Nina Iduate bio
6/16/2010 4:20:00 AM | General
Career Highlights: First Eagle to earn First Team Academic All-American honors since 1999, third first team selection in school history...Three-time First Team All-Southern Conference...Owns Georgia Southern record with a .371 career batting average...Ranks second on Georgia Southern career charts in hits (239) and runs scored (125)...Her .450 batting average is a Southern Conference record and is second at Georgia Southern...Her .485 on-base percentage as a senior is fourth all-time at Georgia Southern...Earned a spot in the top-10 in school history with 85 hits as a senior (second) and 75 hits as a sophomore (third)...20-game hitting streak from 4/19/08 to 2/17/09 is the second longest in school history.
2010 (Senior): Named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American...NFCA All-Region selection...Named Southern Conference Player of the Year and First Team All-SoCon...Was one of 30 candidates for National Lowe's Senior Class Award...Started 55 games at shortstop...Set a conference single-season record with a .450 batting average, which was ninth-best in NCAA Division I...Led the league with 85 hits...Scored 37 runs with 12 driven in...Had a 13-game hitting streak (3/20 - 4/10)...Stole 14 bases in 20 attempts...Recorded the first out and assisted the second out of the first triple play in Georgia Southern history against Chattanooga (4/11)...Was the 34th toughest player to strikeout in Division I, striking out only 11 times in 189 at-bats...Went 5-for-5 at the plate against Elon (5/1)...Went 7-for-12 against College of Charleston (4/24-25)...Posted a .925 fielding percentage.
2009 (Junior): NFCA Scholar-Athlete...Earned All-Southern Conference First Team Honors...Hit .339 in 48 starts and drove in nine runs... Set career high with four hits at Western Carolina (Mar 22)...Hit four straight singles after flying out to start the game... Recorded 12 multi-hit games...Led the team with a 13-game hit streak (3/5-4/10)...Ended the season on a 10-game hit streak...Hit .318 and drove in a run during the conference tournament...Went 3-for-4 and scored three runs and drove in two more against Oakland (2/22).
2008 (Sophomore): All-Southern Conference First Team...ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Softball Second Team...Appeared in all 67 games with 65 starts...Ranked third in the SoCon in average (.377) and tied for first in hits (75) and runs (41)...Excelled against league competition, hitting .397 (3rd) and was first with 27 hits...Ended the season with a team-high 14-game hitting streak, the longest by a GSU player since 2006...Hit .468 in April and May, 100 points better than anyone else on the team...Led team with 18 two-hit games and five three-hit games...Ranked seventh in the nation in sacrifices per game (24, 0.36)... Hit all 3s vs. Savannah State (4/22): at bats, hits, runs and RBI...Named SoCon Player of the Month for April after batting .490 and went hitless in a game just twice...Recorded three straight multi-hit games twice during the season...Went a perfect 5-for-5 with four runs and three RBI in doubleheader sweep of Florida A&M (4/9)...Stole a team-best 19 bases in 21 attempts.
2007 (Freshman): Started 27 times in 30 games...Missed last month of the season with an arm injury...Hit .250 with no home runs and six RBI...Had two hits each in back-to-back games vs. Florida State (2/13) and Samford (2/16)...Went two-for-four with three RBI and two runs at Savannah State (2/24) and three-for-four with three runs at South Carolina State (3/22).
High School: Lettered four years at Norcross High School for Coach Michelle Bowden...Named Best Defensive Player and named to the All-County Team in 2005...A member of the Gwinnett County Tip Off Diamond Club as a senior...MVP for two years.
Personal: Born Cristina Marie Iduate on March 16, 1988 in Atlanta, Ga...Daughter of Jorge and Yvonne Iduate...Hobbies include relaxing with friends, going to the pool, and doing anything outdoors...Would want Jessica Alba to play her in a movie...The moment in history she would want to see is Babe Ruth's last home run...The people she would invite to dinner are the hosts of The View...Craziest ambition is to participate in the next Olympics...Chose Georgia Southern because it felt like the right thing to do...Favorite place on campus is the training room whirlpool... In 10 years sees herself coaching college softball or teaching...Favorites: sports figure - Misty May; pro team - Atlanta Braves; TV shows - The View; pre game ritual - praying...Majoring in Mathematics.
Iduate's Career Statistics
|
YEAR |
AVG. |
GP-GS |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
RBI |
BB |
SO |
SB-ATT |
FLD% |
|
2007 |
.250 |
30-27 |
88 |
14 |
22 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
3 |
6 |
6-7 |
.974 |
|
2008 |
.377 |
67-65 |
199 |
41 |
75 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
24 |
15 |
21 |
19-21 |
.924 |
|
2009 |
.339 |
48-48 |
168 |
33 |
57 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
8 |
11 |
6-9 |
.911 |
|
2010 |
.450 |
55-55 |
189 |
37 |
85 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
12 |
14 |
11 |
14-20 |
.925 |
|
CAREER |
.371 |
200-195 |
644 |
125 |
239 |
13 |
3 |
1 |
51 |
40 |
49 |
45-57 |
.927 |
Iduate's Career Bests
|
AB |
5, nine times; last vs. Elon (5/1/10) |
|
R |
3, five times; last vs. Elon (5/1/10) |
|
H |
5 vs. Elon (5/1/10) |
|
Streak |
20 games (4/19/08 – 2/17/09) |
|
RBI |
3 at Savannah State (2/7/08) |
|
2B |
3, 13 times; last vs. Elon (5/1/10) |
|
3B |
1, three times; last vs. Binghamton (2/20/10) |
|
HR |
1 vs. College of Charleston (3/6/10) |
|
BB |
3 vs. Georgia Tech (4/16/08) |
|
SB |
2, five times; last vs. College of Charleston (3/6/10) |
|
PO |
7, two times; last at Chattanooga (3/25/07) |
| A | 7 at Samford (4/17/10) |
