Kristen Schaus

Position:
Pitcher
Height:
5-10
Class:
Senior
High School:
Barron Collier
Hometown:
Naples, Fla.

At Princeton
2008
Ivy League Pitcher of the Year ... first-team All-Ivy ... second team NFCA All-Northeast Region ... struck out 189 batters to claim the program career strikeout record at 833 ... pitched the deciding game of the Ivy League Championship Series that advanced Princeton to the NCAA tournament ... tossed 165 innings with a 10-16 record and 4.16 ERA ... rebounded from a 1-11 start to win nine of her last 14 decisions ... had three double-digit strikeout games early in the season, fanning 13 each against Niagara and Quinnipiac ... struck out a season-high 15 in eight innings against South Carolina-Upstate ... went 7-1 with a 3.28 ERA in Ivy League games.

2007
Second-team All-Ivy ... Ivy League Pitcher of the Week, Apr. 3 ... appeared in 30 games with 25 starts, throwing 159 innings and posting a 12-14 record ... struck out 183 batters for a strikeouts-per-seven average of 8.1 ... fanned 12 in the season opener against Liberty (Mar. 2) and again in the season finale against Rider (May 1) ... struck out 11 two days earlier against Cornell ... tossed complete-game three-hitters against Brown (Mar. 31) and against Rider ... ended season with 644 career strikeouts, moving from third to second on the all-time Princeton list, passing head coach Maureen Barron (596, 1994-97).

2006
First-team All-Ivy ... posted a 16-9 record and 1.67 ERA ... struck out 244 batters and had double-digit strikeouts in 12 contests ... one of only three pitchers in school history to have two 200-strikeout seasons ... made 28 appearances ... Ivy League Pitcher of the Week Mar. 21 as part of a Princeton sweep of all three weekly league awards ... threw a five-inning no-hitter Mar. 18 against Miami (Ohio) ... 9.9 strikeouts per game was 17th in Division I ... struck out 17 batters against Seton Hall (Apr. 19) ... earned a save against Southern Utah (Mar. 18) after winning three straight decisions during her Ivy Player of the Week run ... won six in a row Apr. 19-May 6, allowing only four runs during the span.

2005
Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... first-team All-Ivy ... Ivy Rookie of the Week (Apr. 26) ... posted a 14-9 record in 27 appearances, accruing a 1.55 ERA ... threw a team-high 162.2 innings, completing 17 games ... part of the first pair of teammates in school history, along with Erin Snyder ’06, to fan more than 200 batters in the same season ... held opponents to a .191 batting average and threw six shutouts ... racked up the school’s second-best strikeout total for a single-season and tied the 1991 rookie record for strikeouts in a season with 212 ... posted a one-hit shutout versus Yale (Apr. 24) ... struck out at least 10 batters on 10 occasions, fanning 15 at both Boston Univ. (Mar. 26) in 6 2/3 and in eight innings versus Dartmouth (Apr. 17) ... struck out 14 against Northern Iowa (Mar. 12) ... worked 13.2 innings at Columbia (Apr. 9), holding the Lions to five hits and one unearned run.

At Barron Collier
Four-time team MVP ... four-time first-team all-state selection ... two-time Southwest Florida Player of the Year ... Naples Daily News Player of the Year twice ... led her team to three state final four appearances ... played basketball, ran cross country and worked on the yearbook.

Personal
Full name is Kristen Elizabeth Schaus ... born Mar. 30, 1986 ... daughter of Michael and Carolyn Schaus ... father is an airline pilot; mother is an attorney ... both parents are graduates of Canisius College, where Michael played football and Carolyn played basketball ... has a younger brother Jeffrey, a freshman outfielder at Clemson, and sister Corinne, 14 ... Jeffrey was drafted in the 35th round by the Texas Rangers in 2007 ... spent two summers as an intern in the New York Yankees media relations office ... history major.