Gianna Costaro

2025 Delaware Softball CAA Regular Season Champions

Photo by: Michael Riccio

Photo by: Michael Riccio

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Position:
Infield
Class:
Freshman
High School:
John F. Kennedy
Hometown:
Bellmore, N.Y.
Major:
Medical Diagnostics

HONORS AND AWARDS

2025 CAA Player of the Week (Feb. 25)
2025 CAA Preseason All-Conference
2024 CAA All-Rookie Team
2024 Two-time CAA Rookie of the Week (March 12, March 19)
2024 CAA Player of the Week (Feb. 27)
Two-time CAA Commissioner’s Honor Roll selection

PROGRAM RECORDS

Single-game runs scored, tied (4 - March 9, 2025 vs Drexel)
Single-season putouts (444 - 2024)

2025 SEASON

Started in all 38 appearances
Hit .286/.375/.438 with four doubles, four home runs, 22 RBIs, and 24 runs scored
Had 30 hits and 10 walks
Made just one error in 363 chances for a .996 fielding percentage
Was named CAA Co-Player of the Week on Feb. 25 after hitting .600/.692/.900 with a home run and five RBIs at the Rawlings Classic against Penn and Virginia
In a three-game series against Drexel from March 7–9, went 9-for-12 with a double, a home run, four RBIs, and seven runs scored - .750/.750/.1.083
Went 4-for-4 in the series finale against Drexel and tied a program record with four runs scored
Went 2-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs on April 9 against Delaware State
Hit .304 with runners on base and .324 with RISP
2025 CAA Spring Commissioner’s Honor Roll

2024 SEASON

Started in all 52 appearances
Hit .276/.424/.493 with eight doubles, seven home runs, 38 RBIs, and 29 runs scored
Had 37 hits, 25 walks, and was 2-for-2 in stolen bases
Had a .985 fielding percentage in 454 chances
Was named CAA Player of the Week on Feb. 27 after hitting .417/.533/1.000 with two home runs, a double, six RBIs, and two walks at the Rawlings Classic against Iowa State, Lehigh, and Virginia
Was named CAA Rookie of the Week on March 12 after hitting .500/.600/.625 with three runs scored,a double, and an RBI.
Was named CAA Rookie of the Week on March 19 after hitting .417/.500/.750 with a home run, a double, and nine RBIs
Hit a home run in first career game on Feb. 9 against Gardner-Webb
Hit a home run and a double as part of a four-RBI game in a win against Middle Tennessee State on Feb. 17
Hit a two-run home run in a win over Iowa State on Feb. 23, Delaware’s first-ever win against the Big 12
Hit a game-tying, two-out, two-strike three-run home run in the seventh inning against Iowa State to help complete a 6-1 final inning comeback win
Hit a grand slam and drove in six runs in a win over North Carolina A&T on March 17 - tied for the third most RBIs in a single-game in program history
Drove in four runs and hit a home run in a win against Penn on March 20
Went combined 3-for-5 with three runs scored and a double in a doubleheader sweep of Coppin State on April 23
Went 2-for-4 against UNCW during the CAA Tournament
38 RBIs are tied for eighth most in a single-season in program history
Reached base safely in 29 consecutive games to begin career from Feb. 9-March 29
Had seven multi-RBI games, including three games of at least four RBIs
Ranked tied for third in CAA in RBIs (38), fourth in hit by pitches (10), tied for fifth in home runs (7), seventh in OPS (.917) and walks (25), and ninth in on base percentage (.424)
38 RBIs were tied for eighth most in a single-season in program history
CAA All-Rookie selection
Spring Commissioner’s Honor Roll selection

Bio: Two-time all-county selection while playing for John F. Kennedy High School... Named her squad’s MVP as a senior as well as earning the Scholar-Athlete Award... Also a member of the basketball team, earned all-conference honors in 2022... Father, Robert, played football at Sacred Heart (1992-96)... In the classroom, was a member of the National Honor Society