in one run and scoring nine times … Also added a pair of walks and was hit by a pitch twice … All six of her hits came in separate games … Once finished with a hit in back-to-back games against Post (Apr. 17) and Bridgeport (Apr. 21) … Her lone RBI on the season came in a non-conference game against Molloy (Mar 28) in a pinch-hit opportunity … Earned Academic Excellence accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean's List following both semesters.
2022: Made an appearance in seven games, starting all seven before suffering a season-ending injury … Finished the season with an RBI and a run scored in 12 at bats … Earned Academic Distinction (Fall 2021) and Academic Excellence (Spring 2022) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean's List following both semesters
2021: Earned Academic Distinction (Fall 2020) and Academic Excellence (Spring 2021) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean's List following both semesters … Made 22 appearances, all in a pinch runner role … Finished with seven runs scored and was successful in swiping a pair of bases in as many attempts.
High School: Four-year varsity member of the Crusaders softball team at Morris Catholic, including serving as the team captain as a junior and senior … Earned Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference Honorable Mention in 2018 and Second Team honors in 2019 … Named to the Morris County Girls Softball Coaches Association’s Morris County All-Coaches Team following the 2019 season … Received All-Academic Team accolades from the Northwest Jersey Conference in 2019 … Inducted in the National Honor Society.
Personal: Daughter of Scott and Johanna Bizub Smith … Has one twin sister, Sarah who graduated from New Haven in May 2024 and was also a member of the softball team… Has three cousins playing collegiate football; Shane Smith at Wagner, Joseph Bahnatka at East Stroudsburg and Paul Bahantka at Wesley College … Also has one cousin who plays softball at UMass, Peggy Bush … Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice with a concentration in investigative services and a minor in criminal justice with a concentration in general psychology in January 2024 … Currently pursuing a Master of Science in criminal justice.
