| Leslie Macedo |
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 | Class: Senior
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 | Hometown: Livermore, Calif.
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 | High School: Livermore
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 | Height: 5-4
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 | Position: Util.
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 | Bats/Throws: R/R
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2007: Miami's most consistent bat in the middle of the order who saw most of her time at designated player ... was one of two Miamians to start all 62 regular-season games ... set new career highs in hits (55), doubles (17) and tied her career high with five home runs ... finished second on the team with a .288 batting average ... drove in 33 runs during the regular season, becoming the first player in program history with back-to-back 30 RBI seasons ... her 17 doubles rank second on the Miami single-season charts ... ranks among the top-five in program history in four offensive categories (at-bats, home runs, doubles and RBIs) and is Miami's all-time leader in RBIs with 105 career RBIs ... is one of only three players in program history with more than 14 career home runs and 70 career RBIs ... holds both the Miami single-season and career RBI marks ... had eight RBIs over her final four regular-season games, including back-to-back three-RBI games in a doubleheader sweep of Buffalo (May 4) ... ranked second on the team with 13 multi-hit games and seven multi-RBI games ... had five three-RBI games, which was tops of the team during the regular season.
2006: MAC East Player of the Week (Feb. 21) ... Auburn Tiger Invitational All-Tournament Team (Feb. 12) ...Troy Cox Invitational All-Tournament Team (Feb. 19) ... set a new Miami single-season record with 37 RBIs ... one of four Miami starters to hit over .300 ... in addition to RBIs, set new career highs in batting average (.316), runs (29), hits (49), triples (2), home runs (5) and walks (15) ... finished fourth in the MAC in RBIs and eighth in hitting ... one of two RedHawks to notch a four-hit game, a feat she accomplished twice against Centenary (Feb. 10) and George Mason (Feb. 17) ... drove in a then career-high six runs against Centenary at the Tiger Invitational ... drove in a career-high seven runs with a 2-for-3, two-home-run game against Morehead State (Feb. 17) ... her pair of round trippers against Morehead State, including a grand slam, gave Macedo her first career multi-home run game ... tied her career game high with three runs scored against Centenary and Georgia Southern (March 3) ... hit safely in the first six games of the season and eight of the first nine ... totaled 16 RBIs in the season's first six games (Feb. 10-17) ... clubbed a pair of home runs in conference play against Toledo (April 14) and Eastern Michigan (April 28) ... notched first career triple against Wisconsin (March 12) and tallied another three-bagger in MAC play at Central Michigan (April 29) ... tied for the team lead with seven multi-RBI games and tied for second on the team with 11 multi-hit games ... started 54 of Miami's 55 games, including 51 at third base, one at catcher and two at designated player.
2005: Led the team in RBI, with 21 ... split time between catcher, where she started 15 games, third base, where she started 38, and second base, where she started four for a total of 57 ... knocked a three-run home run on Apr. 17 to help Miami to a 4-0 win at Akron ... in an eight-day stretch from Apr. 14-21, had a five-RBI game and two three-RBI games ... the five-RBI effort helped Miami to an 8-0 win in five innings over Morehead State and was the first time in two years a Miami player had five RBI in a game ... final multi-RBI game came against Marshall in the MAC final, where a two-run first-inning doulble gave Miami a 3-0 lead and proved to be the difference-maker in a 5-2 win ... handled 241 of 249 chances in the field for a .968 fielding percentage ... had Miami's lone extra-base hit in the NCAA Tournament (5/20), sending a double to the wall in right-center off Tennessee's Monica Abbott, the NCAA strikeout leader in 2005.
2004: Tied for third on the team with 14 RBI and led the RedHawks with four home runs ... had a season-high three RBI in a 3-for-4 day at the plate against Toledo in a 3-1 win (3/31) ... game against the Rockets was one of four multi-RBI games ... against Akron (4/3), both hits were doubles in a 2-for-3 effort ... second double started a three-run sixth inning that allowed Miami to rally from a 3-2 deficit to win, 5-3 ... totaled seven multi-hit games on the season ... started all 44 games in which she played.
Prior to Miami: Earned all-league second-team honors twice ... named to all-tournament and golden glove teams at the Livermore Stampede ... helped team to Livermore Stampede Championship her junior season ... voted her team's "Most Inspirational Player" as a senior ... team took second at the North Coast Section tournament as a freshman and won Sorcerer Softball National Championships during junior and senior seasons ... also lettered once in tennis.
Personal: Born April 25, 1985 ... daughter of Will and Lynn Macedo ... served as chairperson of the Livermore Area Youth Advisory Commission and received a proclamation from the mayor of Livermore ... majoring in exercise science.