“She came to my classroom one morning and she said she would move to center field to help the team,” Arduino recalled. She earned second-team All-Pac 12 honors as a shortstop at Oregon in 2021.īrito’s high school career began at Foothill as a freshman.Īt Pacifica, she rose the ranks as a sophomore and some of her junior season under the late coach Mark Campbell, who died in March 2019.īrito starred at shortstop for the Mariners but played a few games at center field near the end of the COVID-shortened 2020 season after Lillyanna Martinez was injured. So happy for her, couldn’t happen to a better person.”īrito went 2 for 4 with two doubles in the finale and finished the season hitting. “She wanted to win at everything she did and proved that tonight. I’ve been coaching high school sports - baseball and softball - for 15-plus years and have never seen someone compete like her on a daily basis. “The amount of time and effort she put into her craft was something special.
“To be honest, it is what I expected her to do in college,” he said. Pacifica softball coach Tony Arduino said after the game that he was thrilled to see Brito shine on the national stage.
