2002 Softball Roster
Roster
Heather Brown
- Position:
- Pitcher
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Central Arizona
- Hometown:
- Farmington, N.M.
Senior Year:Named second team All-BIG EAST … Led team in victories (10), complete games (16), shutouts (5), innings pitched (142.2), saves (1) and strikeouts (138) … Finished seventh in BIG EAST in strikeouts (138), eighth in innings pitched (142.2), seventh in complete games (16), seventh in shutouts (5) and tenth in opp. batting average (.223) … Completed conference play with 0.95 ERA (4th), seven wins (4th), 68 strikeouts (5th) and four shutouts (3rd) … Posted a 2.01 ERA while surrendering just 36 walks and 23 extra base hits … Set school record with 15.0 innings pitched in a doubleheader (4/20/02), allowing just ten hits and one run while striking out 14 … Her ten wins in 2002 ties her own mark (2001) for second most all-time at SU in a single season … Combined with Tara DiMaggio to record 100 strikeouts each for the second consecutive season … Recorded double-digit strikeouts in three different games … Served as team co-captain … Named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in the fall and spring… BIG EAST Academic All-Star ... She earned Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 Athletic Directors Honor Roll (3.0-or-better g.p.a).
Junior Year: Led the team in victories (10), complete games (19), shutouts (6), innings pitched (172) and strikeouts (180) … Tied the NCAA Division I record for strikeouts in a game of nine innings or less, striking out 21 in SU's 1-0 win vs. Colgate on April 10 … In the BIG EAST, Brown finished fifth in strikeouts (180), sixth in innings pitched (172), eighth in complete games (19), fifth in conference complete games (9), and sixth in strikeouts (75) … Posted a 1.91 ERA, surrendering only 42 walks … Won eight of her final 13 decisions … Completed her last 15 starts … Threw six complete game shutouts … Threw two one-hitters and four two-hitters … Pitched 11 innings vs. Pittsburgh … Combined with Tara DiMaggio to become the first SU pitching duo to record 100 strikeouts each in a season.
Sophomore Year (Central Arizona): 2000 Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-American ... NFCA All-Region ... First-team All-Arizona Community College Athletic Conference ... Posted a 35-4 record with a 0.35 earned run average in 240 innings pitched ... Sixth in the nation with 286 strikeouts ... Broke schools single-season wins and strikeouts record ... Third on the school's all-time strikeouts list and fourth all-time in wins.
Freshman Year (Minnesota): Had a 12-1 record with a 0.35 ERA in 87.1 innings pitched ... Struck out 107 batters, while walking only 17 ... Pitched two complete-game shutouts and combined on three others ... Had three games with more than 10 strikeouts ... Pitched a one-hit shutout, striking out 15, against Bethune-Cookman.
Personal: Born April 13, 1980 in Aberdeen, Scotland ... Daughter of Louis and Fiona Ratliff ... One brother ... Majoring in social work.
