Villanova Univeristy Athletics

Career: Two-time selection to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team and four-time member of the Athletic Director's Honor Roll ... Played in 111 games with 65 starts during her Villanova career ... Amassed 37 hits, including seven doubles and a home run, to go along with 14 runs scored and 21 runs batted in ... Drew 13 walks and struck out just 18 times in 210 plate appearances ... Compiled a .993 fielding percentage with 246 putouts, 23 assists and just two errors in 271 chances.

2019: Played in 34 games with 22 starts and batted .215 (14-for-65) with a .297 on-base percentage and a .308 slugging percentage … Season totals included five runs scored, nine runs batted in, three doubles and a home run … Drew eight walks and struck out 10 times … Started 12 games behind the plate and 10 as the designated player … Tallied three multi-hit games, including a two-hit, two-RBI day against Delaware … Had consecutive multi-hit games against Stetson and Bethune-Cookman … Doubled, hit a home run and drew a walk in the Stetson game … Singled twice and drove in a run against Bethune-Cookman … Had 34 putouts, five assists and only one error in 40 chances in the field (.975 fielding percentage) … Threw out two would-be base stealers.
 
2018: Appeared in 35 games with 14 starts and batted .225 (9-for-40) with four runs scored, four runs batted in, one walk and four strikeouts … Collected multi-hit games against Cornell (2-for-3) and Rider (2-for-3, RBI) … All 14 of her starts came at catcher, where she had 60 putouts and seven assists for a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage … Threw out two would-be base stealers.
 
2017: Played in 42 games with 29 starts as a freshman and hit .177 (14-for-79) with a .230 on-base percentage and a .228 slugging percentage … Scored five runs, had eight runs batted in and hit four doubles … Drew four walks, was hit by a pitch twice and struck out only four times in 94 plate appearances … Tied for the team lead with seven sacrifice bunts … Stole a base in her only attempt … Had a season-high two hits, including a double and a run scored against Georgetown in the second game of a doubleheader after going 1-for-3 with a hit by pitch and an RBI in the opening game of the twin-bill … Doubled and drove in a career-high four runs against DePaul … All 29 of her starts came at catcher, where she had 152 putouts, 11 assists and only one error in 164 total chances (.994 fielding percentage) … Threw out five would-be base stealers in 22 tries.
 
Martin Luther King Jr. High School: Earned four varsity letters in softball and was a three-year starter behind the plate … Two-time team MVP as a junior and a senior … Four-time Big Eight All-League and CIF Honorable Mention selection … Led her team in batting average in three of her four varsity seasons … Compiled a .997 fielding percentage and did not allow a stolen base against her as a senior … Member of the team that finished as the CIF Division I runner-up in her freshman and sophomore seasons … Named to the All-CIF Academic Team as a junior and a senior … Achieved Honor Roll status academically all four years … Winner of the Riverside County Academic Team Award three straight years from her sophomore through senior seasons … Attended the same high school that produced Villanova volleyball student-athlete Regan Lough.
 
Personal: Born in Riverside, Calif. … Daughter of Felix Olivarez and Todd & Christy Pollard … Has a sister, Kaila Pollard … Enjoys volunteering her time to help special needs individuals and hopes to become involved with Special Olympics and/or become a special needs teacher … Chose to attend Villanova for its outstanding academic reputation and the university’s annual involvement with Special Olympics … Education major.