Candy Button

Position:
Outfielder
Height:
5-2
Class:
Senior
High School:
Holy Names Academy
Hometown:
Redmond, Wash.

At Princeton
2013
CoSIDA Academic All-District II ... Had career bests in batting average (.277), games (44), at bats (141), hits (39), doubles (10), home runs (five) and RBI (29) as a senior ... struck out a career-low 16 times ... went error-free in 43 chances in the outfield ... homered in final career at-bat in season finale at Cornell.

2012
Played in 41 games, starting 36, all in right field ... had a 3-for-3 game against Niagara on March 3 and had three other two-hit games ... drove in two runs in games against Dartmouth on March 30 and Harvard on March 31.

2011
Split time between second base and right field ... started all 42 games ... had 28 hits, fifth on the team ... had eight multi-hit games, including a 3-for-4 effort at George Washington on March 17 ... homered against Villanova on March 19 and at Dartmouth on April 9 ... fielded successfully on 104 of 106 (.981) attempts.

2010
Started at second base ... played in 43 games, starting 40 ... had a 4-for-4 series-closing game against Columbia on April 18 ... was also 4 for 4 against Santa Clara in the second game of a March 13 twinbill ... had four multi-hit games on the season ... homered against Santa Clara on March 19 in the second game of a doubleheader and against Columbia on April 18 in the final game of the series.

At Holy Names
Four-year centerfielder ... career batting average of better than .400 and an on-base percentage of better than .500 ... won all-division honors as a freshman, first-team all-league as a sophomore, and all-state honors as a junior and senior ... two-time Seattle Times Player of the Week ... team was a three-time Seattle Metro League winner during her career and placed second in the state her senior year ... Washington Scholar-Athlete Award winner, Washington Scholar and a National Merit Scholarship finalist ... valedictorian and Junior Academic Award winner.

Personal
Full name is Candace Jeanne Button ... born Dec. 9, 1990 ... both parents, Thomas and Tanya, are 1987 Princeton alumni ... is the oldest of six children, including sisters Charlene and Elizabeth and brothers Joseph, Benjamin and Edward ...spent two summers as an intern at Microsoft in 2008 and 2009 ... traveled to Honduras for a service-learning trip with Heifer International in spring 2008, building a house and learning about poverty and hunger relief efforts ... computer science major.

Season	GP-GS	BA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB-A	BB	HBP	SAC	SF	GDP	SO	PO	A	E
2010	43-40	.239	113	13	27	4	0	2	8	0-0	9	2	2	0	1	25	109	59	7
2011	42-42	.219	128	13	28	2	0	2	9	1-1	12	1	6	0	0	24	68	36	2
2012	41-36	.175	97	6	17	4	1	0	5	2-2	6	1	7	1	1	23	32	2	1
2013	44-44	.277	141	19	39	10	0	5	29	3-5	10	2	5	2	0	16	41	2	0
Totals	170-162	.232	379	51	111	20	1	9	51	6-8	37	6	20	3	2	88	250	99	10