37 - Alex Emeterio
Alex Emeterio
Height: 5-5
Year: So.
Hometown: Murrieta, Calif.
High School: Murrieta Valley
Position: 1B

Freshman season (2009)
Had a stellar freshman campaign for the Spartans, landing a spot on the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team ... started all 59 games, splitting time at first base and designated player, and posted a team-best .327 batting average, the top mark among freshmen in the SoCon ... was 13th in the league in batting average overall ... led the team with 31 walks, three triples and a .435 on-base percentage and was second on the squad with 25 RBI, 11 doubles and a .482 slugging percentage ... was third on the team with 24 runs scored ... her 31 walks were the fifth-most in school history and third-most in the SoCon on the season ... her three triples tied for the ninth-most in a single season in school history ... was the only UNCG player with more walks than strikeouts (21) ... her three triples tied for second in the SoCon, her 11 doubles tied for fifth and her 55 hits tied for sixth ... also in the top 10 in the league in on-base percentage (seventh) and total bases (ninth, 81) ... led UNCG with 13 multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI games ... hit .417 and slugged .667 in UNCG's four SoCon tournament games, including a 3-for-3 effort against Furman in which she fell a home run short of the cycle ... started her career with a 2-for-3 effort with two RBI against North Florida on Feb. 6 ... had eight games with at least two walks, including a pair of three-walk games just three days apart (at Furman on March 21 and vs. Harvard on March 24) ... had a seven-game hitting streak from March 7-24 and an eight-game hitting streak from April 19-29 ... went 5-for-10 with her only stolen base of the season in the three-game series at Western Carolina on March 7-8 ... had four hits in a pair of wins over Army on Feb. 14, going 2-for-3 in both games ... also had two hits in each game of a doubleheader sweep of North Carolina Central on April 7, scoring four runs and clubbing two doubles and a home run ... had a season-high three RBI in game two of a doubleheader against Charlotte on April 14 ... scored the only run in a 1-0 win over Georgia Southern on April 18.

High school
Played three years for Murrieta Valley High for coach Ann Romero-Parks ... took All-Southwestern League honors twice ... also named all-county ... played for the Riverside County All-Star team in 2008 ... named to the Californian All-Valley Team twice ... set the school record for single-season batting average ... was named the Offensive Player of the Year for the freshman team in 2005 and for the varsity team as a junior and senior ... was the varsity team's Rookie of the Year as a sophomore ... earned the school's Excellence in Athletics Award in 2008 ... also played for American Athletics out of Orange County for two years.

Personal
Alex Jordan Emeterio ... born Aug. 14, 1990, in Murrieta, Calif. ... daughter of Nick and Joy Emeterio ... has a sister, Samantha (16), and a brother, Nolan (6) ... majoring in communication studies.