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


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

Senior (2014):
Came through with record-setting campaign that saw her capture NFCA First Team All-America honors for the second time in her career, the only player in program to earn that distinction ... Named the UAA's Most Outstanding Player for the third time in her career while capturing her fourth berth on the All-UAA First Team ... First Team All-Atlantic Region ... Named a Capital One First Team Academic All-American ... Tabbed as the Capital One National Academic All-American of the Year in Division III softball ... Closed out her final year of action by setting five school season records ... Hit a UAA-leading .463 (68-of-147) with that mark ranking seventh on the Emory seasonal ladder ... Topped the conference and finished second nationally with a school-record 19 home runs ... Her 68 hits ranked second in the league and tied for the No. 2 spot on Emory’s seasonal list ... Led the UAA and established a school seasonal record with 56 runs scored ... Ranked 18th among D-III performers with a 1.22 runs-per-game average ... Topped the UAA with a school-record 65 RBIs ... Ranked fourth nationally with a 1.22 runs batted in per-game average ... Blistering slugging percentage of .986 led the UAA, placed fifth nationally and set an Emory seasonal record ... 145 total bases set the pace in the league and represented a program record ... Posted a team-high 22 games of two or more hits and paced the Eagles with 19 outings of two or more RBIs … Named Most Outstanding Player of the Atlanta Regional (May 9-11) after hitting .333 with a pair of homers and three RBIs … Hit two solo homers and finished 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 game began a three-run inning that helped the Eagles to the come-from-behind decision … Her solo homer in the bottom of the sixth against Trine University in the NCAA Atlanta Super Regional (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) after registering a team-high .700 hitting average over a three-game stretch, 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 a twinbill vs. Virginia Wesleyan (Mar. 20) including a two-run blast in a five-inning 16-6 win in the finale ... 3-for-3 at the plate with a pair of round trippers, five RBIs and four runs scored in helping 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 win vs. Piedmont (Apr. 9)  ... Went a combined four-of-five at the plate 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 in the batter's box and delivering three RBIs including a two-run double that accounted for Emory's first two runs of the contest ... Three-run homer in the top of the first opened the scoring for the Eagles, and she socked a two-run dinger the following frame in a 10-1 victory over Maryville (Apr. 19) ... All three of her hits were doubles and she knocked in three runs in a 9-2 second-game triumph over Covenant College (Apr. 8) ... Finished the year with 20 two-base hits, tying the third-highest seasonal mark in school history ... Her two-run homer in the top of the fourth accounted for all of the Eagles' scoring in a second-game 2-1 win over Birmingham Southern (Apr. 3) ... Went 3-for-4 vs. BSC and crossed the plate with Emory's initial run in a 2-1 outcome in the opener of that twinbill ... Named UAA Hitter of the Week (Apr. 15) after hitting .667 with a team-high nine hits in 15 plate appearances,  while driving in a club-best nine runs over the four-game stretch that saw Emory win twice against Covenant College and Piedmont 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 each year to a to a graduate who has demonstrated exemplary service to both the university and the greater community without expectation of recognition ... Female recipient of the Emory Athletic Department's Partin Award in recognition of an outstanding career or season performance in a team-based sport ... Emory University 100 Senior Honorary.

Junior (2013):
Landed All-America honors for the second time in her career, bringing home NFCA First Team acclaim ... All-Atlantic Region First Team selection ... Tabbed as the UAA Player of the Year ... First Team All-UAA pick ... Was one of two Eagles to have started all 47 games and ended the year with a team-high hitting mark of .408 (53-of-130), good for fourth place among UAA players ... Socked a school-season record 12 home runs, good for third place on the UAA list ... 53 hits represented the fourth-highest mark in the UAA ... Posted 16 multi-hit contests and drove in two or more runs on 17 occasions, both of which were team highs ... Knocked in a league-high 59 runs with the total the second-highest seasonal effort in school annals ... Held down the No. 11 spot nationally in D-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 on the Eagles' season list ... Recorded an .800 slugging percentage that led the UAA, ranked 34th nationally and that placed second on Emory's season chart ... Held down the No. 1 spot among UAA players and was 40th in the D-III ranks in on-base percentage (.530) ... Established a school season record with 35 walks and her per-game average of 0.74 walks-per-game was ninth nationally ... 288 putouts were the fifth most on the Eagles' seasonal ladder ... Knocked in a team-high six runs and drew a squad-leading five walks during Emory's five-game run in the NCAA Regionals ... Stroked a two-run double as one of her two hits, and which accounted for the eventual game-winning RBI in the team's 8-1 win vs. Roanoke (May 11) in the NCAA Regionals ... Drove in Emory's first run and later knocked in the tying score as part of a four-run sixth inning vs. Piedmont (May 12) in the NCAA Regionals ... Helped the Eagles to an 8-0 record and the UAA title by hitting .389 (7-for-18) and scoring a team-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 the Eagles to four season-opening wins ... 3-for-3 with two homers and five ribbies vs. Agnes Scott (Feb. 9) in an 8-0 triumph ... Posted a 3-for-3 effort at the plate with a pair of home runs and three RBIs in an 8-7 decision over Rhodes (Mar. 30) ... Socked a grand slam in  helping Emory to an 11-2 victory over regionally ranked Fontbonne (Mar. 31) ... Tabbed as UAA Player of the Week (Feb. 18) after hitting at a .556 clip (5-for-9) with a pair of homers and six RBIs in spearheading the squad to four wins ... Hit a grand slam in a 9-0 win over York College (Feb. 16) ... Finished with a 2-for-3 peformance at the plate and knocked in two runs, one on a double and the other on a solo homer, in a 12-2 victory over Piedmont (Apr. 9) ... Sparked the Eagles to a 6-0 win over Kean (Mar. 10) with three hits in four trips to the plate, and driving in two ones, including the game winner ... Accounted for the Eagles' final runs with a two-run homer in the sixth inning in a 7-4 triumph vs. Rhodes (Mar. 31) with that blast enabling her to become the school's all-time leader in homers ... Singled in the game's winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning in a 2-1 verdict over Gustavus Adolphus (Mar. 9) ... Played a prominent role in 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 pair of walks and scoring three runs ... Hit safely in 10 of the team's first 11 contests ... Delivered one of the most dramatic hits in program history with a two-out grand slam in the bottom of the seventh inning that rallied the Eagles to a 12-9 win vs. Birmingham Southern (Mar. 3), a game that saw the Eagles trail by a 9-3 margin after five frames.  

Sophomore (2012):
Turned in another big offensive season en route to earning Third Team All-Atlantic Region honors ... Played in 39 games, 38 as a starter, and finished second on the squad in hitting with her .388 average (47-of-121) tying for eighth among UAA players ... Topped the squad with 47 hits, seven home runs (fourth on Emory's seasonal list) and 39 RBIs (third on the UAA list) ... First on the team and fifth on the league chart in slugging percentage (.636) ... Tied for the team lead with 13 multi-hit outings while driving in two or more runs a club-high 12 occasions ... First Team All-UAA selection ...  Was named the MVP of the UAA Tournament after helping the Eagles to the conference crown by hitting .458, the fourth-highest mark during the tourney, rapping out 11 hits in 24 trips to the plate ... Scored a league-high tying 10 runs during the league tourney and tied for the conference lead with three homers while producing 11 RBIs ... Hit safely in six of the eight outings and enjoyed four multi-hit performances ...  Homered in three separate contests including a blast in the team's 7-2 decision over Washington University on the final day of competition (Mar. 17) that clinched the team's outright title ...  Against regionally ranked Brandeis at the UAA Tournament, she went a combined 4-for-6 over the two meetings with four RBIs, hitting a solo home run vs. the Judges in an 8-0 decision (Mar. 13) before collecting three hits in as many plate appearances with three RBIs in the second meeting ... Keyed an 5-0 verdict over regionally ranked Rochester, singling in the team's first run before smacking a two-run homer later on ... Closed out the regular season hitting safely in eight of her last nine contests ... Posted four hits in six trips to the plate with two RBIs in helping Emory to a doubleheader sweep of Piedmont College (Arp. 24) ... Huge effort vs. Millsaps (Feb. 25), going 4-for-5 at the plate with four RBIs including a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth that tied the game followed by a run-producing single in the ninth that snapped a tie and gave Emory a 9-8 win ... The following day in an 8-1 outcome over Millsaps, she key the Eagle attack with a three-for-three performance at the plate that included a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the third that snapped a 1-1 deadlock ... Socked a solo homer against regionally ranked Keene State (Mar. 12) in an 8-0 triumph ... Drove in the team's opening runs with a three-run double that helped in an 8-0 decision over Covenant College (Apr. 25) ...  Two hits and three RBIs in an 10-0 win vs. Transylvania (Mar. 4) ... Helped Emory to a 7-3 win over Guilford (Feb. 18) and a split of a twinbill with a pair of hits in three plate appearances and three RBIs ... Capital One Academic All-District Team member. 

Freshman (2011):
Banner rookie season that saw her bring home many awards and honors ... Second Team All-American selection by the NFCA ... Played in all 46 games and ended the year leading the team and UAA in hitting with her .449 mark (62-of-138)  placing her 57th nationally and 11th on Emory's seasonal ladder ... Named the UAA's Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year ... First Team All-UAA honoree .... Her 61 RBIs established a school record and led the UAA ... Averaged 1.33 RBIs per game, good for 14th place nationally among D-III players ... Her team-high 16 doubles placed her second among UAA players and tied for the No. 4 spot on the Eagles' seasonal ladder ... Led the league and stood 45th nationally with a .790 slugging percentage that ranked second on the school's seasonal ladder ... Gained a berth on the UAA All-Tournament Team after helping the Eagles to the championship with an 8-0 mark, hitting .565, with a league-tying 13 safeties in 23 trips to the plate ... Also registered a league-best 16 RBIs during the conference championship ... Big outing vs. Washington University (Mar. 10) with a pair of homers and four RBIs in an 8-0 win ... In a Mar. 13 contest vs. Wash U., she went 3-for-4 at the plate. including another homer, with two RBIs and two runs scored ... Came through with a season-high five RBIs, including a grand slam, vs. Case Western (Mar. 10) ... Came through with the game-winning RBI vs. Piedmont (Apr. 21) in an opening-game 3-0 triumph and knocked in two more runs in the nightcap in a 5-4 verdict ... Against then No. 8-ranked DePauw, she went a combined four-for-eight in the twinbill with four RBIs ... Ended the year with an 11-game hitting streak that included one safety in each of Emory's three NCAA Tournament games ... Hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first in the Eagles' 6-1 win over Kean (May 12) in the opening game of the Salisbury Regional ... 2-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs, including a two-run double, in a 5-2 win over Rhodes College (Apr. 9) in the first game of a doubleheader ... 62 hits led both Emory and the UAA while placing her in a tie for seventh place on the school's seasonal list ... Finished the campaign with nine home runs, second on the team and second most by an Emory player in a season ...  Topped the squad with 19 multi-hit outings and delivered a team-best 17 contests with two or more RBIs ... Enjoyed a team-best 17-game hitting streak (Mar. 6- Mar. 24) and had two or more safeties in nine contests during that stretch ... Knocked in the team's first run and registered a pair of RBIs vs. LaGrange (Apr. 26) in a 5-4 win ... 3-for-3 effort at the place and finished with three RBIs and three runs scored in a 7-0 decision over Covenant College (Mar. 16) in the second game of a doublheader ... First career homer was a two-run blast and closed out 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 Charter High School ... Was coached by Sarah Coleman ... Served as team captain as a senior ... Distinguished herself on the mound and at the plate ... Tossed 163 innings and totaled 199 strikeouts while crafting an ERA of  1.62 ... A four-time team MVP, she hit a hefty .444 as a junior and closed out her senior year with a .394 average ... Captured all-area honors her final campaign ... Also competed on the lacrosse team.

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

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

Quote:
"I chose Emory because it was close to home and provides a good balance between academics and athletics.  Plus, the campus is beautiful."

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