#16 Nicole Downs

Junior
SS/C, R/R
Seymour, Conn. / Seymour HS
Major: Criminal Justice

2008: Named to the ECAC Division II First Team ... Named to the NCAA Division II Softball Northeast Regional Championships All-Tournament Team ... Started all 50 games at the shortstop position ... Selected as ECC Player of the Week on 3/17 ... Led the team with a .363 batting average and 31 runs scored ... Also led the Chargers with 58 hits collecting 10 doubles and six home runs ... Had a team-high 19 multiple hit games and had a seven game hit streak during the season ... Drove in 22 runs and had three multiple RBI games ... Hit a career-high two home runs in a game against Augustana College on March 16 ... Tied career-highs with three three-hit games and three three-RBI games in 2008.

Summer 2007: Member of the 2007 Big League Softball World Series Championship team from Seymour, Conn. ... The team reeled off 9 consecutive wins to claim the East Regional and then won 5 straight to win the National Championship.

2007: Selected to the 2007 Daktronics Softball All-Northeast Region First Team as a second baseman ... Named to the 2007 ECC All-Conference Third Team ... Started all 45 games with the majority coming in the middle infield at shortstop and second base ... Led the team in batting average at .374, slugging percentage .590 and on-base percentage .460 ... Hit for a team-high .460 in 20 ECC games ... Also led team with 31 runs scored, five homeruns, and 19 walks ... Second on the team with 13 multiple hit games ... Her 22 RBIs were third best on the team and with 54 assists ranked second ... Drove in a career-high 3 RBIs twice (Merrimack College and NYIT) ... Started her UNH career in style with a 3 for 3 effort at the plate including a double and homerun driving in the only run in a 1-0 victory over #14 Nebraska-Omaha.

High School: Team won state championship in senior, junior, and sophomore seasons and was state runner-up in freshman season ... Named All-State in 2005 and 2006 by the New Haven Register and the Connecticut Post ... Named All-Area in 2004 ... Named All-Naugatuck Valley League in 2005 and 2006.

Personal: Career ambition is to work in the FBI ... Daughter of Michele and Joseph Downs ... Has one brother, Joseph, Jr. and one sister, Alyssa.