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Career Accolades

  • Rawlings Gold Glove Award (catcher) (2023)
  • NFCA All-West Region third team (2023)
  • Third Team All-Pac-12 (2024)
  • Pac-12 All-Defensive Team (2023)
  • Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (April 12, 2021)
  • Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2023-24)

As a Senior (2024)

  • Third Team All-Pac-12
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Started all 67 games behind the plate
  • Crushed a team-leading 11 home runs, the most by a Stanford batter since 2015
  • Led the team with 101 total bases
  • Her 26 career home runs are the 10th most in program history
  • Drove in a team-leading 41 runs on the season
  • Scored 35 runs herself, the second most on the team
  • Walked 19 times, striking out only 15 times in 207 at-bats
  • Finished second on the team in sluggin percentage at a .488 clip
  • Crushed three home runs against Georgia Tech in February, the first member of the Cardinal to do so since at least 1999

 

 

As a Junior (2023)

  • Rawlings Gold Glove Award (catcher)
  • NFCA All-West Region third team
  • Pac-12 All-Defensive Team
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Recognized with a Rawlings Gold Glove Award, presented by the NFCA to the top nine defensive players at their respective positions from all divisions
  • Started all 62 games at catcher
    • One of five Cardinal to start all 62 games
  • Led the team with seven home runs and 40 RBI
  • Ranked second in total bases (81) and third in hits (47), while batting .255 and slugging .440
  • Threw out 14 of 25 baserunners to rank tied for 21st in the nation in runners caught stealing
  • Caught for a pitching staff which led the Pac-12 and ranked third nationally with a 1.53 ERA and seventh with 21 shutouts

As a Sophomore (2022)

  • Started 60 games while making 61 appearances, primarily at catcher but also at designated player
  • Batted .240 on the season with five doubles and four home runs to drive in 20 runs
  • Homered against BYU
  • Hit a home run in the win over San Jose State
  • Drove in three runs and scored twice against Mount St. Mary’s adding a home run
    • Caught Molly Millar’s no-hitter against Mount St. Mary’s on the same day
  • Was 2-for-2 with the game-winning home run in the win over Oregon
  • Doubled in the win over Alabama to drive in the winning runs to clinch the Tuscaloosa Regional for the Cardinal, batting in three runs while going 3-for-4 at the plate

As a Freshman (2021)

  • Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (April 12)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Posted a strong freshman season, making 30 starts in her debut campaign – 26 at designated player
  • Batted .265/.314/.459 in 98 at-bats, scoring 10 runs and driving in 15 runs
  • Was tied for second on the team with four home runs, adding seven doubles – good for the team lead alongside Eleni Spirakis
  • Became the first Stanford freshman to homer twice in a game since 2010, doing so on the road at No. 13/14 Arizona State, driving in six runs on the day (April 10)
  • Hit her first career home run against Arizona (April 2)
  • Also homered against South Dakota State in the NCAA Tournament (May 21)

Prior to Stanford

  • 2020 graduate of William S. Hart High School in Newhall, Calif.
  • Two-time team captain (2019-20)
  • Helped her team to a CIF Southern Section runner-up finish as a freshman (2017)
  • Three-time All-Foothill League (2017-19)
  • Three-time All-Santa Clarita (2017-19)
  • LA Daily News Incomer of the Year (2017)
  • Hart High School's CIF Female Scholar Athlete of the Year (2020)
  • Cal-High Sports All State Honor Roll (2020)
  • Cal-High Sports First-Team Catchers (2020)
  • Also competed in basketball where she garnered All-Foothill League and All-Santa Clarita honors

Club Competition

  • Competed for SoCal Choppers beginning at age 12
  • Premier Girls Fastpitch Western Region All-America (2020)

Personal

  • Daughter of Cathy and Lance Kaneshiro
  • Has two brothers, Colby and Ryan
    • Brother, Colby, played baseball at Point Loma Nazaren University
    • Brother, Ryan, played basketball at Occidental College
  • Cousin, Keston Hiura, played baseball at UC Irvine and currently plays for the Milwaukee Brewers
  • “Tribe Leader” in high school who was in charge of the school’s student sections and school spirit at all sporting events
     
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