Player Bio: Sarah Beeson

Briefly: Returning All-American performer at first base ... Will supply power and run production in 2002 while hitting in the heart of the order ... Team leader and has consistently hit for average throughout her career on The Farm ... Selected to participate in the USA Women's National Team Camp over the summer.

As a junior in 2001: NFCA First Team All-American ... One of four Stanford players selected to the All-Tournament team at NCAA Regionals ... Named National Player of the Week and Pac-10 Player of the Week (2/28) ... All-Pac-10 First Team selection ... Played and started in all 71 games for the Cardinal and was second on the team with a .986 fielding percentage ... Finished the season second on the team with a .387 batting average (eighth in the conference) and 79 hits (second on team) ... Led the team with 23 doubles and 66 RBI, both of which were single-season records, and blasted 12 home runs (second on team) ... With her four doubles and six RBI in a twinbill at Sacramento State, broke the Stanford single-season RBI record and tied the season mark for doubles ... Tops on the squad with 16 multi-RBI games and was second with 21 multi-hit games ... Batted .419 with runners on base and .460 with runners in scoring position ... Eclipsed the school record for career RBI and has totaled 156 entering the 2002 season ... Notched a career-high six RBIs while going 3-for-3 against Seton Hall (2/24) ... Now holds school career record for putouts (1537) after leading the team with 469 during her junior year ... Had multiple home run games twice ... Put together a 10-game hitting streak during the year.

As a sophomore in 2000: NSCA Second-team All-American ... First-team All-Pac-10 selection ... Set single-game record for most RBI with 7 vs. Sacramento State (4/25) ... Started in all 63 games ... Hit .337 on the year, third highest batting average on the team ... Led the squad in RBI with 53, setting a new school record for single-season RBI ... Tallied 18 multiple hit games as well as 13 multiple RBI games ... Ranked second on the team in doubles (17), homeruns (5), walks (22) and on-base percentage (.419) ... Third in hits with 62 ... Longest hitting streak on the year was seven games ... Went 3-for-3 with two runs scored vs. Cal Poly-SLO (3/23) ... Had a 3-for-4 performance with four RBI vs. UC-Santa Barbara (3/27) ... Also had 3 hits, three runs scored while blasting two homeruns vs. Sacramento State (4/25) ...

As a freshman in 1999: Played in all 65 games, starting 64, as the everyday first baseman ... Demonstrated an ability to hit for both power and average as a freshman ... Hit .295 in her initial campaign on the Farm, leading the team in doubles (13) and walks (28), and ranking second in home runs (five), RBI (37) and slugging pct. (.457) ... Named an honorable mention All-Pac-10 selection ... Her .993 fielding percentage and 568 put-outs are both second on the all-time single-season Stanford list ... She had 10 multiple-hit games and nine multiple-RBI contests last season ... Went two-for-four with three RBI in the NCAA Tournament game against Pacific ... Hit .571 with two home runs and six RBI in 14 at-bats at the NFCA Leadoff Classic ... Tallied three hits and four RBI against Iowa State (Feb. 18) ... Also had three hits, in three at-bats, against Central Michigan (Feb. 27) ... Drove in three runs against No. 18 Oregon (May 8) ... Her 65 games played in one season ties the school record ...

High School: A 1998 graduate of Canyon Del Oro High School ... Twice selected to the Arizona All-State Team ... Three-time selection to the All-Southern Arizona and All-City Teams ... Had a .511 career batting average ... Also participated on the varsity swimming team ... Earned a variety of academic honors including the Marion Donaldson Academic Award, Tucson Citizen Scholar-Athlete Award and Rotary Youth Leadership Award ... Member of the National Honor Society ...

Club: Played for the Phoenix Storm after her senior year ... Helped lead them to the Regional Championship and a seventh-place finish at Nationals ... Member of the Arizona Cats in 1997 ...

Personal:Daughter of Paige and Mike Beeson ... Enjoys swimming in her free time ... Member of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Stanford ... Worked last summer as an intern for a neurobiology lab ... Human biology major who aspires to be a surgeon.

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