Sarah Onorato

Classroom

Sarah Onorato has maintained a 3.92 grade-point average as a psychology major at Yale. Her main focus is in pre-med studies. She is a three-time NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete selection. At Yale, she works as a research assistant in the psychology department, assisting in anxiety studies, and is involved in recruitment. She screens and interviews potential study participants and manages study data. Onorato plans to attend medical school in the future.

Character

Onorato was elected captain of the 2015 Yale softball team. She is an active member of the Kiphuth Leadership Academy, whose mission is to develop Yale student-athletes and coaches to be world-class leaders in athletics, academics and life. Following her junior season, Onorato was the recipient of the softball team’s Barbara Chou Leadership Award. She also serves as a sports columnist for the Yale Daily News. In 2013, she worked as an assistant group leader for Aspire, Mass General Hospital’s summer program for children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder.

Community

In the fall of 2014, Onorato started a Special Olympics Unified Sports Program at Yale. Her goal was to create a sustainable organization that gives Yale students a way to interact with and support local student-athletes with disabilities. She organized a “Spread the Word to End the R-Word” awareness campaign. In 2013, Onorato also has served as a member of Bulldog PAWS (Pediatric Alliance with Student-Athletes), a program that pairs pediatric neurological/cancer patients from Yale-New Haven Hospital with Yale varsity athletic teams.

Competition

Onorato, the 2013 Ivy League Player of the Year, began the 2015 season tied for second all-time at Yale with 17 career home runs, three shy of the school record. She also is fifth in school history with 31 career doubles, nine shy of the all-time record. Last spring, she caught every inning of Yale’s 41 games, finishing second on the team with 32 hits, tied for third with 13 RBI and tied for second with four stolen bases. As a sophomore, Onorato set Yale single-season school records in hits (64), doubles (19) and home runs (14), and her .430 batting average tied for the highest in school history. She was named the Ivy League Player of the Year, the first Yale player to win the award since Seema Hingorani in 1991. In addition, she was the First-Team All-Ivy catcher and an NFCA All-Northeast Region Second Team selection. Nationally, she finished fourth in doubles per game (0.4), ninth in slugging percentage (.852) and 21st in batting average (.430). She led the Ivy League in batting average, slugging percentage (.852), on base percentage (.497), runs scored (37), hits (64), doubles (19), home runs (14) and total bases (127). Her 127 total bases were the second most in Ivy history; her .852 slugging percentage was the third highest; and the 14 home runs tied for the fifth most in a season.