The period dedicated to college softball in the United States began in February and will end in June, a world made up of different associations and divisions and full of athletes who, alongside their student commitment, also compete on the diamond. Among these there are several blue athletes.
In the top university league, the Division I della National Collegiate Athletic Conference (NCAA), we find Laura Vigna committed to Mercer University, Georgia, in the Southern Conference. The Piedmontese player already boasts a very respectable palmares overseas, having won two national titles at the level of Junior College (NJCAA) con Florida Southwestern Statea university in which two other Italians are now employed: Giulia B Ancora (already on the champion roster last year) e Virginia Mambelli.
Remaining in NCAA Division I, the best result last year among the Italian players was the one achieved by Giulia Koutsoyanopoulos which, together with his Tennessee, won its conference (SEC) and reached the national semifinals. This season, in his senior year (fourth), Koutsoyanopulos will look to push the Lady Volunteers even further.
Stable presence on the blue platform, he also wears those colors in college Alexia Lacatenaengaged in her third year with Kentuckyafter pitching 157 innings in his first two years.
He chose to return for a fifth year at University of Illinois Chicago the blue thrower Christina Toniolowho will finish his college career at the end of this season.
In the Division II from the NCAA plays Maya Milanin his second season at college, wearing the jersey New Mexico Highlands nella Rocky Mountain Conference.
Looking beyond the NCAA and returning to the NJCAA, an important springboard for development and growth for athletes, in addition to the names of BANCA and Mambelli we always find in Florida also Giada Acanfora e Beatrice Nanetti who, defending the colors of Miami Dadewill seek to end Florida Southwestern State’s hegemony in the Florida College System Activities Association.
Moving further west, he wears the jacket of Eastern Arizona College the Venetian Marianna Zumerleplaying in the Arizona Community College Athletics Conference.
In the Division II from the NJCAA we find Angelica Agro (Ellsworth Community Collegein Iowa) e Manuela Cianfriglia (Spoon River Collegein Illinois).
Nella National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is found Giulia Cianfrigliacurrently engaged in her second season with the Trinity Christian College in Illinois all’interno della Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Among the players who could soon join their compatriots in US colleges we find the class of 2005 Silvia Franzoni (Polk StateNJAA Division I, in the same conference as Florida Southwestern and Miami Dade) and Alysia Terrenzio (in word with Northwestern
Ohio, NAIA). The athletes, from Bollate and Macerata schools respectively, were the protagonists of the showcase offered by Softball Junior Showcase Of
Between the Lines last October, a program hosted by FIBS
and from Italian American Baseball Foundation to allow athletes wishing to continue their studies and sporting activity in Stars and Stripes colleges.
Instead, they are involved in high schools Carlotta Villa e Giorgia Zenari.
Photo: Laura Vigna in the batter’s box (credit Mercer University Athletics)
THE REPORT ON BLUE BASEBALL PLAYERS IN COLLEGES
by Nicolò Gatti
2024-03-29 10:05:01
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