Kyra Kreuscher

Height:
5-8
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Great River, N.Y.
High School:
East Islip

**2025 ALL-BIG EAST SECOND TEAM**
**2023, 2024 BIG EAST ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM**

2025: All-BIG EAST Second Team… pitched in 31 games, the most of any pitcher, starting 13 of them… recorded career highs in innings pitched (110.2) and strikeouts (65)… pitched six innings of one-run ball and knocked her first collegiate hit against Cornell (3/1)… drove in her first career RBI against Cornell (3/2)… scored her first save of the season with two scoreless innings versus Rutgers (3/4)…earned her first win of the season in a run-rule complete rout of Georgetown (3/8)... mashed her first collegiate home run at UConn (3/23)… added another home run against Providence (4/4)… racked up a career-high seven strikeouts in a complete game, run-rule shutout over St. John’s (4/13)… logged her sixth win of the season in 3.2 innings of relief against Butler (4/27).

2024: Led the team with a 2.77 ERA in 25 appearances, starting 13, with a record of 9-4… Struck out 41 batters in 93.2 innings pitched… Struck out a season high six batters against St. John’s (4/28)... Threw a complete game shutout against Syracuse (4/14) allowing only two hits for seventh win of the season.

2023: Made 13 appearances and six starts in the circle for the Pirates in 2023… Finished with a 2.57 ERA and a 4-2 record… Came within four outs of a perfect game in her first career start as she allowed just one hit across seven shutout innings in the win over IUPUI (2/19)… Fired her second complete game shutout of the season and struck out five in the win over Monmouth (3/28)… Tossed five scoreless innings in relief in the win over FDU (4/19).

Before SHU: Three sport athlete at East Islip High School, lettering four times in softball and once in both track and swimming… Named softball team captain for her junior and senior seasons… Hit a home run in her first career varsity game in 2018… Earned numerous accolades as a senior, including Newday’s Long Island Player of the Year, All-Long Island First Team, Long Island Pitcher of the Year, and All-State First Team… Set school single-season records for doubles (14), RBI (46), pitching strikeouts (274), ERA (0.51) and set career shutouts record with 23… Hit a walk-off home run in extra innings to help team advance to county finals during senior season… Daughter of Jim and Jennifer Kreuscher… Has four siblings: Camry, Karley, Kelsey and Kyle… Brother Kyle is on the men’s swimming team at Catholic U of America, while sister Camryn swims at Rhode Island… Father Jim swam at St. John’s… Born Aug. 8, 2004.