ALFRED, NY – Graduate Jessica Wilcox (Forestville, NY/Pine Valley) was named the Empire 8 Softball Pitcher of the Week on Monday afternoon in an announcement by Associate Commissioner, Joe Venniro, making it her seventh career naming of that award and eighth overall.
 
Wilcox earned E8 Pitcher of the Week after the Spring Break Games last season before COVID-19 shut down athletic activities as well as the rest of the country. Prior to the 2020 season, Wilcox was named the Pitcher of the Week three times in 2019 and two more times in 2018. Wilcox even earned an Empire 8 Women's Basketball Rookie of the Week Honors in the 2016-17 season.
 
Wilcox, despite being off the softball field for over a year has not lost her touch inside the pitcher's circle. In three games, Wilcox sat batters 34 times, averaging over 11 strikeouts a game. Wilcox tied the all-time Alfred University record for pitching wins at 39 after Sunday's defeat of Buffalo State.
 
She also tied her very own single-game strikeouts record with 14 against No. 22 SUNY Geneseo. It was the third time she has earned 14 strikeouts in a single game as she did that against St. John Fisher College in 2019 and Sage Colleges in 2018. Wilcox did not walk a single batter in those three games as she only gave up 12 hits, two earned runs, four doubles and hit batters twice. Wilcox had three assists and one putout with no errors last week as well.
 
Wilcox was joined on Monday by women's lacrosse's Alyssa Piechota (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas) as the Women's Lacrosse Goalie of the Week and men's lacrosse's Scott Kimiecik (Randolph, NJ/Randolph) as the Men's Lacrosse Goalie of the Week. Wilcox was also joined by men's lacrosse's Shane Weber (Hull, MA/Hull) as one of the two Saxons of the Week on Monday.