Katie Orona

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Pueblo, Colo.
High School:
Pueblo East

Notes: Finished her career with 246 strikeouts, ranking fourth all-time at Brown.

2018: Made 17 appearances with 12 starts … Posted a 7.78 ERA over 56.2 innings … Tallied 10 strikeouts on the year … Threw two complete games … Earned the win vs. Stony Brook (Mar. 2), throwing 5.0 innings and allowing two runs … Earned a Global Sport Community Fellowship … Gained the team’s Bruno Award … Garnered NFCA Scholar-Athlete laurels.

2017: Pitched in 22 games with 17 starts … Totaled a 3.46 ERA and 51 strikeouts on the year … Tallied eight complete games, one shutout, and a 5-11 record … Tossed 97.0 innings … Posted a 1.38 strikeout-to-walk ratio … Threw a shutout at Stony Brook (Mar. 25), allowing two hits with a season-high eight strikeouts over 7.0 innings … Did not permit an earned run in a complete game vs. Army (Feb. 26) … Struck out six batters and allowed one run in a game two win vs. Hartford (Mar. 29) … Earned NFCA Scholar-Athlete honors … Gained a Royce Fellowship.

2016: Appeared in 23 games with 19 starts in the circle … Ranked second in the Ivy League in complete games (15), third in total strikeouts (93), fourth in innings (130.1), and sixth in wins (nine) … Posted a 3.01 ERA and 4.99 strikeouts per game … Went 9-10 on the year … Allowed one earned run or fewer in each of eight starts … Tallied a 1.98 strikeout-to-walk ratio … Struck out a season-high nine batters in each of two games … Fanned eight batters and gave up just two runs in game one win vs. Yale (Apr. 29) … Earned complete-game wins in game one vs. Cornell (Apr. 9) and in game one vs. Princeton (Apr. 10) … Pitched the full 8.0 innings and earned the win in game one at Penn (Apr. 1) … Earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week twice (Mar. 1, Apr. 12).

2015: Earned Honorable Mention All-Ivy honors … Appeared in 19 games in the circle, making 17 starts … Ranked second in the Ivy League in ERA (2.23) and fifth in strikeouts per game (5.87) … Threw 14 complete games and 109.2 innings on the year … Struck out 92 total batters … Tallied a 1.74 strikeout-to-walk ratio … Tossed a pair of shutouts – at Bryant (Apr. 8) and in game two at Dartmouth (Apr. 18) … Allowed one or fewer earned runs in each of eight starts … Fanned a season-high 11 batters in season opener vs. Army (Feb. 27) … Struck out 10 batters vs. Bucknell (Feb. 28) … Pitched 7.0 innings and allowed one run with six strikeouts in 6-1 win over Penn (Apr. 3) … Won Ivy League Rookie of the Week three times (Mar. 3, Mar. 31, Apr. 28), Ivy Pitcher of the Week once (Mar. 3), and ECAC Rookie of the Week once (Mar. 31) … Garnered the team’s Most Outstanding First Year Award.

Before Brown: Earned all-conference honors all four years … Helped team win the 4A state title in 2012 … Gained first team all-state honors as a sophomore and junior … Selected as the Denver Post State Tournament MVP as a sophomore … Played for head coach Ben Garcia at Pueblo East … Also played basketball … Finished in top 10 of class.

Personal: Katie is the daughter of Kimberly and Richard Orona … Has two siblings, John and Kennedy … Born on April 15, 1996 … Public Health concentrator.