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Samie Garcia

Class: Senior Hometown: Bell, Calif. High School: St. Joseph's

Last College: Cerritos College Height: 5-6 Position: U Experience: 2L B/T: L/R

2012-13 Gamecock Spotlight Video

2011-12 Gamecock Spotlight Video

Garcia's 2011 Game-by-Game Statistics
Garcia's 2012 Game-by-Game Statistics

• 2012 CollegeSportsMadness.com All-SEC Second Team
• 2012 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll

2012 (JUNIOR): Played in all 55 games, missing one start on the Gamecocks' Senior Day ... Led the team with 41 runs scored, 97 total bases, and 11 stolen bases ... Finished second on the team in the slash stats with a .362 batting average, .429 on-base percentage and .557 slugging percentage ... Also second in hits (63), triples (2), homers (7) and hit by pitches (6) ... The six HBPs tied for seventh on the single-season charts, while the seven homers tied for 10th in Gamecocks' single-season charts and 11th in the homers per game category (0.13) ... Ranked 14th in South Carolina's single-season listing in batting average, on-base percentage and runs per game (0.75) ... Tied for 15th in single-season hits-per-game category (1.15) ... Reached base at a .468 clip when leading off an inning ... Posted a 21-game hitting streak after going hitless in the opener, the second-longest skein in documented history at South Carolina ... Nine games in that streak were multi-hit games ... Her first homer of the year was a grand slam in the 11-3 win over Providence (2/17) ... Also had a three-run blast in a 2-for-3 game against Appalachian State (2/25) ... The second game that day, against Presbyterian (2/25), she went 4-for-4 with a stolen base ... Went 3-for-4 with the game-tying RBI double in the 3-2 win over UC Davis (3/4) ... After the hitting streak ended, she posted a two-RBI double in the 7-2 win over Arkansas (3/10) ... Went 3-for-3, scoring three runs and hitting the first of three lead-off homers in the first game against Mississippi State (3/13) ... ... Scored three times and tied the school record with two homers in a 2-for-2 outing at Kentucky on Easter Sunday (4/8) ... Opened the series at No. 2/2 Alabama with a solo homer (4/13) ... Went 2-for-4 with a stolen base and a run scored in the final game of the year at Mississippi (5/6) ... Earned a spot on the 2012 Southeastern Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll ... Also honored by CollegeSportsMadness.com on its All-SEC second team.

2011 (SOPHOMORE): One of two Gamecocks to start all 56 games, anchoring the infield at shortstop ... Ended the season with a .922 fielding percentage while leading the team with 116 assists ... Led the Gamecocks in on-base percentage (.403), runs (31), hits (61), total bases (83) and hit by pitches (6) ... Ranked second in batting average (.332), triples (3), slugging percentage (.451) and stolen bases (15) ... Posted the longest hitting streak (9) and reached-base streak (19) for the Gamecocks ... Started her career with a flurry, going 8-for-14 (.571) during the opening-weekend Palmetto State Showdown, adding a triple in her 2-for-4 debut against Charleston Southern (2/11) ... Started her nine-game hitting streak against Georgetown (2/18) with a double ... Her first Gamecock home run came in the win at Florida Gulf Coast (2/19) ... Hit a home run in a 2-for-3 outing at Charlotte (2/23) ... Her last hit in the streak came against Providence (3/5) ... Posted a 2-for-4 outing with two runs and two RBI in the second game at Mississippi State (3/9) ... Stole two bases in the second game against Ole Miss (3/12) ... Drove in a season-best three runs in a 2-for-4 day in game one against No. 1 Georgia (3/16), with the two hits going for a double and a triple ... Plunked twice in the first game at No. 23 Auburn (3/18) ... Tallied a double, two runs and three RBI in a 3-for-4 outing against Charleston Southern (4/5) ... Also added two stolen bases in that contest against the Buccaneers ... Led off the second game at Longwood (4/9) with a home run ... Posted the first four-hit game for South Carolina since 2008 with a 4-for-5 performance in the second game at Arkansas (4/16) ... Went 2-for-4 with a double in the win over No. 20 Kentucky (4/24).

2010 (CERRITOS): Set new school records with a .519 batting average and 10 triples during her only year at Cerritos College ... Led the conference in batting average, on-base percentage (.594) and slugging percentage (.880) ... Added 13 doubles and five homers on the year ... Stole 29 bases in 30 tries ... Had only one error in the field, splitting time between shortstop and center field ... Scored 59 runs ... Picked up many player of the year awards, including California Junior College Player of the Year...Claimed Cerritos' Female Athlete of the Year award ... Made the NFCA Cal JC All-America team for the south.

HIGH SCHOOL: Played at St. Joseph's High School in Lakewood, Calif., for coaches Joe Pacheco and Ralph Armenta ... A First-Team All-California Interscholastic Federation selection as a senior ... Twice named All-Del Ray League ... Led the Jesters to first-place finish in their league for the first time in 14 years ... Named to the City of Lakewood's Youth Hall of Fame ... Played junior varsity basketball one year and was named the best defensive player ... Traveled to ASA Nationals four times during her youth career.

PERSONAL: Samantha Taylor Garcia was born to parents Manuel and Tzenni-Bah ... Has two older sisters, Alexis and Cecily, and a twin brother, Manuel ... Says Jacoby Ellsbury, her cousin, is her favorite athlete ... Majoring in sport and entertainment management.