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  Leandra Hines
Leandra Hines

Player Profile
Class:
Junior

Hometown:
McDonough, Ga.

High School:
Union Grove HS

Height:
5-5

Position:
OF

Experience:
2L

B/T:
L/R

HONORS

  • Golden Panther Invitational All-Tournament Team (2006)
  • Two-time C-USA Academic Honor Roll
  • Two-time Tiger 3.0 Club

  • Career: Third all-time at Memphis in stole base percentage with a .813 clip...Has played in every Memphis softball game (115) and has started all but one...Third all-time in runs scored and tied for fifth in hits with 75...First all-time in sacrifice hits with 26 and stolen bases with 26.

    2007 (Sophomore): One of four players to start all 61 games and did it all in left field...Hit .324 against left handed pitchers and had a team best .328 batting average with runners on base...Reached base 39 percent of the time when leading off an inning...Batted .306 with runners in scoring position...Had a 56 percent success rate for advancing runners...Had a five-game hitting streak during the season...Had nine multi-hit games...Scored four game-winning runs and had six multi-run games...Had four outfield assists...Hit by pitch a school record seven times and the eighth most in 2007 in Conference USA...Had a school record 20 sacrifice hits, 11 more than anybody else on the team, and the mark ranks sixth all-time in C-USA...Ranked third in C-USA and 22nd nationally in sac hits...Lead the team with 10 stolen bases...Reached base on errors 15 times...Tied the team season high with two sac hits against Southeast Missouri (4/24)...Scored the winning run and had an RBI against East Carolina (4/14)...Scored the game-winning run in the third inning against Southern Miss (3/31)...Went 3-for-4 with a run scored in a doubleheader against UT Martin (3/28)...Went 2-for-3 with a run scored against UTEP (3/17)...Scored two runs, including the game winner, and went 2-for-4 with an RBI against Belmont (2/27)...Went 2-for-2 against Jacksonville (2/16)...Scored two runs, including the game winner, and had two hits against Missouri (2/11)...Hit one of the Tigers' two triples on the season against Missouri (2/10).

    2006 (Freshman): Started 53 of 54 games played...Played 53 games in the outfield and entered one as a pinch hitter...Fifth on the team in batting with a .276 average and scored 20 runs...Second on the team in stolen bases with 16 out of 19 attempts...Tied for eighth in Conference USA in stolen bases...Stole a team season high three bases against Grambling State (2/11)...Had a four-game hitting streak late in the season...Had a 3-for-3 effort and crossed the plate three times and had three stolen bases in the season opener against Grambling State (2/11)...Hit in an RBI in a 9-3 win over St. John's (2/24)...Went 4-for-6 with four singles against Notre Dame and Buffalo (2/25)...Named to the Golden Panther Invitational All-Tournament Team after a four-game stretch going 5-11 with a run, a walk and a RBI to end with a .455 average...Had a 2-for-2 performance with two runs scored in a 22-0 victory over Grambling State (2/28)...Had two hits and a run scored in the second game of a twin bill with Belmont (3/15)...Scored two runs and went 1-for-2 in a 11-6 win over UTEP (3/18)...Scored three runs and had two hits in a double header with Grambling State (3/22)...Went 2-for-3 in the final game of the season against Houston (5/7).

    Prep: Played basketball, softball and ran track at Union Grove High School in Georgia...Her softball team finished third in the state in 2003 and she was a first-team all-county pick as a junior and senior, and an all-state player as a senior...Hit .341 as a junior with a .413 on-base percentage and a school-record 40 stolen bases...Played softball under Brian DeBerry...Also a member of the band, the Multi-Culture Club, the BETA Club and the National Honor Society...Named the Union Grove Offensive Player of the Year and the 2004 Southern Crescent Player of the Year as a junior and senior...Advanced to the state tournament three-straight years...Squad placed third in 2004 and fifth in 2005...Lettered four years in softball and track, and two years in basketball.

    Club: Her parents coached her travel softball club, the OLA Jammers...Played travel softball starting in 1997 with the OLA Jammers...Her 10U team won an NSA World Series Championship and in 2001, she was selected as the USSSA 14U Player of the Year...Her 2002 Jammers team won the USSSA 16U state championship and finished as the USFA 16UA World Series Runners-up.

    Academic Highlights: Made the 2006 and 2007 C-USA Academic Honor Roll...A member of the fall 2005 and fall 2006 Tiger 3.0 Club...Majoring in exercise science while at Memphis.

    Personal: Full name is Leandra Shonte' Hines...Daughter of Robert and Sandra Hines...Born Jan. 21, 1987 in Atlanta, Ga.

    STATISTICS
    
            AVG   GP-GS   AB   R    H   2B  3B HR  RBI
    2006   .276   54-53   127  20   35  0   0  0   1
    2007   .242   61-61   165  25   40  0   1  0   2
    Total  .257  115-114  292  45   75  0   1  0   3
    
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