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2022 MIT Softball Roster

NFCA

6 Claire Wichman

  • Class Senior
  • B/T L/R
  • Height 5-5
  • Hometown Omaha, Neb.
  • High School Elkhorn
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career Highs
Hits 2 Three Times - Most Recently vs. Coast Guard (April 30, 2022)
Runs 2 Twice - Most Recently vs. Coast Guard (April 30, 2022)
Doubles 1 Four Times - Most Recently at Babson (May 7, 2022)
Triples N/A N/A
Home Runs N/A N/A
RBI 2 at Clark (April 10, 2022)
Walks 3 vs. Rowan (May 13, 2019)
Stolen Bases 1 vs. Susquehanna (May 13, 2022)

Accolades:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2022, 2021)
- NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team (2022)


2022 [Season Stats]:
- Played in 29 games with 14 starts
- Scored winning run on May 13 against Susquehanna 
- Had three multi-hit games during the season


2021:
- Season Canceled due to COVID-19


2020:
- Season Canceled due to COVID-19


2019: [SEASON STATS]
- Appeared in 20 games as a first-year
- Tallied five hits, scored six runs, drew six walks and drove in one run
- Registered her first collegiate hit and run against Wisconsin-Stout in Florida on March 23
- Notched three hits, scored two runs and drew five walks in five games in the NCAA Regional Tournament at home in May


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning the State Championship in High School


Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Playing in regionals freshman year


Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering
- Minoring in physics
- Concentration in economics
- Engineering intern at Engineering Systems Inc.
- Construction Support Engineering Intern at General Dynamics Electric Boat
- Product Technology R&D Intern at Fiserv
- Rocket Team
- Member of Levitch Leadership Laboratory
- Designing and building an Interplanetary Time Device called Zenolith as part of the Space Exploration Initiative in the MIT Media Lab


High School:
- A 2018 graduate of Elkhorn High School
- Four-time varsity letterwinner in softball
- First Team Class B All-State
- Second Team Super State
- Academic All-State
- 2014 Class B State Champion
- Also played for the Nebraska Quakes Prime where she placed third in the Platinum at the 2016 PGF National Championship and won the 2017 Top Gun Invitational title
- National Honor Society
- National Academy of Future Scientists and Technologists Award of Excellence
- Math Team captain
- Students Against Destructive Decisions
- Honor Roll

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2019First Year

    INF
    5'5"
    6
  • 6

    2020Sophomore

    INF
    5'5"
    6
  • 6

    2021Junior

    INF/OF
    5'5"
    6
  • 6

    2022Senior

    INF/OF
    5'5"
    6