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Amber Smith

  • Class
    2009
  • Induction
    2014
  • Sport(s)
    Softball

Four-time All-Missouri Valley First-Team selection … one of only eight players in MVC history to achieve that feat … three-time NFCA All-Great Lakes Region First-Team pick … named a 2006 Easton/Bell Sports Second-Team All-American and Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I Third-Team All-American … earned 2006 MVC Newcomer of the Year honors after her historic freshman season … first player in ISU history to record 40 hits, 40 runs and 40 RBI in a season (2006) … ended her career with a .328 batting average, 202 hits, 47 home runs, 150 RBI and a .988 fielding percentage … ranks second all-time at Illinois State in home runs (47), first in walks (111), third in total bases (369) and fourth in slugging percentage (.599) and RBI (150) … was a six-time MVC Player of the Week during her four-year career … fell just one home run shy of tying the MVC/ISU single-season record (18) in 2006 … was one RBI short of the then-Redbird single-season RBI record of 51 in 2006 … established new ISU freshmen records for home runs, RBI, total bases and walks … named to the ASA’s Top-50 Watch List in 2007 … broke the then-Redbird home run record with her 26th career blast in April 2007 … broke the MVC career home run record in 2008 with 40th home run … led ISU and was fifth-best in the Valley with a 2.10 ERA in 2008 … recorded a string of 12-straight appearances in the circle without a loss during the 2008 season … named a team captain in her final two seasons.

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