Abby Hornberger

Photo by: Joshua Gao

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Position:
Outfield
Height:
5-3
Class:
Senior
High School:
Regina
Hometown:
Troy, Mich.

Awards
Second-team All-Ivy League (2026)
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2025)
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2024)

At Princeton
2026
Second-team All-Ivy League ... played in 47 games and made 41 starts as a senior, hitting a career-best .322 with 38 hits, 23 runs, 11 doubles, five home runs, 25 RBI, six walks, six hit-by-pitches, four stolen bases, a .542 slugging percentage and a .379 on-base percentage ... ranked among the Ivy League leaders in doubles ... had 10 multi-hit games, including three-hit games at Columbia on March 29 and at Harvard on April 26 ... drove in a season-high three runs at Yale on April 18, at Harvard on April 25, against Brown on May 7 and against Columbia on May 9 ... homered at San Diego, against Monmouth, at Yale and in both games of an April 25 doubleheader at Harvard ... finished with a 1.000 fielding percentage.

2025
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete ... played in 35 games, splitting time between the outfield, DP and pinch hitting ... had a career-high 14 hits, five homers, 19 RBI and seven walks ... homered against George Mason, Texas State, South Dakota State, Michigan and Penn .. the homer against George Mason was part of a five-RBI game in which she went 2 for 3 with a double ... had six multi-hit games, including a 3-RBI game against South Dakota State.

2024
Started seven early-season games as the designated player ... played in 31 games overall, primarily as a pinch hitter ... had hits in five games on the season ... Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honoree.

2023
Played in 32 games, primarily as a pinch hitter and a pinch runner ... had nine hits in 24 at-bats and slugged .750 with three doubles and two homers, driving in 14 runs ... hit a pinch-hit grand slam in the first game of the final day of the Ivy League Tournament against Harvard, extending a 2-0 lead to 6-0 in the fourth inning of a 6-0 win to force a second game ... first career homer was at Villanova on April 25 ... had two-RBI games against Penn (Mar. 31), Columbia (Apr. 8), Cornell (Apr. 15) and Villanova (Apr. 25).

Before Princeton: Extra Inning Elite 100 in the Class of 2022 and the Extra Inning National High School Player of the Week on May 3, 2022 … four-year varsity starter and served as a team captain during her career at Regina High School … earned all-state honors in 2022 and was a finalist for Michigan State Player of the Year ... 2022 Catholic High School League Softball Player of the Year ... MLive All-Metro Detroit 2022 ... 2022 Academic All-State honoree ... graduated top 10 for most home runs in the state of Michigan for a season, with 18 ... set single season school records for both home runs and RBI ... twice earned all-region honors and was a three-time all-district and All-Catholic League honoree ... helped Regina to a 2019 state championship ... competed with Finesse Fastpitch in club play and was a 2021 USA Softball National Champion ... was Regina's valedictorian and senior class president.

Personal: Parents are Chris and Michelle Hornberger ... has a younger brother, CJ ... student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.