Major: Anthropology

Career Honors:

2012 SEC All-Freshman Team

Career Highlights: Named to the 2011 USA Softball Women’s Junior National Team…Helped Team USA to the Gold Medal at the IX ISF Junior Women’s World Championship in December 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa.

As a Freshman (2012): A 2012 SEC All-Freshman Team selection in the outfield…Played in 55 of UF’s games her freshman season with 38 starts, primarily splitting time between outfield and second base…Finished the season with a .209 batting clip, 18 hits, including a triple and homer…Swiped two bases her freshman season and tallied two multiple hit games…Compiled a season-best three-game hit streak from April 24 to April 29, where she had one hit apiece in the second game of a doubleheader with LSU and the first and second games of Florida’s series with Kentucky…Her two multi-hit games were Florida’s season-opener versus Long Island, when she went 2-for-2 with one run and one RBI, a walk and stolen base and the Gators’ third win over Michigan State Feb. 19 when Damico was 2-for-4 with one run and one RBI…Knocked in the game-winning RBI from the first triple of her Gator career in the first game of SEC-opening doubleheader with Mississippi State, which counted as UF’s only run in the 1-0 victory…Strung together an eight-game reached-base streak from April 15 to May 4, including five games with hits, two games with a hit-by-pitch (April 24 against LSU and May 4 vs. Alabama) and one game with a walk (FIU April 20)…Her hit-by-pitch and speed in the bottom of the eighth against LSU proved to be critical, as Damico scored the game-winning run from a Michelle Moultrie double to give Florida a 2-1 victory in the first game of the double dip…Smashed her first homer as a Gator in UF’s victory over FIU April 21…Tied for third on the team in hit-by-pitches with five on the season…Had a season-best five putouts against USF Feb. 12 at second base and grabbed  a season-best three assists three times versus USF 3/28, FGCU 5/18 and USF 5/20…Helped turn a double play March 17 versus South Carolina…Had two bunt singles for the Orange and Blue her freshman season and ranked second for UF with a .667 average when bunting.

High School / Travel Ball: The 2010 Missouri Gatorade Softball Player of the Year as a junior…Played in the 2011 Under Armour All-America game after amassing a .605 batting clip, 42 RBI and six homers her senior season…Drew 15 walks and never struck out her senior year at Pacific en route to 2010-11 Four Rivers Conference Player of the Year honors to go with Class 4 All-State accolades…Competed with the St. Louis Chaos travel club…Holds single season records in at bats, hits, batting average, home runs, runs, singles, doubles and triples…Tallied 313 at bats, 165 hits, a .524 batting average, 118 RBI, 139 runs, 38 stolen bases, 36 doubles, 13 triples, 87 singles and 29 home runs in her high school career…Holds the Missouri single-season home run record (15), set her junior season when she had 40 RBI to go with a .539 batting clip…In addition to 2011, played in the ESPN RISE Under Armour All-America Softball Games in both 2009 and 2010…Named an All-Conference selection each year of her high school career, was the conference Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010, an All-District selection in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and collected All-Region and All-State honors in both 2009 and 2010…A three-sport athlete at Pacific High School, Damico played varsity basketball and was a first team All-Conference track selection, as well as a two-time state qualifier in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays…A member of the high school honor roll.

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