Cancelled Event: Softball versus Tarleton State
Softball
vs Tarleton State
Cancelled
Providence College Athletics
Softball
Alvelo, Taran
Taran Alvelo
- Title:
- Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator
- Email:
- talvelo@providence.edu
- Phone:
- (401) 865-2967
Taran Alvelo enters her second year as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. In her first season on the coaching staff, Alvelo helped guide the team to a 22-23-1 overall record, including an 11-13 mark in BIG EAST play.
A standout student-athlete at the University of Washington from 2015-19, Alvelo was a four-time All-Pac-12 selection and a two-time All-American. She helped lead the Huskies to three Women’s College World Series berths and a national runner-up finish in 2018. Alvelo closed out her career at Washington ranked second on the program’s all-time lists in strikeouts (895) and wins (102). She is one of only three players to have recorded 300 strikeouts in a single season in Washington program history. In 2019, she was named to the All-Women’s College World Series Team and was recognized as the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year in 2016. Alvelo was a finalist for the 2018 USA Softball Player of the Year and was on the final list for the 2019 Senior CLASS Award.
Alvelo joins the staff after serving as a volunteer assistant coach with Florida International University during the 2023 season where she oversaw the entire pitching staff during practices and scrimmages, as well as assisting with in-game preparation. As a volunteer with the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in 2020, she assisted the pitching coach and helped organize practices and in-game charting.
Professionally, Alvelo was a member of Athletics Unlimited Softball from 2021-22 and is now a current member of the USSSA Pride of Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF). Internationally, she was a member of the gold medal winning Puerto Rico National Team at the 2018 Central American Games. In 2019, Alvelo helped Puerto Rico capture a bronze medal at the Pan American Games.
Alvelo earned her bachelor of arts degree in American Ethnic Studies from the University of Washington in 2019. She currently resides in Providence, R.I.
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