2 Sara Wissmann Class: Senior Hometown: El Dorado Hills, Calif. High School: Foothill Height: 5-5 Position: Outfield B/T: R/R

Named to the 2003 Verizon Academic All-District III Second Team

As a Senior (2004): Started in 58 of 63 games played; 39 in left field and 19 in center field ... Posted the team's fifth best batting average (.260) ... Went 4-for-15, with a home run in the ACC Tournament en route to being selected to the all-tournament team ... Finished 10th in the ACC with a career-high 12 stolen bases in 16 attempts ... Tallied five doubles, one triple and three home runs ... Drove in 12 runs for the Jackets ... Walked 17 times and had a .353 on base percentage ... Drove in the game-winning run against No. 10 Georgia in the NCAA Athens Regional to lift Tech over the Bulldogs, 3-2 ... Delivered a game-winning base hit with two outs against then-No. 14 Nebraska (2/28) to give the Jackets a 1-0 win ... Drove in the winning run with two outs against North Carolina (4/18) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll.

As a Junior (2003): Started in 56 games for Tech in the outfield ... Ranked second on the Jacket squad with a .368 post-season batting average ... Ended the NCAA Regional Tournament, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with a .364 average, tallying four hits, one double and three RBIs ... Had 33 hits, four doubles and two home runs in 154 at bats on the season ... Scored 16 times during the course of the year ... Ranked second on the Tech squad with eight stolen bases ... Carried a .288 on-base percentage and a .279 slugging percentage ... Drove in 17 runs for the Jackets ... Tallied 10 multi-hit games ... Had a career-high five runs batted in against Mercer on March 30, ending the doubleheader 5-for-9 with eight RBIs ... Went 2-for-3 with a home run versus Bradley on March 1.

As a Sophomore (2002): Made 66 starts in center field ... Finished the season ranked second on the team with 29 runs batted in and third with four home runs ... Also scored 26 runs and swiped nine bases, ranking third among Jackets in both categories ... Tied for fourth in the ACC with five triples ... Had seven multi-hit games, including a 3-for-4 day with three RBI against Syracuse on March 8 and a 3-for-4 effort against Jacksonville State on April 20 ... Homered and drove in five runs, including a grand slam, in a 5-1 win over Virginia, on March 31 ... Posted two or more hits in four consecutive games from April 20-26 ... Made just two errors in center field, posting a .969 fielding percentage in 64 chances ... ACC Academic Honor Roll.

As a Freshman (2001): Played in 47 games as a rookie, making 40 starts, primarily in center field ... One of Tech's top outfielders, as her speed proved to be a major plus in center field ... Ranked fourth on the team with 15 runs scored and was second with six stolen bases ... Was only thrown out once in seven attempted steals ... Top game of the season came in Tech's first win over Eastern Michigan on March 6 ... She tripled, drove in a run and scored twice in two at-bats in that contest ... ACC Academic Honor Roll.

High School: Earned three letters in softball at Foothill High School and also lettered for two seasons on the volleyball team ... Was the team captain of the softball team in 2000 ... Helped lead team to a 1998 undefeated Tri-County Athletic League season ... Earned TCAL all-league honors in 1998 ... Team won the 1999 and 2000 East Bay Athletic League titles ... Was a member of the 2000 California All-State team for medium-size schools, along with being named to the Valley Times Top 100 athletes ... Named an EBAL first-team All-League selection in 1999 and 2000 ... Foothill High School Female Athlete of the Year and Outstanding Offensive Player in 2000 ... Her Foothill team was ranked seventh in the national high school rankings ... A standout in the field for the Falcons as she posted a .990 fielding percentage while playing both first base and outfield.

Personal: Sara Lynn Wissmann ... Born Sept. 12, 1982 ... Majoring in management at Tech ... Parents are Karl and Lori Wissmann.

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