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2025 Softball Roster

21 Ava Calabrese

  • Position C/IF
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Summit
  • Hometown Summit, N.J.

Biography

Honors
• Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll, 2024 and 2025

Career Statistics
Year GP GS   Avg AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB Slg OBP
2022 23 16   .280 50 5 14 1 0 0 4 2 .300 .308
2023 35 35   .240 75 6 18 2 1 0 10 1 .293 .321
2024 34 33   .198 86 9 17 3 1 1 12 2 .291 .255
2025 21 8   .281 32 1 9 4 0 0 4 0 .406 .343
Totals 113 92   .239 243 21 58 10 2 1 30 5 .309 .298


Career Highs
hits – 3 vs. Scranton, 2025; vs. Cortland, 2023

Career Highlights
2024
• Started 33 of the Mules’ 42 games, both at catcher and third base
• Tied for third on the team with 6 sacrifices
• Had strong start to season, hitting .333 over first 11 games
• Belted first career home run in sixth inning to ice 6-2 Centennial Conference win vs. Swarthmore
• Went 2-for-3 and scored twice in 7-4 win at Haverford
• Hit run-scoring single and double vs. St. Joseph’s

2023
• Split time between third base and catcher, starting all but two of the Mules' games
• Was fifth on the team in RBI
• Went 3-for-3 with a double and a pair of runs scored vs. Cortland
• Finished season by going 4-for-7 with 3 RBI in doubleheader split at McDaniel
• Drove in 2 runs vs. Franklin & Marshall

2022
• Played in 23 of Muhlenberg’s 45 games at catcher and first base
• Hit .280 and made only one error in 69 chances
• Started Centennial Conference championship game vs. Swarthmore and NCAA Tournament win vs. Cabrini
• Singled in tying run with two outs in the seventh of eventual extra-inning win at McDaniel
• Went 3-for-5 against Franklin & Marshall
• Had two hits and scored a pair of runs vs. Sarah Lawrence

Personal
• Earned four letters as a member of the Summit High School softball team
• Hit 14 home runs with a career batting average of .402 through three years at catcher and third base
• Named to the NJ.com all-group team 
• Parents are John and Krystyne Calabrese 
• Born Jan. 20, 2003 
• A biology major

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2022Freshman

    C/IF
    5'6"
    21
  • 21

    2023Sophomore

    C/IF
    5'6"
    21
  • 21

    2024Junior

    C/IF
    5'6"
    21
  • 21

    2025Senior

    C/IF
    5'6"
    21