Jaime Peterson, Fairleigh Dickinson University – Florham Campus
Softball – Class of 2000
Jaime Peterson ranks 11th all-time in NCAA Division III with 642 career strikeouts, the most in FDU-Florham softball history. Peterson was named FDU’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1999 and was named the softball team’s MVP all four years.
Peterson holds FDU’s all-time record for career earned run average with a 1.57 mark. She ranks second in program history in career games (104), wins (54) and single season earned run average (1.27). Over the course of her career, Peterson threw five no-hitters, three one-hitters, and had eight shutouts. She owns three of the top five single season strikeout marks at FDU.
In 1997, she was named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Metro New York-New Jersey First Team and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association East Region Third Team. In 1998, she was named the Freedom League Most Valuable Player. She was also named an ECAC/Reebok Division III Southern Softball All Star that year. She earned a spot on the All-Freedom League Second Team after leading the Freedom with 8.5 strikeouts per game.
Peterson was inducted into the FDU-Florham Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.
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