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Gatorade 2021 - 2022: Player of the Year

Softball - Wisconsin

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Paytn Monticelli

Right-handed pitcher
CEDARBURG HS
CEDARBURG, WISCONSIN
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-2
Press Release

Peak Performance

0.33

ERA

126

Innings Pitched

.449

Batting Average

5

Home Runs
“Paytn Monticelli is just overpowering as a pitcher. Her velocity is so much higher than anyone else in our conference and batters are overmatched. She’s also a very good hitter.”
John Spector
Head Coach head coach at Whitefish Bay High
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Athletic Excellence

At the time of her selection, the 6-foot-2 senior right-handed pitcher had led the Bulldogs (24-4) to the Division 1 quarterfinals. The state’s returning Gatorade Softball Player of the Year, Monticelli owned a 17-2 record with a 0.33 ERA through 28 games and fanned 303 batters in 126 innings pitched, surrendering just 33 hits and 28 walks. She also batted .449 with five home runs and 22 RBI. The Division 1 Player of the Year as a junior, she was named USA TODAY’s Milwaukee High School Sports Awards Softball Player of the Year and is ranked as the nation’s No. 32 recruit in the Class of 2022 by Extra Inning Softball.

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Academic Achievement

Monticelli has maintained a 3.35 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to play softball on scholarship at the University of Wisconsin this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Monticelli has served as a peer math tutor and has volunteered locally on behalf of youth softball programs and with HeartSafe Wisconsin, which promotes the implementation of quality sudden cardiac arrest programs of awareness, training and effective emergency response at schools.