Olivia DiNardo Season 2027

bio entering 2027 season

AWARDS
* 2025 NFCA All-Mountain Region First Team
* 2023 NFCA All-West Region Second Team
* 2024 NFCA All-West Region Third Team
* 2023 All-Pac-12 Second Team
* 2024 Pac-12 All-Tournament Team
* 2023 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
* NFCA National Player of the Week (April 8, 2024)
* Pac-12 Player of the Week (April 8, 2024)
* Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (April 8, 2024)
* 2026 Big Ten All-Academic Team

NEBRASKA (2025-26)
Spent two seasons at Nebraska but did not compete in 2026... Appeared in 50 contests as a Cornhusker, starting 46 times with nine of them coming behind the plate... Hit .376 with a .989 OPS (.443 OBP and .546 SLG)... Totaled 53 hits including nine doubles and five home runs... Knocked in 42 runs and scored 14 times, walking on a dozen occasions... Tallied two hits and a walk with a pair of RBIs in five at-bats over the first two games of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional... Singled and drove in a run in the first game of the NCAA Knoxville Super Regionals... Made the NFCA All-Mountain Region First Team... Excelled in the classroom while working on her master's degree in her year away from softball, picking up Academic All-Big Ten, Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll and Tom Osborne Citizenship Team accolades in 2025-26.

ARIZONA (2023-24)
Played two seasons in Tucson, starting 102 of her 106 games, all at either designated player or catcher... Hit .340 with a 1.005 OPS (.418 OBP and .587 SLG)... Tallied 103 hits including 20 home runs and 15 doubles... Drove in 74 runs and scored 52 times while drawing 41 walks... Hit .382 as a freshman in 2023, the eighth-best mark by a freshman in program history and good enough for the best on the team, the ninth-best in the Pac-12 and the 15th best in DI among freshmen... Named to the NFCA All-West Region Second Team, All-Pac-12 Second Team and Pac-12 All-Freshman Team following the season... Hit .857 with 12 hits, five doubles, five walks, a 1.214 slugging percentage and a 2.109 OPS over the first week of March 2023, to garner NFCA National Player of the Week, Pac-12 Player of the Week and Pac-12 Freshman of the Week accolades... Homered 13 times in 2024, the second most on Arizona and the seventh-highest total in the Pac-12... During the Pac-12 Tournament in 2024, hit .714 with a pair of home runs and six RBIs to earn a spot on the Pac-12 All-Tournament Team... Picked up Pac-12 Player of the Week honors for the second time in her career on April 15, 2024, after going 6-for-12 with a trio of home runs, four RBIs, five runs scored and a 1.850 OPS over five games against New Mexico State and Oregon.

CLUB BALL
Played seven years of softball for the West Bay Warriors Academy in San Mateo... Won the Alliance 16U National Championship in 2021 and was named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament and selected to the all-tournament team... Also picked up Alliance 16U Tier 1 MVP honors... Ranked seventh in the county by Extra Inning Softball and second among backstops.

HIGH SCHOOL
Lettered in all four years at Aragon High in San Mateo, California... Played both basketball and softball at Aragon... Won the district championship as a freshman and was named team MVP after hitting .557 with 45 RBIs, 12 doubles, two triples and nine home runs... Lost her sophomore season due to COVID-19 but won team MVP in basketball prior to the pandemic... Returned to winning team MVP as a junior, hitting .764 with 29 RBIs, 12 doubles, three triples and eight home runs... Earned team MVP honors for the third time in three seasons as a senior, batting .606 with 38 RBIs, 14 doubles, a triple and nine home runs... Selcted to the all-conference team three times and the first-team all-state twice.

PERSONAL
Born on April 28, 2004, in San Mateo, California... Daughter of Dominic and Barbara DiNardo... Has an older sister, Devon... Enjoys walking her dog Louie and winning in her free time... Plans on becoming a firefighter after graduation... Chose San Diego State over Michigan, Oregon, Arkansas, California, South Carolina, Duke, Clemson and Mississippi... Graduated with her bachelor's degree in psychology in 2025 after three years of school and completed her master's degree in applied science in 2026.