Cedar Crest College Athletics

Accolades: 
All Academic Team
CSAC Player of the Year (2021) 
NFCA Second Team All-Region (2022, 2021)
First Team All-Conference selection (2022, 2021)
Second Team All-Conference (2019)

2022: First Team All-Conference and NFCA Second Team All-Region selection…Played in all 31 games, making 30 starts…Batted .378 with an OPS of 1.007…Registered 42 hits, including 14 doubles (team-high), one triple and three home runs…Also recorded 28 RBI, 67 total bases, and 34 runs scored…Went a perfect 8-for-8 on stolen base attempts…Tallied a .981 fielding percentage…Was named as the CSAC Player of the Week on March 14 and picked up a CSAC weekly Honorable Mention nod on March 8.

2021: CSAC Player of the Year, First Team All-Conference, and NFCA Second Team All-Region selection...Appeared in 23 games, starting in all of them...Registered a batting average of .461 with a 1.251 OPS...Tallied 35 hits, including 11 doubles, four home runs, 29 RBI, and 31 runs scored...Went 5-for-7 on stolen base attempts...Collected a .920 fielding percentage...

2020: Played in and started all eight games in the pandemic-shortened season...Recorded a .269 batting average with an .807 OPS...Tallied seven hits, including two doubles, one home run, three RBI, 12 total bases, and eight runs scored...Held a .971 fielding percentage.

2019: Started and played in all 43 games...Led the team in all of the following: 43 runs, 59 hits, 20 doubles, seven home runs, and 45 RBI...Had an on-base percentage of .453 and a batting average of .421...Broke school record for most doubles in a season (20). 

Before Cedar Crest: Attended Osceola High School...Graduated in 2016...Was a varsity starter all four years...Went to St. Petersburg College for two years before transferring to Cedar Crest. 

Personal: Daughter of Sandra and Anthony Santaniello...Has two brothers, Daniel and Frank...Chose to attend Cedar Crest because of the nursing program.