Finished career third in home runs (33), eighth in slugging (.509) and ninth in RBI (118)
2014
Selected to NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region Second Team... First Team All-Big South and VaSID All-State (Utility)... Matched school record and tied for the league's home run title with 18... Ranked in the Big South's top five in home runs per game (1st), slugging (2nd), total bases (t-2nd), runs (5th), OBP (5th)... Also ranked sixth in batting average and tied for eighth in hits... Recorded second best RBI total (49) and slugging pct (.750) in program history... Also led RU with a .351 average, 39 runs, five doubles and .453 OBP... One of two players to start all 52 games... Moved to catcher at start of conference season after playing first 20 at shortstop... Tied single-game records for home runs (2) against Savannah State (3/15) and Liberty (4/9)... Matched single-game record with six RBI versus Liberty (4/8)... Reached base safely in 46 contests... Career-best 4-for-4 outing with 2 HR, 5 RBI and 3 runs in series finale against Liberty (4/9)... Big South Player of the Week (4/14)... Batted .556 (10-18) with five home runs (2 grand slams), 17 RBI and nine runs scored... Also slugged 1.444, posted four multi-RBI games, three multi-hit games and a .619 OBP in a pair of conference series against Liberty and Charleston Southern... Generated 13 multi-hit and 12 multi-RBI games... Swiped a career-best eight bases.
2013
Appeared in 53 contests with 52 starts, registering career-high power numbers... Started last seven contests at third after, starting the majority of the season at shortsop... Posted team bests in home runs (10), doubles (12), slugging (.541) and RBI (38)... Perfect on six steal attempts... Seven game-winning RBI and three game-winning runs... Career-high three hits (3-3), two doubles, three runs and four RBI in game one against CSU and finished doubleheader, 4-for-6 with a long ball and six RBI... First home run of the season was a two-out, two-run game-winner in the top of seventh in 3-2 victory over Indiana State... Went 6-for-7 with three doubles, home run, four RBI, three runs and two steals on first day of City of Clearwater Classic against Quinnipiac and LIU-Brooklyn.
2012
Second team All-Big South at first base... Saw action in every contest, making 54 starts... Improved in every offensive category, which included first five home runs, along with 23 RBI... Batted .367 with 2 doubles, 2 home runs and 12 RBI in league contests... Belted three-run first-inning home run and knocked in career-best three runs in tourney opener vs. Winthrop... 4-for-10 with two RBI in final series at Charleston Southern... Two hits, including a home run to get Radford on the board in game-three win over Gardner-Webb... Homered and knocked in both runs in 2-0 game-two win over UNCG... Was 2-for-3 with a RBI in each of the final two games of Presbyterian series.. Recorded a career-best two stolen bases vs. Appalachian State... 2-for-4 with a double and RBI at Liberty... Knocked in game-winning run with a two-out sixth-inning single in 1-0 win over Binghamton (3/18)... Hit first collegiate home run vs. Robert Morris (3/10) in Hawai’i... Recorded a career-high 14 putouts vs. Albany and Lehigh.
2011 HIGHLIGHTS
Appeared in 38 contests with 32 starts... Made four starts in Big South Tournament, including a two-RBI performance in if necessary game against Coastal Carolina... Recorded first collegiate multi-RBI game with two in game two at Elon... 2-for-3 in game-two win over James Madison... Scored a pair of runs against Toledo... Recorded a pair of multi-hit games against Toledo, going 4-for-6 in the twinbill... First collegiate hit was a single at UAB.
PREP
2010 Riverside Brookfield Female Athlete of the Year... Posted a .536 batting average with 67 hits, 11 doubles, 15 home runs, 54 runs scored and 74 RBI and was tabbed first-team all-state as a senior... Four-year Metro-Suburban All-Conference selection and league MVP in 2010… Named a top-100 player in the state of Illinois in 2009… Suburban Life All-Area honoree as a junior and senior... Owns school records for home runs, batting average and hits... Also lettered in basketball, earning all-conference and all-area honors while being named 2010 Metro-Suburban Conference MVP... Former high school teammate of sophomore Becky Mantel.
PERSONAL
Full name is Jessie Leigh Hutchens...Exercise, sport and health education major (sport administration) with a minor in business entrepreneurship... Jessie is the youngest of Larry and Debbie Hutchens' three daughters... Sister Meghan was a four-year basketball student-athlete at Illinois-Chicago (2005-09) and played professionally in Holland, while sister April was a softball All-American at Valdosta State (2009-12)... Volunteered in New Orleans, helping restore buildings hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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CAREER HIGH (* Denotes most recent)
| HITS | 4 | LIBERTY (4/9/14) |
| DOUBLES | 2 (twice) | vs. Quinnipiac (3/15/13 - Clearwater, Fla.); CHARLESTON SOUTHERN (3/29/13) |
| TRIPLES | 1 | vs. Cornell (3/16/13 - Clearwater, Fla.) |
| HOME RUNS | 2 (twice) | LIBERTY (4/9/14); vs. Savannah State (3/15/14 - Auburn, Ala.) |
| TOTAL BASES | 11 (school record) | LIBERTY (4/9/14) |
| RBI | 6 (school record) | LIBERTY (4/8/14 - G2) |
| RUNS | 3 (3 times) | at Charleston Southern (4/12/14 - G1)* |
| WALKS | 2 (3 times) | vs. Savannah State (3/15/14 - Auburn, Ala.)* |
| AT BATS | 5 (twice) | 5, twice, vs. Indiana State (3/1/13); CAMPBELL (4/20/13) |
| STOLEN BASES | 2 (3 times) | at Charleston Southern (4/12/14 - G1)* |
| PUTOUTS | 14 | 14 vs. LEHIGH (3/18/12); vs. Albany (2/26/12) |
| ASSISTS | 6 (3 times) | at Charlotte (2/19/14)* |
| HITTING STREAK | 8 | 2014 |
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