#12 Tara Van Meter

5-7 Senior – P/1B
Sacramento, CA / St. Francis HS

 

NDNU: Started 52 games last season, 11 as a pitcher...earned Second Team All-PacWest honors at 1B and was named NDNU Player of the Year...school’s all-time homerun leader with 14 career long balls...led team with .338 average and 48 hits...finished second in runs with 23 and RBIs with 26...ranks second in school history in single season homeruns with 10...drew 10 walks and was hit by a pitch 17 times (school record) while striking out only nine times....finished 3-8 on the mound with a 5.01 ERA...hurled five complete games...struck out 24 batters in 57.1 innings...appeared in 37 games as a sophomore...batted a team high .387...led team with four homeruns, 20 RBIs and six doubles...finished second in hits with 43...went 2-8 with a 5.22 ERA in 59 innings as a pitcher...played in 31 games as a freshman and had a batting average of .247…had eight runs, 18 hits, three doubles, and 10 RBIs.

High School: played four years of softball at St. Francis HS…earned All-League and Second Team All-City honors...member of the Honor Roll

 

Hitting

Year       Avg  GP-GS   AB   R   H  2B  3B  HR  RBI  SB-ATT
2005....  .250  32-27   76  10  19   3   0   0   12   1-1   
2006....  .387  37-35  111   9  43   6   0   4   20   1-2  
2007....  .338  53-52  142  23  48   3   1  10   26   0-0
TOTAL...  .334 122-114 329  42 110  12   1  14   58   2-3

Pitching  

Year       ERA   W-L   App  GS  CG  SV     IP   BB   SO
2005....  1.75   0-0     2   1   1   0    8.0    4    5 
2006....  5.22   2-8    12   8   3   0   59.0   23   19
2007....  5.01   3-8    12  11   5   0   57.1   36   24 
TOTAL...  4.90   5-16   26  20   9   0  124.1   63   48