Villanova Univeristy Athletics

Career: Played in 175 games with 156 starts for the Wildcats from 2018-21 … Named to the BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team as a senior when Villanova won its first-ever conference title and advanced to an NCAA regional for the first time in program history … Part of Wildcats teams which went 108-76-2 (.586) during her career … At the time of her graduation in 2021 was tied for seventh in school history with 20 career home runs and was tied for 10^th in school history with 46 career walks … Also ranked 16^th in the program’s record book with 554 career putouts … Was a career .245/.311/.433 hitter with 24 doubles, two triples and 20 home runs … Went 114-for-466 at the plate with 59 runs scored and 79 runs batted in … Drew 46 walks, was hit by a pitch once and struck out 113 times … Stole five bases in seven tries, had one sacrifice bunt and five sacrifice flies … Recorded a .974 fielding percentage with 554 putouts, 128 assists and 18 errors … Four-time member of the BIG EAST All-Academic Team and earned a spot on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll all eight semesters of her collegiate career … Named to the Easton/NFCA Scholar-Athlete Team as a senior in 2021.
 
2021: One of four players on the team who started all 52 games during the year … Batted .253 (40-for-158) with a .324 on-base percentage and a .430 slugging percentage in 179 plate appearances … Hit seven doubles and seven home runs while scoring 21 runs and driving in 27 runs … Drew 18 walks and struck out 35 times … Recorded three sacrifice flies … Went 0-for-2 in stolen base tries … Named to the All-Tournament Team at the BIG EAST Championship where she was 7-for-17 (.412) with a homer, three runs scored and two RBI over five games … Helped the Wildcats win their first-ever BIG EAST title and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history … Tied a career high with five RBI against Liberty on February 27 when she had a grand slam while finishing the game 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a walk … Had 10 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games … Collected a season-high three hits against Towson on March 17 when she was 3-for-3 with a double, a home run and three RBI in the first game of a doubleheader … Homered and drove in four runs against St. John’s on April 24 … A key player for the Wildcats not just because of her power bat in the middle of the lineup but also for her defensive versatility … Started at five different positions, including 24 starts at shortstop to go along with 17 at first base, seven in left field, three at third base and one in right field … Despite all that movement around the diamond had a .986 fielding percentage in 212 chances (176 putouts, 33 assists, three errors).
 
2020: Played in 25 games with 23 starts and batted .215 with a .301 on-base percentage and a .369 slugging percentage … Had 14 hits and 10 runs scored and seven runs batted in while hitting one double and three home runs … Drew eight walks and had one sacrifice bunt … Tallied four multi-hit games on the year, including three in a four-game span from February 15-21 … Went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and a solo home run in a win over Florida Atlantic on February 15, then had two hits including a two-run home run in a win over Penn State the next day … Matched her season high with two runs batted in at San Diego on March 6 … All but one of her 23 starts came at first base … Had a .976 fielding percentage for the season with 119 putouts, one assist and three errors.
 
2019: Played in 50 games with 47 starts on the year … Batted .270 (37-for-137) with a .338 on-base percentage and a .526 slugging percentage … Ranked second on the team in slugging and home runs, with eight long balls to go along with nine doubles and a triple … Scored 17 runs and had 30 runs batted in … Drew 14 walks, struck out 40 times and stole two bases … Tallied six multi-hit games and tied for second on the team with nine multi-RBI contests … Put together a eight-game hitting streak from March 3-15 during which she batted .545 (12-22) with two doubles, three home runs, five walks and nine RBI … Named the BIG EAST Player of the Week on March 18 after that stretch … Had a career-high four hits, including a double, two home runs and five RBI against Holy Cross … Doubled, walked and drove in two runs versus Saint Francis … Doubled and hit a home run against Saint Peter’s … Drove in three runs against Fairfield and in the BIG EAST championship game against DePaul … Went 3-for-7 with a double, a run scored and the three RBI in two games at the conference tournament … Started 28 games at first base, 17 games at third and one each as the catcher and the designated player … Played strong defense at both corner infield positions, totaling 219 putouts, 35 assists and a .973 fielding percentage in 261 chances.
 
2018: Appeared in 48 games with 34 starts as a freshman … Was the team’s primary third baseman and started 30 games at the hot corner, in addition to three starts at second base and one as the designated player … Batted .217 (23-for-106) with a .259 on-base percentage and a .358 slugging percentage … Had seven doubles, one triple, two home runs, 11 runs scored and 15 runs batted in … Drew six walks, struck out 21 times and stole three bases without being caught … Had a season-high three hits with a double and two RBI against Providence on April 14 … Hit her first collegiate home run, walked and drove in three runs versus Lafayette three days earlier … Doubled, tripled and drove in three runs against Rider in the second game of a doubleheader after having a pinch-hit single and stolen base in the first game of the day … Had 40 putouts, 59 assists and five errors while compiling a .952 fielding percentage in 104 total chances.
 
Bishop Feehan High School: Earned four varsity letters in softball and was a three-time Gatorade Player of the Year nominee … Named an EAC All-Star, a Boston Herald All-Star and a Sun Chronicle All-Star all four years of her scholastic career … Recorded the longest hitting streak in her school’s history in addition to setting the single-season school record for runs scored and the career record for hits … Member of the Boston Globe All-Scholastic Team as a junior and a senior for her academic achievement … Inducted to the National Honor Society.
 
Personal: Born 6/3/99 in Providence, R.I. … Older of two daughters of Mark and Carla DaCosta … Has a younger sister, Kaitlyn … Enjoys ice hockey … Chose to attend Villanova for its high academic standards and the student-to-teacher ratio … Double major in Management Information Systems and Business Analytics in the Villanova School of Business.