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Veronica "Ronnie" Gajownik (born August 4, 1993) is an American softball and baseball player. She is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Biography
Veronica Gajownik was born in Winter Park, Florida on August 4, 1993. She's the daughter of Marcel Gajownik and Glenn Richards, a chief meteorologist for WOFL. Veronica was introduced to baseball by her father and started to play baseball with boys in Oviedo recreation leagues.
She started playing softball when she attended Paul J. Hagerty High School in Oviedo, Florida. She played for the Hagerty Huskies and batted .531 as a junior with an on-base percentage of .694. She also competed in Summer competitions for Team North Florida, the Tampa Mustangs and Team Florida.
She attended Indian River State College in 2013 and University of South Florida in 2014–15 where she played softball for the South Florida Bulls.