Medal record
Women's softball
Representing United States
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team
ISF Women's World Championship
	2006 Beijing	Team
	2010 Caracas	Team
World Cup of Softball
	2005 Oklahoma City	Team
	2006 Oklahoma City	Team
	2007 Oklahoma City	Team
	2009 Oklahoma City	Team
	2010 Oklahoma City	Team
Pan American Games
	2007 Rio de Janeiro	Team
Canada Cup
	2005 South Surrey	Team
	2006 South Surrey	Team
	2007 South Surrey	Team
	2009 South Surrey	Team
National Pro Fastpitch
1st	2007 season	Washington Glory
1st	2011 season	Chicago Bandits
1st	2015 season	Chicago Bandits

Monica Cecilia Abbott (born July 28, 1985) is an American athlete who pitched for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team from 2004 to 2007. In 2008, Abbott participated in the Beijing Olympics with Team USA. On May 4, 2010, she and catcher Shannon Doepking were traded by the Florida Pride to the Tennessee Diamonds in exchange for pitcher Cat Osterman and catcher Megan Willis.

During her senior season in college, she set the record for the most strikeouts in a Division I softball season and became the NCAA Division I Softball all-time leader in career wins, strikeouts, shutouts, innings pitched, games started and games pitched. She was the recipient of the 2007 Honda Sports Award for the Top Collegiate Softball Player in the country and was named the 2007 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She was also named the 2007 Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year.

Abbott was born in Santa Cruz, California and attended North Salinas High School from 1999 to 2003; her parents are Bruce and Julie Abbott, and her siblings are Jessica (born 1984), Jared (born 1988) and twins Bina and Gina (born 1991).

Abbott pitched for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team from 2004 to 2007.

On April 21, in Abbott's 33rd game started of the season, she struck out her 500th batter of the season, thus becoming the first pitcher in NCAA Division I history to record 500 strikeouts in all four years of her collegiate career. Before Abbott started her collegiate career, only two pitchers had ever reached the 500-strikeout mark in any season (Courtney Blades and Cat Osterman). During Abbott's career from 2004 to 2007, Alicia Hollowell, Brooke Mitchell, Taryne Mowatt, Angela Tincher (twice) and Cat Osterman (twice more) would end up surpassing the 500-strikeout mark as well.

Abbott finished her college career with significant season awards as the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and the winner of the Honda Award for Top Collegiate Softball Player.

On October 16, 2007, Abbott won the Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year award for Team Sports athletes.

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