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2025 Softball Roster

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23 Gianna Certa

  • Position Pitcher
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Grayslake North
  • Hometown Third Lake, Ill.
  • Club Team R-R

Biography

Career Highs
Innings Pitched - 9.0 at Elmhurst - April 13, 2024
Strikeouts - 9 - vs. Elmhurst - April 19, 2025
Hits Allowed (in a complete game) - 0 vs. Lake Forest - March 30, 2025

Athletic Awards
NFCA Second Team All-Region (2024)
CCIW Pitcher of the Year (2024)
First Team All-CCIW (2024, 2025)
NFCA Leadoff Classic All-Tournament Team (2024)
Five-time CCIW Pitcher of the Week (4 times in 2024, 1 in 2025)
NCAA Bloomington Regional All-Tournament Team (2025)
NCAA Oshkosh Regional All-Tournament Team (2024)

2025: Appeared in 29 games in the circle, making 23 starts ... Compiled a 19-3 record with a 2.26 earned run average ... Tossed 124.0 innings, striking out a team-high 78 ... Ranked 20th nationally with 19 victories ... Threw a perfect game against Lake Forest, March 30, striking out six ... Ranked eighth nationally with five saves on the year ... 

2024: Appeared in 23 games, making 22 starts in the circle … Posted a 19-3 record, winning 14 straight games from April 7 to May 17 … Posted a 1.22 ERA with 20 complete games and eight shutouts … Struckout 113 batters over 149 innings … Finished the season ranked ninth nationally in shutouts, 14th in complete games, 18th in wins, and 21st in ERA … Selected as the CCIW’s Pitcher of the Week four times, including three weeks in a row - the first Titan to do so since Ally Wiegand ..

2023: Made 14 appearances in the circle, including seven starts … Notched two wins and a pair of saves … Threw 5.1 innings in IWU’s must-win against Augustana in the CCIW Tournament, fanning a career-high seven and allowing just three hits, May 12  … Tossed five innings in the CCIW Tournament Championship against Millikin, May 13 ….

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Grayslake North High School … Four-year member of the softball team as a pitcher … Four-time all-academic honoree … Voted team’s “Most Valuable Player” as a junior … Garnered All-Northern Lake County Conference and Daily Herald All-Area First Team selections … Tabbed IHSA Second Team All-State in 2021 … Led team to 2021 IHSA Regional title … Tossed 142.1 innings as a junior, striking out 230 and walking 13 … Boasted a single-season earned run average of 1.88 in 2021, allowing just 38 earned runs … Member of National Honor Society … Honor Roll … Served as Leadership Conference Representative … 

PERSONAL: Majoring in biology at Illinois Wesleyan … Other interests include spending time with her dog and traveling …
 

Statistics

Season:
2025

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Historical Player Information

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    2023Freshman

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    2024Sophomore

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    5'3"
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    2025Junior

    Pitcher
    5'3"
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