11 Whitney Haller Class: Senior Hometown: Marietta, Ga. High School: Harrison Height: 5-11 Position: 1B B/T: R/R

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Is only the second Tech player (Laura Williams - 1994, 1995, 1996) to earn All-ACC honors in her first three seasons

Holds the Georgia Tech career home run record (49) and will begin the 2009 season needing one more round-tripper for the ACC mark...second in Tech and third in ACC history in RBI (178)...also ranks fifth in school history in batting average (.346), first in slugging percentage (.652), fifth in on base percentage (.435), third in runs scored (150), third in total bases (397), second in fielding percentage (.989), first in fielding chances (1,293) and first in putouts (1,215).

Awards & Honors

* 2006, 2007 1st-team NFCA All-Southeast Region

* 2006 ACC Rookie of the Year

* 2006, 2007 1st-team All-ACC

* 2008 2nd-team All-ACC

* 2007 ACC All-Tournament Team

* 2008 3rd-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American

* 2007 2nd-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American

* 2007, 2008 1st-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District

* 2006, 2007, 2008 ACC Academic Honor Roll

* 2007, 2008 USA Softball Player of the Year Watch List

* 2007 ESPN.COM 2nd-team Preseason All-American

* 2006 2nd-team Easton All-American

As a Junior in 2008: Started 62 games at first base and had a .260 average with 20 runs scored, 46 hits, eight doubles, a .475 slugging percentage and a .348 on base percentage ... Ranked first on the team and tied for fourth in the ACC with 39 RBI while her 10 home runs were tied for second and tied for fourth, respectively ... Had two sacrifice hits and was 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts ... Committed just one error all season for a .998 fielding percentage ... Batted .476 over the season's final 15 games to raise her average 80 points ... Had two hits and two RBI at the Georgia State First Pitch Classic (Feb. 9-10) ... Had a home run and two RBI at the NFCA Leadoff Classic (Feb. 29-March 2) as well as in the Virginia series (March 9) ... Had two home runs against Kennesaw State (March 12) ... Hit a home run off all-American Angela Tincher in game one of the Virginia Tech series (March 15) ... In game one against Western Carolina, went 2-for-3 with a home run (April 3) ... Had a three-run double in game one against Georgia (April 9) ... Earned ACC Player of the Week honors for the week of April 14-21 batting .667 (10-15) with eight RBI in fine games against Georgia Southern and Boston College ... Had a home run against GSU tying Tara Knudsen's school record (46) ... Made it back-to-back ACC Player of the Week nods as she continued her torrid pace by hitting .500 (6-for-12) with three home runs, seven RBI and a couple of walks ... Hit a walk-off, three-run home run against Georgia State (April 29) breaking the all-time Georgia Tech record and finished the season tied for the all-time ACC home run record.

As a Sophomore in 2007: Started in all 70 games for Tech at first base ... Garnered All-ACC and NFCA All-Southeast Region first team honors for the second consecutive season ... Named second team Academic All-America ... Selected to the first team Academic All-District III squad ... Earned ACC All-Tounrament honors after helping the Jackets make the ACC Championship Game ... Finished second on the team, fifth in the ACC, with a .372 batting average ... Ranked fourth in the ACC with 15 home runs ... Drove in 62 runs, third most in the league ... Ended the season third in the ACC with 67 runs scored ... Tallied the fourth-best on-base percentage with a mark of .454 ... Led the Jackets by only committing three errors all season long, posting a team-best .993 fielding percentage.

As a Freshman in 2006: Had the most outstanding season in ACC and Tech history ... Started in all 70 games for the Yellow Jackets (66 at 1B, 3 at P, 1 at DP) ... Set ACC single-season records in home runs (24), RBI (72), total bases (171) and saves (6) ... Finished second in the nation in saves, third in home runs, fourth in RBI, eighth in runs scored (63) and 10th in slugging percentage ... Named Easton All-America second team, NFCA Southeast All-Region first team, All-ACC first team and ACC Freshman of the Year ... Also broke the Tech single-season record in runs scored and putouts ... Tallied the fourth-best batting average in school history with a .393 mark ... In the circle, performed as Tech's closer for most of the season ... Made 25 appearances, going 2-1 with a 5.06 ERA ... Struck out 22 batters in 45.2 innings pitched ... Named ACC Player of the Week on April 17 ... Tied single-game Tech records with six runs batted in and two home runs against Chattanooga (4/5) ... Second two home run game came against Austin Peay (3/4) at the Buzz Classic ... Had a season-high 10-game hitting streak ... Tallied 25 multi-hit and 19 multi-RBI games ... Ended the season on a four-game hitting streak ... Named to the All-ACC Academic Softball Team ... Also earned ACC Academic Honor Roll honors.

High School: Four-year letterwinner in softball ... Helped lead team to three area championships in freshman, sophomore and senior seasons ... Named team's Most Valuable Player as a senior ... Earned all-state honors in final three seasons and all-area honors in all four seasons ... Elected team captain in senior season ... Hit .336, drove in 24 runs and went 18-6 in the circle as a senior ... Played basketball for two seasons as a forward ... Was named Class Valedictorian ... President of National Honor Society, Secretary of Spanish National Honor Society, President of Math Honor Society, member of Beta and Spanish clubs.

Personal: Born Whitney Leigh Haller on March 24, 1987, in Parkersburg, W. Va. ... Parents are Jerry and Wanda Haller ... Has an older sister, Amy Johnston, and two older brothers, Lance Wilson and David Haller ... Enjoys reading and water skiing ... Majoring in industrial engineering.

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