2013: Fourth-year team member … has started all 157 career games played with a .378 (174-460) batting average, 114 runs, 37 home runs and 128 RBI … career pitching totals include a 7-5 record with 4.20 ERA in 90.0 innings, 54 strikeouts, 92 hits and 54 earned runs … Longwood career home run leader ... also ranks second in the record books in slugging percentage (.715), and third in on-base percentage (.469) and RBI (128) ... ranks in the top 10 in total bases (2nd, 329), triples (t-4th, 10), walks (t-2nd, 66), runs scored (6th, 114) and batting average (7th, 378) … 2012: Started all 55 games, logging 44 hits (.297), 25 runs, eight home runs and 35 RBI … made 11 appearances in the circle, starting eight with a 6-3 record, a 4.06 ERA, 58.2 innings, 32 strikeouts and 17 walks … 2011: Started all 50 games, 44 as the designated player ... VaSID Player of the Year ... ECAC First Team All-Star ... VaSID First Team All-State ... hit .397 (62-156) with a school-record 16 home runs, eight doubles, three triples and 51 RBI ... led team in batting average, home runs, triples, hits, runs batted in, total bases (124), slugging percentage (.795), triples and on-base percentage (.466) ... eight-game hitting streak (13-28, .464), second-longest on team ... reached base in 21-straight games ... 17 multi-hit games and 12 multi-RBI games ... season-highs of three runs scored vs. IUPUI (2.20), four hits at Campbell (5.9), two doubles at Georgia (5.11) and two home runs vs. IUPUI (2.20) and Norfolk State (4.13) ... also pitched in two games ... allowed one hit with one strikeout in two innings pitched … 2010: Started all 52 games, 49 as the designated player ... ECAC First-Team All-Star ... NFCA Southeast Region Second Team ... NCAA Division I Independent Co-Freshman of the Year ... All-Independent Team ... VaSID Rookie of the Year ... VaSID First-Team All-State ... Longwood Freshman Female Athlete Of The Year ... led team in batting average (.436, 68-156), slugging percentage (.808), on-base percentage (.532), runs scored (52), triples (6), home runs (13), total bases (126) and walks (25) and tied for the team lead in RBI (42) ... set Longwood single-season record for runs scored and home runs, and tied the record for walks ... 12-game hitting streak to start the season (.465, 20-43), third-longest on team ... 19 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI games ... season-highs of seven RBI vs. James Madison (3.17), two doubles vs. Virginia (3.9), two triples vs. Albany (3.19), two home runs vs. Gardner-Webb (3.13) and four walks vs. Norfolk State (3.20) ... also pitched in nine games with one start ... allowed 26 runs, 20 earned on 32 hits in 29.1 innings for a 4.77 ERA ... 21 strikeouts, including season-high seven vs. Kent State (3.27) … High School: Played four years of varsity softball for Altavista ... First Team All-Dogwood District and District Pitcher of the Year as a freshman, junior and senior ... First Team All-State, ‘A’ State Pitcher of the Year, Region B Player of the Year and District Player of the Year as a senior ... First Team All-Region and All-State Honorable Mention as a junior ... Second Team All-Dogwood District and Pitcher of the Year as a sophomore ... ‘A’ State Champions and Region B champions as a senior ... Dogwood District champions as a freshman and senior ... played in the 2009 Virginia All-Star game ... also played four years of basketball and four years of volleyball in high school … Personal: Daughter of Philip and Heather Short ... completed an internship in cardiac rehab during the summer of 2012 … majoring in kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science.
