WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – The first Eastern Connecticut State University softball player to amass as many as 200 career hits and the starting rightfielder on three Little East Conference tournament title teams and two NCAA Division III national tournament qualifiers, Priscilla M. (Alicea) Pierro '12 has been selected for induction into the Eastern Connecticut State University Athletics Alumni Hall of Fame.
 
Alicea is the first announced member of the Class of 2025, which will hold its 31st induction ceremony and social Saturday, Oct. 18 at the campus's Fine Arts Instructional Center concert hall and lobby. The induction ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. and will be followed by a social at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are priced at $50 each. For additional information, visit
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Alicea becomes the 34^th member of the softball program to gain induction, following, most recently two-time All-America third baseman Arielle Cooper (2023) and four-time All-America pitcher/DP Molly Rathbun (2019), who teamed with Alicia to form a triumvirate which was at the core of an Eastern juggernaut which dominated the Little East Conference and New England region.
 
The first of only two players in program history to earn first-team All-Little East honors as many as four times, Alicea was also accorded all-region honors a total of seven times by three different organizations, was named to the NCAA Division III national tournament all-tournament team in both of the team's appearances (2010 and '11), was the first of only four players in program history to reach 200 hits (leaving the program ranked first with 206), is the only player in program history with as many as three 50-hit seasons, graduated as the program's all-time leader (currently fifth all-time) with a .391 batting average and set a current program freshman record with a .448 batting average in 2009.
 
Batting primarily first in the order, the Bronx, NY-born Stratford native and three-time All-Stater at Trumbull High sparked Eastern to an overall record of 144-29-1 (83.0 percent) between 2009 and '12, including, as a senior, a record 44 wins (later equalled) against three losses for a season record 93.6 winning percentage which included a program record 40 straight wins which began in the third game of the season and extended through the first game of the NCAA regional tournament.
 
With the 5-foot-2 inch lefty-swinging Alicea, Eastern won three straight Little East regular-season and tournament championships, capturing 40 of 42 LEC regular-season games in the process and becoming the first LEC team to go undefeated (14-0) in the LEC regular season in 2012 (in 2023, the Warriors became the second unbeaten LEC team with a 16-0 record). En route to three straight LEC tournament titles, Eastern won all 12 of its contests. Despite holding the No. 1 LEC tournament seed in 2010 and '11, Eastern claimed those titles on the road after its long-time home (Howard Spector Field) fell victim to a north campus parking garage. The team's only home LEC tournament championship in Alicea's career came in 2012 following the completion of the Eastern Softball Stadium (renamed in honor of program founder Clyde Washburne in the fall of 2018) that year.
 
Alicea had 61 multiple-hit games in a 171-game career, 16 times collecting three hits. Through the Little East tournament as a senior, Alicia never went as many as two consecutive games without a hit, recording a hitting streak of  12 from late March through mid-April; as a junior she compiled hitting streaks of eight and nine games, respectively and went as many as two games without a hit only twice through early April; as a sophomore, Alicea twice hit safely in eight straight games, only once going more than one game without a hit, and had three hits in a game six times.
 
 Nearly one-quarter of Alicea's games and nearly one-quarter of her hits came in Little East and NCAA post-season play. In those 41 LEC and NCAA tournament games, Alicea hit exactly her career average. In eight NCAA national tournament career games, Alicea batted .640 (16-of-25) with six runs scored and two RBI. In the 2010 national tournament as a sophomore, Alicea helped Eastern win three straight games after an opening loss and in five tournament games was 10-for-14 (.714) with four straight multiple-hit games, a double, home run, sacrifice bunt, hit-by-pitch, two runs, and two RBI in a third-place finish.
 
Thirteen years after graduation, Alicea still ranks among the all-time Top 10 in ten career categories, including third in hits, runs (150) and triples (18), fourth in sacrifices (36), and fifth in batting average, tied for fifth in games and sixth in at-bats (527) and total bases (285).
 
Alicea holds a B.S. Degree in mathematics and secondary education and a Master's Degree in school counseling from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and is employed as a math interventionist at East Hartford Middle School. She resides in South Windsor with husband Ray Pierro and young son Ray Pierro, Jr.