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2007 Softball Roster

11 Valerie Smith

  • Position C
  • Class Sophomore
  • High School Douglas
  • Hometown Gardnerville, Nev.

Biography

2007: Second team All-Ivy League ... started all 48 games ... team-high 13 doubles ... team-high 23 RBI ... already fifth on all-time RBI list at Columbia ... led team with .466 slugging percentage ... 3-for-3 with three doubles in Columbia’s 4-2 win at Cornell ... homered in Lions’ 6-3 win vs. Brown ... three-run, first-inning homer lifted Columbia to 3-2 win vs. Princeton ... 30 assists from behind the plate ... threw out 32.5% of base runners trying to steal (13 of 40). 

2006: Started all 47 games in which she played ... honorable mention All-Ivy League ... one of the top first-years in the Ivy League ... batted .291 with 26 RBI ... finished season with a team-high five home runs and 26 RBI ... six doubles ... opened collegiate career with two homers in first game against Gardner-Webb ... also homered against N.C. State, Minnesota and Penn ... caught 11 base runners stealing.

Douglas High: Was a four-year starting catcher in high school ... earned first team all-league honors from 2003-05 ... first team all-county in 2004 and 2005 ... earned all-state honorable mention as a junior ... team captain as a senior ... batted .495 in her senior season ... played in a summer league with the San Jose Strikkers, in which she batted .360 ... high school team was regional champions in 2004 and placed second in the state in the same year.

Personal: Father, Mark, played baseball at Oregon State ... completed a summer internship in the Nevada State Legislature ... was high school's junior and senior class president ... daughter of Mark and Karen Smith ... b. July 31, 1987 ... major is political science.

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