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Katy Skaife Season 1996-97

PositionOF
Height5-7
ClassFr.
HometownHot Springs, Ark.
B/TR/L
Katy Skaife
Katy Skaife
Junior | 1999
Katy Skaife played in 34 games last year, seeing most of her action as a pinch runner. The Hot Springs, Ark., native scored six runs, was 3-for-5 in stolen bases and had two putouts in right field for the Lady Razorbacks. In addition to her play on the field, Skaife earned Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll honors last year and was on the University of Arkansas' Women's Athletics Department Honor Roll.

Sophomore | 1998
Skaife saw time in seven contests last year, scoring one run, tallying two hits and one RBI as a sophomore. She earned SEC Academic Honor Roll honors this season.

Freshman | 1997
Skaife, an Arkansas native, joined the Lady Razorback team with some much-needed fastpitch experience in 1997. Despite not having fastpitch in her high school career, Skaife got some experience playing for the Braves and All Service Electric in the Dixie Debs league, a national fastpitch organization in Hot Springs, Ark. Skaife played in 30 games for Arkansas as a freshman getting 15 starts. She had 10 put outs and one assist in limited action.

HIGH SCHOOL: With the Debs, Skaife attended the Dixie World Series in 1994 and 1995. Skaife helped her team to an 8-3 record in 1994, averaged nine strikeouts a game and had an ERA of 4.0. The following year, she helped her team to an 8-1 record with 11 strikeouts per game and an ERA of 3.0. In addition to pitching with the Debs, Skaife played volleyball in high school helping the Lake Hamilton High School Wolves to the district title as a sophomore and a fifth-place finish in the state as a junior. Skaife was a scholar athlete, a member of the Navy Honors program and earned the President's Education Award and Trigonometry Award. Skaife finished in the top 15 percent on the National Spanish exam and earned honors in both English and Spanish.

PERSONAL:
Born April 24, 1978, Katy Rose Skaife, is the daughter of Tim and Rose Skaife of Hot Springs, Ark. She has three younger siblings; Margie, Mike and Bill. Skaife is an early childhood education major.
Katy Skaife

Sr.
1999-00

OF
5-7 / -
Katy Skaife

Jr.
1998-99

UT
5-7 / -
Katy Skaife

So.
1997-98

OF
5-7 / -