Villanova Univeristy Athletics

Career: Powerful hitter who burst onto the scene as a sophomore in a First Team All-BIG EAST campaign … Set the Villanova and BIG EAST single season home run record with 20 dingers in her first season as a starter … Promising pitcher with 20 career appearances in her first two campaigns … Member of the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in all four semesters and named to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team as a freshman.

2025: Produced a dominant offensive season in her first season as a full-time contributor … Selected as the designated player on the All-BIG EAST First Team … Set the Villanova single season home run record with a 20-homer season … Led the BIG EAST in slugging percentage as the only player above 1.000 in conference play … Paced Villanova in average (.375), runs batted in (48), total bases (126) and walks (27) … Started 47 games as the designated player … Totaled 15 multi-hit games with 12 two-knock outings and a trio of three-hit efforts … Also made 14 appearances as a pitcher, striking out nine batters in 23.2 innings with two wins … Hit a grand slam in a pinch hit appearance against Purdue for VU's lone pinch-hit dinger of the year … Earned BIG EAST Player of the Week in the opening conference honors … Totaled three hits and a trio of RBI versus Minnesota … Walked three times against both Connecticut and Georgetown … Hit two home runs in the regular season finale against Providence to set the BIG EAST single season record for homers in a conference slate … Hit two home runs and walked three times in the BIG EAST elimination game against Providence.

2024: Threw over 10 innings and struck out four batters in six appearances as a true freshman … Appeared as a pinch hitter 10 times during her freshman campaign with two extra-base hits … Tallied her first scoreless appearance with a pair of strikeouts versus Georgia Southern … Threw two scoreless frames in a doubleheader at USF … Made her BIG EAST debut at Providence with two scoreless stanzas on March 15 … Drove in a run with a bases-loaded walk against Georgetown on March 22 … Blasted her first career home run with a two-run shot to induce the run rule against St. John's … Doubled home two runs at DePaul on March 19 … Earned her first start in the circle against Penn with two strikeouts in three innings.

Mid Valley High School: Earned three letters in softball as a pitcher … Compiled a career 1.11 ERA with 415 innings pitched and 637 strikeouts as well as a .671 batting average and 48 home runs at the plate … Ranked as the No. 1 player in the state of Pennsylvania by Maxpreps … 2023 Scranton Times Tribune Player of the Year … 2021 PA State Player of the Year and Maxpreps Player of the Year … Three-time Coaches' Choice Player of the Year as well as All-Region and All-State … Named an Extra Innings Softball All-American.

Personal: Born 4/27/05 in Olyphant, Pennsylvania … Youngest of three children of Mark and Marjorie Runco … Younger sister of Mariah, who played softball at Marywood University, and McKenzie … Enjoys painting, playing instruments and hanging out with friends & family … Majoring in communication ... Chose to attend Villanova because "It instantly felt like home."