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PRONUNCIATION - min-uh-MY-er

2024
• Led the team and finished fifth in the Liberty League with a .389 batting average, while totaling five doubles, 28 hits, and a .500 slugging percentage.
• Finished 3-for-3 in collegiate debut – a 3-1 win over Alfred State (Mar. 11) – collecting at least one hit in six straight games to start her career.
• Ended 1-for-2 with a RBI and scored a run in 8-0 (5 inn.) victory over St. Joseph’s-Brooklyn (Mar. 12).
• Went 2-for-4 with two runs scored, a double and two RBI in 10-2 (6 inn.) win over Westfield St. (Mar. 15).
• Ended 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI in 9-7 win over Elmira (Mar. 29).
• Went 1-for-3 with three runs scored and three RBI, along with the game-tying two-run homerun in the bottom of the seventh, during 10-9 victory over Brockport (Apr. 9). 
• Went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI at Alfred (Apr. 23).
• Finished 2-for-4 with two RBI during 13-5 (5 inn.) win over St. Lawrence (Apr. 12).

BEFORE RIT
• Three-year varsity softball team member at Brighton High School, serving as captain during her senior year
• United State Marine Corps Distinguished Female Athlete Award winner
• Three-time NYS Scholar Athletic Award

PERSONAL
• Maria Nicole Minemier is the daughter of Dawn and the late Robert Minemier III
• Has one younger sister - Lara
• Third-generation RIT attendee; father, grandfather, uncle and two aunts also graduated from RIT
• Lists her father as her biggest influence, who was her coach from little league through high school
• Fan of the Buffalo Bills and QB Josh Allen
• Double major in Biotechnology and Molecular Bioscience