tatum
edwards
senior l pitcher/utility l 5-6
murrieta, calif. l vista murrieta hs
edwards’ career highs (batting)
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» Hits: 4
» Runs: 4 (tied school record)
» Doubles: 2 (twice)
» Walks: 3 (twice)
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Career honors & awards
» Hitting Streak: 7 games
» RBIs: 7
» Home Runs: 2 (five times)
» Stolen Bases: 1 (nine times)
while making 35 appearances and throwing 130.0 combined innings during her freshman and
sophomore seasons.
After a solid opening weekend, Edwards gave a preview of what was to come when she tossed
a complete-game five-hitter without allowing an earned run in a 1-0 loss in front of more than 2,000
fans at No. 16 Arizona in the second week of the season. She then took a no-hitter and shutout into
the seventh inning in an eventual loss to No. 1 Oklahoma in her next start against a ranked team.
Edwards picked up her first win over a ranked opponent when she tossed her second shutout of
the season, a four-hitter against No. 23 Florida State. Edwards found a groove in March, posting a
streak of 33.2 innings without allowing an earned run, a streak that stretched more than two weeks
and covered seven total appearances and six starts. She tossed shutouts against Oklahoma State,
Wichita State, New Mexico State and North Dakota State during the streak. Edwards won eight
straight decisions in the month of March and posted eight straight victories again in April.
During Big Ten play, Edwards posted an 11-4 record with a league-low 1.98 ERA. Opponents hit
just .177 against her in conference action, and she struck out 93 batters in only 95.1 innings. Her
finest efforts of the conference season came in the final two weekends, when she was named Big
Ten Pitcher of the Week in back-to-back weeks. She went 2-1 against No. 9 Michigan in the next-tolast weekend of the regular season, tossing a complete-game two-hitter and allowing only one run
in the series opener. She then tossed 3.0 innings of scoreless, no-hit relief in game three, allowing
Nebraska to rally for a 7-3 victory. The next weekend at Penn State, Edwards allowed only one run in
14.0 innings, surrendering just three hits, including a one-hit shutout in the final game of the regular
season. Earlier in the conference season, Edwards set a career high with 13 strikeouts in an eightinning complete-game victory over Northwestern.
Edwards’ strong junior campaign continued into the postseason. She threw every inning of the
NCAA Lincoln Regional, posting a 3-0 record with a 1.67 ERA. She then went 1-1 with a 1.56 ERA in
the NCAA Eugene (Ore.) Super Regional. Overall, Edwards was 4-2 in the NCAA Tournament with a
2.14 ERA. Edwards proved she was up to any challenge throughout the 2013 season. She snapped the
nation’s longest winning streak with her three-hit victory over No. 9 Michigan in April, then snapped
the nation’s longest home winning streak with a five-hit win at No. 3 Oregon in May. Edwards allowed
only one earned run in both of those streak-snapping, complete-game victories.
While Edwards saw her pitching stock soar in her junior season, she also continued to swing a
strong bat, despite fewer at bats with her increased workload in the circle. Edwards batted .286 on
the season and slugged .600 as 22 of her 40 hits went for extra bases. She recorded 11 doubles and
11 home runs, becoming only the seventh player in school history to produce 10 doubles and 10 home
runs in the same season. She ranked in a tie for ninth in the Big Ten with her 11 home runs. The extrabase hits helped her drive in 26 runs and eclipse 100 career RBIs. Edwards also scored 30 runs, drew
17 walks and stole three bases. During Big Ten play, Edwards was even better, batting .348 with four
doubles, three home runs, 10 RBIs, a .630 slugging percentage and a .464 on-base percentage.
Edwards produced nine multi-hit efforts and seven multi-RBI games in 2013. Of her nine games
with multiple hits, three times she produced multiple extra-base hits. Edwards opened her season
with a pair of home runs at New Mexico State, and she added her fifth career multi-homer game
against North Dakota State in March. She drove in a season-high four runs with her first career grand
slam against Minnesota in April, a line-drive shot off the left-field foul pole that broke a scoreless
tie in the bottom of the sixth inning. Edwards hit her final home run of the season at No. 3 Oregon in
game two of the NCAA Super Regional, a leadoff blast in the bottom of the first inning. Edwards’ best
offensive stretch of the season came in late April, when she went 11-for-17 (.647) in a span of five
starts, adding three home runs, a double, eight RBIs and seven runs scored.
Defensively, Edwards fielded her position well, posting a .940 fielding percentage. In addition to
making 44 appearances and 36 starts in the circle, Edwards also started four games in left field.
» Second-Team NFCA All-American (2013)
» First-Team NFCA All-Midwest Region (2013)
» Big Ten Pitcher of the Year (2013)
» First-Team All-Big Ten (2013)
» Third-Team All-Big Ten (2012)
» Second-Team All-Big 12 (2011)
» Big Ten All-Tournament Team (2013)
» Four-Time Big Ten Pitcher of the Week (twice in 2012 & 2013)
» Nebraska Record Holder for Most Runs in a Game (4)
» Academic All-Big Ten (2013)
» Three-Time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll
» Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll Member (2011)
Career capsule
Tatum Edwards enters her senior season in 2014 as one of the nation’s top all-around players,
excelling offensively and in the circle. A three-time all-