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2025 Softball Roster

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33 Kathryn Schmierer

  • Position Pitcher
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Racine Lutheran
  • Hometown Racine, WI

Biography

2025:
- MAAC All-Academic Team and Academic Honor Roll recipient
- Won eight games in the circle and posted a 3.85 ERA over 151.0 innings pitched (8th-MAAC)
- Cut her ERA to 3.25 over 73.1 innings pitched in MAAC play, earning six of her eight wins on the season vs. league opponents
- Pitched the Broncs’ first seven-inning no-hitter in more than 25 years, allowing just one unearned run in a tough-luck loss to Morgan State (Apr. 23)
- Pitched a complete-game shutout , allowing just six hits and a walk over 7.0 innings pitched vs. Sacred Heart (Mar. 22)
- Hurled her second shutout of the season at Saint Peter’s (Apr. 18), limiting the Peacocks to five hits and three walks, while striking out five
- Pitched a one-hit shutout over 5.0 innings in a mercy-rule-shortened victory at Manhattan (May 3)
- Earned a MAAC Championship win vs. Iona, allowing two earned runs on four hits and a walk over the full 7.0 innings (May 7)

2024:

- MAAC All-Academic Team and MAAC Academic Honor Roll recipient
- Posted a 6-5 record with a 3.43 ERA in 16 appearances, including eight starts in the circle
- Struck out 33 in 63.1 innings pitched
- Went the distance five times in her eight starts
- Struck out a season-high six over 7.0 innings to defeat Morgan State on the road (Apr. 17)

2023:

- Second on the team with a 3.44 ERA in 99.2 innings pitched, striking out 62 in a team-high 27 appearances, including 17 starts
- Earned three wins and a team-high two saves in the circle
- Given the chance to hit for herself late in the season, going 2-for-8, including a 2-for-3 performance with a run scored at Drexel (Apr. 26)
- Pitched a complete-game, five-hit shutout with five strikeouts in a win over Lamar (Mar. 4)
- Hurled a season-high 8.0 innings in defeat to Bucknell (Mar. 18)
- Picked up a win vs. Morgan State (Apr. 11), allowing two runs, one earned, on five hits and a walk over 7.0 innings, striking out six
- Defeated Manhattan (Apr. 16), limiting the Jaspers to just one run on two hits, striking out six.
- Earned saves in both games of a doubleheader sweep over Quinnipiac (May 1), limiting the Bobcats to just one hit over a combined 3.0 innings pitched
- Also closed out the win over MAAC Champion Canisius (May 5) with a scoreless inning in a non-save situation with the Broncs leading 9-5 entering the bottom of the seventh
- Similarly closed out the Game 1 win at Niagara (May 6) with the Broncs leading, 4-0

2022:

- Made 18 appearances in the circle, including seven starts
- Posted a 5-1 record with a 2.31 ERA in 60.2 innings pitched
- Earned the win in her collegiate debut at George Washington (Feb. 19), allowing four runs, three earned, on three hits and four walks in 5.2 innings pitched
- Allowed just one unearned run on four hits and a walk in 7.0 strong innings at Norfolk State (Mar. 5)
- Moved to 3-0 with a complete-game effort against Bryant (Mar. 11)
- Pitched six, three-hit, shutout innings to defeat Wagner (Mar. 22)
- Picked up the win with 3.2 shutout innings against Iona (Apr. 4)
- Pitched 5.1 shutout innings at Princeton (Apr. 27)

Before Rider:

An All-State Second Team as a pitcher in her sophomore year at Racine Lutheran… Conference Player of the Year as a sophomore and two-time All-Conference First Team… All-County First Team as a sophomore after taking Second Team as a freshman… Four-time Offensive Player of the Year, MVP, All-State District and NFCA All-Academic… School record holder with a 1.24 ERA… Led Racine Lutheran to a conference championship for the first time in 40 years… Four-year varsity captain… Also played club softball for Wisconsin Lightning.

Personal:
The daughter of Stacey and Duane Schmierer… Has two sisters, Madalyn and Olivia, and two brothers, Luke and Joseph… a human resource management major with a minor in health care management.

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Historical Player Information

  • 33

    2022Freshman

    Pitcher
    5'7"
    33
  • 33

    2023Sophomore

    Pitcher
    5'7"
    33
  • 33

    2024Junior

    Pitcher
    5'7"
    33
  • 33

    2025Senior

    Pitcher
    5'7"
    33