#19 Elizabeth DeShields Season 2017-18

2020 as a senior (season cut short due to Coronavirus)

• Did not see action in 2020.

2019 as a junior

• Appeared in 34 games with 22 starts
• Recorded three multi-hit games including a career-high two doubles and two runs scored against Binghamton on March 1
• Grabbed two hits, an RBI, and run scored against Green Bay on March 10
• One of three Hawkeyes with a 1.000 fielding percentage

2018 as a sophomore

• Appeared in 20 games and started 10
• Played first base and designated hitter
• Registered two hits and an RBI at Arizona State on March 14
• Tallied 8 put outs against Tulsa on Feb. 16
• 1 of four Hawkeyes with a 1.000 fielding percentage.

Prior to Iowa (Marshall)

• Played one season at Marshall
• Appeared in 46 games and started 44
• Racked up 31 hits with three doubles and a home run
• Amassed six runs and 10 RBIs
• Had a .414 on-base percentage, a sacrifice fly, and a stolen base
• Ranked second on the team with 196 putouts

2017 as a freshman (at Marshall)

• Made 43-of-44 starts at first base
• First start of the season versus Bethune Cookman (Feb. 17) as designated player and picked up first career hit in first plate appearance
• Steady fielder that made many great stretches at first and committed just three errors in 206 chances good for a .985 fielding percentage
• Hit .287 with 31 hits, 10 RBI, three doubles and one home run
• Fourth on the team with .414 on base percentage
• Was walked twice in three contests: UTSA (March 11), WKU (March 26) and Wright State (April 5)
• Reached base safely in 17-straight games from March 26 to April 29
• Hit .353 in conference games with an on base percentage of .515 helped lead to Conference USA All-Freshman team honors
• Had four multi-hit games
• 2-for-4 in win over Hampton (Feb. 25)
• Hit first career home run at Southern Miss (April 1)
• Went 2-for-2 with a walk and a run scored against Florida Atlantic (April 9)
• 2-for-3 with a walk and one RBI at home versus UAB (May 6)
• hit final double of the year against WKU (May 11) in the first round of the conference tournament

High School 

• Attended Carl Albert High School
• Helped team win Oklahoma State championship in 2013
• Named Oklahoma All-District, All-Region 11 and All-State (Big West) catcher in 2015
• Honored as Oklahoma All-District 5A-1 Defensive Player of the Year in 2015
• High school career batting average of .421, on base percentage of .532 and career fielding percentage of .988
• Was involved in Key Club, National Honors Society, 4.0 Club, Rotary Club, Student Council, ACT 100 Club and Leadership Class
• Played travel ball for Oklahoma Exclusive, Oklahoma Her-icanes and Florida Gulf Coast Hurricanes
• Helped Gulf Coast Hurricanes finish second in the Junior Olympic Cup in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2016

Personal

• Born Jan. 7, 1997
• Daughter of Alan and Misti DeShields
• Has one younger brother
• Health and human physiology: health studies and human relations minor