PLAYER CARD
Aileen Morales (SS/2B) Georgia Tech
Statistics: Ht    AVG.351    R32    H47    HR4    RBI23    FLD%.952    ERA    W-L   
Classroom:Morales carries a 3.39 GPA in Management. She is a 2007 second-team Academic All-District III selection and a two-time ACC Academic All-Conference pick.
Character:Morales was a member of the Puerto Rican National Team last summer and spent several months playing abroad against some of the best players in the world. While the Puerto Ricans came one came short of qualifying for the Olympics, Morales has taken the values and leadership roles she learned and brought them to Georgia Tech. She is a leader of the team and one that every teammate looks up to.
Community:Morales is a member of of the League of Extraordinary Women. This is a group of students that helps female student-athletes prepare for the outside world after graduation and helps them get jobs. The main concept is to help female student-athletes find resources and ways to connect/network with future employers. This is the first year that Georgia Tech has had the program. She is also part of the IMS research competition. This partnership between Nokia, Siemens Networks, AT&T and Georgia Tech represents an unparalleled opportunity for Georgia Tech students to get hands on experience developing viable business plans and prototypes on the next generation, standards based, telecommunications platform. The competition will have students form interdisciplinary teams made up of tomorrow's leaders in Communications Marketing and Business Development, Mobile and Converged Application Design and Interaction, and Mobile and Converged Application and Handset Development. Morales is also a volunteer with the Special Olympics.
Competition:As of Feb. 17, Morales needs two stolen bases to break the all-time Georgia Tech record. As a Junior in 2007 she started in all 70 games at shortstop and was named Third-team All-America selection by the NFCA and Easton, First-team All-NFCA Southeast Region team and First-team All-ACC. Accounted for 23 multiple hit games, finished with a .339 batting average, tallied 97 put-outs, 117 assists and only 10 errors on the year, finishing with a .955 fielding percentage. Drove in 33 runs on the year while setting a new school and ACC record with 73 runs scored. She finished fourth in the ACC with 34 stolen bases on the season. Holds the first and second spots in Tech's season record book for stolen bases and continues to move up on Tech's career records in runs scored, walks, stolen bases, stolen base attempts, assists, and double plays turned.
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