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2024 Softball Roster

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11 Rissa Bajusz

11 Rissa Bajusz

  • Position:
    Pitcher/Infield
  • Class:
    Senior
  • High School:
    Metea Valley
  • Hometown:
    Aurora, Ill.

Summary

Biography

 2024: Named WMU Softball's first ever MAC Pitcher of the Year ... All-MAC First Team ... MAC Pitcher of the Week 3/5, 4/2, 4/30 ... NFCA Top Performer of the Week 4/2, 4/23, 4/30... Appeared in 35 games, recording 27 starts and 20 complete games ... Saw career highs with 16 wins, 1.93 ERA, 218 strikeouts, 8 shutouts, in 173.0 innings pitched ... Recorded a career best 13 strikeouts (2X) versus Monmouth (3/1) and NIU (4/16) ... Concluded the season with 516 career strikeouts (3rd most in program history) ... Threw the 5th most strikeouts in WMU single season history with 218 ... Recorded the second most saves in single season program history with 4... Has the third highest career save total in program history with 5 saves...

2023: Named All-MAC Second Team, CSC Academic All-District, Academic All-MAC, Pitcher of the Week 2/14 ... Appeared in 37 total games, recording 22 starts while throwing 13 complete games ... Held a 3.03 ERA through 171.0 innings ... Tossed Career-best 163 strikeouts and led all categories across the Bronco pitching staff ... Recorded four runs and six hits to bat in a total of four runs ... Tied career-high 10 strikeouts at Bowling Green (3/29) and against Kent State (4/21).
 
2022: Named Easton/ NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete and Academic All-MAC ... 25 appearances and 20 starts ... Tossed nine complete games for 110.1 innings ... Recorded 93 strikeouts to hold batters to a .263 batting average ... Batted .236 average ... Registered 15 runs and 30 hits to bat in 14 runs including two homers ... Tossed career-high 10 strikeouts against Toledo (3/20) ... Saw longest outing of 8.0 innings in win over LIU Sharks (3/10) ... Registered career-high three hits including a double and home run at Ohio (5/7) to score a season-high two runs while batting in three.
 
2021: Made 10 starts and 25 appearances in the circle as a freshman ... Recorded one victory while throwing three complete games ... Appeared in 40 total games, recording 72 at-bats on the year and hitting .292, fourth on the team ... Homered twice and drove in 11 runs ... Recorded first career victory against Mississippi Valley State (3/5), striking out three Delta Devils in 3.1 innings of work ... Threw a complete-game at Miami (3/20), limiting the MAC champions to five hits in six innings ... Followed with another complete game at Ohio (3/26), allowing five hits and striking out three in six innings ... Allowed just two earned runs in a complete-game effort against Akron (4/30), recording a season-best eight strikeouts ... Had consecutive multi-hit games at Evansville (3/13) ... Hit first career home run against Ball State (5/8) ... Homered at Kent State in a 3-for-3 performance (5/15).

High School: Softball All-Conference award recipient ... Daily Herald All-Area ... All-Academic Team ... "Most School Spirit" award recipient ... Spirit Committee Chair ... On Executive Board of Student Government ... Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Personal: Born Feb. 13, 2002, in Aurora, Ill. to John Bajusz and Shanna Lewis...chose WMU because it is a welcoming environment that feels like home...has an older sister (Sydney), majoring in Early Childhood Education.
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Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2021Freshman

    Pitcher
    10
  • 11

    2022Sophomore

    Pitcher
    5'10"
    11
  • 11

    2023Junior

    Pitcher
    5'10"
    11
  • 11

    2024Senior

    Pitcher/Infield
    11