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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown Baseball Head Coaching Chair Grant Achilles has announced the addition of Olivia Pichardo to the team’s varsity roster for the upcoming 2023 season. Pichardo, who made the team as a walk-on after trying out this fall, is the first female in history to be on an active NCAA Division I Baseball varsity roster.
Prior to enrolling at Brown for the Fall 2022 semester, Pichardo was a member of the USA Baseball Women’s National Team and played club baseball for the New York Crush and Next Level Baseball. A native of Queens, N.Y., Pichardo played varsity high school baseball at Garden School as both a seventh and eighth grader.
During her tryout for the national team, she competed and pitched at Target Field in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Twins. As a member of Team USA this summer, she participated in the Friendship Series against Team Canada in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Off the field, Pichardo interned in the New York Mets Amateur Scouting Department.
HISTORY! The first female NCAA Division I baseball student-athlete is Brown's own Olivia Pichardo
— Brown Baseball (@BrownU_Baseball) November 21, 2022
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