THE HONORS
? 2007 & 2008 All-MVC First Team
? 2007 & 2008 Preseason All-MVC First Team
? 2007 MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team
? 2007 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA All-District V First Team
? 2006 All-MVC Second Team
? 2006 State Farm MVC All-Tournament Team
? MVC Player of the Week | April 28, 2008
2008 | JUNIOR
Earned her second-career All-MVC First-Team honor ... hit .378 (31-for-82) with 16 runs
scored, seven home runs, 22 RBI and a .683 slugging percentage in the second half of the
season ... ranks second all-time at Illinois State in career home runs with 27 ... also
ranks sixth at ISU in career RBI (86) ... had a nine-game hitting streak, three games shy
of her career-high ... tied her career-high for home runs with two against Northern
Illinois (April 29) ... earned her third-career Missouri Valley Conference Player of the
Week honor for the period April 21-27 ... recorded multiple hits in seven of 12 games
played during the period April 5-23 ... tied a career-high for doubles in a game with two
against Evansville (April 6) ... hit one of three Illinois State home runs against Missouri
State March 21, which marked the first time since March 5, 2006, versus Boston that the
Redbirds had hit three home runs in a game.
2007 | SOPHOMORE
Finished season with the second-most RBI in a single-season at ISU (51) ... hit 16 home
runs, just two shy of the ISU single-season record ... All-MVC First-Team selection ... hit
first-career triple in ISU's 5-2 loss to Northwestern (May 19) at the NCAA Regional ...
started all 62 games, splitting time in left field, and at first base, shortstop and third
base ... one of three Redbirds to collect 40 or more hits and RBI in the same season, with
59 hits and 51 RBI ... helped make ISU history when she hit two of the six total homers in
a single game at Drake (April 14) ... hit the first of back-to-back-to-back shots in the
same contest ... put together a 12-game hitting streak from March 14-28 and went a combined
18-for-38 in that span ... hit three home runs, two of which came in walk-off fashion, in a
doubleheader against Missouri State (May 5); finished the day with four hits, seven RBI and
four runs ... combined with Kara Nelson, Amber Smith, Kelsey Warning and Tiffany Prager to
comprise the largest group (5) to ever collect more then 50 hits in a season ... named The
Valley Player of the Week twice (March 19; May 7).
2006 | FRESHMAN
Played in 47 of ISU's 54 games, with 29 starts ... hit .500 with a runner on third base
and less than two outs ... hit the first home run of her collegiate career against Buffalo
(March 4).
HIGH SCHOOL | OKAW VALLEY
Four-year starter in softball, soccer and hockey ... three-year basketball starter ...
named Decatur Herald & Review Player of the Year in softball her senior year after she
led the area with a .670 batting average, eight home runs and 61 RBI ... named softball
team MVP in 2003 and 2005 ... two-time all-conference selection ... earned basketball MVP
honors as a sophomore and junior ... first-team all-conference pick in basketball in 2003
... Journal-Gazette all-area selection in basketball as a junior ... averaged 13.8 rebounds
per game as a junior ... led her basketball team to the conference championship in 2004 and
the softball regional title ... finished eighth in the discus at the 2004 Illinois High
School Association (IHSA) state meet ... helped lead her hockey team to the CIHL crown as a
sophomore ... National Honor Society member.
PERSONAL
Born Nov. 19, 1986 ... Parents: Cuyler and Dee Buker ... Siblings: Ashley (29) and Kelsie
Standerfer (27), who attended Illinois State ... Major: biological sciences ... last name
pronounced BEW-kur.