2025 Softball Roster
Roster
Makarewicz, Avary

Jersey Number 17
Avary Makarewicz
- Height:
- 6-0
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Ripon, Wis.
- High School:
- Ripon HS
- Prev School:
- Eastern Illinois
Bio
Awards and Honors
- Academic Honors
- Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
- OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25)
- OVC Academic Medal of Honor (2022-23)
2025: Played in 47 games for the Skyhawks with 46 starts…Notched a .244 batting average with 15 runs, 23 singles, four doubles, a team-high eight home runs and 20 RBIs…Posted a .340 on-base percentage and .465 slugging percentage…Drew team-best 18 walks and went 8-for-9 on the base paths…Tallied seven multi-hit and seven multi-RBI games including a season-high three against Tennessee Tech (Apr. 13.)...Posted a .964 fielding percentage with 76 putouts, five assists and three errors... Had four multi-walk games on the year...Finished season with a .970 fielding percentage with 203 putouts, 25 assists and seven errors... As the Skyhawks' primary catcher, caught 11 runners stealing and allowed 14 passed balls.
Before UT Martin: Played in 31 games making 23 starts at catcher in 2024 for Eastern Illinois…Hit .220 for the season hitting .381 through the opening two tournaments of the season...Had three multiple hit games with two hits against Green Bay, North Dakota and Montana all at the Mardi Gras Mambo hitting .538 through the opening weekend...Had two multiple RBI games with two RBI against North Dakota and Saint Louis...Had one triple against Green Bay with one home run against Detroit Mercy...Played in 26 games making seven starts during 2023 season...Made collegiate debut against Incarnate Word hitting a two-run home run in first college at-bat...Hit .200 for the season with one double, one home run and five RBI...Was perfect in 43 fielding chances behind the plate as a back-up catcher... Had one multi-hit game going 2-for-3 against Tennessee State.
High School: A catcher / utility player that attended Ripon HS...Twice was a first team All-East Central Conference selection...In 2021 was a first team All-District and second team All-State selection after earning unanimous first-team All-Conference catcher honors...Led travel team, the Wisconsin Heat, to the 2021 Youth Softball National Championship... Named first team All-State as a senior...Earned ECC Player of the Year honors as a senior.
Personal: Born April 1, 2004, Daughter of Jill and Michael Makarewicz…Majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies.
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Skyhawk Sports Talk - Season 2, Episode 27
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Skyhawk Sports Talk - Season 2, Episode 24
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