Assistant Coach Brittany Scott (1st season)
High School: Buena Regional
College: Rutgers University-Camden (2016)
Former Scarlet Raptors ace right-hander Brittany Scott returns to the softball program this season as an assistant coach this season.
Scott, who started her collegiate career at the University of New Haven before transferring to Rutgers-Camden, was named the Raptors’ team Most Valuable Player during all three of her seasons as a Scarlet Raptor (2014-16). She earned New Jersey Athletic Conference Second Team honors as a sophomore and a junior, before capturing NJAC First Team recognition during her senior campaign. She capped her senior year earning an “At-Large” berth on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) East Region Third Team.
A two-time Rutgers-Camden Raptor of the Week, she also was the NJAC and ECAC Div. III Metro Pitcher of the Week for the week ending April 26, 2015.
As a senior tri-captain for the 2016 Scarlet Raptors, Scott posted a 16-14 record in 32 appearances, including 27 starts. She had a 1.86 ERA, 21 complete games and six shutouts, while walking 55 and striking out 128 in 177 innings. She also led the team in hitting (.388), hits (47), doubles (12), total bases (73), RBIs (35) and slugging percentage (.603), while having the highest on-base percentage (.439) among regular starters. She finished tied for the team lead in runs (27), second in home runs (4) and tied for second in walks (12).
Scott set a program record when she opened the 2016 season with a 19-game hitting streak, breaking the old mark of 17 set by Celeste Chinappi in 2003.
On the mound, Scott fired four no-hitters during her Scarlet Raptor career, including three in 2016 against Southern Vermont College (a nine-strikeout perfect game on March 15), Rutgers-Newark (April 2) and Stockton University (April 6). The Newark and Stockton doubleheaders came in back-to-back starts. She also threw a 1-0 10-inning shutout over Kean University (April 10, 2016).
Scott’s outstanding senior season included a doubleheader against Arcadia University April 21 in which she had a ground-rule double in the opening game for her 100th Rutgers-Camden hit and played in her 100th Raptor game in the nightcap.
For her Rutgers-Camden career, she hit .334 with a .500 slugging percentage, a .408 on-base percentage and 79 RBIs in 108 games. She collected 111 hits as a Scarlet Raptor, in addition to the 17 she had as a freshman at New Haven. She had 72 runs scored, 10 home runs, 21 doubles and 166 total bases in a Raptor uniform.
On the mound, Scott finished her Rutgers-Camden career second in program history for mound appearances (96), starts (85), complete games (76), innings (575-2/3), wins (48), at bats (2,219) and batters faced (2,512). She notched 389 strikeouts (third in program history), three saves (tied for third) and 13 shutouts (fourth). Her career 2.06 ERA ranks fifth on the program’s career list.
In addition to her athletic honors, Scott was named to Rutgers-Camden’s inaugural Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Fall 2015 semester and added a berth on the Spring 2016 AD Honor Roll. A Childhood Studies major, she graduated from Rutgers-Camden in 2016.
