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As a Senior in 2010: Named Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year for the third consecutive season ... All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention ... started all 56 games at catcher ... led the team with 31 walks ... finished the season with 44 hits, third on the team with 11 doubles, four home runs and 30 RBI ... registered a .450 slugging percentage and a .418 on-base percentage ... ended her career with the second most walks (123) and putouts (1690) and second highest fielding percentage (.993) in program history ... her .944 fielding percentage in 2010 was a career high ... posted a season-high three hits in the season opener versus Texas A&M Corpus Christi ... drove in a season-best four runs at Oregon State on Apr. 11 ... was 2-9 with an RBI in three NCAA Tournament games.
As a Junior in 2009: Named Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year for the second year in a row ... also received All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention ... started all 59 games for the Cardinal as its primary catcher ... led the team with nine home runs ... ranked among the top 50 players in the nation with a team-high 37 walks (41st, 0.63 per game) ... walk total was the third highest in school history and ranked fourth in the Pac-10 ... slugged .462 on the year with 19 extra-base hits and 30 RBI ... hit .224 on the year with a .381 on-base percentage ... threw out seven runners and posted a .992 fielding percentage with just four errors in 490 chances ... posted seven multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games ... was 2-for-3 in the season opener against McNeese State (2/6) ... homered twice against Texas Tech and racked up two hits, two runs and four RBI (2/7) ... finished the opening weekend with three home runs, a .500 batting average (6-for-12), seven RBI and a 1.250 slugging percentage, while adding 42 putouts behind the plate and catching a no-hitter for Missy Penna ... for her efforts over the first weekend, earned the league's first Pac-10 Player of the Week award (2/10) ... was 2-for-3 with a home run, a double and two RBI in a win over No. 24 San Diego State ... also posted two hits against Western Kentucky (2/21) ... hit a two-run home run to help the Cardinal defeat Notre Dame at the Stanford Nike Invitational (2/21) ... was 2-for-2 and scored a season-high three times against UC Riverside ... belted the game-winning home run in a 1-0 win over Princeton (3/20) ... was hit by a pitch to record the game-winning RBI in an 11-inning battle with eventual national champion Washington (3/28) ... posted four hits, four RBI, a double and two home runs in Stanford's trip to Oregon, helping Stanford sweep the road series with the Beavers and Ducks in early April ... also homered in Stanford's loss at Arizona (4/17) ... ranked second in the Pac-10 in putouts (467).
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As a Sophomore in 2008: The Pac-10 Co-Defensive Player of the Year ... the Pacific Region First Team catcher ... also a first-team All-Pac-10 pick ... started all 64 games behind the plate for Stanford, catching four no-hitters for the Stanford pitching staff ... led the Pac-10 with a school record tying 19 homeruns on the season ... homerun total ranked tenth nationally, while homerun per game mark (0.30) stood 14th ... led the league in putouts (520) and carried one of the top single-season fielding percentages in school history (.993) ... third in the Pac-10 with 12 runners caught stealing ... picked off three runners ... second on the team with 62 hits and a .343 batting average ... fourth in the conference with 53 RBI, becoming the sixth player in school history to record 50+ in one season against Massachusetts at NCAA Regionals (5/17) ... on-base percentage ranked among the top-10 in the conference (.444), while team-high slugging percentage (.713) was fourth in the league ... also had ten doubles on the year ... led the team with 13 multi-RBI games, and stood second with 17 multi-hit games ... posted the longest hitting streak on the team between Feb. 27 and Mar. 7, hitting in 10 consecutive games ... hit her first homerun of the year against Illinois-Chicago in the team's second game of the year, driving in three Stanford runs ... scored the game-winning run in a win over Long Beach State (2/9), successfully stealing home on a double steal play ... homered twice and hit two doubles at the Stanford Invitational in February, hitting bombs against Santa Clara (2/15) and Pacific (2/16) ... tallied six RBI against the Tigers, the second-highest single-game total in school history, after turning in three hits, a double and a homerun ... went 2-for-2 with another homerun in an extra-inning win over Florida Atlantic (2/21) ... went 2-for-3 and homered in her second consecutive game the next day against Fordham (2/22) ... recorded her second of three three-hit games against St. John's at the Worth Invitational in Fullerton (2/29) ... homered in three consecutive games at the Worth Invitational with knocks over the fence against Louisville (2/29), Texas Tech (3/1) and Purdue (3/1) ... tallied three RBI in the game against the Boilermakers ... earned her first career Pac-10 Player of the Week honor for her efforts (3/4), hitting .500 for the week with ten hits, two doubles, three homeruns and a whopping 1.050 slugging percentage ... hit homerun No. 9 against Boston College (3/4) ... had two hits and a homerun in three consecutive games against College of Charleston (3/9), Wisconsin (3/21) and Princeton (3/22) ... hit four homeruns in four games with nine RBI and a whopping 1.727 slugging percentage to lead the Cardinal to a sweep of the Stanford Invitational and earn her second Pac-10 Player of the Week honor (3/25) ... tallied four RBI against Wisconsin and three against Princeton at the tournament ... belted two homeruns against East Carolina (3/23) ... doubled to put the game-winning runner aboard in a win over Washington in Seattle (4/6) ... homered in Pac-10 games against Arizona (3/28), Washington (4/5), Oregon State (4/11) and Arizona State (5/8) ... nabbed the game-winning RBI in a 2-1 win over Oregon (4/13) ... went 2-for-3 with a clutch two-RBI double against California (4/19) ... earned a bases-loaded walk-off walk to earn the game-winning RBI in a 10-inning marathon win over Washington (4/25) ... went 3-for-4 with a homerun and two RBI in Stanford's NCAA Regional championship game win over Massachusetts (5/18), belting a homerun to tie the school record in the fifth inning ... hit in three of the four NCAA Regional games, finishing with five hits and three RBI ... was among 25 finalists for USA Softball's National Player of the Year award.
As a Freshman in 2007: Started 56 games at catcher for the Cardinal in her rookie season on The Farm ... picked off three runners (most in the conference) and caught 16 runners stealing ... hit .235 and stood second on the team with seven homeruns and 33 RBI ... finished with a .426 slugging percentage ... walked a team-leading 27 times, one of the top-10 single-season marks in program history ... had six multiple-hit games and nine multiple-RBI games (second on the team) ... longest hitting streak was six games between Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 ... belted first career homerun on the first day of the season with a solo shot on her first at-bat against Utah (2/9) ... notched first career double and recorded three RBI against Pacific (2/17) ... went 2-for-2 with a homerun against Missouri (2/18) ... went 2-for-3 with three RBI against Syracuse (2/24) ... went 3-for-4 the following day with three RBI against Marist (2/25) ... named to the FIU/Adidas Invitational All-Tournament Team after hitting .636 over five games and driving in a team-leading eight runs on seven hits ... blasted third homerun of the year in a 2-for-3, three-RBI game against Sacramento State (3/9) ... homered twice and notched two RBI to help the Cardinal top No. 13 Oregon (4/1) ... also cracked a solo homerun at Arizona (4/13) ... went 2-for-3 against San Jose State (4/24) ... homered again in the team's NCAA Regional win over Cal State Northridge (5/18).
High School: Started every game during her four-year career at Laguna Hills High School ... league MVP as a senior ... a three-time All-CIF selection and two-time all-state selection ... a four-time first-team All-County and All-League selection ... president of the National Honor Society as a senior ... a four-time member of the Principal's Honor Roll ... also captained the varsity golf team.
Club: Played for the Southern California Athletics ... team placed fifth at Gold Nationals in 2006.
National Team: A member of the United States Junior National Team ... competed on the USA team that captured a gold medal at the 2006 Junior Pan American Championship in Puerto Rico ... also competed with the team that won gold at the 2007 ISF Junior World Championship in Enschede, Netherlands.
Personal: Daughter of Mitzi and Mike Neill ... has an older brother named Ben ... majoring in psychology with a minor in philosophy ... hobbies include watching trashy TV shows, reading and sleeping ... full name is Rosemary Ann Neill.
Neill's Career Batting Stats
Year | Avg. | GP/GS | AB | R | H | 2B/3B/HR | RBI | BB/K | SB/SBA |
2007 | .235 | 56/56 | 136 | 17 | 32 | 5/0/7 | 33 | 27/34 | 0/0 |
2008 | .343 | 64/64 | 181 | 30 | 62 | 10/0/19 | 53 | 28/45 | 2/4 |
2009 | .224 | 59/59 | 156 | 22 | 35 | 10/0/9 | 30 | 37/26 | 0/0 |
2010 | .295 | 56/56 | 149 | 9 | 44 | 11/0/4 | 30 | 31/20 | 0/0 |
Totals | .274 | 235/235 | 622 | 78 | 205 | 36/0/39 | 146 | 123/125 | 2/4 |