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This past winter, Brown’s baseball program added freshman utility player Olivia Pichardo to its roster as a walk-on. When she suits up for the Bears this season, she will become the first woman to ever play NCAA Division I baseball.
According to Baseball For All, women have played baseball collegiately alongside men since 1987, and at least nine female players are currently rostered on various university baseball teams across the U.S. and Canada. But Pichardo is the first to make it to the highest level of competition in the NCAA, and she’s doing it right here in the Ivy League. The Bears will host the Quakers for a three-game series on April 15-16.
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