#7 SHANNON KEEFE OF/Designated Player w Junior 5-8 w R/R Lemont Township, Ill. Lemont 2009 HIGHLIGHTS: Second Team All-Conference... First Radford player to record a pair of multi-home run games in the same season (St. John’s and Liberty)... Both performances tied a school record held by several players... Knocked in Radford’s first ever NCAA Regional run with a fourth inning sacrifice fly against eventual national semifinalist Georgia… Homered in comeback regional victory against Campbell… Third on team and tied for fourth in the Big South with nine long balls… VaSID All-State Second Team selection… 12 multi-hit games with three, three-hit contests... Big South Player of the Week (4/27) after batting .563 (9-16) with two home runs and eight RBI, recording three multi-hit and multi RBI contests… Three-hit games came against Liberty, Winthrop and Charleston Southern... Career-high three RBI at Longwood and Charleston Southern. 2008 HIGHLIGHTS: Big South Freshman of the Year… First-team all-conference utility player… Named state’s freshman of the year as selected by VaSID… 10 home runs and .675 slugging percentage were third highest in school history and second best by a Radford freshman… Batting average (.366) was the sixth highest in school history… Second in conference in home runs and slugging percentage and third in batting average… Second on team in round-trippers, batting and slugging… In final 31 games, batted .487 (38-78) with five doubles, nine home runs, 18 RBI and 23 runs while slugging .923 and recording a .494 on base percentage... Tied for a team-best four three-hit games… Two-time conference player of the week ... Recorded a hit in 9-of-12 conference games, batting .517 (15-29) and slugging .966… Ended season on nine-game hitting streak (tying team-high), batting .556 (15-27) with nine runs. PREP: Second-team All-American selection as a sophomore and junior ... Three-time all-conference and all-area honoree... Also lettered in volleyball and basketball... Member of the Beverly Bandits U-18 Gold team. ACADEMICS/PERSONAL: Shannon Rose Keefe was born on Feb. 10, 1989 in Woodridge, Ill.... Physical therapy major… Is the middle of Cindy and the late James Keefe’s three daughters... Older sister Jessica recently completed her collegiate softball career at the University of Tampa (2006-09).
K e e f e ’s T o ta l s YEAR 2008 2009 TOTALS
AVG GP-GS AB H .366 55-51 123 45 .298 53-53 161 48 .327 108-104 284 93
R 30 25 55
2B 6 6 12
3B HR RBI BB HBP 1 10 23 6 3 0 9 26 1 1 1 19 49 7 4
O SF SH SB-SBA TB SLG% OB% S 22 2 4 9-10 83 .675 .403 18 2 1 13-16 81 .503 .303 40 4 5 22-26 164 .577 .348
PO 158 34 192
A 9 2 11
E FLD% 7 .960 5 .878 12 .944