Meredith Burroughs

Photo by: Rob Goldberg

Photo by: Rob Goldberg

Position:
INF/RHP
Height:
6-1
Class:
Senior
High School:
C.B. Aycock
Hometown:
Pikeville, N.C.
Prev School:
NC State
Major:
Family and Consumer Science Education

2017 (Junior): Led the team offensively in batting average (.312), slugging percentage (.675), hits (49), RBI (47), home runs (16), total bases (106), sacrifice flies (5) ... Notched six strikeouts and two saves in the circle ... Hit multiple home runs in games against Cleveland State and Pittsburgh ... Drew three walks each against Syracuse and Youngstown State ... Tallied three strikeouts as a relief pitcher against Winthrop ... Hit .315 with five home runs in conference play - including a grand slam at Houston ... Led the American Athletic Conference in slugging percentage, home runs, total bases and sacrifice flies while ranking second in RBI and third in walks drawn.

2016 (Sophomore at NC State): One of just four players on the squad to start all 56 games … Saw action primarily at first base, but also made a start in right field and pitched 13.1 innings, making two starts … Finished the season with a .279 batting average to go along with 43 hits - fourth most on the team … Clubbed 13 home runs, second on the squad and tied for seventh in the ACC … Recorded her first career multi-home run game against Nebraska and hit a grand slam against Jacksonville … Charted 40 RBI, headlined by a career-best five against Nebraska … Scored the third-most runs on the Wolfpack with 31 … Led the team in walks drawn with 35, the fifth most in the conference … Tallied 11 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI games … Had a 12-game reached base safely streak … Compiled a slugging percentage of .584 and an on-base percentage of .418

2015 (Freshman at NC State): Appeared in 57 games, starting all of those contests … Tallied a batting average of .217 in her first season with the Wolfpack, with 34 hits, six doubles and a triple … Hit nine home runs, the fifth-most on the team … Also drove in 33 runs and scored 25 runs … Smacked her first collegiate grand slam at home against Florida State to lift NC State to a 9-4 win … Registered seven multi-hit and multi-RBI games … Reached base safely in 14 games at one point in the season and had a five-game hitting streak … Had a slugging percentage of .439 and an on-base percentage of .337

High School: Attended C. B. Aycock High School and played for head coaches Brad Matthews and Emily Burke … Named Female Athlete of the Year as a senior in 2014 … Two-time MaxPreps All-America selection, claiming the honor as a senior and sophomore … Garnered all-state, all-area and all-conference accolades all four years in high school … Tabbed the MaxPreps Player of the Year following her sophomore season … Led her team to the state championship series as a senior and finished the year with a .541 batting average … Recorded a batting average higher than .500 three times, as a sophomore (.545), junior (.526) and senior (.541) … Helped her team win the 2012 high school state championship with a record of 29-2 … Owns the N.C. state record for most home runs in a single season with 19.