2007: Team-high four home runs ... two were eventual game-winners, including a ninth-inning grand slam at Harvard and a two-run, seventh-inning homer to defeat Princeton 2-1 ... homered twice off Princeton ace Kristen Schaus ... second on the team with 18 runs batted in ... five doubles ... started 43 of the 45 games she played.
2006: Honorable mention All-Ivy for the second straight season ... started 32 of the 36 games she played, mostly at designated player ... batted .248 with 12 RBI ... had huge day at Yale, going 5-for-7 during the doubleheader, with three RBI in game two and a run scored ... hit first collegiate home run in Columbia's 9-3 win at Iona on April 20 ... went 4-for-6 in doubleheader against Rider with an RBI.
2005: Started 26 of the 27 games in which she appeared ... earned All-Ivy honorable mention ... posted a .333 batting average in Ivy play ... hit .282 with four RBI during the entire season ... did not make an error for the second straight season ... had seven sacrifice bunts ... went 3-3 with an RBI in the two-game sweep vs. Yale ... went 2-2 with an RBI in Columbia's late-season 3-1 win over St. Francis (N.Y.) ... scored twice and drove in two runs in Columbia's 12-3 triumph over Colgate at the Rebel Games ... went 2-3 in a 7-4 win over Detroit, also at the Rebel Games ... went 2-4 with a double against Stony Brook.
2004: Appeared in 28 games for the Lions ... was 1-1 with two RBI in win over Fordham ... against Harvard, was 2-3 at the plate with two RBI ... went 2-3 from the plate and had the game-winning RBI against Rider ... in Columbia's 1-0 win over Lafayette, went 1-3 at the plate and had the game-winning RBI ... was 1-3 with one RBI, one run scored and a sacrifice fly in Columbia's win over Vermont.
Lake Stevens High: Two letters ... played outfield as a first-year, first base as a sophomore and third base as a junior and senior ... second team All-North WESCO League utility player as junior ... honorable mention all-league at third base as a senior ... helped Vikings to 2002 and 2003 league championships ... Lake Stevens was second in the 2002 Districts and third in Class C state championships ... the next year, the Vikings won the District and were fifth in the state ... competed in the Lake Breeze U-18 "A" league during summers in high school ... National Honor Society member ... Principal's Leadership Award ... English Department Scholar ... Foreign Language Department Scholar.
Personal: Daughter of David and Kathie Nelson ... b. September 30, 1984 ... majoring in political science.
