BRADFORD — Sarah Dailey is not a two-sport athlete at Pitt-Bradford.

She is definitely a two-sport person.

The Mars graduate and senior Panthers women's soccer goalkeeper is winding down her soccer playing career and may have started a lengthy career in baseball.

“I would love that,” Dailey said. “Baseball is a sport I want to work in. I'm just not sure in what capacity.

“Ballpark operations, public relations, there are a few different fields I could enter.”

A sports and recreation management major at Pitt-Bradford, Dailey participated in a six-week internship last summer with the Houston Astros' Latin American baseball academy in Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic. She tutored young players —mostly 18 and 19-year-olds — in English during most of her stay.

Dailey pointed out that many athletes in the Dominican — where baseball is the No. 1 sport — drop out of school at age 14 to begin working with an independent trainer, hoping to eventually land in a major league academy.

“There are a lot of cultural differences,” Dailey said. “Some of the countries, like Venezuela and Mexico, have better educational systems and players from there were farther along with the (English) language than those from other Latin American countries.

“All of those kids really love baseball. It was fun having a hand in helping them make the transition because, hopefully, they'll be playing in the states at some point.”

After her weeks were up in the Dominican, Dailey finished out her summer serving as an intern for the Frontier League's Washington Wild Things and Prospect League's Butler BlueSox.

She said her love for the game began when she kept the scorebook for the Mars varsity baseball team in high school.

“They needed somebody to keep statistics, so I said I'd do it,” Dailey said. “I really began to love baseball through that experience.”

And she's been a really good soccer goalkeeper for quite some time now.

A three-year starter at Mars, Dailey won three section titles and a state championship with the Planets.

Now in her fourth year as a starter at Pitt-Bradford, she is a two-time first team All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference performer and was AMCC Defensive Player of the Year her sophomore season.

Dailey has compiled 23 shutouts — including five this season — and was named AMCC Defensive Player of the Week three successive times during one stretch this year.

“Sarah has been phenomenal,” first-year Panthers coach Melissa Lincoln said. “She is one of the strongest goalkeepers in all of Division III.

“Her leadership back there is incredible. She's very vocal and she pushes this team to do its best. She's a strong athlete in goal who makes a difference every game.”

Pitt-Bradford is 8-6-1 on the season, 3-2-1 in the AMCC. Dailey has posted shutouts in five of the wins, allowed but one goal in the other three and earned a 1-1 tie for the team's lone draw of the campaign.

“She's been playing at a high level for a long time,” Lincoln said. “Coming in here and already having a goalkeeper of her caliber in place has been a big help.”

Dailey is playing for her third different head coach in as many seasons.

Mike Idland was Pitt-Bradford's head coach and goalkeeping coach during her first two seasons. He went on take the head coaching job at Brockport after her sophomore year.

“Coach (Idland) and I really hit it off. He was a big reason why I decided to go there,” Dailey said. “He taught me a lot about the position.

“Then we go through another coaching change (after last year) ... It's been a little challenging with the different coaches, but it's worked out OK.”

All she wants to do now is win.

“I don't think about winning the player of the week award, that's never a goal,” Dailey said. “I'm here to win games. We want to make a run at the conference.”

At least until soccer and her senior year are over, baseball will have to wait.

“I'll miss playing,” Dailey said. “Soccer's been a big part of my life. I know I'll end up trying to coach at some level when I'm done.

“But working at a baseball park? That's what I want to pursue.”