Student-Athletes #13 ALEXA MALDONADO Senior • Outfield 5-6 • L / L Short Hills, N.J. Millburn
HONORS & AWARDS 2011 First Team NFCA All-Region 2011 First Team All-BIG EAST 2011 BIG EAST Player of the Week (Feb. 21) 2010 First Team All-BIG EAST
AS A JUNIOR (2011): Honored as a first team all-BIG EAST choice for the second straight season … first team NFCA all-Great Lakes Region performer … played for the U.S. Baseball Women’s National Team at the Women’s International Friendship Series in Cary, N.C. … tied for second in league play with 29 hits and seven doubles … one of five Irish players ever to score 50+ runs in a season … posted a school record 55 runs as a junior … her .413 batting average was the fourth-best in program history … tied for 14th on the season charts with 14 doubles, 19th with a .592 slugging pct., tied for seventh with a .468 on-base pct. and tied for fourth with 20 stolen bases … ranked 31st nationally with 0.96 runs per game … stroked three triples and hammered four home runs … drew 18 walks and laid down seven sacrifices … committed three errors and tallied a pair of assists with 63 putouts … first error of the season came against Michigan (March 19) – her first fault in 132 chances – to snap a flawless fielding streak that began two weeks into her 2009 freshman campaign … one of eight Irish players to reach base in 10+ games … eight-game hitting streak from March 29-April 7, as six of those contests produced two or more hits … paced Notre Dame with 23 multi-hit games … nine games with multiple RBI … named
BIG EAST Player of the Week (Feb. 21) while playing a key role in leading Notre Dame to a 5-0 record at the UCF Invitational for the best start to open a season since 2011 … went 7-for-14 from the dish with three hits for extra bases (doubles, triple, home run) for a slugging pct. of .929 during the invitational … also scored six times while driving in six more runs against the competition at UCF … named to the league’s Honor Roll on Feb. 28 … 3-for-3 with three runs and three RBI against Marist (Feb. 27) … three hits against Western Michigan (March 29) and Wisconsin (April 5) … twice recorded a double in backto-back contests, and knocked two doubles against Providence (April 3) … had three hits on both ends of a May 4 doubleheader with Pittsburgh … posted two RBI and two doubles at Connecticut (May 7) while driving in two runs on four hits and scored three times against the Huskies one day later … scored twice and smacked a triple against Western Michigan (May 21) at the NCAA Tournament. AS A SOPHOMORE (2010): First team all-BIG EAST … solid across the board with eight doubles, five triples and five home runs for a .344 batting average and .608 slugging pct. in league play … boosted those numbers from a freshman year that saw her hit .207 with a .284 slugging pct. … did not commit an error in the outfield in 68 chances (also added three assists) … hit .340 on the season with a .574 slugging pct. … reached base on a .416 clip … second on the squad with five triples (ranked 35th nationally) … just missed out on a home run against Oregon (Feb. 12), legging out the longball to right field for her third career triple … posted three two-hit efforts at the Cavalier Invite (Feb. 26-27), totaling four RBI, two doubles and two triples in the four games … scored twice against George Washington (Feb. 27) … hit first career home run against East Tennessee State (March 6) … back-toback two-hit performances against UC Riverside (March 7) and CS Northridge (March 10) … also drove in two runs with a double against the Highlanders … hit a solo home run against Toledo (March 24) and another two days later at Seton Hall (March 27) … 2-for-3 with two RBI, a double and
three runs scored in the series finale with the Pirates … scored eight runs in a five-game stretch from March 24-28 … stole one base and scored once in back-to-back games against Rutgers (April 1-3) … started an inning-ending double play against USF (April 10), firing a strike to home plate from centerfield to gun down a Bull runner trying to score with the bases loaded … posted three singles in three games against USF (April 10-11) … one double, one run and one RBI against Georgetown (April 14) … walked twice at Louisville (April 17) … could not have asked for more during a doubleheader with Villanova (April 24) as she notched five
MALDONADO’S CAREER STATISTICS Year Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD% 2009 .207 54-50 116 22 24 5 2 0 7 33 .284 12 2 26 0 .288 2 8 6-8 41 5 3 .939 2010 .340 59-59 141 35 48 8 5 5 23 81 .574 17 2 17 0 .416 1 5 8-9 65 3 0 1.000 2011 .413 57-57 179 55 74 14 3 4 25 106 .592 18 3 24 0 .468 3 7 20-26 63 2 3 .956 TOTAL .335 170-166 436 112 146 27 10 9 55 220 .505 47 7 67 0 .403 6 20 34-43 169 10 6 .968
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