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2025 Softball Roster

Gabby Mattei '25

9 Gillian Zack

  • Position OF
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool St. John Vianney
  • Hometown Colts Neck, N.J.

Biography

Honors
• Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025
• All-Region Team 5 second team, 2022
• All-Centennial Conference honorable mention, 2022 and 2025
• NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team, 2022
• Centennial Conference player of the week, 2022

Career Statistics
Year GP GS   Avg AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB Slg OBP
2022 45 45   .325 126 22 41 10 0 6 25 5 .548 .363
2023 36 36   .298 114 13 34 7 0 0 15 4 .360 .354
2024 39 39   .314 121 17 38 10 1 4 24 0 .512 .357
2025 41 41   .328 131 21 43 11 1 1 21 6 .450 .353
Totals 161 161   .317 492 73 156 38 2 11 85 15 .470 .357

Career Highs
hits – 4 vs. Gettysburg, 2024
home runs – 2 vs. Swarthmore, 2024; vs. Franklin & Marshall, 2022
RBI – 7 vs. Gettysburg, 2024

Career Highlights
2024
• Came on strong at the end of the season 
• Hit .440 over final seven to finish over .300
• Tied for team lead in doubles and was fifth in batting average, second in home runs and third in RBI and slugging
• Also excelled on defense, handling 61 chances without an error and recording 5 assists from center
• Became fourth player in program history to reach double digits in career home runs
• Hit two home runs in Centennial Conference playoff win vs. Swarthmore
• Second Mule with more than one career multiple-homer game
• Went 4-for-4 and tied school record with 7 RBI in win at Gettysburg
• Hit game-tying triple in bottom of 11th at McDaniel
• Belted two doubles in win vs. Franciscan

2023
• Started every game but one in center and finished fifth on the Mules in batting average
• Tied for second on the team in RBI and was third in hits
• Hit bases-loaded, two-out single in the seventh to bring in lone run in walkoff 1-0 win vs. Dickinson
• Threw out runners trying to stretch singles into doubles in both games of doubleheader sweep of Franklin & Marshall
• Hit a pair of doubles against both Salem State and Mass.-Boston
• Went 3-for-4 against both Cortland and McDaniel

2022
• Had a sensational first season with the Mules
• First Mule outfielder to earn all-region recognition since 2004
• Led the team in home runs, RBI and slugging percentage
• Became only the fourth different Muhlenberg player to hit as many as six homers in a season
• In the Centennial Conference, tied for first in home runs, tied for seventh in RBI and was eighth in slugging percentage
• Had seven hits in seven postseason games, including three-run home in NCAA Tournament win vs. Cabrini
• Tied school record with two home runs in one game at Franklin & Marshall, including go-ahead two-run home in 11th
• Had five hits in each of back-to-back doubleheaders vs. F&M and Centenary
• First career home run was inside-the-park four-bagger vs. Albright
• Doubled twice in CC win at Haverford
• Also excelled in the field, leading the Mules with six outfield assists

Personal
• Four-year letterwinner in softball at St. John Vianney High School
• Helped team to a state championship in 2018
• Honored as a Golden Glove recipient in 2018 and 2019
• Transferred to Muhlenberg from University of Delaware
• Parents are Paul and Kathleen Zack
• Father, Paul, was a pitcher at Western Kentucky University and drafted by the Yankees in 1989
• Born June 1, 2002
• Pursuing master's in organizational leadership in Muhlenberg's School of Graduate Studies
• Graduated with a business administration major (management and organization concentration) and political science minor

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2022Sophomore

    OF
    5'3"
    9
  • 9

    2023Junior

    OF
    5'3"
    9
  • 9

    2024Senior

    OF
    5'3"
    9
  • 9

    2025Graduate Student

    OF
    5'3"
    9