AWARDS
2018 GLVC Brother Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award
2016 All-GLVC Third Team
Three-time Academic All-GLVC
Three-time NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
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2018
Returned to the diamond after a year absence … garnered a number of pinch hit ABs as well as seven starts at DP … roped a pinch-hit single to score two against Urbana (2/18) … also delivered a pinch-hit, game-winning RBI with a fifth-inning single in an elimination game versus William Jewell at the GLVC Tournament (5/3) … picked up her third Academic All-GLVC nod while also earning the GLVC Brother Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award for maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA for the entire academic year ... also garnered her third All-America Scholar Athlete nod from the NFCA.
2017
Sat out the 2017 season.
2016
Picked up All-GLVC Third Team honors at designated player, garnering 36 starts and 104 at bats at the offensive-only position … led the Hounds in HBPs (6), while ranking second in slugging percentage (.558) and tying for second in home runs (7) … also second on the club with 10 multi-RBI games, including a team-leading three 4-RBI performances … hit a homer in four straight games, going yard in both ends of doubleheaders at Ohio Dominican (3/30) and Lewis (3/25) … drove in eight runs in the aforementioned twin bill at ODU … hit a game-tying two-run bomb in the second inning at McKendree (4/8), a game the Hounds eventually won, 5-4 … delivered a three-run double in the seventh inning to help put away Maryville (4/16) … earned second straight Academic All-GLVC nod ... NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete.
2015
Reserve player finished 0-for-4 in pinch-hit situations … came around to score during her first and only pinch-run opportunity: a sixth-inning appearance in a win at Rockhurst (3/22) … played one half-inning at first base at Wheeling Jesuit (4/15) … named an All-America Scholar Athlete by the NFCA and Academic All-Conference by the GLVC.
HIGH SCHOOL
Earned four varsity letters in softball, two in volleyball and one in track … hit .390 with 24 stolen bases as a senior on the way to All-Southwest Prairie Conference accolades … high honor roll student ... member of both the National Honor Society and the National English Honor Society.
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PERSONAL
Studying Actuarial Science … daughter of Gregory and Natalie Riess … born June 27 … youngest of four children … sister Brandi played softball at the College of DuPage ... earned a bachelor's in Actuarial Sciences from UIndy in 2018 ... studying for her MBA.
