Kirin Kumar Class: Senior Hometown: Santa Ana, Calif. High School: Fountain Valley Height: 5-4 Position: 2B/UT B/T: L/R

As a Senior (2005): Had her best season ever in a Yellow Jacket uniform ... Started in 61 of 66 games played in ... Led Tech to a NCAA Athens Regional runner-up finish and an ACC Tournament title with a team-leading .353 batting average in the post-season ... Led the Jackets in the ACC Tournament with a .500 batting average en route to earning all-tournament honors ... Ranked fourth on the Tech squad with a .322 batting average ... Drove in 20 runs and tallied a career-high six doubles ... Had a .348 on base percentage and a .986 fielding percentage ... Stole four bases in five attempts ... Went 2-for-3, with a season-high three RBIs against Northern Illinois (3/20) ... Drove in two runs in Tech's 5-1 win over Kansas (5/21) in the NCAA Athens Regional ... Ended her career second all-time in games played at 251 in the Tech record book.

As a Junior (2004): Started in 64 of Tech's 66 games, 58 at third base, four in left field and one at first base ... Posted the sixth best batting average (.257) on the team ... Drove in a career-best 22 runs for the Jackets ... Stole a career-high six bases in nine attempts ... Tallied multiple-hits and RBIs in six different ballgames ... Led the team with 11 sacrifice bunts ... Tallied a .274 on base percentage ... Hit two doubles on the season ... Drove in game-winning runs against Georgia State (4/7) and Maryland (5/2) ... Had a career-high three runs batted in against the Lady Panthers.

As a Sophomore (2003): Started in 55 of the 60 games played in for Tech ... Led the Jackets in the NCAA Regional, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with a .375 batting average, going 3-for-8 with an RBI ... Hit .238 for the season ... Posted a .301 on-base percentage ... Had three stolen bases in four attempts ... Scored 13 times on the year ... Had 11 walks on the season ... Drove in 11 runs for Tech ... Tallied five multi-hit games on the season ... Opened up the season with a 2-for-3 performance against Boston College on Feb. 8, ending with a season-high two runs batted in ... Scored the insurance run against North Carolina in the opening game of the ACC Tournament on May 9.

As a Freshman (2002): Started 44 games, mostly in left field ... Posted a .256 average at the plate (30-for-117), while tallying four doubles and 12 runs batted in ... Led Tech with 11 sacrifice bunts ... Raised her batting average from .184 on March 19 to .282 on April 6 ... Owned five multi-hit games ... Went 2-for-2 with two runs scored and two RBI in the first game versus Georgia Southern on April 3 ... Had stolen five bases in seven attempts ... Provided solid defense in the outfield, committing just one error in 43 chances ... Posted a .977 fielding percentage ... ACC Academic Honor Roll.

High School: Three-time letterwinner and two-time team captain at Fountain Valley High School ... First-team all-league choice as a senior ... Earned defensive player of the year honors in 2000 and '01 ... Holds season school records for sacrifice bunts, lowest strikeout percentage and highest fielding percentage ... Earned all-tournament honors at the 2001 Woodbridge Tournament, while leading her team to the victory ... As a senior, participated in the North vs. South and American vs. National all-star games ... Also played basketball for three seasons, serving as team captain one year ... Earned second-team all-league honors as a junior point guard ... Four-year honor roll student.

Personal: Kirin Sood Kumar ... Daughter of Vipin and Preeti Kumar ... Born Sept. 30, 1983 ... Majoring in management at Tech.

Kumar's Career Hitting Statistics
YEAR	AVG	GP-GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SLG%	BB	SO	OB%	SF	SH	SB-ATT	PO	A	E	FLD%
2002	.256	59-44	117	25	30	4	0	0	12	.291	5	2	.290	1	11	5-7	41	1	1	.977
2003	.238	60-55	143	18	34	3	0	0	8	.259	11	16	.301	0	9	3-4	54	0	1	.982
2004	.257	66-64		21	39	2	0	0	22	.270	4	20	.274	1	11	6-9	76	83	15	.914
2005	.322	66-61	152	17	49	6	1	0	20	.375	3	7	.348	2	6	4-5	258	26	4	.986
Totals	.270	251-224	564	81	152	15	1	0	62	.300	23	45	.304	4	37	18-25	429	110	21	.963