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Brittany Hitchcock

School
University of Hawaii
Position
Pitcher
Major
Education Foundation

Classroom

After receiving a medical redshirt as a true freshman, Brittany Hitchcock graduated in the fall of 2016 in just 3.5 years with a B.A. in family resources with a 3.89 undergrad GPA. She made the Dean’s List for seven semesters and is on track to earn her master’s degree in Education Foundation in just a year and a half in May 2018. She currently holds a 3.95 GPA in grad school.

Character

Hitchcock is an exceptional student-athlete with an incredible work ethic. She has served as one of the softball team’s captains for three years while being the anchor of the UH pitching rotation. She is a great role model and has served as a mentor for the last two years at UH’s Nagatani Academic Center, helping current student-athletes deal and cope with the difficulties of being a DI student-athlete.

Community

Hitchcock has served as the SAAC chair for UH and has helped chaired several community service projects. Some of these projects include the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, three annual Manoa Lions Club Holiday Parades, and helping with the Suds for Life program, in which student-athletes bring back toiletries from their roadtrips throughout the season to donate to local charities. Hitchcock also has participated in the Bishop Museum Kids Fest for the past four years, several Rainbow Reading Days at various local elementary schools, the local Parkinson’s Charity Walk and with last year’s Jump Rope for Heart event at a local elementary school, also helping chair the Big West Conference’s Hawaii Coin Drive. She has served as a SAAC member for five years and attended the Big West Conference’s SAAC retreat representing Hawaii. This year, she has served as the SAAC Co-Chair to lead their bimonthly meetings.

Competition

Last year, Hitchcock recorded several career bests including a .1.85 ERA with a 19-12 overall record in 35 appearances and 169 strikeouts in 204.2 innings pitched. She fired 27 complete games with eight shutouts for the year. As of nomination time, the senior from Huntington Beach, Calif., had a career 2.12 ERA with a 50-34 record and 556.0 innings pitched with 357 total strike outs to just 83 walks. She also has thrown 16 total shutouts.

In each of the past three seasons, she has been named an all-Big West pitcher, including first-team as a junior and second-team as both a sophomore and freshman, while earning NFCA all-West Region Third Team honors twice.