Gina Chieffallo

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Eynon, Pa.
High School:
Valley View

2017: Pitched in 10 games, making six starts … Served team as captain … Tallied a 2.82 ERA, 3-1 record, three complete games, and two shutouts … Tossed 27.1 innings on the year with 11 strikeouts … Hurled a complete-game shutout against Harvard (Apr. 27), striking out two over 7.0 innings … Registered a complete-game shutout in game two vs. Yale (Apr. 30), allowing just four hits with two strikeouts over 7.0 innings.

2016: Made 16 appearances with eight starts in the circle … Ranked fifth in the Ivy League with a 2.76 ERA … Pitched 66.0 innings … Struck out 24 batters, averaging 2.55 strikeouts per game … Tossed five complete games … Did not allow an earned run in a complete-game win vs. NC Central (Mar. 5) … Threw 14.0 innings and gave up just one earned run in game two vs. Yale (Apr. 29) … Fanned a season-high four batters in each of four games … Earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week on Mar. 8 … Won the team’s Zucconi Strength Award.

2015: Made two appearances in the circle … Pitched 1.2 innings … Finished the year with a 0.00 ERA … Allowed two unearned runs on two hits on the season … Earned NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors … Garnered the team’s Bruno Award.

2014: Appeared in 15 games, 14 as a pitcher … Started six games in the circle, striking out eight batters on the season … Finished the year with 15 assists on 16 chances for a .938 fielding percentage ... Threw 3.1 innings in collegiate debut against Bucknell (Mar. 1) ... Tossed a season-high 5.0 innings at Harvard (Apr. 12).

Before Brown: A member of the National Honor Society and the Math Honor Society at Valley View High School … Served in leadership positions on the student council and in the Leo Club … Participated in Students Against Destructive Decisions … A three-sport athlete at Valley View High School, she earned four varsity letters in softball, three in cheerleading and one in tennis … Captained the softball team during her senior year … Won four District II championships with the softball team … Won the Lackawanna League, earned Lackawanna League All-Star honors, named First Team All-State and selected as an All-Region pitcher in 2011, 2012 and 2013 … Two-time Times Tribune Softball Player of the Year … Led softball team to a 2013 AAA State Softball Championship … Also competed for the Carbino Club.

Personal: Gina Chieffallo is the daughter of Lori and Michael Chieffallo of Eynon, Pennsylvania … She has one younger sister, Olivia … Her cousin, Stephen Picchini, played football for the US Naval Academy … Enjoys art, knitting, crocheting and skiing … Cognitive Neuroscience concentrator.