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Career Accolades

  • Three-time Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll (2020-22)
  • NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2019)

As a Senior (2022)

  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
  • Made two starts while appearing in 17 games on the season
  • Batted .421 while going 8-for-19 at the plate with a pair of doubles
  • Went 2-for-2 with a double to drive in a run against Saint Mary’s
  • Doubled in the win over Mount St. Mary’s that same weekend
  • Scored a run in the wins over Fresno State and UC Davis

As a Junior (2021)

  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
  • Posted career highs in batting average (.174), hits (four) and doubles (one) on the season
  • Appeared in 17 games, with three starts, while seeing time at first base and left field
  • Powered Stanford to an upset victory at No. 6 Oregon – the Cardinal’s first win in Eugene since 2011 – with a 2-for-3 performance (April 23) . . . doubled to left-center and scored to provide the go-ahead run for Stanford
  • Scored a run in Stanford’s postseason victory over Manhattan (May 22)

As a Sophomore (2020) 

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Appeared in 14 games
  • Amassed four RBIs and scored four runs
  • First collegiate home run was a walk-off, three-run homer to beat Rhode Island in six innings (Feb. 29)

As a Freshman (2019) 

  • NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
  • Appeared in 17 games, starting six
  • Scored five runs and collected three RBIs
  • Got the start at DP and went 1-for-3 with a run scored and two RBIs vs. Michigan (Feb. 22)

Club Competition

  • Played club softball for the North Carolina Lady Lightning Gold (2017-2018) and New Jersey Intensity (2013-2017) 
  • Top 25 finisher at PGF Nationals 18U Premier with LLG (2017)
  • Placed fifth in 2017 TCS Fireworks with LLG 
  • Led LLG in homeruns (2017-18)
  • Four-time FloSoftball Hot 100 list prospect (2014-2018)

Prior to Stanford

  • 2018 graduate of Yorktown High School in Arlington, Va.
  • Captained team for the 2018 season 
  • Softball MVP (2017)
  • All-conference first team (2017) 
  • Two-time all-conference second team (2015-16) 
  • Four-year Regional Athletic Honor Roll
  • Also competed in track where she was a two-time team MVP in shot put (2015-16)
  • National Honor Society Member 
  • Yorktown High School AP Scholar
  • Three-year member of Patriot Athletic Council; Advisory Board Member her senior year 
  • Freshman mentor for three years
  • Three-year member of high school newspaper, Photo Editor her senior year

Personal

  • Daughter of Roger and Laura
  • One sibling, Andie, two step-siblings, Haley and Noah Coon 
  • Father, Roger, ran track for University of Massachusetts Lowell 
  • Mother, Laura, played soccer for Tufts University 
  • Stepmother, Kiersten Todt, played squash for Princeton University 
  • Volunteered for ALS/TDI Tri-State Trek 
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