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Jersey Number 2
Giulia Desiderio
- Position:
- Utility
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Hudson, Fla.
- High School:
- River Ridge
Graduate Major: Sport Management
Undergraduate Degree: Graduated in May 2025 with a bachelor's degree in public health from South Carolina
Career Honors:
Undergraduate Degree: Graduated in May 2025 with a bachelor's degree in public health from South Carolina
Career Honors:
- 2024 NFCA All-Scholar
- 2x SEC Spring Honor Roll (2024, 2023)
- 2022 SEC First Year Honor Roll
- Played in 52 games, making 37 starts at catcher
- Threw out 13 runners, the second-most in the SEC
- Scored two runs against Michigan State (March 15)
- Recorded two hits at No. 11 Clemson (March 20)
- Helped Carolina tie a program record, helping turn four double plays at No. 10 Florida (April 21)
- Played in 60 games, making 46 starts
- Tied for the best fielding percentage by a catcher in a season with in South Carolina program history, committing zero errors in 144 chances
- Threw out eight runners in 17 attempts (.471), which ranks fifth-most in a single-season in program history
- Went a season-best 3-for-4 against Campbell (Feb. 11)
- Recorded a career-high five RBI against Auburn (April 29)
- Played in 45 games, making 29 starts
- Missed significant time due to injury and was primarily used as a pinch runner
- Tallied her first collegiate hit in the season opener against Virginia (Feb. 11)
- Drove in a season-high three runs against Charleston Southern (March 2)
- Hit her first career home run against Georgia (March 12)
- Four-year letter winner at River Ridge High School
- Sunshine Athletic All-Conference First-Team
- Lettered in soccer for four years and twice for volleyball
- Earned Sunshine Athletic All-Conference First-Team honors in soccer
- Ranked as the 18th-best catcher in the 2021 class by Extra Inning Softball
- Played in the 2021 PGF All-American game
Tim Walton, Korbe Otis, Reagan Walsh, Kendra Falby Postgame Press Conference 5-30-25
Saturday, May 31
Tim Walton, Korbe Otis, Keagan Rothrock Postgame Press Conference 5-29-25
Thursday, May 29
Kendra Falby, Jocelyn Erickson Rawlings Gold Glove Press Conference 5-28-25
Wednesday, May 28
Tim Walton, Kendra Falby, Taylor Shumaker Pre-WCWS Press Conference 5-28-25
Wednesday, May 28
