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2021 Softball

15 Elizabeth Press

  • Height 5-9
  • Bats/Throws R/R
  • Position P
  • Year Sophomore
  • Hometown Vienna, Va.
  • High School James Madison

Biography

2021:

  • Made 14 pitching appearances, including seven starts
  • Posted a 4-4 record with a team-best 3.23 ERA, four complete games, one shutout, two saves and 52 strikeouts in 47.2 innings pitched on the season
  • Led the offense in batting average (.414), home runs (5) and slugging percentage (1.000) while adding nine RBI and two doubles
  • Stuck out a season-high 12 batters in a seven-inning victory over Mount Mary
  • Fanned 11 in 6.1 innings versus Washington-St. Louis
  • Tossed a seven-inning shutout at Aurora
  • Went 3-for-3 with a homer and two RBI against Mount Mary
  • Batted 2-for-2 with a home run, a double, a walk and two RBI at Wisconsin Lutheran
  • Went 3-for-7 with two homers and three RBI in a doubleheader at Aurora

Personal:

  • Major: Economics
  • UChicago activities: NSP Math Initiative Tutor, UChicago Charter School at Woodlawn, Minors in Education and Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics, Senior Program Manager, Dream on Education
  • Participated in four years of softball and one year of track & field in high school
  • As a senior, posted a 0.75 ERA with 179 strikeouts in 87 innings pitched
  • 2019 Second Team All-State, VHSL Region 6A Pitcher of the Year, Concord District Player of the Year, Washington Post First Team All-Met, NFCA South Region First Team, Conference Player of the Year
  • National Merit Scholar, National Honor Society, Rho Kappa History Honor Society, National Science Honor Society, French Honor Society
  • JMHS Award for Academic Excellence (2016-19), VA Girls State Delegate, 2018 T.R. Cook Youth Award for Acacemic Excellence
  • Peer mentor, ESL tutor, volunteer film transcriber for United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, President of JMHS chapter of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, Freshman Mentor, FCCLA Teach and Train 2019 National Conference Gold Medalist

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Historical Player Information

  • 15

    2020Freshman

    P
    5'9"
    15
  • 15

    2021Sophomore

    P
    5'9"
    15