Junior season (2009)
Appeared in 51 games with 49 starts ... hit .192 with five doubles, three home runs, 11 RBI and 15 runs, all career highs ... turned in a career-best .308 slugging percentage ... was 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts ... had six multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games ... had a nine-game stretch from Feb. 22-March 21 in which she hit .458 (11-for-24) with eight RBI ... had four multi-hit games in that stretch ... was 2-for-3 with two RBI against Rider on Feb. 22, had back-to-back 2-for-3, two-RBI games against Western Carolina on March 7-8 and went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs against Furman on March 21 ... against the Catamounts, had a pair of doubles in her first two-hit game, then followed that up with a two-run homer the following day ... hit .500 (3-for-6) in games against ranked opponents, going 1-for-1 with an RBI against No. 16 Georgia on Feb. 22 and following that up with singles in each game of a doubleheader against No. 16 North Carolina on Feb. 25 ... had an RBI and scored a run in game two against the Tar Heels ... went a combined 3-for-5 with a double and a home run in a pair of games against Army on Feb. 14 ... was 1-for-3 with a home run and two runs scored at Elon in game one of a doubleheader on May 2 ... went 2-for-3 with a run against College of Charleston in the Southern Conference tournament on May 7 ... earned a spots on the Dean's List in both semesters ... named a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete for the 2008-09 school year ... earned a spot on the Academic All-Southern Conference Team.
Sophomore season (2008)
Hit .180 on the season, seeing action in 24 games with 20 starts ... had one home run and six RBI ... hit her first career home run, a two-run shot, against Fordham on Feb. 29 ... went 2-for-3 in the second game of a doubleheader against No. 23 North Carolina on March 5 ... hit a two-run double and scored the eventual game-winning run in the eighth inning of a 10-9 win over Radford on April 1 ... was one of two UNCG players to reach base in an exhibition against Team USA on April 10, getting hit by a pitch in the third inning ... earned a spot on the Dean's List for the spring semester ... named an NFCA Scholar-Athlete for the 2007-08 school year.
Freshman season (2007)
One of the Spartans' key reserves during her freshman campaign ... saw action in 24 games, starting 14 ... primarily saw action at third base and as a pinch-hitter ... hit .111 with five hits and one run on the season ... tallied her first collegiate hit and scored her only run of the season in a 3-0 win over Bucknell on March 3 ... also recorded her only RBI of the season against Norfolk State the following day ... was on the Dean's List both semesters ... named an NFCA Scholar-Athlete for the 2006-07 school year.
High school
Three-year letter winner at Lake Washington High School for coach Mike DeAguiar ... two-time team captain ... named all-league three times as a middle infielder and first team all-area by the King County Journal in 2005 as a junior ... twice named King County Journal Athlete of the Week ... a 2006 United States Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award winner ... played three years of summer ball with the Washington Ladyhawks Gold-Miller team as a second and third baseman for coach Wayne Miller ... Lake Washington Scholar Athlete in 2003.
Personal
Emily Jean Akiyama ... born Sept. 23, 1987, in Seattle, Wash. ... daughter of John and Mary Akiyama ... majoring in exercise and sports science with a concentration in kinesiology.
