Firsts in Sports

• 1982 First All-Americans: Terri Nunez (B.A. ’84) and Katherine Ashour (B.A. ’83), softball; and Mary Hoernschemeyer – now Sister Irene Regina, F.S.P. (B.A. ’83), basketball
• 1983 First All-Conference and All-District Volleyball player: Carol Apolinar (B.B.A. ’85)
• 1986 University’s first national championship: St. Mary’s women’s softball team
• 1994 First volleyball All-American: April Fricke (B.A. ’95)
• 1994 First inducted into St. Mary’s Athletics Hall of Fame: Sister Irene Regina, F.S.P., basketball; and Leticia “Letty” Morales-Bissaro (B.A. ’86), softball, who went on to be the first woman at St. Mary’s inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame and to have her jersey number retired

Facts on Women

• Current female enrollment: 2,308 (56 percent) – 1,540 undergraduates, 386 graduates, 335 law, 47 doctoral
• Female alumni: 11,194 of 34,684 (32 percent)
• Full-time female faculty: 75 of 212 (35 percent)
• Female staff members: 250 of 415 (60 percent)