Months after becoming the first woman named to a DI baseball roster, Olivia Pichardo made her NCAA diamond debut on Friday.
Pichardo made the team in the fall following an open tryout as one of 31 players initially named to the roster. Now she's one of 36 and got her first look at live action 11 games into the season.
"Olivia put together the most complete walk-on tryout I have seen from a player since becoming a head coach,” coach Grant Achilles said in the fall. Pichardo received a round of applause from her teammates when Pichardo announced that she'd made the team in November.“I’m just really glad that we’re having more and more female baseball players at the collegiate level, and no matter what division, it’s just really good to see this progression,” Pichardo said at the time via a Brown statement.
Pichardo isn't the first woman to play for an NCAA baseball since World War II era. That honor is believed to belong to
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