2008: Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... First team All-Ivy selection ... Pitched in 36 games, starting 24 of them ... Finished 20-8, becoming the first Quaker ever to win 20 games ... Also set a school record with 177 strikeouts, 65 more than the previous best for a Penn pitcher, while walking just 19 ... Pitched six shutouts ... Gave up just three hits in a complete game eight times ... Added four saves out of the bullpen, the only four recorded by the Quakers on the year ... Earned her first collegiate win with two innings of scoreless relief in an 11-inning 4-3 victory over Lafayette (3/2) ... Pitched a complete game three-hit shutout against Butler (3/10) a day after the Bulldogs had beaten the Quakers 7-0 ... Went the distance, stirking out nine without a walk, in an eight-inning 4-3 victory over Yale (3/29) ... Won her 14th game, a new school record, with a nine-strikeout, three-hit shutout against Dartmouth (4/6) ... Won her 16th game with a complete game 7-2 victory over Princeton (4/20), the first Ivy League loss of the year for Princeton ... Won number 20 with 2.2 innings of scoreless relief in the season finale against Columbia (4/27) ... Also went 2-for-9 at the plate on the year, including an RBI single against Monmouth (3/14).
High School: A four-year letterwinner in softball, she was named captain of the team for her senior season ... led her team to the 2004 Alabama state championship, earning state tournament MVP honors along the way ... honorable mention All-State in 2004 ... named the 2005 Pitcher of the Year by the Birmingham News ... All-State and Super All-State pitcher 2005-07 ... set single game, single season and career strikeout records at Hoover High ... President of the Heritage Panel and member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Born September 13, 1988 in Birmingham, Ala. ... daughter of Sandy Wright and the late Doyle Lupardus ... mother played volleyball at the University of Alabama ... enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences with a major in psychology.
