1999: Picked up where she left off as a freshman, batting .331 with 10 home runs and 53 RBI…led the team with 12 stolen bases…First Team All-MCC selection…Second Team All-Great Lakes Region pick…member of the MCC Championship All-Tournament squad for batting .667 (6-for-9) with three runs and three RBI in three games…opened the year with a .163 average then batted .367 over the final 64 games of the season…reached base in 17 of her last 19 games of the year…tied a UIC single-game record with a pair of home runs in a win over Florida A&M at the Speedline Invitational…doubled and homered, driving in four runs in a 6-3 win over Notre Dame…equaled a UIC record by going 4-for-4 in a 10-5 victory over Northwestern…named MCC Player of the Week on March 22…had a nine-game hitting streak from March 15-20…knocked in 10 runs over a five-game stretch from April 1-10…crushed a solo home run off of All-American and Olympian Christa Williams in a 4-1 win over Texas at the NCAA Regional. 1998: Saw action in just five games before red-shirting…batted .333 with an RBI…went 2-for-3 in the season-opener versus Texas-San Antonio. 1997: Turned in one of the finest freshman seasons ever by a UIC rookie…started 78 games behind the plate, and showed tremendous poise for a first-year player, handling a pitching staff that posted a 1.46 ERA…was equally impressive at the plate as well, batting .346 with seven home runs and 60 RBI… led the team with 21 stolen bases, the third-highest single-season total in UIC history… started the first 29 games of the year…showed signs of her potential in the season’s first series, batting .600 (3-for-5) with a homer and three RBI versus the 1996 NCAA Runner-Up, Washington…reached base in 19 consecutive games in April, including an 11-game hitting streak in that stretch…batted .442 with 14 RBI in 14 Midwestern Collegiate Conference games…committed just one error in conference action…First Team All-MCC selection…hailed as the MCC Newcomer of the Year…also named to the MCC All-Newcomer squad…had 19 multiple-hit games, including seven three-hit games and a four-hit game that tied a school record for hits in a single outing…went 4-for-4 with two RBI versus Evansville…drove in three or more runs on seven occasions…also tied a school record with four runs versus Bucknell in March…MCC Player of the Week on April 7…was perfect at the plate in a doubleheader versus Wisconsin-Green Bay, going 5-for-5 with a pair of runs, two doubles and an RBI…UIC was 6-1 in games in which Arnold homered…batted .571 (8-for-14) with five RBI and two stolen bases at the MCC Championship in Detroit as she was named to the all-tournament squad. High School: Four-year letterwinner at Hawthorne High School…member of Stealth Summer Travel Team that took sixth place at 18U ASA Nationals in 1996…also a four-time all-league selection…team captain her senior season…also lettered three years in volleyball. Personal: Daughter of Christina Dahlstrum…born January 12, 1979…majoring in marketing. |
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