Video Interview:
Where Are They Now?: Courtney Mirabella
2017-18: 2018 NCCU Female Athlete of the Year ... NCCU Team MVP ... First Team All-MEAC ... MEAC All-Tournament Team ... NCCSIA All-State ... Five-time MEAC Pitcher of the Week ... NCCU Student-Athlete of the Month (July 2018) ... Pitched in 38 games, including 33 starts ... Led NCCU and the MEAC with a 1.66 ERA, 10 shutouts, 306 strikeouts and a .194 opponents batting average against (all DI era records) ... Set school record in strikeouts ... Also led team with 227.1 innings pitched, 28 complete games and 18 wins ... Tossed a no-hitter in a 7-0 win against South Carolina State University ... Posted 20 strikeouts (one shy of a seven-inning NCAA DI record) in a 4-0 win against University of Maryland Eastern Shore ... Posted a 1.06 ERA over five postseason games as NCCU had its best finish ever in the MEAC Tournament (third place) ... Signed pro contract with Labadini Collecchio club in the Italian Softball League
2016 (NC State): Pitched in 45 games during her junior season with 35 starts for the Wolfpack ... Posted a 13-17 record with 15 complete games ... Logged 192.2 innings with 167 strikeouts ... Hurled shutouts against Loyola, Delaware State and USC Upstate (a one-hitter) ... Entered season ranked as one of the top 50 pitchers in NCAA softball (No. 20) by Fastpitch News [FPN] ... Ranked seventh in the ACC and 74th in DI with 167 strikeouts ... Ranked ninth in the ACC and 128th in DI with 6.1 strikeouts per seven innings
2015 (NC State): Pitched in 26 games during her sophomore campaign, starting 12 games in the circle for the Wolfpack … Tallied a 7-5 record to go along with a 2.80 earned run average (ERA), the eighth-best in the ACC … Finished the season with 105 innings pitched, 130 strikeouts, seven complete games, two complete game shutouts and a save … Averaged 8.7 strikeouts per seven innings, which was the third most in the conference and 26th in the NCAA among pitchers … Opposing batters compiled a batting average of just .207 against her, which was the sixth-best in the conference … Also allowed the fifth-fewest hits per seven innings in the ACC at 5.33 … Opened the season by throwing a two-hitter against Central Arkansas with 14 strikeouts … Threw her second career no-hitter against Dayton at the Georgia Southern Eagle Classic II, fanning 10 batters in the contest ... Recorded seven or more strikeouts nine times during the year and reached double-digit strikeouts on three occasions
2014 (NC State): Made 12 starts in the circle and eight relief appearances in her first season ... Posted a 6-3 record with a save against Georgia Tech ... Pitched 75 2/3 innings and notched an earned run average (ERA) of 3.98 ... Finished the season with 79 strikeouts, including a career-best eight against Charlotte ... She fanned at least one batter in every contest that she pitched at least two innings ... Threw her first career no-hitter against Florida A&M collecting six strikeouts with the only blemish a hit batter ... She struck out five or more batters in a game eight different times
PREP: Four-year varsity starter at Braden River High School ... Three-time Bradenton Herald Player of the Year honoree and first team all-state team selection, claiming the accolades as a senior, junior and sophomore ... Named the class 7A Player of the Year as a senior, H.T. Preps Player of the Year and finished as the runner-up for Gatorade Player of the Year award ... Garnered Max Preps All-America honors and collected Max Preps National Player of the Week twice, becoming the only player from the state of Florida to do so ... Also collected Brighthouse Sports Player of the Week and ABC Sports Player of the Week honors as a senior ... Finished her senior season with the best earned run average (ERA) in the state at 0.23 and collected the second most strikeouts in the state with 288 ... Tabbed a finalist for the Brighthouse Sports Athlete of the Year and Miss Softball awards in 2013 ... Named the class 7A Pitcher of the Year in 2012 and 2011 ... Selected to the all-area team as a junior, sophomore and freshman ... Captured Miracle Sports Pitcher of the Year honors in 2012 ... Ended her sophomore season second in the state with 318 strikeouts ... Father, Tony, played college basketball and her sister, Heather, did also
