Princeton University, 1995
• 1993 Softball Second Team Academic All-America®
• 1994 Softball First Team Academic All-America®
• 1995 Softball First Team Academic All-America®
Babik is currently an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she specializes in clinical infectious diseases.
She led Princeton to the 1995 Women’s College World Series, the first and only Ivy League institution to have reached the NCAA Division I softball championship. She was a four-time all-conference selection, gaining first-team honors in 1992, 1994 and 1995 and second-team recognition in 1993. She was a third-team National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American in 1995.
Babik still holds several program records, including most career games played (228), career at-bats (722), season at-bats (193), season runs scored (59), career triples (21) and career assists (569). When she graduated, the shortstop and .319 career hitter held career records for runs scored (171), hits (230) and stolen bases (53). Her career and season at-bat totals remain Ivy League records.
A Rhodes Scholar, she achieved a PhD in physiological sciences from Oxford. Babik was the winner of Princeton University's Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction conferred by Princeton on an undergraduate and awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership.
Babik was a five-time Academic All-Ivy League selection in softball and field hockey. She played alto saxophone in the university’s jazz ensemble and won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. She was selected as an Academic All-America in 1993, 1994 and 1995. Babik graduated with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and completed medical school at Stanford.
Gallery: (4-6-2022) Jennifer Babik, 2022 AAA Hall of Fame
Updated April 2022