Brown freshman Olivia Pichardo became the first woman to appear in a Division I baseball game when she lost to Bryant, 10-1, on Friday.
Queens, a left-handed batting utility player from New York, went to the plate with one out in the ninth inning and made the first pitch at Murray Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.
Pichardo was an outfielder and pitcher for the USA Baseball Women’s National Team that won three of five against Team Canada in its only game last summer. He walked on at Brown in the fall, and coach Grant Achilles told him he had earned a roster spot in November.
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Pichardo plays club ball in the New York area and completed an internship with the New York Mets’ amateur scouting department last year. She played basketball and volleyball at Garden School before attending Brown.
About a half dozen women are known to have played baseball at a junior college or lower-division four-year school. The NCAA said on its website that Pichardo is one of eight women on a collegiate baseball roster this season, but she is the only one playing at the Division 1 level.
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