2016 (Junior): Appeared in 54 games, making 34 starts at third base, 11 at designated player and two at first base … Hit .198 on the season with nine extra-base hits including four homers and a triple … Drove in 22 and scored 13 runs … Accumulated 13 walks and seven stolen bases … Tallied five multiple-hit games and a team-high eight multiple-RBI games … Recorded 64 assists, 45 putouts and just three errors for a .973 fielding percentage.
2015 (Sophomore): Appeared in 49 games making 44 starts at third base… notched a .313 average recording 41 hits… Smacked 12 extra-base hits with eight doubles and four home runs for a .466 slugging percentage… Plated 28 runs while scoring 19 more for the Warhawks… Went 5-for-6 on stolen bases.
2014 (Freshman): Started 50 games during debut season as a Warhawk with four starts at third and 46 starts as a DH… 37 hits in 137 at-bats for ULM… Posted a season-leading high of 21 straight games to reach base… Posted her first collegiate hits and RBI during the second game of the season opening double header vs. Morehead State on Feb. 7, the first of 10 multi-hit games… Hit her first collegiate homerun going deep against Louisiana Tech on Feb. 21… Finished in the team’s top five in batting average (.270), slugging percentage (.423), runs scored (19), doubles (6), homeruns (5) and RBI (22).
Prep: Lettered all four years at Saint Piux X High School ... Named all-metro, all-state and was the district MVP ... received first team all-district accolades ... Was her school's student scholar-athlete of the year in 2013.
Personal: Born Vanessa Christine Garcia in Albuquerque ... Daughter of T.J. Heinl and Lucia Garcia ... Has one brother, Christian (18) and sister, Taylor (9) ... Majoring in Toxicology.
