Emory University

Megan Light's Final Home Run -- vs. Trine on May 17,2014


Career:
Closed out an outstanding four-year stint in an Emoryuniform by ranking among the school's all-time top 10 in 12offensive categories ... First on the Eagles' career charts with 47home runs, 230 hits, 60 doubles, 224 RBIs, 435 total bases and a.812 slugging percentage ... Ranks No. 3 on Emory's all-time listwith a .429 batting average ... On-base percentage of .501 rankssecond on the program's career chart ... No. 3 all-time Eagle inat-bats (536), runs scored (171) and walks (84) ... Second onEmory's career list with 912 putouts and 14th in fieldingpercentage (.983) ... 178 starting assignments stands fourthall-time in the program ... Recorded 70 multi-hit games ... Holdstwo of the top three Emory seasonal marks in home runs and three ofthe top four RBI totals. 

Senior (2014):
Came through with record-setting campaign that saw her captureNFCA First Team All-America honors for the second time in hercareer, the only player in program to earn that distinction ...Named the UAA's Most Outstanding Player for the third time in hercareer while capturing her fourth berth on the All-UAA First Team... First Team All-Atlantic Region ... Named a Capital One FirstTeam Academic All-American ... Tabbed as the Capital One NationalAcademic All-American of the Year in Division III softball ...Closed out her final year of action by setting five school seasonrecords ... Hit a UAA-leading .463 (68-of-147) with that markranking seventh on the Emory seasonal ladder ... Topped theconference and finished second nationally with a school-record 19home runs ... Her 68 hits ranked second in the league and tied forthe No. 2 spot on Emory’s seasonal list ... Led the UAA andestablished a school seasonal record with 56 runs scored ... Ranked18th among D-III performers with a 1.22 runs-per-game average ...Topped the UAA with a school-record 65 RBIs ... Ranked fourthnationally with a 1.22 runs batted in per-game average ...Blistering slugging percentage of .986 led the UAA, placed fifthnationally and set an Emory seasonal record ... 145 total bases setthe pace in the league and represented a program record ... Posteda team-high 22 games of two or more hits and paced the Eagles with19 outings of two or more RBIs … Named Most OutstandingPlayer of the Atlanta Regional (May 9-11) after hitting .333 with apair of homers and three RBIs … Hit two solo homers andfinished 3-for-5 at the plate in the 13-12 victory over Piedmont(May 10) -- her homer in the top of the seventh in that gamebegan a three-run inning that helped the Eagles to thecome-from-behind decision … Her solo homer in the bottom ofthe sixth against Trine University in the NCAA Atlanta SuperRegional (May 17) proved to the Emory's final run of the campaign... Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association(NFCA) Division III National Player of the Week (Apr. 2) afterregistering a team-high .700 hitting average over a three-gamestretch, in games vs. Lynchburg College and Roanoke College (Mar.27 & 29), collecting a team-leading seven hits,including three homers and three doubles, in 10 trips to the plate... Homered in 15 contests ... Hit a homer in each game of atwinbill vs. Virginia Wesleyan (Mar. 20) including a two-run blastin a five-inning 16-6 win in the finale ... 3-for-3 at the platewith a pair of round trippers, five RBIs and four runs scored inhelping the Eagles to a 15-5 triumph over DePauw (Mar. 2)... 2-for-4 with a double and scored a run in a 7-0 winvs. Piedmont (Apr. 9)  ... Went a combined four-of-five at theplate with three RBIs in a doubleheader vs. Berry (Mar. 19) ...Fueled a 7-3 win over Case Western (Feb. 22) by going 3-for-3 inthe batter's box and delivering three RBIs including a two-rundouble that accounted for Emory's first two runs of the contest ...Three-run homer in the top of the first opened the scoring for theEagles, and she socked a two-run dinger the following frame in a10-1 victory over Maryville (Apr. 19) ... All three of her hitswere doubles and she knocked in three runs in a 9-2 second-gametriumph over Covenant College (Apr. 8) ... Finished the year with20 two-base hits, tying the third-highest seasonal mark in schoolhistory ... Her two-run homer in the top of the fourth accountedfor all of the Eagles' scoring in a second-game 2-1 win overBirmingham Southern (Apr. 3) ... Went 3-for-4 vs. BSC and crossedthe plate with Emory's initial run in a 2-1 outcome in the openerof that twinbill ... Named UAA Hitter of the Week (Apr. 15) afterhitting .667 with a team-high nine hits in 15 plate appearances, while driving in a club-best nine runs over the four-gamestretch that saw Emory win twice against Covenant College andPiedmont College ... Hit home runs in five consecutive games (Mar.20 - Mar. 29) ... Team season-long hitting streak of 16 games (Mar.13 - Apr. 9) ... Recipeint of Emory's 2014 Brittain Award, regarded as Emory's highest student honor, presented eachyear to a to a graduate who has demonstrated exemplary service toboth the university and the greater community without expectationof recognition ... Female recipient of the Emory AthleticDepartment's Partin Award in recognition of an outstanding careeror season performance in a team-based sport ... Emory University100 Senior Honorary.

Junior (2013):
Landed All-America honors for the second time in her career,bringing home NFCA First Team acclaim ... All-Atlantic Region FirstTeam selection ... Tabbed as the UAA Player of the Year ... FirstTeam All-UAA pick ... Was one of two Eagles to have started all 47games and ended the year with a team-high hitting mark of .408(53-of-130), good for fourth place among UAA players ... Socked aschool-season record 12 home runs, good for third place on the UAAlist ... 53 hits represented the fourth-highest mark in the UAA ...Posted 16 multi-hit contests and drove in two or more runs on 17occasions, both of which were team highs ... Knocked in aleague-high 59 runs with the total the second-highest seasonaleffort in school annals ... Held down the No. 11 spot nationally inD-III with a 1.26 per-game RBI average ... Pounded out 15 doubles,second on the squad and in the UAA, and tied for seventh place onthe Eagles' season list ... Recorded an .800 slugging percentagethat led the UAA, ranked 34th nationally and that placed second onEmory's season chart ... Held down the No. 1 spot among UAA playersand was 40th in the D-III ranks in on-base percentage (.530) ...Established a school season record with 35 walks and her per-gameaverage of 0.74 walks-per-game was ninth nationally ... 288 putoutswere the fifth most on the Eagles' seasonal ladder ... Knocked in ateam-high six runs and drew a squad-leading five walks duringEmory's five-game run in the NCAA Regionals ... Stroked a two-rundouble as one of her two hits, and which accounted for the eventualgame-winning RBI in the team's 8-1 win vs. Roanoke (May 11) in theNCAA Regionals ... Drove in Emory's first run and later knocked inthe tying score as part of a four-run sixth inning vs. Piedmont(May 12) in the NCAA Regionals ... Helped the Eagles to an 8-0record and the UAA title by hitting .389 (7-for-18) and scoring ateam-high 10 runs that ranked second among league performers ...Named UAA Player of the Week (Feb. 11) after hitting .615(8-for-13) with two doubles, two homers and 11 RBIs in helping theEagles to four season-opening wins ... 3-for-3 with two homers andfive ribbies vs. Agnes Scott (Feb. 9) in an 8-0 triumph ... Posteda 3-for-3 effort at the plate with a pair of home runs and threeRBIs in an 8-7 decision over Rhodes (Mar. 30) ... Socked a grandslam in  helping Emory to an 11-2 victory over regionallyranked Fontbonne (Mar. 31) ... Tabbed as UAA Player of the Week(Feb. 18) after hitting at a .556 clip (5-for-9) with a pair ofhomers and six RBIs in spearheading the squad to four wins ... Hita grand slam in a 9-0 win over York College (Feb. 16) ... Finishedwith a 2-for-3 peformance at the plate and knocked in two runs, oneon a double and the other on a solo homer, in a 12-2 victory overPiedmont (Apr. 9) ... Sparked the Eagles to a 6-0 win over Kean(Mar. 10) with three hits in four trips to the plate, and drivingin two ones, including the game winner ... Accounted for theEagles' final runs with a two-run homer in the sixth inning in a7-4 triumph vs. Rhodes (Mar. 31) with that blast enabling her tobecome the school's all-time leader in homers ... Singled in thegame's winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning in a 2-1verdict over Gustavus Adolphus (Mar. 9) ... Played a prominent rolein a 9-6 win over Case Western (Mar. 14) at the UAA Tournament,going 2-for-2 with a two-run homer and double while drawing a pairof walks and scoring three runs ... Hit safely in 10 of the team'sfirst 11 contests ... Delivered one of the most dramatic hits inprogram history with a two-out grand slam in the bottom of theseventh inning that rallied the Eagles to a 12-9 win vs. BirminghamSouthern (Mar. 3), a game that saw the Eagles trail by a 9-3 marginafter five frames.  

Sophomore (2012):
Turned in another big offensive season en route to earning ThirdTeam All-Atlantic Region honors ... Played in 39 games, 38 as astarter, and finished second on the squad in hitting with her .388average (47-of-121) tying for eighth among UAA players ... Toppedthe squad with 47 hits, seven home runs (fourth on Emory's seasonallist) and 39 RBIs (third on the UAA list) ... First on the team andfifth on the league chart in slugging percentage (.636) ... Tiedfor the team lead with 13 multi-hit outings while driving in two ormore runs a club-high 12 occasions ... First Team All-UAA selection...  Was named the MVP of the UAA Tournament after helping theEagles to the conference crown by hitting .458, thefourth-highest mark during the tourney, rapping out 11 hits in 24trips to the plate ... Scored a league-high tying 10 runs duringthe league tourney and tied for the conference lead with threehomers while producing 11 RBIs ... Hit safely in six of the eightoutings and enjoyed four multi-hit performances ...  Homeredin three separate contests including a blast in the team's 7-2decision over Washington University on the final day of competition(Mar. 17) that clinched the team's outright title...  Against regionally ranked Brandeis at the UAATournament, she went a combined 4-for-6 over the two meetings withfour RBIs, hitting a solo home run vs. the Judges in an 8-0decision (Mar. 13) before collecting three hits in as many plateappearances with three RBIs in the second meeting ... Keyed an 5-0verdict over regionally ranked Rochester, singling in the team'sfirst run before smacking a two-run homer later on ... Closed outthe regular season hitting safely in eight of her last ninecontests ... Posted four hits in six trips to the plate with twoRBIs in helping Emory to a doubleheader sweep of Piedmont College(Arp. 24) ... Huge effort vs. Millsaps (Feb. 25), going 4-for-5 atthe plate with four RBIs including a two-run homer in the bottom ofthe eighth that tied the game followed by a run-producing single inthe ninth that snapped a tie and gave Emory a 9-8 win ... Thefollowing day in an 8-1 outcome over Millsaps, she key the Eagleattack with a three-for-three performance at the platethat included a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the thirdthat snapped a 1-1 deadlock ... Socked a solo homer againstregionally ranked Keene State (Mar. 12) in an 8-0 triumph ... Drovein the team's opening runs with a three-run double that helped inan 8-0 decision over Covenant College (Apr. 25) ...  Two hitsand three RBIs in an 10-0 win vs. Transylvania (Mar. 4) ... HelpedEmory to a 7-3 win over Guilford (Feb. 18) and a split of atwinbill with a pair of hits in three plate appearances and threeRBIs ... Capital One Academic All-District Team member. 

Freshman (2011):
Banner rookie season that saw her bring home many awardsand honors ... Second Team All-American selection by the NFCA ...Played in all 46 games and ended the year leading the team and UAAin hitting with her .449 mark (62-of-138)  placing her 57thnationally and 11th on Emory's seasonal ladder ... Named the UAA'sMost Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year ... First Team All-UAAhonoree .... Her 61 RBIs established a school record and led theUAA ... Averaged 1.33 RBIs per game, good for 14th placenationally among D-III players ... Her team-high 16 doublesplaced her second among UAA players and tied for the No. 4 spot onthe Eagles' seasonal ladder ... Led the league and stood 45thnationally with a .790 slugging percentage that ranked second onthe school's seasonal ladder ... Gained a berth on the UAAAll-Tournament Team after helping the Eagles to the championshipwith an 8-0 mark, hitting .565, with a league-tying 13 safeties in23 trips to the plate ... Also registered a league-best 16 RBIsduring the conference championship ... Big outing vs. WashingtonUniversity (Mar. 10) with a pair of homers and four RBIs in an 8-0win ... In a Mar. 13 contest vs. Wash U., she went 3-for-4 at theplate. including another homer, with two RBIs and two runs scored... Came through with a season-high five RBIs, including a grandslam, vs. Case Western (Mar. 10) ... Came through with thegame-winning RBI vs. Piedmont (Apr. 21) in an opening-game 3-0triumph and knocked in two more runs in the nightcap in a 5-4verdict ... Against then No. 8-ranked DePauw, she went a combinedfour-for-eight in the twinbill with four RBIs ... Ended the yearwith an 11-game hitting streak that included one safety in each ofEmory's three NCAA Tournament games ... Hit a two-run homer in thebottom of the first in the Eagles' 6-1 win over Kean (May 12) inthe opening game of the Salisbury Regional ... 2-for-4 at the platewith three RBIs, including a two-run double, in a 5-2 win overRhodes College (Apr. 9) in the first game of a doubleheader ... 62hits led both Emory and the UAA while placing her in a tie forseventh place on the school's seasonal list ... Finished thecampaign with nine home runs, second on the team and second most byan Emory player in a season ...  Topped the squad with 19multi-hit outings and delivered a team-best 17 contests with two ormore RBIs ... Enjoyed a team-best 17-game hitting streak (Mar. 6-Mar. 24) and had two or more safeties in nine contests during thatstretch ... Knocked in the team's first run and registered a pairof RBIs vs. LaGrange (Apr. 26) in a 5-4 win ... 3-for-3 effort atthe place and finished with three RBIs and three runs scored in a7-0 decision over Covenant College (Mar. 16) in the second game ofa doublheader ... First career homer was a two-run blast and closedout the team's scoring in a 7-0 win vs. Maryville College (Feb.19).

High School:
Four-year member of the softball program at North Springs CharterHigh School ... Was coached by Sarah Coleman ... Served as teamcaptain as a senior ... Distinguished herself on the mound and atthe plate ... Tossed 163 innings and totaled 199 strikeouts whilecrafting an ERA of  1.62 ... A four-time team MVP, she hit ahefty .444 as a junior and closed out her senior year with a .394average ... Captured all-area honors her final campaign ... Alsocompeted on the lacrosse team.

Was a member of the 18U Georgia Fire Gold (Lilburn) team andplayed summer ball for the 16U Atlanta Worth Cobras, helping herclub qualify for the exclusive Hall of Fame Tournament. 

Personal:
Born February 12, 1992 ... Daughter of Mark and Lisa Light ... Adouble major at Emory in anthropology and human biology ...Recipient of the Scholar Athlete of the Year presented by theGeorgia Best Chevy Dealers and awarded at the 5th Annual AtlantaSports Awards.

Quote:
"I chose Emory because it was close to home and provides a goodbalance between academics and athletics.  Plus, the campus isbeautiful."

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