Harvard University

Junior Year (2025)

Made 27 appearances and 20 starts during the 2025 campaign … Collected 12 hits, four runs and nine RBIs across 54 plate appearances … Logged a hit in the series opener against Cornell … Hit her first home run of the year to go along with season-highs in hits (3) and RBIs (3) in the series finale against Dartmouth … Recorded a hit in a midweek meeting against Boston University … Recorded a hit against Yale … Produced a hit in a nonconference contest against George Washington …  Drove in a run and logged a hit in a win against Saint Mary’s … Pushed the Crimson to a win over Santa Clara with a hit, a run and an RBI … Produced a hit in back-to-back games against Saint Joseph’s and North Carolina … Recorded her first hit of the year against Furman.

Sophomore Year (2024)

2024 Ivy League All-Tournament Team selection … Appeared in a career-high 39 games with 28 starts … Ranked third on the team in batting average with a mark of .345 … Logged career-bests in hits (29), RBIs (18), and home runs (3) … Excelled at the 2024 Ivy League Tournament, recording seven hits and six RBIs … Drove in the game-winning run in a 6-5 win against Dartmouth at the Ivy League Tournament … Hit a game-tying, two-run home run in a 12-4 win against Yale at the Ivy League Tournament … Logged single-game career-highs in hits (4) and RBIs (4) in the victory against the Bulldogs … Orchestrated a two-hit, three-RBI performance against Penn in a 7-0 Crimson win … Launched the second home run of her career against Columbia in a thrilling 10-7 victory … Hit the first home run of her career against California Baptist.

First-Year (2023)

Appeared in five games for the Crimson with two starts against Syracuse and Merrimack... hit 2-for-2 against Merimack and got a hit against Providence... saw action in Ivy League play against Brown and Penn... finished the year with an on base percentage and a slugging percentage of .600.

Before Harvard

Earned varsity letters at Mill Creek from 2019-21… Played on the club circuit with EC Bullets – Mayfield, starting in the outfield all four years… Named a 2018 Georgia Softball All-American… Considered one of the top outfielders in the nation and ranked No. 88 by Extra Innings Softball… Collected Scholar-Athlete honors each year, beginning in 2019… Voted a Gwinnett Athlete of the Year in 2020… Helped Mill Creek to a third-place finish in the Georgia state tournament… Earned All-Academic honors in 2021… A two-sport star who also earned a varsity letter in flag football… Served as captain of the Mechanical Team for My F.I.R.S.T. Robotics team (2020-22)… Was the lead project manager for her internship with Catalyst Coalition, building COVID-19 sanitation devices (2020-21)… Volunteered at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (Summer 2021) and Hamilton Mill Food Pantry (2018-22)… Member of the National Beta Club (2018-22) and Army ROTC… Enjoys outdoor activities… Father, José Ayala, played professional basketball overseas in Spain and Italy from 1987-89.