Newsstand: Notre Dame softball makes significant addition
Notre Dame softball added Princeton transfer pitcher Alexis Laudenslager, the team announced Monday. Laudenslager has two years of eligibility remaining.
Laudenslager is coming off back-to-back seasons as the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. She has 30 career wins, a 2.29 ERA and 352 strikeouts in 287.2 innings pitched.
“We’re very excited to have Alexis on campus this fall,” Irish coach Deanna Gumpf said in a press release. “She has proven to be a dominant college pitcher and will add an extra element to our current pitching staff. Her experience, paired with our current staff gives us the depth to put us in a great position to compete at the highest level in the nation and in the ACC.”
This past season at Princeton, Laudenslager became the first pitcher in program history to throw three no-hitters in a single season. She also set a Princeton record with five no-hitters in her career.
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“It will never look like those other places. We will build a functional building. It will be attractive. It will have new things. Some of the things that get a lot of notoriety in the other programs, we aren’t going to have.”
— Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick on his vision for a renovated and/or expanded Guglielmino Athletics Complex
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