Tara Fogarty

16

Class: Senior Hometown: East Northport, NY High School: Northport

Height: 5-7 Position: IF/C (R/R) Major: Civil engineering

Enters the season as the program's all-time leader with 17 sacrifice bunts ... Also ranks fifth all-time at GW with 216 career assists.

2012: Saw action in all 55 games and made 54 starts at third base ... Batted .238 on the season with 36 hits in 151 at-bats and collected five doubles, five home runs and 19 RBIs ... All five homers came in Atlantic 10 play, when she ranked second on the team with a .345 average (19-for-55), a .655 slugging percentage and 14 RBIs ... Posted a .320 on-base percentage on the season (.379 in A-10 play) with 16 walks ... Ranked second on the team with seven sac bunts ... Recorded a school-record 139 assists on the year ... Matched a school record with nine assists in the first game of the Hampton doubleheader (March 20) ... Batted .500 (8-for-16) during a five-game hitting streak from April 5-11 ... Went 5-for-6 in two games at Temple (April 5-6), including a 3-for-4 performance with a double, two home runs, three RBIs and three runs scored in the second contest ... Matched a school record with 10 total bases in the game ... Recorded another two-homer effort in the first game of the Dayton doubleheader (April 21), going 2-for-3 with a team season-high five RBIs ... Went 5-for-7 with three RBIs in the St. Bonaventure doubleheader (April 28), including a perfect 4-for-4 in Game 1 ... Batted .524 (11-for-21) with nine RBIs in seven games from April 19-28 ... GW Student-Athlete Advisory Council representative.

2011: Started in 42 of 43 games played in for the Colonials, mainly at third base ... began the season on a nine game hit-streak ... had three multi-hit games ... stole two bases against Fairleigh Dickinson.

2010:Started in 20 of the 32 games played, splitting time between first and third bases ... doubled against UMBC and got two hits against Saint Louis.

High School: Served as captain of the Northport Tigers her junior and senior seasons ... named to the all-league team as a freshman, all-conference as a sophomore and senior, and all-county as a junior ... kept her batting average above .400 throughout her sophomore to senior seasons ... posted an on-base average more than .448 for three straight seasons ... played for the Silver Bullets club team from 2004-09.

Personal: Born Tara Anne Fogarty on April 3, 1991 in Syosset, NY ... daughter of Debra and Brian Fogarty ... has one brother, Ryan ... named Urban Studies and Project Adventure mentoring program student of the year ... civil engineering major.