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- The Manhattanville softball team has consistently been one of the most successful programs in school history, garnering a school-best 25 conference championships. The softball team has finished atop the conference standings a school-record 15 times (1985, 1996-99, 2002, 2005-07, 2012, 2014, 2016-19, 2023) and added 12 conference tournament titles (1991, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023).

- The Valiants have made ten trips to the NCAA Tournament (2002, 2005-07, 2014, 2016, 2017-19, 2023) and have won more NCAA games (12) than any other Manhattanville sport.

- The 2023 Manhattanville softball team returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019, making program history along the way. The team went on a remarkable 31 game winning streak from March 26 to May 12, going a perfect 18-0 in Skyline Conference regular season play along the way. Eleven Valiants earned All-Conference recongition after dominating Skyline play throughout the year, with Charli Shinstine being named Conference Pitcher of the Year, Sarah Harker Player of the Year, and Head Coach Dale Martin Coach of the Year for the sixth time in his career. Shinstine and Harker would go on to be named to the NFCA All-Region Team alongside Jayleen Torres and Amaya Esparza, with Shinstine ultimately earning All-America distinction on the Division III Second Team. The senior hurler set the program's single-season (206) and career (561) strikeout records, as well as posting a record-setting season ERA of 0.69, the first sub-1.00 ERA by a starter in program history.

- The 2019 Manhattanville softball team tied the program record with 41 wins and just four losses.  As a team, the Valiants led ALL OF DIVISION III with a .911 winning percentage, were second in the country in doubles per game (2.36), third in slugging percentage (.593), fourth in home runs per game (1.2) and fifth in batting (.380) and runs per game (7.73). The squad starting the season on a 16-game winning streak and rose to as high as No. 13 in the NFCA Division III Top 25 poll. Manhattanville captured its fourth-straight regular season crown, followed by its fourth consecutive MAC Freedom title and automatic bid to NCAAs. The team also set single-season program records in hits (493).

- The 2016 Manhattanville softball team achieved multiple milestones on the way to a 41-5 overall record that ranked third in Division III in winning percentage (.891). The team won its first 18 games of the season to garner the first NFCA national ranking in program history, moving all the way up to #19 by the end of the year. The top-seeded Valiants captured their second MAC Freedom Tournament title and then went 4-1 to win the Ewing, New Jersey Regional to advance to the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. Manhattanville was one of the top hitting teams in Division III all year, leading the country in home runs (67, eighth in D-III history), home runs per game (1.46/gm, 5th in D-III history) and slugging percentage (.636, seventh in D-III history). The team also set new program records in runs (369), hits (460), doubles (105), runs batted in (334), total bases (792), wins (41) and shutouts (16) during the year.

- In 2014, freshman Shelbee Damianos became the first Manhattanville softball player to earn NFCA All-America recognition with a spot on the second team, becoming just the fourth Manhattanville freshman ever to earn All-American honors. Damianos led all Division III freshmen with a .507 batting average on the season. The 2014 Valiants became the first to reach an NCAA Regional final, winning two games to reach the title round at the Salisbury, Maryland Regional.

- The softball team was dominant between 2002-07, posting a 146-75-1 (.660) record, winning a combined seven Skyline Conference championships (four regular-season, three tournament), and making four NCAA Tournament appearances. Manhattanville finished its run in the Skyline Conference with three straight regular-season titles and 46 consecutive regular-season conference victories.

- The Valiants ended the second millennium with conference championships in a program-record five straight seasons from 1995-99, amassing four conference regular-season titles and two conference tournament titles over that span. Included in that run was the first Manhattanville title as a member of the Skyline Conference, the 1998 Skyline regular-season championship.

- Valiant hurler Maggie Thomas had a stellar four-year career with the team and finished her career sixth all-time in Division III history with 98 wins and fifth with 107 complete games.

- Manhattanville as a team led Division III in runs per game in both 1991 (9.5) and 1996 (11.1), while Valiant individuals have also led the country in statistical categories on three occasions: Jennifer Lanoue (home runs per game, 1992), Amy Dolan (walks, 1997) and Lindsey Paulsrud (walks per game, 2001).

- Since the start of the 2001 season, the Valiants have tossed 16 no-hitters, including six perfect games. Candice D'Andrea had both the first no-hitter and perfect game in that span, no-hitting Maritime College on April 11, 2001 and then tossing a perfect game against the Privateers on April 9, 2002, and is the only Valiant in program history to toss more than one perfect game. Maggie Thomas has been a part of a program-record six such contests, including five no-hitters (three combined) and one combined perfect game, while Alycia Feeney tossed the first postseason perfect game in program history in a 9-0 win over Neumann in the NCAA Tournament.