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SEC Freshman of the Week (4/16/24)

2023-24 SEC First-Year Honor Roll

SOPHOMORE (2025)

• Appeared in 56 games with 55 starts.
• Made 44 starts in right field to go with eight starts in left and three at catcher.
• Hit .244 with 22 runs, 38 hits, 15 doubles, three home runs, 19 RBI and 15 walks.
• Slugged .397 with a .328 on-base percentage.
• Tallied nine multi-hit games with three multi-RBI games.
• Went on a 10-game reached base streak in 2025.
• Notched a career-best three hits (3-for-4) with two RBI, a double and a homer against Duke (2/8).
• Registered a trio of RBI (personal-best) in the victory over Clemson (2/13).
• Posted another career-high three-hit outing (3-for-4) with three RBI (personal-best), a double and a home run versus Baylor (2/21).
• Compiled a career-best two doubles (2-for-4, one RBI) in Mizzou's 12-8 victory over No. 15/16 Mississippi State (4/12).
• Opened the scoring in Mizzou's midweek with Missouri State (4/2), blasting a solo homer to right in the second.

FRESHMAN (2024)

• Appeared in 48 games with 37 starts (30 at DP, four in left field and three at catcher).
• Notched 24 hits (.226) with 11 runs, two doubles, two homers and 11 RBI.
• Slugged .302 with an on-base percentage of .346.
• Posted a career-best three hits twice in 2024.
• Made Mizzou debut against NC State (2/9), coming on as a defensive replacement at catcher to go with a single and a run.
• Brought in a pair of runs with a walk and a double against North Texas (2/17).
• Went 2-for-4 with two runs in her home state of New York against Fordham (3/26).
• Knocked the game-winning RBI single to push Mizzou past Hofstra (3/26), 2-1, in nine innings.
• Blasted her first career homer to close the East Coast Trip at Villanova (3/30)
• Named the SEC Freshman of the Week (4/16) after she batted .417 with three RBI, three runs and one home run as the Tigers went 3-1 including a series win over No. 9 Florida.
• Led Mizzou at Drake (4/10), going a career-best 3-for-4 with three RBI to go with two runs. Launched her second career home run in the top of the fourth.
• Added a 3-for-3 day at the plate with an RBI against South Carolina (5/4).

PREP 

• 2022-23 New York Gatorade Softball Player of the Year
• Ranked 13th overall in the 2023 Class, according to Extra Inning Softball 
• Served as the starting varsity catcher at Hauppauge High School since the seventh grade
• Four-time New York All-State Honoree
• Tabbed a 2022 Extra Inning Softball First Team High School All-American after registering a .667 batting average with eight home runs, 35 RBI, 34 steals, 32 runs, and a .805 on-base percentage in 18 games
• Also, a four-year starter on the Eagles soccer and basketball teams
• Played club softball for New Jersey Intensity

Personal 

• Born April 13, 2005
• Daughter to Thomas and Daniela Abruscato
• Father, Thomas Abruscato, played college baseball at Adelphi University and went to the College World Series
• Father, Thomas Abruscato, is currently a three-time state winning head baseball coach at Clarke High School (Westbury, New York)
• Has two sisters Giuliana, and, Crisalyn
• Her older sister, Giuliana Abruscato, plays softball at Connecticut
• Majoring in Health Science: Rehabilitation Sciences at Missouri