• 5 NCAA Championships Appearances
  • 16 NCAA Tournament Appearances
  • 12 UAA Championships
  • 15 Seasons Of 30 Or More Wins
  • 14 All-Americans
  • 6 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients

2009 Athletes Of The Week

(May 11) -Emory senior third baseman Liz White led Emory with a .583 at the NCAA Salisbury Regional.

White picked up hits in all four games that the Eagles played in and finished with seven hits in 12 trips to the plate.

White went 2-for-3 in helping the Eagles to a 6-0 triumph over Neumann in second-round action and then followed that effort by recording three of the squad's six hits in a tough 1-0 11-inning setback to Bridgewater College.


(Apr. 25) -Junior center fielder Cassie Walsh turned in a big day as she helped the Eagles post a doubleheader sweep over Spelman College on Apr. 21.

Walsh went a combined seven-of-eight at the plate in the two contests while scoring four times and knocking in a pair of runs. Walsh went four-for-four, scored twice and stole three bases in the opener as the Eagles unleashed a 14-hit attack in a 9-1 victory.  

In the nightcap, Walsh rapped out three more hits and crossed the plate twice in a 9-0 decision over the Jaguars. Her three safeties represented her 15th multi-hit outing of the season and boosted her season average to . 416, good for second place on the team. She tied for the team lead with 53 hits and has been successful on all 15 of her stolen base attempts.


(Apr. 13) -Freshman left fielder Jessica Thomas hit a team-high .500 as the Eagles went 2-2 over four games. 

Thomas picked up six hits in 12 trips to the plate, scored a pair of runs and knocked in one run as the Eagles closed out the week with an overall record of 28-10. Thomas picked up safeties in all four outings as she moved into first place on the squad with a .423 batting average.  She recorded two hits, including her fifth home run of the season, in sparking Emory to a 5-2 win over Bridgewater College on Friday.  She picked up two more hits, her team-leading 16th multi-hit game of the year, and drove in the team's lone run the following day in a tough 2-1 loss to No. 22-ranked Lynchburg College in the first game of a twinbill. 


(Apr. 6) -Senior first baseman Kim Bandy swung a hot bat last week as the Eagles posted a 2-2 record. Bandy ripped opposing pitching for a .785 average with 11 hits in 14 trips to the plate.  Among her hits were four doubles and a triple as the No. 20 Eagles closed out the week with an overall record of 26-8. 

Bandy went a combined four-of-seven from the plate in a twinbill against Reinhardt College before turning in a huge effort in doubleheader sweep against LaGrange College.  In a 9-2 first-game win over the Panthers, she went 4-for-4 at the plate, scored three runs and knocked in one.  Among her safeties in that contest were a double and a three-bagger.  Emory finished the sweep with an 8-1 triumph with Bandy picking up three hits, including a pair of doubles, in three plate appearances.  She also scored twice. 

Through games played Apr. 5, Bandy leads the team in hitting (.425), runs scored (30) and triples (7).  


(Mar. 23) -Senior right fielder Alyson Moler enjoyed a big weekend in helping the Eagles to three wins in four outings at the Maryville College Classic.

Moler hit a team-high .583 over the weekend with seven hits in 12 trips to the plate. She socked a pair of home runs and drove in five runs in helping the No. 6-ranked Eagles raise their record to 23-5. She registered hits in all four contests and went three-for-four, including a solo homer, in Saturday's 4-1 triumph against Baldwin-Wallace. In Sunday's 8-3 decision over Maryville College, Moler went 2-for-2 with four RBIs. She hit a three-run homer in the first inning that got the out the gates quickly.

So far this year, she has started all 28 games and is hitting .325 with three homers and 15 RBIs.


(Mar. 16) - Freshman Jessica Thomas had a hot bat at the UAA Tournament, hitting a team-high .458.

Thomas helped the Eagles to a 5-3 mark at the tourney, picking up a team-high 11 hits in 24 trips to the plate. In addition, she scored a team-high seven runs and tied for the club's lead with nine 9RBIs.

She had safeties to her credit in six games and totaled three multiple-hit contests. In the opening game of the Tournament, Thomas went three-for-four at the plate and drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh in a a 3-2 triumph over Brandeis.


(Mar. 3) - Senior Kim Bandy turned in a big weekend in helping the Eagles to wins in three of four contests.

Bandy hit an impressive .428 with six hits in 14 plate appearances. Scored scored four runs and drove in six in helping raise its overall record to 11-1 on the year. In a 5-3 win over Mississippi College on Friday, she collected a run-producing triple. The following day , she rapped out four hits in five at-bats, scored three times and registered two RBIs in a 16-4 triumph over Millsaps College. In the final game of the weekend, she recorded the team's lone RBI in a 6-1 setback against Mississippi College.

So far this year, she has started all 12 Emory games and is hitting .341 with 13 RBIs.


(Feb. 23) - Senior Carey Smith-Marchi enjoyed a big weekend in helping the Eagles to four wins at the Emory Classic. 

In the four games, Smith-Marchi hit .636, going 7-for-11 at the plate, drove in a total of nine runs and crossed the plate six times herself.  In a 7-0 win over Huntingdon College on Saturday, she went 2-for-2 at the plate, including a solo home run, and drove in a pair if runs.  She finished off that day by collecting three hits in four trips to the plate in helping the Eagles to a five-inning, 9-0 triumph over Rhodes College.  Her three-run triple in the bottom of the fifth closed out that contest.  In the final game of the Classic, she knocked in three RBIs, and scored twice as Emory recorded an 8-1 win over Huntingdon. 

So far this season, Smith-Marchi has hit safely in six of the team's eight games and posts a batting average of .417 (10-for-24).  She is second on the club in both homers (2) and RBIs (13).


(Feb. 16) - Freshman Jessica Thomas turned in a memorable opening weekend as a collegian as she helped the Eagles to a 4-0 mark at the Emory Invitational. 

Thomas hit .615 in the Invitational, going 8-for-13 at the plate, hitting three home runs, and driving in 14 runs.  In the team's season-opening 15-1 win against Maryville, she blasted a pair of round trippers and racked up eight RBIs, the third-highest single-game mark in school history.  She followed that performance by picking up two more safeties including the game-winning RBI in a 1-0 eight-inning triumph over Greensboro. On the second day of action, Thomas recorded the game-winning RBI in an 8-0 decision over Greensboro.  In the final game of the Invitational against Maryville, Thomas registered a pair of hits in three trips to the plate, including a two-run homer in the fourth inning that put Emory ahead for good in an eventual 9-3 win.