PDuisLAYER nibh ex B exerIOGRAPHIES si bla at acil iril etum zzril ex el in ver illaore #19 CAITLIN BENYI SENIOR • 2B • 5-8 • BATS: R • THROWS: R • SCOTTSDALE, AZ • HORIZON HS Enquist on Benyi USA Softball (2004) Caitlin is an integral part of what Played in 17 of a possible 18 games with the USA Schutt Elite we will accomplish this season. Team at the Canada Cup and Champions Cup … Hit .314 for the Her consistency and leadership tour with a double and a triple … Played in all nine games for USA makes her an important leader Elite at the World University Games in October … Team won gold on this team. … Scored three runs with three RBI and a double. 2005 Honors/Awards 2004 Honors/Awards Second-Team NFCA All-America First-Team All-America at second base … First-Team All-Pacifi c at second base … UCLABruins. Region at second base … First-Team Easton All-America … First- com/MetRX, USA Softball and Team All-Pac-10 … NCAA Division I Home Run Champion (24 Pac-10 Player of the Week for HR, 0.43/game) … All-tournament at the Women’s College World Week ending May 8 … First-Team Series … Unanimous selection to the NCAA Regional All-Tourna- All-Pac-10 … First-Team All-Pa- ment Team … Pac-10 Player of the Week for Apr. 19 and May 11 cifi c Region at 2B … NFCA National Player of the Week for May 12. 2005 (Junior) 2004 (Sophomore) Perfect on 28 defensive chances at the Women’s College World Started UCLA’s last 22 games at second base after splitting time Series … Homered in the second game of the Championship between 2B and RF previously … Entered the WCWS with a sea- Series to give UCLA a 2-0 lead in the game … Hit .333 at NCAA son-long 11-game hitting streak, capped by a sixth-inning solo HR Regionals, going 5-for-15 with fi ve runs scored, two doubles, three against Alabama in the Regional Final … Extended that streak to a home runs, four RBI and a 1.067 slugging … For the month of May, season-high 12 games in UCLA’s WCWS opener with a home run hit .447, going 21-for-47 with 17 runs scored, four doubles, eight against Stanford … Hit .500 (5-for-10) with fi ve walks (3 IBB), two home runs, 17 RBI and a 1.043 slugging percentage … Hit .444 home runs, a double and three RBIs at Regionals … Hit leadoff for (4-for-9) for the Super Regional series with Georgia, the highest the Bruins in 53 of the team’s 56 games, racking up seven fi rst- total for a UCLA starter … Had a hit in all three games of the series inning leadoff home runs … Also led off an inning other than the with the Bulldogs, including a double in Friday’s opener and runs fi rst with a home run on four occasions (2/20 vs. Baylor, 2/21 vs. scored in both of Saturday’s wins … Missed the fi rst fi ve games of Northwestern, 4/18 fi rst pitch vs. Oregon in 10th inning and 5/22 the season with a stress reaction on a bone spur in her right ankle vs. Alabama) … Had two walk-off HR’s (2/13 vs. Nebraska; 4/18 … Returned to the lineup on Feb. 5 vs. Cal State Fullerton … Was hitless in that game, but went 4-for-7 for the remaining two games of the Winsberg Tournament … Hit her fi rst home run of the season CAREER HONORS/AWARDS on Feb. 13 vs. Syracuse, leading off the game with a homer to right All-America Honors center … Had a two-run home run against Bethune-Cookman on NFCA: First-Team in 2004 • Second-Team in 2005 Feb. 25 … Longest hitting streak of the season was seven games, Easton: First-Team in 2004 and 2005 starting with the Feb. 27 extra-innings loss to Texas at the Palm NFCA All Pacifi c Region Springs Classic and extended through the Bulldog Classic … Went First-Team in 2004 and 2005 • Second Team 2003 2-for-2 with three RBI, a run scored and a home run at Cal State All-Pacifi c-10 Conference Fullerton on Mar. 29 … Drew three walks in six plate appearances First-Team in 2004 and 2005 • Second Team 2003 against Oregon on Apr. 2 … Had a team-high .571 batting average against the Arizona schools, going 4-for-7 with three runs scored … Postseason All-Tournament In UCLA’s fi ve-game week ending May 1, led the team with a .497 NCAA All-Region and All-WCWS in 2004 batting average, seven hits and a .667 slugging percentage … Also Pac-10 Player of the Week had a home run and fi ve RBI on the week … At Arizona/Arizona 2005: May 10; 2004: April 19 and May 11 State May 6-8, Benyi earned Pac-10 and USA Softball Player of the Week honors after hitting .750 (6-for-8) with a .818 on-base National Player of the Week percentage, 2.000 slugging percentage, six runs scored, a double, ESPN.com/USA SB: May 10, 2005 three home runs and six RBI … Followed that with a .300 weekend NFCA: May 12, 2004 against the Oregon schools, scoring three runs with two home runs 2004 NCAA Home Run Champion and fi ve RBI to go with a .900 slugging percentage. 2003 and 2004 NCAA Champion BENYI’S CAREER STATS Year Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB ATT PO A E FLD% 2003 .301 61-61 186 39 56 4 1 8 34 86 .462 11 13 33 0 .381 0 8 9 12 26 3 0 1.000 2004 .379 56-56 177 51 67 14 0 24 43 153 .864 32 5 22 1 .484 1 2 2 2 81 64 4 .973 2005 .333 55-55 168 39 56 8 1 14 35 108 .643 25 9 40 1 .441 2 1 0 3 87 75 7 .959 TOTAL .337 172-172 531 129 179 26 2 46 112 347 .653 68 27 95 2 .436 3 11 11 17 194 142 11 .968 Duis nibh ex exer si bla at acil iril etum zzril ex el in ver illaore PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES vs. Oregon) and two additional walk-off hits (2/14 vs. Wisconsin; AREER ULTI IT AMES at SDSU, 3/6) … Led UCLA with a .379 season batting average 51 C M -H G … Had a .864 slugging percentage for the season, the top total 2003 Opponent AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR for a Bruin since UCLA slugger Stacey Nuveman concluded her Jan 31 Loyola Marymount-1 3 2 2 3 0 0 1 career in 2002 … Homered in four straight games in mid-April (4/10 Feb 05 UC Riverside-1 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 @ Washington, 4/16 vs. Oregon State, 4/17 vs. Oregon, 4/18 vs. Feb 15 Hawai’i 3 1 3 4 2 0 0 Oregon) … 4/10 and 4/16 were leadoff home runs and 4/18 was Feb 21 Rutgers 4 2 3 1 0 1 0 a walk-off shot on the fi rst pitch of the bottom of the 10th inning Feb 21 Florida Atlantic 3 1 2 2 1 0 0 … Led the team in multi-hit games with 19 … NCAA Statistical Feb 23 Rutgers 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 Rankings: 2nd in slugging percentage (.864), 42nd in walks per Mar 01 Missouri 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 game (0.57), 20th in runs per game (0.91) Mar 25 CS Fullerton-1 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 Mar 29 California 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 USA Softball (2003) Apr 04 Arizona State 3 2 2 1 0 0 1 Named to the 2004 Women’s National Elite Team … Played with Apr 11 Oregon State 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 Team USA on the silver medal-winning Junior World Champion- Apr 12 Oregon Ducks 4 2 2 2 0 0 1 ship team in October 2003 … Was Team USA’s top hitter, batting Apr 13 Oregon Ducks 4 3 3 4 0 0 2 .519 (14-for-27) during the tournament … Also had a team-high May 04 Oregon State 3 2 3 3 0 0 2 fi ve doubles and three home runs, and was second to fellow Bruin May 10 Arizona State-2 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 Emily Zaplatosch with nine RBIs … Had a team-high 1.037 slug- May 15 Colgate 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 ging percentage at the Junior World Championship. 2004 Opponent AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR Summer 2003 — Feb 08 Long Beach State 4 1 2 1 2 0 0 Feb 13 Nebraska 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 Played with Teamsmith Nationals during the summer months. Feb 14 Wisconsin 4 2 3 4 0 0 2 2003 Honors/Awards Feb 21 Northwestern 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 Feb 28 UCSB-1 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 Second-team All-Pacifi c Region … Second-team All-Pac-10. Feb 29 Long Beach State 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 2003 (Freshman) Mar 07 Nevada 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 Had the game-winning RBI on the fi rst pitch off of Texas ace Mar 12 North Texas 4 2 3 3 2 0 1 Cat Osterman with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning Mar 14 Oregon State 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 in UCLA’s dramatic second victory over the Longhorns in the Apr 16 Oregon State 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 Women’s College World Series semifi nals … Her hit was a single Apr 18 Oregon 3 1 3 1 0 0 1 through the right side of the infi eld that scored Natasha Watley to Apr 24 California 4 2 3 1 1 0 0 give UCLA the 2-1 victory and put the Bruins in the NCAA Cham- May 05 Washington 4 0 2 0 1 0 0 pionship Game … Had a 2-for-2 game with four runs scored and May 07 California 3 1 2 1 1 0 1 an RBI against Colgate in her fi rst career postseason game … May 08 Stanford 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 Singled in her fi nal at-bat against Michigan State on May 17, scor- May 09 Stanford 4 2 3 4 1 0 2 ing the go-ahead run when Tairia Mims homered in the seventh May 15 Arizona State-2 3 2 3 2 2 0 1 inning … Started the year hitting in the ninth spot in the lineup … May 20 Miss.