Leigh Rowan Class: Sophomore Hometown: Marietta, Ga. High School: Lassiter HS Height: 5-7 Position: OF Experience: 1L B/T: R/R

HONORS

All-Conference USA Freshman Team (2007)

C-USA Academic Honor Roll (2007)

Fall 2006 Tiger 3.0 Club

2007 (Freshman): Named to the Conference USA All-Freshman Team...Played in 46 games with 20 starts...Started the final 17 games of the season in right field after an injury to Brittany Gooch...Led the team with a .317 batting average and had six doubles...Hit .423 against left handed pitchers...Led the team with seven pinch hits and hit .350 coming off the bench...Hit .333 with runners in scoring position...Had a five-game hitting streak in April...Had five multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games...Knocked in two game-winning runs...Had four-straight hits against UAB (4/28)...Stole her first career base against UAB (4/29)...Hit two doubles in the second game of a DH with Austin Peay (4/25)...Belted the first home run of her career to lead off the fifth inning against Marshall (4/22)...Had her first career multi-hit game against Marshall with a home run and single...Hit a two-run pinch hit single in game one of a doubleheader with Tennessee State (4/18)...Drove in the winning run in the sixth inning against San Diego (3/2) on a pinch hit two run double...Knocked in the game-winning run in the third inning against Alabama A&M (2/25) and had two RBI in the game...Had her first collegiate hit come against Missouri (2/10) on an RBI single.

Prep: Prepped at Lassiter High School for Coach Scott Kelley in Marietta, Ga....Team's defensive player of the year as a junior and freshman and the offensive player of the year as a sophomore...Member of the Canada Cup All-Tournament Team in 2005.

Club: Played with the Georgia Fire Gold...Tied for sixth at the 2006 ASA Gold Nationals...Team competed in the ASA Gold Nationals in Salinas, Calif., in 2005 and in Marietta, Ga., in 2004...2004 team won the Elite Fastpitch National Championship...Played in the ASA 16A Nationals in 2003.

Academic Highlights: ade the 2007 C-USA Academic Honor Roll...Named to the fall 2006 Tiger 3.0 Club.

Personal: Full name is Leigh Rowan...Daughter of Bob and Martha Rowan...Granddaughter of Bob Patterson, a former member of the Tiger football coaching staff from 1961-62 who still resides in Southaven...Born on March 8, 1988 in Atlanta, Ga.

STATISTICS

        AVG   GP-GS   AB   R    H   2B  3B HR  RBI
2007   .317   46-20   82   8    26  6   0  1   12