Student-Athletes #44
LAURA WINTER
Sophomore • Pitcher / Infield 6-1 • R / R San Diego, Calif. Rancho Bernardo AS A FRESHMAN (2011): Named a first team all-BIG EAST performer … second team NFCA all-Great Lakes Region … BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week (April 11) and a four-time member of the league’s weekly Honor Roll … hurled a near-perfect no-hitter at USF (April 27) in which she walked and beaned the first two batters while retiring the rest for the remainder of the game ... Winter punched out nine Bulls as 51 of her 77 offerings went for strikes ... started 28 games while earning 25 wins (tied for eighth in program history) … posted a 25-4 (.862) record, the fifth-best single-season clip in Irish history … each of her four losses came to ranked teams (No. 4 Washington, No. 5 Michigan, No. 24 Louisville and No. 21 Kentucky) … struck out 216 batters while posting the program’s third-best strikeoutto-walk ratio (7.45) … struck out 8.44 batters per 7.0 innings, the sixth-best mark ever among Irish pitchers … allowed 1.13 walks per 7.0 innings, the 10th-best clip in program history … on the national scene, ranked 14th with four saves and 13th in walks per 7.0 innings … went 9-1 in league play with 2.96 ERA … three solo shutouts, five combined … 2.42 overall ERA in 179.1 innings … 12 complete games … walked multiple
batters only six times in 39 appearances … allowed 65 runs – 62 of which were earned – while walking 29 batters … struck out five batters and gave up one hit in 2.1 innings during collegiate debut for a win against Miami (Ohio) (Feb. 18) … first save of the season came in 1.0 inning of scoreless relief at UCF (Feb. 18) … fanned eight batters in a complete-game win over Iowa State (Feb. 26) … allowed one earned run while defeating No. 9 Oklahoma (March 16) in a complete-game, seven strikeout effort … struck out 10+ batters in consecutive games against Purdue (March 31) and Providence (April 2) … fanned 12 Boilermaker and 10 Friars in the back-to-back outings … struck out at least seven batters in 16 different appearances … totaled three hits and drove in four runs at the dish … scored twice on the season.
THE WINTER FILE Led Rancho Bernardo (Calif.) to Palomar League title in 2009 while also claiming the CIF San Diego D1 championship trophy ... 2010 Palomar League Pitcher of the Year … hit .512 with a 1.061 slugging pct. in 2009 ... added 10 home runs and 34 RBI ... half of her hits that season went for extra bases ... sported a 19-3 record from the rubber after tossing 141.0 innings, striking out 240 with a 0.70 ERA ... tossed 27.0 consecutive scoreless innings during the 2009 CIF playoffs ... hit .411 as a junior with 10 home runs and 75 RBI on the club circuit ... took part in the West Coast Softball AllStars Invitational Camp in 2005 and 2006 ... recent accolades also include: (2007) - North County Times first team, Adidas Elite Futures Invitational Camp and On Deck Softball Invitational Camp; (2008) - all-CIF San Diego Section first team, North County Times first team, San Diego Tribune second team, Palomar League first team, Adidas Elite Futures Invitational Camp, On Deck Softball Invitational Camp; (2009) - CIF San Diego Section Player of the Year, CalHiSports California first-team all-state, NFCA all-West Region first team, North County Player of the Year, North County Times first team, San Diego Union-Tribune Player of the Year, Palomar League Player of the Year, second-team Palomar League in basketball, Rancho Bernardo Scholar-Athlete ... three-times named to Honor Roll ... played prep ball for Steve Kuptz and Summer Downs ... daughter of Kirt and Shari Winter ... has one brother, Kenny ... born April 20, 1992 ... attended same high school as Notre Dame women’s soccer goaltender Kelsey Lysander.
WINTER’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% 2011 .120 13-11 25 2 3 0 0 0 4 3 .120 2 1 9 0 .207 1 1 1-1 30 22 2 .963 TOTAL .120 13-11 25 2 3 0 0 0 4 3 .120 2 1 9 0 .207 1 1 1-1 30 22 2 .963 Year ERA W-L App GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR BF B/Avg WP 2011 2.42 25-4 39 28 12 3 5 4 179.1 163 65 62 29 216 20 2 23 736 .236 1 TOTAL 2.42 25-4 39 28 12 3 5 4 179.1 163 65 62 29 216 20 2 23 736 .236 1
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