2024 Softball Roster
Ford, Karis
Jersey Number 18
Karis Ford
- Position:
- Outfield/Infield
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School:
- Dunn School
- Hometown:
- Nipomo, Calif.
Bio
Awards
First-team All-Ivy League (2025)
Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2024)
Ivy League all-tournament team (2024)
At Princeton
2025
First-team All-Ivy League honoree ... two-time Ivy League Player of the Week (Feb. 17, Mar. 24) ... raised her BA from .243 as a rookie to .344 as a sophomore, and raised her totals in runs scored (10 to 19), hits (27 to 43), homers (five to 10), RBI (24 to 41), slugging percentage (.450 to .656), walks (10 to 30), and on-base percentage (.306 to .471) ... hit the first home run at Cynthia Paul Field, doing so in the first game against Harvard (Mar. 22) before following it with another homer in that day's second game ... had 11 multi-hit games, with three-hit games against San José State (Mar. 9) and Cornell (Apr. 13) ... drove in four runs apiece in the series opener against Harvard and the series finale against Penn (Apr. 27) among her nine multi-RBI games ... .344 BA on the season was 11th in the Ivy while her 41 RBI were second, her 10 homers were second, her 82 total bases were fourth, her 30 walks were second, her .471 OBP was third, and her .656 slugging percentage was third ... in the Ivy season, 29 RBI led the league while her six homers were tied for second, her 22 walks led the league by six, her .494 OBP was fifth, and her .684 slugging percentage was fourth ... 30 walks made her just the fourth player in program history, first since 2016 and second in the previous 30 years to draw 30 walks in a season.
2024
Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player, getting hits in all four games on the way to a .500 (5-10) tournament batting average ... had two doubles in the clincher against Harvard and hit a two-run homer in the tournament opener against Dartmouth for just the fifth home run Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Jensin Hall allowed all season and only the second against an Ivy opponent ... played in 45 games and made 39 starts, split between outfield and DP ... had seven two-hit games on the season ... had eight multi-RBI games on the season, including a four-RBI game at Long Beach State on March 9 ... hit a homer against Long Beach State as well as three in a four-game span against Monmouth and Yale, plus the Ivy Tournament homer.
Before Princeton
Earned first-team all-league honors in volleyball as a junior and senior ... honor roll student each year from ninth through 12th grade ... with no team at her school, played only club softball, most recently with Firecrackers Rico 18U.
Personal
Majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology.
First-team All-Ivy League (2025)
Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2024)
Ivy League all-tournament team (2024)
At Princeton
2025
First-team All-Ivy League honoree ... two-time Ivy League Player of the Week (Feb. 17, Mar. 24) ... raised her BA from .243 as a rookie to .344 as a sophomore, and raised her totals in runs scored (10 to 19), hits (27 to 43), homers (five to 10), RBI (24 to 41), slugging percentage (.450 to .656), walks (10 to 30), and on-base percentage (.306 to .471) ... hit the first home run at Cynthia Paul Field, doing so in the first game against Harvard (Mar. 22) before following it with another homer in that day's second game ... had 11 multi-hit games, with three-hit games against San José State (Mar. 9) and Cornell (Apr. 13) ... drove in four runs apiece in the series opener against Harvard and the series finale against Penn (Apr. 27) among her nine multi-RBI games ... .344 BA on the season was 11th in the Ivy while her 41 RBI were second, her 10 homers were second, her 82 total bases were fourth, her 30 walks were second, her .471 OBP was third, and her .656 slugging percentage was third ... in the Ivy season, 29 RBI led the league while her six homers were tied for second, her 22 walks led the league by six, her .494 OBP was fifth, and her .684 slugging percentage was fourth ... 30 walks made her just the fourth player in program history, first since 2016 and second in the previous 30 years to draw 30 walks in a season.
2024
Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player, getting hits in all four games on the way to a .500 (5-10) tournament batting average ... had two doubles in the clincher against Harvard and hit a two-run homer in the tournament opener against Dartmouth for just the fifth home run Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Jensin Hall allowed all season and only the second against an Ivy opponent ... played in 45 games and made 39 starts, split between outfield and DP ... had seven two-hit games on the season ... had eight multi-RBI games on the season, including a four-RBI game at Long Beach State on March 9 ... hit a homer against Long Beach State as well as three in a four-game span against Monmouth and Yale, plus the Ivy Tournament homer.
Before Princeton
Earned first-team all-league honors in volleyball as a junior and senior ... honor roll student each year from ninth through 12th grade ... with no team at her school, played only club softball, most recently with Firecrackers Rico 18U.
Personal
Majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Reflections from the Princeton Athletics Class of 2025
Tuesday, May 27
Softball Highlights vs. Columbia & Brown, Ivy League Tournament, 5-10-25
Saturday, May 10
Softball Highlights vs. Harvard, Ivy League Tournament, 5-9-25
Friday, May 09
Beyond The Stripes -- Princeton Softball's Legacy Of #2
Thursday, May 08
