Cassie Kuizin
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- Height:
- 5-4
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- Weight:
- 0
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- Hometown:
- Springfield, IL
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- Position:
- SS
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- Year:
- JR
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- Bats/Throws:
- R/R
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- High School:
- Sacred-Heart Griffin
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- Years Coached (at Taylor):
- Sacred-Heart Griffin
Bio
2016 at Heartland Community College: Saw action in 54 of the team’s 58 games as a sophomore…Led the team with 215 plate appearances, notching a team-high 75 hits…Increased batting average 72 points from .331 in 2015 to a team-leading .403 in her second season with the Hawks…Was second on the team with 57 runs scored, 14 homers, 29 extra-base hits and 134 total bases…Paced the team with 10 stolen bases…Led the team with 150 assists on defense, while her 83 putouts were fourth on the team…Recorded a .940 fielding percentage…Tallied her fourth-career multi-homer game in a 10-2 win over John Wood on May 1, going three-for-four at the plate with a double and three RBI to go with the two long-balls…Awarded the 2015-2016 Lea Plarski Award…Earned 2016 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 24 Player of the Year…Was named 2016 NJCAA Division II Third-Team All-American.
2015 at Heartland Community College: Played in 44 games at shortstop for Heartland as a freshman…Recorded 48 hits in 145 at-bats for a .331 batting average…Led the team with a .969 fielding percentage…Scored the second-most runs on the team and 20th-most in NJCAA Division II (61)...Was second on the team in home runs (13) and stolen bases (9)…Was third on the team with 26 extra-base hits, 103 total bases, 51 RBI and a slugging percentage of .710…Tied for the team-lead with three triples on the season…Registered 84 putouts with a team-high 103 assists in the middle infield…Went four-of-five at the plate, producing two home runs, a double, four RBI and four runs to lift Heartland to a 21-20 victory over Macomb on March 10…Knocked in a career-high six runs in a 23-1 rout of Lincoln, going three-for-five from the dish with two dingers.
Prep: Kuizin is from Springfield, Illinois and attended Sacred Heart Griffin High School…Lettered all four years in softball…Earned All-Central State Eight Conference honors three years…Was named Academic All-American…Was a member of the Spanish National Honor Society…Played club softball with Hitting Center.
Personal: Daughter of Tom and Susan Kuizin…Majoring in psychology at Taylor.
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