2024 Softball Roster
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Jersey Number 1
Sophia Marsalo
- Position:
- First Base/Outfield/Catcher
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Twin Valley
- Hometown:
- Morgantown, Pa.
Bio
Awards
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2025)
Second-team All-Ivy League (2024)
Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2022)
First-team All-Ivy League (2022)
At Princeton
2025
Served as a team captain ... Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete ... limited to 21 games due to injury, playing primarily at first base and pinch hitting ... drove in a pair of runs against Texas State.
2024
Second-team All-Ivy League honoree ... played in 44 games and started 38, all at first base ... had six multi-hit games on the season, including three-hit games against Penn (Mar. 30) and Dartmouth (Apr. 13) ... began the season with a four-RBI game against South Carolina State (Feb. 24), doubling twice.
2023
Played in 46 games and made 44 starts, all at first base ... 32 hits came across 24 games with seven multi-hit games ... had three hits at Villanova on April 25 ... had four multi-RBI games, driving in four at Villanova on April 25 and three against Harvard on April 22 ... all three homers on the season came in a span of seven games, against Chattanooga (Mar. 15), Yale (Mar. 19) and Rider (Mar. 29).
2022
Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... first-team All-Ivy League ... finished with a .317 batting average on teh season ... led the team with a .406 batting average in the Ivy League season ... started all 46 games, primarily at first base while also seeing time as a catcher ... first career home run came on April 30 at Columbia ... had hits in 29 games and had 12 multi-hit games, including five three-hit games ... had a seven-game hit streak against Dartmouth, Monmouth and Cornell from April 2-10 in which she hit .667 (14-21), raising her season batting average 95 points to .372 ... swept Ivy Player and Rookie of the Week honors on March 14 and again on April 12, going 12 of 28 (.429) on the spring trip to win the first honors and 10 of 13 (.769) against Monmouth and Cornell to win the second pair of honors ... had a .985 fielding percentage on four errors in 265 chances.
Before Princeton: First-team all-county 2021 ... school's 2021 Athlete of the Year ... earned the school's 2021 E.Jerry Brooks Award for Academic Excellence ... first-team all-division 2019-BCIAA ... also earned first-team all-county field hockey honors in 2021 ... played club softball for Newtown Rock 18u Gold Garvey.
Personal: Daughter of Jennifer and Anthony Marsalo ... has a sister, Grace... majoring in politics.
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2025)
Second-team All-Ivy League (2024)
Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2022)
First-team All-Ivy League (2022)
At Princeton
2025
Served as a team captain ... Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete ... limited to 21 games due to injury, playing primarily at first base and pinch hitting ... drove in a pair of runs against Texas State.
2024
Second-team All-Ivy League honoree ... played in 44 games and started 38, all at first base ... had six multi-hit games on the season, including three-hit games against Penn (Mar. 30) and Dartmouth (Apr. 13) ... began the season with a four-RBI game against South Carolina State (Feb. 24), doubling twice.
2023
Played in 46 games and made 44 starts, all at first base ... 32 hits came across 24 games with seven multi-hit games ... had three hits at Villanova on April 25 ... had four multi-RBI games, driving in four at Villanova on April 25 and three against Harvard on April 22 ... all three homers on the season came in a span of seven games, against Chattanooga (Mar. 15), Yale (Mar. 19) and Rider (Mar. 29).
2022
Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... first-team All-Ivy League ... finished with a .317 batting average on teh season ... led the team with a .406 batting average in the Ivy League season ... started all 46 games, primarily at first base while also seeing time as a catcher ... first career home run came on April 30 at Columbia ... had hits in 29 games and had 12 multi-hit games, including five three-hit games ... had a seven-game hit streak against Dartmouth, Monmouth and Cornell from April 2-10 in which she hit .667 (14-21), raising her season batting average 95 points to .372 ... swept Ivy Player and Rookie of the Week honors on March 14 and again on April 12, going 12 of 28 (.429) on the spring trip to win the first honors and 10 of 13 (.769) against Monmouth and Cornell to win the second pair of honors ... had a .985 fielding percentage on four errors in 265 chances.
Before Princeton: First-team all-county 2021 ... school's 2021 Athlete of the Year ... earned the school's 2021 E.Jerry Brooks Award for Academic Excellence ... first-team all-division 2019-BCIAA ... also earned first-team all-county field hockey honors in 2021 ... played club softball for Newtown Rock 18u Gold Garvey.
Personal: Daughter of Jennifer and Anthony Marsalo ... has a sister, Grace... majoring in politics.
Princeton Athletics 2023-24 Highlights
Tuesday, June 04
Sights and Sounds: 2024 Ivy League Baseball Tournament - Game 3
Monday, May 20
Sights and Sounds: Princeton Baseball Ivy League Tournament win vs. Harvard
Friday, June 02
Highlights from 2022 Gary Walters ’67 PVC Awards Banquet
Wednesday, June 22
