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ILLINOIS STATE Softball #3 NIKI STANSELL 5-6 | Sr.-Tr. | SS Meeker, Okla. Georgia | Meeker 2009: Named to the 2009 All-Missouri Valley Conference Second Team … started all 50 games in her first season with the Redbirds … led the team in plate appearances (193), at bats (174), assists (147), total hits (56), doubles (15) bases (94), stolen bases (6), stolen base percentage (1.000) and runs scored (34) … recorded her first Redbird homerun against Idaho State (Feb. 13) … batted .322 on the season with 23 RBIs and seven homeruns ... recorded a career-high seven assists in a game against UNCGreensboro (Feb. 7) ... AFNI Athletics Honor Roll member. Georgia: Played in the 2008 NCAA Tournament with Georgia ... appeared in six games total in 2008 with the Bulldogs ... had four starts, and hit .154 with one home run and two RBI ... earned two starting nods at designated player during the NCAA Los Angeles Super Regional May 24-25 ... at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, was 2-for-4 at the plate with a home run and two RBI in the Bulldogs’ 4-0 shutout of Brigham Young (May 16) Seminole State College: Spent her freshman season at Seminole State (NJCAA) ... tied for the highest regularseason batting average at Seminole State in 2007 with a .447 mark at the plate ... struck out just four times in 199 plate appearances, while contributing eight home runs. RBI TB
Summer Team: Tulsa Eagles coached by Dave Simmons and Tommy Rogers Personal: Born Jan. 15, 1988 ... Parents: Rick and Cathy Stansell ... Major: parks and recreation management.
Year AVG GP/GS AB
R
H
2B 3B
SLG%
BB
HBP
SO
OB%
SB
ATT
PO
2009 .322 50/50
174
34
56
15
1
7
23
94
.540
10
4
25
.370
1
4
6
6
59
147 20
.912
Total .322 50/50
174
34
56
15
1
7
23
94
.540
10
4
25
.370
1
4
6
6
59
147 20
.912
28
HR
Meeker HS: Helped Meeker High School to three Oklahoma Class 3A State Championships and one runnerup finish ... as a senior, batted .429 with 29 RBI to earn Little All-City Player of the Year, all-state, all-region and allconference MVP honors ... hit .390 with 17 RBI as a junior, while earning first-team Little All-City and all-conference accoldades and helping Meeker to an Oklahoma Class 3A State Academic Championship ... posted a .427 batting average as a sophomore to earn Little All-City honorable mention and all-conference first-team honors ... member of Tulsa Eagles Gold, Oklahoma Dynamites Gold and Oklahoma Rockets travel teams ... also earned allconference honors in basketball ... a two-time selection to “Who’s Who Among American High School Students” ... member of the National Honor Society.
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