Stephanie Steel

Position:
Outfielder
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
High School:
Vista
Hometown:
Vista, Calif.

At Princeton
2007
Started 50 of 51 games played ... team leader in at-bats with 162 and third on the team with 46 hits ... had hits in 34 games ... went 3 for 3 with a double against Stetson Mar. 20 ... had hits in all four games of the Cornell series ... 11 total multi-hit games on the year ... went 4 for 6 in a Mar. 18 doubleheader against Long Island and Florida International ... had three RBIs each against Buffalo Mar. 17 and Rutgers ... had two RBIs against Rhode Island ... nine doubles were second on the team.

2006
Second-Team All-Ivy outfielder, errorless in 46 chances ... earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors during her 15-game hit streak to end the season ... struck out only five times in 154 at-bats, making her the second-toughest player to strike out in Division I on the season ... ended the year with no strikeouts in her last 52 at-bats ... led team with 14 sacrifices ... season-high three hits in the first game of a doubleheader at Fairfield (Mar. 30) ... went 5 for 9 with three runs scored during the Fairfield twinbill ... hit first career home run as part of a 4 for 7 doubleheader against Yale (Apr. 9) ... had three RBI in the first game against Yale ... also had three RBI against Nevada during the spring trip (Mar. 19) ... in a doubleheader at St. Joseph's, went 4 for 7 with two runs scored and three RBI (Apr. 30).

2005
Started 27 games and played in 28, all in April and May, rejoining the team after recovering from injury ... went 3 for 3 against Cornell on Apr. 10 ... in the second game against Rider (May 5), went 2 for 4 and scored three runs ... hit .500 (4 for 8) in the NCAA tournament with a 2 for 3 opener against Oklahoma State (May 20) ... had RBI in games against Rutgers (Apr. 12) and Brown (Apr. 25).

2004
Started 38 of 39 games in which she played ... had at least one hit in 25 of those games with a season-long seven-game hit streak during the spring break trip ... had two-hit games against Harvard (Apr. 10) and Columbia (May 1) ... had two RBI in her first collegiate game versus Arizona State (Feb. 27) ... also had two RBI versus Canisius (Mar. 13).

At Vista
Most improved and defensive MVP ... First-Team All-CIF in 2003 with a .402 batting average ... team was CIF finalist ... four-year all-league ... valedictorian ... math student of the year ... distinguished student athlete of the year ... senior class social chair ... SoCal Breakers team played at the ASA Gold Nationals ... also played tennis ... firt singles for two years ... team MVP ... four-year all-league in tennis and two-year All-CIF ... ranked third in singles and first in doubles in county for under-18 ... doubles finalist at USTA Under-18 nationals ... North County Times Scholar Athlete of the Year ... Bank of America/Liberal Arts finalist ... Executive Women’s International finalist.

Personal
Full name is Stephanie Lauren Steel ... born Feb. 18, 1985 ... mother is Marianne Schiff, a homemaker and Colorado alumna ... father is John Steel, a Dartmouth alumnus and entrepreneur ... stepmother is Christy Steel, a Kentucky alumna and writer ... stepfather is Bruce Schiff, a San Diego State alumnus and real estate broker ... politics major.