| Leigh Rowan |
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HONORS
All-Conference USA Freshman Team (2007)
Two-time C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
Two-Time Tiger 3.0 Club
Career Highlights: Ranks fourth all-time in school history in slugging percentage (.447)...Ranks fifth in batting average (.284), on base percentage (.352) and hit by pitch (6)...Has 11 career multi-hit games and nine multi-RBI games...Has two career game-winning RBI and two game-winning runs scored.
Academic Highlights: Made the 2006-07 and 2007-08 C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll awarded to student-athletes who carry a 3.0 GPA or higher for the school year...A member of the fall 2006 and fall 2007 Tiger 3.0 Club given to the Memphis student-athletes who have at least a 3.0 GPA for the semester...Majoring in sport and leisure management while at Memphis.
2008 (Sophomore): Played in 48 games with 40 starts...Started 14 games in right field and 26 as the designated player...Had six multiple-hit games and tied for second on the team with six multi-RBI contests...Scored two game-winning runs...Tied for second on the team in hit by pitch (4), and third in home runs (6)...Fourth on the team in batting average (.259), slugging percentage (.463), RBI (21), doubles (4) and sac bunts (4)...Fifth on the team in on base percentage (.344) and total bases (50)...Had 10 two-out RBI...Led the team with five hits in the USF Wilson Invitational and had a .385 batting average with four RBI and two runs scored...Went 3-for-4 with two two-run homers against Florida Gulf Coast (2/9)...Hit a two-run homer and scored two runs against Nebraska (2/16)...Scored the game-winning runs against Texas Tech (2/16) and Nebraska...Went 2-for-3 with two RBI, two runs scored and her fourth home run of the season against Alabama A&M (2/23)...Went 1-for-2 against Oklahoma (3/1)...Went 1-for-2 against Vermont (3/16) with a run scored and a double...Went 2-for-3 against UAB (3/21)...Had an RBI in a pinch hit appearance against UTEP (4/6)...Had two hits, two runs scored and an RBI in a doubleheader with Alcorn State (4/15)...Recorded the Tigers' only hit against UCF (4/20)...Went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a two-run homer against East Carolina (4/26)...Went 2-for-3 with three RBI and a run scored against Tulsa (5/3)...Had a bases clearing double in the game...Went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer against UAB in the C-USA Championship Tournament.
2007 (Freshman): Named to the Conference USA All-Freshman Team...Played in 46 games with 20 starts...Started the final 17 games of the season in right field after an injury to Brittany Gooch...Led the team with a .317 batting average and had six doubles...Hit .423 against left handed pitchers...Led the team with seven pinch hits and hit .350 coming off the bench...Hit .333 with runners in scoring position...Had a five-game hitting streak in April...Had five multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games...Knocked in two game-winning runs...Had four-straight hits against UAB (4/28)...Stole her first career base against UAB (4/29)...Hit two doubles in the second game of a DH with Austin Peay (4/25)...Belted the first home run of her career to lead off the fifth inning against Marshall (4/22)...Had her first career multi-hit game against Marshall with a home run and single...Hit a two-run pinch hit single in game one of a doubleheader with Tennessee State (4/18)...Drove in the winning run in the sixth inning against San Diego (3/2) on a pinch hit two run double...Knocked in the game-winning run in the third inning against Alabama A&M (2/25) and had two RBI in the game...Had her first collegiate hit come against Missouri (2/10) on an RBI single.
Prep: Prepped at Lassiter High School for Coach Scott Kelley in Marietta, Ga....Team's defensive player of the year as a junior and freshman and the offensive player of the year as a sophomore...Member of the Canada Cup All-Tournament Team in 2005.
Club: Played with the Georgia Fire Gold...Tied for sixth at the 2006 ASA Gold Nationals...Team competed in the ASA Gold Nationals in Salinas, Calif., in 2005 and in Marietta, Ga., in 2004...2004 team won the Elite Fastpitch National Championship...Played in the ASA 16A Nationals in 2003.
Personal: Full name is Leigh Rowan...Daughter of Bob and Martha Rowan...Father lettered in football at Texas (1975)...Granddaughter of Bob Patterson, a former Memphis athletic director and assistant Tiger football coach who still resides in Southaven...Born on March 8, 1988 in Atlanta, Ga.
| Career Hitting Statistics |
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| Year
| Avg
| GP-GS
| AB
| R
| H
| 2B
| 3B
| HR
| RBI
| TB
| SLG% | BB
| HBP
| SO
| OB% | SF
| SH
| SB-ATT
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| 2007
| .317
| 46-20
| 82
| 8
| 26
| 6
| 0
| 1
| 12
| 35
| .427
| 4
| 2
| 16
| .364
| 0
| 4
| 1-1
|
| 2008
| .259
| 48-40
| 108
| 15
| 28
| 4
| 0
| 6
| 21
| 50
| .463
| 10
| 4
| 25
| .344
| 0
| 4
| 2-2
|
| Total
| .284
| 94-60
| 190
| 23
| 54
| 10
| 0
| 7
| 33
| 85
| .447
| 14
| 6
| 41
| .352
| 0
| 8
| 3-3
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