Once a baseball player with MLB dreams, Neuqua Valley’s Nalia Clifford commits to Wisconsin softball

Once a baseball player with MLB dreams, Neuqua Valley’s Nalia Clifford commits to Wisconsin softball

Nalia Clifford was aiming to make history. “When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be the first girl in MLB,” she said. “But as I got older, I kind of got a reality check.” But not before becoming the first girl to play baseball at Neuqua Valley. Clifford was a three-sport athlete during her freshman year, when she played volleyball and basketball and then pitched and played shortstop for the baseball program’s freshman/sophomore team. “I …