Salisbury capped the 2024 season with a 39-7 record, winning its third consecutive NCAA Regional championship and 12th in program history. The Sea Gulls graduate a six-member senior class of Meghan Reed, Natalie Paoli, Lauren Meyers, Lindsey Windsor, Abby Mace, and Nicole Ortega. In their five years together, dating back to the 2020 campaign, SU went 172-33 (.839) with two Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) championships, three regional championships, two super-regional titles, two College World Series berths, and a national runner-up finish in 2023.
Following a record-setting career in which she led her team to new heights, former Salisbury University softball outfielder Abby Mace will become just the seventh person to receive arguably the most prestigious honor that can be bestowed upon a Sea Gull student-athlete. The SU softball team has announced it will retire the No. 18 jersey of Mace on Sunday, Mar. 9, before the team's 12 p.m. doubleheader against Stockton at Margie Knight Sea Gull Softball Stadium. A pregame ceremony will take place at approximately 11:45 a.m.
Salisbury landed six players on the NFCA All-Region teams. Pitcher Nicole Ortega, outfielder Abby Mace, and infielders Meghan Reed, Emily Challender, and Natalie Paoli each made the All-Region First Team, while catcher Emily Stockman was pegged as Third-Team All-Region. The Sea Gulls have now placed multiple players on 23 straight All-Region teams dating back to 2001.
