Kathryn Welch

Position:
Infielder
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
High School:
Pennsbury
Hometown:
Yardley, Pa.

At Princeton
2009
Honorable mention All-Ivy ... led the team with a .376 average while starting all 36 games ... also led or co-led the team with 23 runs, 47 hits, 11 doubles and two triples ... had 14 multi-hit games including five three-hit games ... hit five home runs to finish with 30 for her career, making her just the second Tiger in program history to have a 30-home run career ... .349 career batting average ranks fifth in Princeton history ... 52 career doubles is second in Princeton history, as are 84 extra base hits ... 128 career RBI ranks third on Princeton list.

2008
First-team All-Ivy ... first-team NFCA All-Northeast Region ... hit 13 home runs ... went 4 for 4 in Princeton's final game of the season against Lehigh at the NCAA Amherst Regional (May 17) ... went 9 for 16 with seven RBIs in four-game series against Columbia (Apr. 12-13) ... hit two home runs in a six-RBI game against Cornell (Apr. 27), including a grand slam that brought Princeton within 11-10 in a game it won 12-11 ... hit game-tying home run in second game of Ivy South-clinching Apr. 27 doubleheader vs. Cornell ... six multi-RBI games ... 6 for 11 with three home runs in Dartmouth-Harvard series (Mar. 29-30) ... led team in runs (41), hits (53), doubles (14) and RBI (41) ... hit .403 with 11 home runs against Ivy League teams.

2007
Second-team All-Ivy ... Ivy League Player of the Week (Apr. 3) ... started 44 games, playing in 46 ... nine multi-hit games ... 3 for 3 with two RBIs against Long Island (Mar. 18) ... 3 for 4 with two RBIs and a double against South Florida (Mar. 21) ... went 10 for 13 in three games against Brown and Yale (Mar. 31-Apr. 1) ... went 7 for 9 in doubleheader against Yale, driving in five runs ... drove in four runs in Dartmouth doubleheader (Apr. 8) ... went 5 for 6 in back-to-back games against Penn (Apr. 21-22) ... had hits in first four at-bats in a 4 for 5 first game of a doubleheader at Cornell (Apr. 27) ... hit two home runs in the second game, including one that capped a six-run, two-out rally to erase a five-run deficit ... had four RBIs in that game ... 13 multi-RBI games on the year ... team leader with 40 RBIs ... second on the team in hits with 48 ... 23 runs led team ... six home runs, all from Apr. 18-May 1 against Columbia, Penn (two), Cornell (two) and Rider, were third on the team ... hit .433 against Ivy teams.

2006
Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... first-team All-Ivy ... three-time Ivy Rookie of the Week ... hit .426 against Ivy schools and led the Tigers with a .331 batting average, 33 runs and 51 hits ... started all 53 games in the outfield ... had six home runs ... five of her six home runs came against major-conference schools (Minnesota, Illinois, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Villanova) ... home run against Villanova (Apr. 27) was the only run in a 1-0 win ... longest hitting streak was nine games (Mar. 29-Apr. 10) ... had 12 multi-hit games ... went 3 for 3 against Minnesota (Mar. 17) ... went 5 for 8 in the Ivy-opening twinbill at Penn (Apr. 1) ... 4 for 6 with four runs scored in Yale doubleheader (Apr. 9) ... 3 for 4 with four RBI and a home run in second game against Columbia (Apr. 15) ... 4 for 7 in doubleheader against Ivy runner-up Cornell (Apr. 16) ... 3 for 4 against St. John’s in second game (Apr. 29) ... errorless in 35 chances.

At Pennsbury
Won a PIAA state championship as a senior ... team went 23-1 ... Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior ... .500 batting average as a senior ... earned all-league first-team, Trentonian first-team all-area and All-Southeast Pennsylvania honors during her career ... played centerfield, third base and shortstop in high school ... Bucks County and Philadelphia Inquirer Player of the Year as a senior ... set school record for batting average at .535 in 2003 ... played four years of field hockey and three years of indoor track as a relay runner ... earned the Courier Scholar Athlete award and was a National Honor Society Parliamentarian.

Personal
Full name is Kathryn Brisbin Welch ... born Mar. 8, 1987 ... daughter of Brian and Judy Welch ... father is a senior estimator and Bucknell alumnus; mother is a Millersville alumna ... has a younger sister Sarah, an Elon freshman, and brother Bryan, 12 ... worked with the Taking Kids Out program through the Princeton Varsity Club, helping Trenton-area youth through academics and sports ... sociology major.

Season	GP-GS	BA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB-A	BB	HBP	SAC	SF	GDP	SO	PO	A	E
2006	53-53	.331	154	33	51	9	0	6	27	1-2	11	3	8	1	0	21	35	0	0
2007	46-44	.336	143	23	48	19	0	6	40	1-1	4	1	3	2	0	14	75	59	9
2008	48-48	.356	149	41	53	14	0	13	34	0-1	9	5	3	3	0	15	72	68	12
2009	36-36	.376	125	23	47	11	2	5	27	0-0	7	0	2	2	0	13	72	71	7
Career	183-181	.349	571	18	199	53	2	30	128	2-4	31	9	16	8	0	63	254	198	28