, citing Baseball For All, wrote that eight women are playing on college baseball teams for the 2023 season, but Pichardo is the only one at the Division-I level. Pichardo told the Brown University website in November that making the team - when she became the first female athlete to make a Division-I baseball roster, according to the website - was a “surreal moment for me,” one that had been her goal since eighth grade. And I think that’s been the most beautiful part of it for me is that she is a teammate.” Olivia Pichardo became the first woman to appear in a Division-I baseball game Friday. Her teammates are a special group to be able to both realize how historic this moment is but also to hold her accountable as a teammate to our standard as a baseball player. It takes a network of people that have supported her along the way.

“It doesn’t just take her putting all the work and effort in. “I hope it shows people that if a player is talented enough to be given the opportunity that they should be judged solely on their baseball abilities,” Achilles said, according to ESPN. She didn’t play in the Bears’ first 10 games, but Brown head coach Grant Achilles sent her to the plate for catcher Jacob Burley against Bryant. (First-pitch groundout.) /aQDiWovrEe- David Adler MaOlivia Pichardo grounded out to first after entering as a pinch-hitter. Here's Olivia Pichardo making history as the first woman to play in an NCAA Division I baseball game today for Brown.

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