Mount Saint Mary College Athletics

Caitlin Maynes was a standout for the Mount Saint Mary College Softball team in the circle over a four-year career. Caitlin appeared in 96 games overall for the Knights, including 87 appearances as a pitcher.
 
As a pitcher, 83 of Maynes' appearances came as a starter where she posted a sterling 2.36 earned run average in 530 innings pitched.  She won 47 games in her career, including a career-high 14 as a freshman and a sophomore and notched at least 10 wins in a season on three occasions. She struck out a career-high 121 batters as a freshman and recorded a career best 1.27 earned run average in 104.1 innings pitched as a junior.
 
Maynes was a four-time Second Team All-Skyline Conference selection as a pitcher and holds the program's all-time record in wins with her 47 and is tied for the single season mark in wins with 14. Over her career she helped lead the Knights to a pair of Skyline Conference Tournament appearances and the 2011 ECAC Metro Division Championship, where she was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
 
"My proudest moment at the Mount was winning ECACs my sophomore year. The tournament fell on the same weekend as graduation and we were missing a lot of our key players. Despite having to come back up to school after having already left for summer vacation and playing short we banded together and won the entire tournament. Not only was it the best we had ever played as a team but the most fun we'd had," recalled Maynes.
 
 
Mayes lists the team's annual trips to Florida during Spring Break as some of her best memories, especially the year a nor'easter cancelled the trip back north and the team was stranded in Florida for an extra three days. Another fond memory is when the team had to play a game on Brooklyn College's new turf field in shoes retrieved from the lost and found because cleats were not permitted on the new surface.
 
 
In addition to fun memoires, being a student-athlete taught several valuable life lessons. "Being a student athlete gave me great time management skills and an ability to balance all I had going on in life.
It has taught me how to be a teammate and how to work well with others. I have been able to carry this skill over to my career as a nurse. In a field where interdependence is very important my time as a student-athlete has been invaluable," stated Maynes.
 
Maynes, the aunt to niece Emma and nephew Bobby, is currently a registered nurse certified in gerontology at Huntington Hospital on Long Island.