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On Burrell: Maryland's veteran center fielder will take on a leadership role this season ranks in the Top 10 in every Maryland career offensive category among the all-time school leaders in games played (177, sixth), games started (177, sixth), at-bats (485, sixth), runs (79, fifth), hits (118, sixth), doubles (21, sixth), triples (three, tied for second), home runs (eight, tied for fifth), RBI (57, seventh), walks (45, sixth), sacrifice hits (24, third), sacrifice flies (3, tied for second) ... listed among single-season leaders in several categories as well has only missed two games in the last three seasons. As a Junior in 2000: Team leader in stolen bases also paced squad with 12 sacrifice hits, which ranks third-most for a single season third on the team with seven doubles fourth on the squad with 11 walks and 106 putouts tied for sixth on the team with 15 runs scored established career-high 10-game hit streak from March 18 (Kansas) to March 26 (SW Missouri State), in which she went 15-for-39 (.385) with a home run, four RBI, six runs scored, three doubles, a triple and a stolen base eight multi-hit games tied career-high for hits in a single game against LaSalle (March 5) with three and twice in a doubleheader vs. Georgia Tech (March 21) hit home runs against the Explorers and Yellow Jackets as well third career triple came in a 4-0 Terp win over Mercer at the Buzz Classic (March 25) drove in the game-winning run in Marylands 6-5 victory over Georgia (Feb. 5) at the Louisville Slugger tournament went 2-for-4 and drove in a season-high three RBI vs. Morgan State (March 30) batted .357 in conference play with a .571 slugging percentage was an impressive 6-for-9 (.667) in a doubleheader sweep of Georgia Tech (March 21) with a homer, two doubles, the game-winning run and RBI and a 1.222 slugging percentage on the day named to the Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll for the 1999-2000 academic year. As a Sophomore in 1999: Played in a school-record career-high 74 games batted a career-high .263 while establishing career highs in hits (54), runs scored (48), RBI (36), doubles (nine) and home runs (six) her 36 RBI ranks as the third best single-season total in school history her 48 runs scored is the second-highest single-season total in school history career-high six home runs is tied for the fifth best single-season effort in school history career-high three hits in a game first came against Kentucky (Feb. 20), Georgia Tech (April 9) and UNC Charlotte (April 16) career-high 13 multi-hit games singled in the game-winning run as Maryland defeated a Top 10 ranked team for the first time in school history in No. 6 South Florida (Feb. 7) hit a career-high two home runs and added four RBI against Georgia Southern (March 12) career high six RBI vs. Kentucky (Feb. 20) RBI total came on a 3-for-4 day which featured her first career home run career-high nine doubles in 1999 single-game career-high two doubles in Marylands defeat of Long Island (March 20) stole a career-high eight bases went 6-for-18 (.333) with eight RBI as Maryland advanced to the championship of the Triangle Classic also went six-for-18 (.333) with nine RBI in the Lady Seminole Classic posted a .391 batting average (9-for-23) in eight regular season ACC games first career ACC home run as Maryland won 8-0 over Georgia Tech (April 10) first career NCAA Tournament hit and run scored against Southwest Texas as Maryland defeated the Bobcats, 5-0 (May 20). As a Freshman in 1998: Started all 48 games during the season while seeing most of her action at third base had five doubles, two triples and 16 RBI finished second on the team in stolen bases with six in eight attempts was one of four freshman to appear in at least 40 games and record at least 20 hits during the 1998 season named to the ACC Honor Roll. Before Maryland: A graduate of Owego Free Academy four-time all-state first team selection in softball also earned all-conference and all-division honors was a three-sport athlete at Owego as she earned varsity letters in softball, basketball and soccer an all-state soccer selection as a junior and senior named all-division in basketball as a junior nominated "Most Athletic" in her senior class. Personal: Born April 17, 1979 Michelle is the daughter of Linda and Steven Burrell nominated to attend Girl's State was vice president of the National Honor Society graduated fifth in her class majoring in kinesiology.
Burrell at the plate Year G-GS Avg. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB 1998 48-48 .193 114 17 22 5 2 0 16 6-8 1999 74-74 .263 205 48 54 9 0 6 26 8-10 2000 55-55 .253 166 14 42 7 1 2 15 4-6 Totals 177-177 .243 485 79 118 21 3 8 57 18-24 |
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