STEPHANIE DELUCIA '99

SOFTBALL

STEPHANIE DELUCIA (Franklin, MA/Franklin) was one of the premier softball players in Assumption College history for Coaches DAN SANTERRE and RALPH DELUCIA (her father). In her time with the program, the Greyhounds posted an amazing 110-62-3 record including a dominant 70-25-2 mark over her last two years.

The team finished 34-12-1 in 1998 winning the Northeast-10 Conference postseason playoffs and advancing to the program's first NCAA Division II regionals after opening its Northern schedule with an 18-0-1 run. In 1999, the team won the ECAC Division II championship and posted a 36-13-1 record.

She finished with the third-highest career batting average (.466) and is the career leader in runs (155) and doubles (63). She is also ranked second in hits (260), third in triples (12), fourth in RBI (124) and fifth in home runs (16). As a pitcher she finished with a 27-20 record, 2.11 ERA, 31 complete games with 148 strikeouts in 325 innings.

She was named the 1996 Andrew Laska Award winner as the female athlete of-the-year at the College after batting .479 and posting a 13-7 mark on the mound with a 2.15 earned run average and 15 complete games.

She will be long-remembered for her incredible individual 1998 season in which she won the NCAA Division II and Northeast-10 Conference batting championships (.566). She set team records for hits (94), doubles (23), extra-base hits (32) and total bases (139). She earned Louisville Slugger NFCA all-America third-team honors along with first-team all-region, all-Northeast-10, all-ECAC, all New England and CoSIDA academic all-region.

In 1999 DeLucia was again named to the Louisville Slugger NFCA all-America (second team) and the second-team CoSIDA academic all-America and finished at .396 with eight home runs and 50 runs batted in. She was also named first-team on the NFCA all-Northeast District team, ECAC North, Northeast-10 and all-New England and played in the New England all-star game for the fourth time.

She also earned an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.

DeLucia was a prep standout, also for her father, at Franklin, MA High School. She was graduated with a bachelor's in psychology with a minor in social and rehabilitative services with a 3.44 GPA, and later earned a master's in education and counseling from Bridgewater State College '02. She is currently a guidance counselor at Millbury High School.

She is married to Augustino DeBaggis and they reside in Uxbridge, MA with a daughter Sera Isabelle (1).