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Gwen Svekis Announces Retirement from Professional Softball
Svekis began her pro career with the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch League in 2018 and earned All-NPF recognition the following year.
She competed with the Toda Medics of the Japanese Diamond League in 2023, posting a .312 batting average with 24 hits, including six home runs and three doubles. She also helped Team USA to a first-place finish at the 2023 WBSC World Cup Group A event in Dublin, Ireland.
Svekis has competed in every AU Pro Softball Championship season and its 2022 AUX competition. She placed in the Top 15 four times, including two fifth-place finishes in 2023 and 2020. She has a career .252 batting average with 52 hits, 12 home runs, and 35 RBIs heading into the final week of the 2024 season.
Svekis had a .337 career batting average with 45 home runs and 169 RBIs at the University of Oregon from 2015-18. She is among Oregon’s career leaders in RBIs, home runs, and walks. She was named the 2018 NFCA Catcher of the Year and received All-America First Team honors that season. As a Duck, she was a three-time NFCA All-Region honoree and two-time All-Pac-12 Conference performer. She holds the Oregon single-game record with nine RBIs and ranks second on the single-season list with 17 home runs set in 2018.
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