All-Americans MELANIE ALKIRE
STEPHANIE BROWN
MEGAN CIOLLI
2 • Shortstop / Pitcher 2000 Second Team All-American
24 • Outfield / Second Base 2006 Third Team All-American
21 • Outfield 2005 Third Team All-American
Union City, Calif. • James Logan
Chandler, Ariz. • Corona del Sol
2004 Third Team All-American
One of the most productive Irish hitters and one of only four Notre Dame players to earn second team All-America honors … holds a career .340 batting average and 30 career home runs … third place among Notre Dame hitters with 260 career hits … her 765 at-bats ranks fourth, and 238 games played ranks eighth all-time in school history … led the team in RBI in 1998, 1999, and 2000 … trails only fellow All-American Jarrah Myers in career RBI (167) and total bases (403) … holds school record for RBI in a season with 64* in 2000 … second behind All-American Christine Lux in single-season slugging percentage at .665 … tied for third most home runs in a season by an Irish hitter with 13 in 2000 … her 73 hits in 2000 ranks sixth all time among Irish players for hits in a season … contributed three hits and four RBI, including a home run, in an 8-0 rout of Western Illinois in opening game of the 2001 NCAA Regional … aided the Irish in the circle with 143.2 innings pitched … garnered first team all-BIG EAST honors in 1999, 2000 and 2001, joining nine other Irish players to earn all-BIG EAST honors three or more times … earned first team (1999-2000) and second team (2001) all-region awards from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association … named 2000 BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding Player after going 6-for-8 with five runs scored, three home runs and six RBI in three games … won BIG EAST Player of the Year honors in consecutive years (1999 and 2000) becoming only the second Irish player to do so (Meghan Murray accomplished the feat in 1996 and 1997) … shared the Monogram Club Most Valuable Player Award in 2000 with All-American Jennifer Sharron.
A true triple threat player who was able to slap, bunt and hit away for power … one of three team captains in 2007 … played in 242 career games, third most in school history … played in a school-record 69 games during the 2004 season … scored 166 career runs, the most in program history … accumulated a .356 career batting average, fourth all-time in the Notre Dame annals … tied for fourth with Jenny Kriech (1999-2000) for career stolen bases at 55 … led the Irish in batting average, runs, hits and stolen bases in 2006 and 2007 … set the BIG EAST record for hits in a single season with 38 in 2006 ... her 38th BIG EAST hit was a two-run home run in a 4-0 Notre Dame victory at St. John’s … finished the 2006 BIG EAST season with a .528 batting average, which is fifth on the all-time league list … recipient of the Notre Dame Monogram Club Most Valuable Player in 2007 … joined Jarrah Myers as the only Irish player to earn the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute Rockne Scholar-Athlete Award three consecutive years (2005, 2006, 2007) … CoSIDA Academic All-District first team in 2006 and second-team winner in 2007 … member of Notre Dame Student-Athlete Academic Honors Program from 2004-2007 … named to four all-tournament teams from 2004-2006 … landed all-BIG EAST honors in each of her four seasons, earning first team distinction in 2004, 2006 and 2007 … awarded NFCA first team all-Mideast Region and ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American second team in 2006.
Terre Haute, Ind. • North Vigo
KATIE FLEURY
HEATHER JOHNSON 3 • Third Base 2011 Third Team All-American
A consistent offensive force for the Irish throughout her career … batted .386 with 71 hits, 11 doubles, 28 RBI and a school-record 32 stolen bases in 2005 … led the 2005 team in several offensive categories including bating average, slugging percentage (.500), on-base percentage (.424), stolen bases, at-bats (184) and runs scored (40) … captained the team to a 45-13 record in 2005 with a 16-2 home field mark and a 16-2 record in BIG EAST play along with the conference regular-season title … became the sixth Irish softball player to earn multiple All-America honors in a four-year career along with Andrea Loman (2002, 2003), Jarrah Myers (2001, 2002), Katie Marten (1995, 1996), Terri Kobata (1994, 1995) and Jennifer Sharron (2000, 2001) … completed her career as the all-time leader in hits (284) and stolen bases (76) while ranking in the top five in several categories including batting average (2nd - .368), at bats (3rd - 771) and runs (3rd - 161) … also ranks in the top 10 all-time in doubles (9th - 37), triples (7th - 9), home runs (9th - 13), and RBI (10th - 101) … garnered NFCA first team all-Mideast Region honors from 2002-2005 … named the BIG EAST Player of the Year in 2004 … one of four Irish players in program history to earn first team All BIG EAST honors all four years of competition (2002-2005) … voted to the 2002 BIG EAST all-Rookie Team … awarded the Notre Dame Monogram Club Most Valuable Player in her senior season (2005) … scored four times against Valparaiso on April 23, 2003, tied for the most runs scored in by an Irish player in a single game.
TERRI KOBATA
12 • Shortstop 2010 Third Team All-American
Los Alamitos, Calif. • Mater Dei
4 • Pitcher 1995 Second Team All-American
San Jose, Calif. • Archbishop Mitty
The fifth-year senior put up huge offensive numbers in 2011 with a .383 batting average and .651 slugging percentage to earn third team AllAmerican honors … accounted for 67 hits, 11 doubles, 12 home runs, 64 RBI and 114 total bases in her final season with the Irish and drew 17 walks and was fanned on just 10 occasions in 175 at-bats … also the 2011 BIG EAST Player of the Year, a first-team all-league choice and a second-team all-region selection … became the seventh Irish softball student-athlete to be named BIG EAST Player of the Year and the first since Megan Ciolli copped the hardware in 2004 … Melanie Alkire (1999, 2000) and Meghan Murray (1996, 1997) are the only Notre Dame players to win the award on multiple occasions … the BIG EAST record holder with 82 career RBI in league play … also seventh in doubles (19) and home runs (15) … hit .475 with a league-high 29 RBI this year with a league-best eight home runs and 59 total bases in conference play … one of a record six all-region selectees in 2011 for the Irish … ended career as school’s record holder in RBI (214), 40 more than any other player in program history … second all-time with 51 doubles and third with 243 games played … her .580 slugging pct. ranked fourth on the alltime charts while her 403 assists ranked third … set a school record with 68 RBI in 2010 while slugging at a .746 rate that same season …shares singleseason home run record with Christine Lux (17) … ended the 2011 season as the nation’s active leader with 243 consecutive starts.
1994 Third Team All-American
Earned third-team honors as a junior to become just the second shortstop (and first true-shortstop as Melanie Alkire played shortstop and pitched) in program history to be named All-American … also earned first team all-BIG EAST accolades and first team NFCA all-region honors in 2010 … led the BIG EAST with a .460 batting average in league play while ranking second with a .561 on-base pct. and eight doubles … overall, the team co-captain batted .372 with 15 doubles, two triples and four home runs … slugged at a .571 clip with an on-base pct. of .472, tying for third on the program’s singleseason list in the latter category … also had 58 hits and scored a schoolrecord 54 runs … her 0.95 runs-per-game average ranked 33rd nationally at the time of receiving the honor … her career numbers after her junior season were quite indicative of the steady progress she made in three years with the Irish … she doubled her sacrifice total (10) from 2009 and stole six more bases (13) than she did as a sophomore … Fleury had 18 more putouts (96) in 2010 than 2009 and after committing 23 errors in 2008 and 14 in 2009, she faulted just nine times in 163 chances in 2010 for a personal single-season career-best .945 fielding pct. … Fleury was an integral part of Notre Dame’s run to the BIG EAST regular season title and the program’s 12th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament … the Irish finished the 2010 campaign with a 47-12 mark and set single-season records for batting average (.343), runs (369), doubles (103), home runs (75), RBI (337), total bases (878), slugging pct. (.590), on-base pct. (.409) and fielding pct. (.978).
Villa Park, Calif. • Mater Dei A true Irish legend and one of the nation’s most dominate collegiate pitchers … career mark of 79-15 in the circle … holds school record for winning percentage (.840) … all-time Irish leader in strikeouts (907), shutouts (42) and ERA (0.63) … averaged a spectacular 10.1 strikeouts per game … tossed 15 total no-hitters (14 individual, one combined) including a perfect game - a 5-0 decision against Illinois-Chicago to win the 1994 Midwestern Collegiate Tournament … 3-2 overall record in the NCAA Tournament … in 1994, led Notre Dame to a thrilling 3-0 victory against No. 1 seed and host Indiana in the first NCAA Regional game in program history … struck out 15 batters in 12.0 innings of play against Illinois-Chicago in the 1994 NCAA Regional … led the team in ERA, wins, innings pitched and strikeouts from 1993-1995 … achieved a 0.51 ERA in 1993 and 1995, the top two season ERAs in ND history … notched 315 strikeouts in one season (1994), still a Notre Dame record … struck out 17 batters in a game twice in her career – against Indiana State in 1994 and Butler in 1995 … earned first team allMidwestern Collegiate awards in 1993, 1994 and 1995 … twice captured the Midwestern Collegiate Tournament MVP award (1993 and 1995) … fourtime NFCA first team all-region honoree.
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