Case Western Reserve University Athletics/Naji Saker
Mount Vernon native Nicole Doyle locks and loads for a throw to first base from her shortstop position for Case Western Reserve University.
Currently batting .429, Doyle has scored 15 runs in her first 18 games this season. She hasn’t missed a game for the Spartans since she started playing in the spring of 2016.
“It has been a huge honor,” Doyle said. “The best of times. The best softball. It has been wonderful here.”
When Doyle entered Case Western, she was a biology major, but she realized that she wanted to take another path.
“I took a bunch of classes one semester,” Doyle said. “Then I figured out that accounting was the way to go for me. The language of business, I don’t know what it was, but it really struck a chord. I thought I could do a lot with it and it could provide a lot of opportunity.”
In fact, It really has.
“I got an internship at Precision Castparts Corporation,” Doyle said. “They manufacture airfoils for airplane engines. After that, I decided I wanted to work in a different industry, so between my junior and senior year, I had an internship at Morgan Stanley in New York City for three months. That was so much fun and so different from Cleveland or Mount Vernon.”
It hasn’t been run of the mill academically or on the field for Doyle.
“(CWRU softball coach Josie Henry) played in Division II and coached in DI,” Doyle said. “She let me know that this was going to be a DI experience at a Division III college. She said, ‘It’s going to be competitive. It’s going to be intense, but you are also going into a great academic institution.’ That has fit the bill of everything I wanted in a school.”
Doyle hit .318 as a freshman and .391 as a sophomore, when she became a team captain. As a junior, she got to play on perhaps Case Western’s most successful softball team, finishing with a record of 38-12 and tied for fifth at the 2018 NCAA Division III Softball Championships in Oklahoma City. Doyle batted .362 with five home runs and 37 RBI for the Spartans. She was also named to the 2018 NCAA Division III Softball Championship All-Tournament Team.
“Last year’s team was incredible,” Doyle said. “We probably had the best team chemistry, ever.”
She earned University Athletic Association Hitter of the Week twice last season, and has already won it once this season. Doyle also got to play a road game at Kenyon College, unexpectedly, this season due to cold temperatures in Cleveland.
“So, we got to come down here three out of my four years,” Doyle said. “It was awesome. My parents were there and they brought my dog out, too. She ran up to see me. It was great.”
Doyle plans to work at Morgan Stanley after graduating, but she may delay those plans if she decides to go for her master’s degree in accounting. She has already applied for and has received a scholarship for it.
“Getting my master’s has been a goal of mine ever since I became an accounting major,” Doyle said. “I want to be a CPA, because that credential is pretty well respected.”
News reporter Larry Di Giovanni contributed to this story.
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“I got an internship at Precision Castparts Corporation,” Doyle said. “They manufacture airfoils for airplane engines. After that, I decided I wanted to work in a different industry, so between my junior and senior year, I had an internship at Morgan Stanley in New York City for three months. That was so much fun and so different from Cleveland or Mount Vernon.”
It hasn’t been run of the mill academically or on the field for Doyle.
“(CWRU softball coach Josie Henry) played in Division II and coached in DI,” Doyle said. “She let me know that this was going to be a DI experience at a Division III college. She said, ‘It’s going to be competitive. It’s going to be intense, but you are also going into a great academic institution.’ That has fit the bill of everything I wanted in a school.”
Doyle hit .318 as a freshman and .391 as a sophomore, when she became a team captain. As a junior, she got to play on perhaps Case Western’s most successful softball team, finishing with a record of 38-12 and tied for fifth at the 2018 NCAA Division III Softball Championships in Oklahoma City. Doyle batted .362 with five home runs and 37 RBI for the Spartans. She was also named to the 2018 NCAA Division III Softball Championship All-Tournament Team.
“Last year’s team was incredible,” Doyle said. “We probably had the best team chemistry, ever.”
She earned University Athletic Association Hitter of the Week twice last season, and has already won it once this season. Doyle also got to play a road game at Kenyon College, unexpectedly, this season due to cold temperatures in Cleveland.
“So, we got to come down here three out of my four years,” Doyle said. “It was awesome. My parents were there and they brought my dog out, too. She ran up to see me. It was great.”
Doyle plans to work at Morgan Stanley after graduating, but she may delay those plans if she decides to go for her master’s degree in accounting. She has already applied for and has received a scholarship for it.
“Getting my master’s has been a goal of mine ever since I became an accounting major,” Doyle said. “I want to be a CPA, because that credential is pretty well respected.”
News reporter Larry Di Giovanni contributed to this story.
