Biography
2025:
- First Team All-MAAC selection
- CSC Academic All-District honoree
- MAAC All-Academic Team and Academic Honor Roll recipient
- Led the team in batting average (.350), slugging percentage (.636, 7th-MAAC), OPS (.1.039, 8th-MAAC), doubles (17, 2nd-MAAC), home runs (8), total bases (91) and sacrifice flies (2)
- Reached base safely in 12-straight games (Apr. 4-23), the second-longest streak on the team in 2025
- Had a team-high 15 multi-hit games
- Went 4-for-7 with a pair of home runs, a double, five RBI’s and two runs scored in a doubleheader at Army West Point (Mar. 26)
- Doubled, homered and drove in two in Game 2 vs. Iona (Apr. 1)
- Went 4-for-4 with three doubles, an RBI and four runs scored in Game 2 at Mount St. Mary’s (Apr. 9)
- Went 2-for-4 with an RBI double and the tying run in a six-run rally to defeat MAAC Champion Marist (Apr. 15)
- Went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI’s in Game 1 vs. Niagara (Apr. 25)
- Had three hits in consecutive games of a three-game sweep of Manhattan to end the regular season, doubling and driving in four in the first contest
- Doubled and drove in two in a MAAC Championship victory over Fairfield (May 8)
2024:
- CSC Academic All-District honoree
- MAAC All-Academic Team and MAAC Academic Honor Roll recipient
- Made 36 starts in 45 games played between catcher and DP
- Hit .324, good for third on the team, with three home runs, a team-high 10 doubles, 22 RBI’s and 12 runs scored
- Had six multi-hit games, including two with three hits against Lafayette (Mar. 2) and at Morgan State (Apr. 17)
- Drove in a season-high three runs in a 2-for-4 effort vs. Mount St. Mary’s (Apr. 23)
2023:
- Academic All-District selection
- MAAC All-Academic Team honoree
- Started 39 of 42 games played as the Broncs’ primary catcher
- Hit .252 with four doubles, a triple, 10 RBI’s and 11 runs scored
- Batting average rose to .286 in 20 league games, including 18 starts
- Threw out 13 attempted base stealers, third-most in the MAAC and 26th in the nation at the end of the regular season
- Had five multi-hit games, all with two hits apiece
- Went 2-for-3 with a triple and three RBI’s in a win over North Dakota (Mar. 18)
- Added a 2-for-4 effort with two RBI’s and a run scored in Game 1 at Fairfield (Apr. 3)
- Reached twice on a single and a hit-by-pitch and scored twice in a win over Monmouth (Apr. 13)
- Went 2-for-3 with an RBI in Game 1, before scoring a run in Game 2 of a split with Saint Peter’s (Apr. 25)
- Singled and walked twice in three plate appearances at Drexel (Apr. 26)
- Went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored to help the Broncs sweep Quinnipiac (May 1)
- Went 3-for-7 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in a sweep at Niagara (May 6)
2022:
- MAAC Academic Honor Roll recipient
- Started eight of 22 games played
- Collected her first hit, run and RBI as a Bronc at Norfolk State (Mar. 4)
- Went 2-for-3 at East Carolina (Mar. 14)
Before Rider:
Batted .667 while earning Team MVP, the Captains Award and the Coaches Award for Perryville… Four-year varsity letterwinner… Earned Honorable Mention All-League… Also played club softball for Lady Dukes Lynch, hitting .458… also a three-year varsity standout volleyball student-athlete.
Personal:
The daughter of Anna and Charles Gardner… Has an older brother, Eric, and an older sister, Andrea… a business administration major.