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2015 Softball

14 Vanessa Weaver

  • Height 5-2
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Esperanza
  • Hometown Yorba Linda, Calif.

Biography

2015: Second-team All-Ivy, first All-Ivy honor … Two-time Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll (4/14, 4/21) … Tied for fourth best batting average in Ivy League and second best on team, hitting .375 … Helped team to fourth straight Ivy League Championship Series appearance and became the first class in Penn history to go to the ILCS all four years … Appeared in 32 games, starting 30 at second base … Led team with a .474 on-base percentage … Stole four bases in as many attempts … Started all 20 conference contests and finished with the second highest batting average (.407) … Hit safely in six straight games (4/11-4/18) and had 7 multi-hit games … Recorded single-game high three hits against Harvard (3/29) and Princeton (4/29) … Notched first collegiate triple against La Salle (3/25) … Finished the season as the starter with the lowest number of strikeouts (six), with three spread across 20 Ivy League contests … Recorded walk-off hit in eighth inning of game two against Harvard, dropping a hit right behind first base to win 15-14 … Totaled five putouts and four assists at Dartmouth in the ILCS … A team captain.

2014: Team captain ... Appeared in 37 games, starting all 37 at second base … Finished the season hitting .207 and slugging .232 … Went 2-for-2 against Providence, hitting a double and scoring two runs (3/12) … Went 2-for-2 against Harvard, hitting a double (4/4) … Recorded season-high five putouts in games against Providence (3/12) and Harvard (4/4) … Had 69 putouts and 61 assists … Committed only four errors in 134 chances.

2013: Played in 16 games, starting six at second base … Had a .360 on-base percentage and was 3-for-3 on stolen base attempts … Went 1-for-2 with two RBI, a run scored, a double and a walk against Holy Cross (3/4) … went 1-for-3 with a run scored against Sacred Heart (3/4) … Walked in both of her at-bats against South Dakota (3/5) … Went 1-for-1 with a sacrifice bunt against Temple (4/24) … Had a .947 fielding percentage in 19 chances.

2012: Played in 13 games, making five starts between second base and designated player ... Reached base in four of her five starts and seven games overall ... Reached on a bunt single against Indiana State for her first collegiate hit (3/5) ... Had a bases-loaded walk and RBI single to drive in her first two career runs against Manhattan (3/9) ... Scored her first career run after reaching on a walk in game two against Temple (3/17) ... Also scored a run vs. Princeton in game one and had an RBI in game two (4/14) ... Had a .900 fielding percentage in 10 chances.

High School: Lettered four times in softball ... Second-team all-league selection in 2010 ... Foothill Invitational (2009) and Brea Olinda (2010) all-tournament selection ... Helped guide team to a pair of Sunset League titles (2008, 10) and a Century League title in 2011 ... Team advanced to California state quarterfinals three times (2008-10) ... Earned Distinguished Aztec Award for maintaining a non-weighted GPA of 4.0 or higher throughout high school ... Scholar Athlete.

Personal: Daughter of Ann Marie and Craig Weaver ... Attended the same high school as Penn classmate Alexis Borden ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Yearavggp-gsabrh2b3bhrrbitbslg%bbhbpsogdpob%sfshsb-attpoaefld%
2012.....12513-5162200032.1255140.364010-0451.900
2013.....15816-6194310024.2113340.360013-38101.947
2014.....20737-37821217200519.23284181.309031-269614.970
2015.....37532-308016303101535.4386960.474024-460584.967
TOTAL....26498-7819734526102560.3052217321.386078-914113410.965
SINGLE-GAME HIGHS:
Hits: 3 - Harvard (Mar 29, 2015); Princeton (Apr 19, 2015)
Doubles: 1 - 6 times
Triples: 1 - La Salle (Mar 25, 2015)
Total bases: 3 - 8 times
RBI: 3 - 4 times
Runs scored: 2 - vs. Providence (Mar 12, 2014); at Cornell (Apr 11, 2015); at Columbia (Apr 25, 2015)
Walks: 2 - vs. South Dakota (Mar 05, 2013)
Hit by pitch: 2 - Harvard (Mar 29, 2015)
Struck out: 2 - 5 times
Sac bunts: 1 - 8 times
At bats: 5 - vs. Troy (Mar 07, 2014)
Stolen bases: 1 - 10 times
Caught stealing: 1 - at Princeton (Apr 19, 2014)
Field chances: 8 - at Yale (Apr 04, 2015)
Putouts: 5 - 7 times
Assists: 6 - Cornell (Apr 13, 2014) 

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Historical Player Information

  • 14

    2012Freshman

    2B
    5'2"
    14
  • 14

    2013Sophomore

    2B
    5'2"
    14
  • 14

    2014Junior

    2B
    5'2"
    14
  • 14

    2015Senior

    2B
    5'2"
    14