| #16 Sara Loete
Position: Designated Player/Catcher
Bats/Throws: R/R
Height: 5-6
Class: Senior
Hometown: Pekin, IL
High School: Pekin
MAJOR: Social Science/History (Teaching)
Overall: Finished her career ranked sixth all-time at USI with 104 career RBIs and 61 bases on balls in a USI uniform...also ranked third all-time at USI with 18 home runs in a USI uniform...earned All-America honors by two different organizations in 2008 after hitting .405 with 10 home runs and a school-record 54 RBIs...finished her collegiate career with 21 home runs and 112 RBIs.
2010: Earned first-team Academic All-District V honors for the second straight season and Academic All-GLVC accolades for the third consecutive year...earned third-team All-GLVC honors after hitting .291 with eight doubles, three home runs, and 23 RBIs...finished third on the team in RBIs and fourth in doubles...had a grand slam taken off her resume against Quincy as the game was cancelled in the fifth inning due to rain before becoming an official contest...recorded a season-best six-game hitting streak in April in which she hit .450 with three doubles, two home runs, and 10 RBIs....had nine games in which she racked up at least two hits, including a season-best three hits against Kentucky Wesleyan...also had three multi-RBI games, with a season-high four RBIs against Wisconsin-Parkside.
2009: Earned first-team Academic All-District V honors and Academic All-GLVC honors after hitting .241 with four doubles, five home runs, and a team-best 27 RBIs...had a team-best eight-game hitting streak early in the season in which she hit .480 with with three home runs and eight RBIs...had seven RBIs in a three-game stretch against Kentucky Wesleyan and Drury...also had a pair of RBIs in USI's season-finale win over Indianapolis...had five multi-RBI games and recorded at least two hits in eight contests.
2008: Became the first USI softball player in 10 years to earn All-America honors and the first in the program's history to be named All-America by two different organizations in the same season...earned first-team NFCA All-America honors as a designated player and second-team Daktronics All-America honors as a designated player...also earned first-team All-Region by both NFCA and Daktronics as well as first-team All-GLVC...led the GLVC with a single-season school-record 54 RBIs as a sophomore, surpassing Pat Snell's 30-year old record of 50...also became just the third player since 1998 to hit .400 in a single season (Sunny Oelling hit .401 in 2003 and Trisha Poling hit .451 in 1998)...finished the season with a .405 batting average...also became the second player in school history to hit double-figures in home runs (10)...racked up nine doubles to go along with a team-high 64 hits...ranked in the top five of eight GLVC statistical categories...started the season with a big splash, cranking two balls over the fence in USI's season-opener against Arkansas Tech...was second on the team with 18 multi-hit games and had a team-best 17 games in which she recorded multiple RBIs...had a season-best nine-game hitting streak...recorded a season-high four hits against Indianapolis and a season-best three RBIs seven times...went 5-for-8 against national runner-up Emporia State...earned Academic All-GLVC honors.
TRANSFER: Transferred from Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois) where she played in 23 games as a freshman in 2007...hit .217 with three home runs and eight RBIs to help Bradley to a 26-23 record during her freshman season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Pekin High School (Pekin, Illinois) where she was a four-time first-team All-Conference selection...earned second-team All-Area honors as a senior after recording a .515 batting average...was PHS's Offensive MVP each of her last two seasons and was the Illinois State hitting derby finalist as well as a sectional champion as a junior.
PERSONAL: Born February 10, 1988...daughter of Jeffrey and Brenda Loete...was a national qualifying political speaker and speech captain during her senior year at PHS.
Career Statistics at USI
Year Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%
2008 .405 54-54 158 25 64 9 0 10 54 103 24 20 2 1 1-1 0 0 0 .000
2009 .241 50-50 145 13 35 4 0 5 27 54 18 25 1 3 0-0 0 0 0 .000
2010 .291 42-41 117 12 34 8 0 3 23 51 19 12 1 4 1-1 0 0 0 .000
TOT. .317 146-145 420 50 133 21 0 18 104 208 61 57 4 8 2-2 0 0 0 .000
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