Rachel Tilford

Position:
Defense
Height:
5-5
Class:
Senior
High School:
Birch Hills H.S.
Hometown:
Birch Hills, Saskatchewan

Seinor Year: Scored one goal vs. Sacred Heart (10/31) ... Tallied one assist vs. Sacred heart (11/02) ... Recroded one assist at Wayne State (11/21) ... Named to the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 Athletic Director's Honor Rolls.

Before Syracuse: Played hockey all four years at Birch Hills high school … Played softball, basketball and volleyball all four years.

Personal: Born January 2 … Daughter of Archie and Linda Tilford… Has seven siblings, including sisters Julie, Jennifer, Michelle, Rebecca and Lisa and brothers Mark and Luke … Tilford is a chemical engineering major.

Tilford was also a member of the SU softball team the past three seasons:

Senior Year (2008): Against Centenary, she went 1-for-2 with a run scored and a stolen base … At East Carolina, she went 2-for-4 with two RBI … Against Purdue, she went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBIs … She was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll for her peformance at the Pirate Classic … Against UCSB, she went 2-for-3…Against Auburn, she went 2-for-3 with a double … Against Indiana, she went 1-for-2 … Against Fairfield, she totaled one hit and one run … Against Quinnipiac, she hit a three-run home run … Against Kennesaw, she was 1-for-3 … Against Charleston, she was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored … Against Binghamton, she had a hit and an RBI … At the Rutgers doubleheader, she was 2-for-4 in both games with her fourth double of the season coming in the first game and totaling two RBI and one run scored … At Villanova, she was 1-for-2 with a run scored … During game one against Providence, she went 1-for-4 … During the second game against the Friars, she went 2-for-3 with a RBI and a run … During the second game against Niagara, she went 2-for-3 with a run scored … During game one at Louisville she scored a run … During game two at Louisville, she went 2-for-4 with a double, a run scored, and a RBI … During game one at Cornell, she was 1-for-3 with a run scored … During game one of the doubleheader against St. John’s, she hit a game-winning solo home run in the ninth inning … In game one against Seton Hall, she was 1-for-3 with a run scored … During game one of the doubleheader at Pittsburgh, she went 2-for-4 with a run scored … During game two at Pittsburgh, she went 2-for-4 with a RBI … In game two against Buffalo, she went 1-for-3 … During the second game against Notre Dame, she was 1-for-3 with a run scored.

Junior Year (2007): Ended season on career-long seven-game hitting streak … Led team with 31 runs scored, 41 RBIs and 10 home runs … Named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll twice … First on April 9 for her performance against Binghamton and Pittsburgh … Hit the seventh grand slam in Syracuse’s history in the Orange’s first victory against Binghamton … Went 3-for-5 with three RBI and four runs scored in the sweep at Pittsburgh … Then again on April 30 after helping the Orange to a 4-2 week against Niagara, Rutgers and Villanova … Went 2-for-4 with two doubles and a run scored in SU’s 6-4 win at Niagara … Added two home runs, three RBI and two runs scored in game two of the double header against Niagara … Hit a three-run home run in a 5-2 victory against Rutgers … Tied the game with two outs in the bottom of the seventh versus Villanova with another three-run home run … Tallied a school-record six RBI against Western Carolina, going 3-for-4 with a home run, double and two runs scored … Doubled against UCLA … Went 2-of-2 with a solo home run and a single versus Long Beach … Went 2-for-4 for her 10th career multi-hit game against Purdue … Was 1-for-3 with a run, stolen base and a walk versus Texas State … Went 1-for-3 with a two-run home run against Stanford … Helped lead SU to its second win of the season versus McNeese State with a 2-for-4 performance, including a two-run home run … Was 2-for-3 with two doubles and two runs scored against Illinois … Went 1-for-3 with a RBI and run versus Maine … Went 1-for-4 with a run scored versus Georgia … Was 2-for-3 with three RBI versus Elon … Recorded two RBI against Cornell … Registered two more RBI in SU’s 9-8 win versus Connecticut … Was 3-for-6 with a home run, three RBI and two runs scored in game two at St. John’s … Recorded her 20th multi-hit game with two base hits against Louisville in the BIG EAST Championship … 2006 Fall Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

Sophomore Year (2006): Notched her first base hit as a member of the Orange vs. Texas A&M … Went 2-for-3 and hit SU’s first home run of the year vs. Cal State Fullerton in her the first multi-hit game of her career … Registered her second multi-hit game of the year, going 2-for-2 with a run scored vs. Middle Tenn. State … Recorded her first stolen base and scored two runs and posted her third multi-hit game with two vs. Mercer … Ended Sacramento State’s Cassie Cervantes’ bid for a no-hitter in the fifth with her first double of the year … Went 2-for-3 with two runs, two RBI and stole two bases vs. Seton Hall … Belted her second home run of the season vs. St. John’s … Had a hit in three of SU’s four games vs. Villanova and Rutgers … Was 2-for-2 with two runs scored in the second game vs. Rutgers … Hit her third home run of the year vs. Hofstra to help the Orange break the team single-season home run standard … Had four RBI in game one vs. Pittsburgh and finished the twin bill with six runs batted in … BIG EAST Player of the Week (4/17/06) … Was 1-for-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored vs. Buffalo … BIG EAST Academic All-Star … Named to Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the spring semester.

Prior to SU: Played one season at Galveston College in Texas … Region XIV All-Star … Second-team all-region choice … NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete … Batted .321 with two homers and 26 runs batted in … Also a member of the Saskatoon Grand Slam Selects Midget Team … Helped Saskatoon to the 2005 provincial championship … Participated in the Canada Games as a member of the Team Saskatchewan.

High School: Helped Birch Hills to five provincial championships … 2003 and 2004 Birch Hills’ Female Athlete of the Year … Two-time team captain … Winner of the 2003 and 2004 Division IV Girls Athletic Award … Recipient of the 2001 Division III Girls Athletic Award … Also a member of Birch Hills’ basketball and hockey teams.

Year Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB-ATT
2006.... .279 57-57 147 25 41 5 0 3 21 9 33 4-5
2007.... .276 50-50 152 31 42 9 0 10 41 12 27 5-7
2008.... .257 43-43 136 14 35 5 0 2 13 5 30 3-4
TOTAL... .271 150-150 435 70 118 19 0 15 75 26 90 12-16