CAREER: Two-time Big South All-Tournament selection… 2011 Big South and VaSID All-State second team utility selection… Logged 177 games with 121 starts… Two-year starter batted .267 with 111 hits, 27 doubles, three triples, seven home runs, 54 RBI and 60 runs scored.
2011 HIGHLIGHTS: Big South and VaSID All-State Second Team honoree… Big South All-Tournament selection, batting .421 (8-19), one HR, nine RBI, 3-3 SB… Knocked in career-high four runs in if-necessary semifinal against Coastal Carolina… One of four Highlanders to start all 59 contests... Second on team with 13 doubles, 55 hits, 30 runs and 31 RBI (all career highs)… One of four players to start every game… Batted a career-best .291 and posted a .460 slugging percentage.
2010 HIGHLIGHTS: Appeared in every game with 53 starts… Big South all-tournament selection… Batted .444 with three runs and two RBI, while recording a perfect fielding percentage at Big South Tournament… Game-tying double in BSC championship game… Knocked in eventual game-winning run in tournament semifinal against Winthrop... Fourth on team with 11 doubles… Registered two hits in NCAA Regional final against eventual national semifinalist Georgia… Career highs in several offensive categories in first season as a regular starter... First collegiate three-hit game at James Madison... Hit first collegiate home run vs. then-No. 4 Missouri (2/28)... Homered and knocked in career-high three runs vs. Charleston Southern (3/28).
2009 HIGHLIGHTS: Saw action in 36 games mostly as a pinch hitter, making six starts... Five of nine hits and two of three RBI have been recorded in pinch-hitting roles… In start against then No. 25 Mississippi State, recorded a career-high two hits in win.
2008 HIGHLIGHTS: Appeared in 27 games, making three starts… Recorded five hits, four runs and three RBI… First collegiate hit was a clutch pinch hit triple in game three at Liberty… In first collegiate start, went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI in game two at Elon… Stole first base and scored first run vs. Delaware at ECU Pirate Clash.
PREP: Four-year all-state, all-region and all-district performer... Member of the Stingrays club team for seven years ... Also played travel ball for the Shamrocks, Fire and Ice and Xplosion... Also lettered in field hockey
PERSONAL/ACADEMICS: Taylor McEachern Cunningham was born on Dec. 19, 1988 in Fairfax, Va…. Elementary education major... Taylor and younger sister Christine are the daughters of Gary and Dee Cunningham.
CUNNINGHAM'S BATTING STATISTICS
| YEAR |
AVG |
GP-GS |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
RBI |
TB |
SLG% |
BB |
HBP |
SO |
OB% |
SF |
SH |
SB-SBA |
PO |
A |
E |
FLD% |
| 2008 |
.172 |
27-3 |
29 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
8 |
.276 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
.219 |
1 |
0 |
1-1 |
12 |
18 |
4 |
.882 |
| 2009 |
.237 |
36-6 |
38 |
5 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
11 |
.289 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
.275 |
0 |
3 |
1-1 |
3 |
8 |
0 |
1.000 |
| 2010 |
.263 |
55-53 |
160 |
21 |
42 |
11 |
0 |
2 |
17 |
59 |
.369 |
3 |
0 |
26 |
.276 |
0 |
0 |
3-3 |
48 |
101 |
12 |
.925 |
| 2011 |
.291 |
59-59 |
189 |
30 |
55 |
13 |
2 |
5 |
31 |
87 |
.460 |
3 |
0 |
19 |
.302 |
0 |
5 |
6-7 |
261 |
91 |
10 |
.972 |
| TOTALS |
.267 |
177-121 |
416 |
60 |
111 |
25 |
3 |
7 |
54 |
165 |
.397 |
10 |
0 |
51 |
.283 |
1 |
8 |
11-12 |
324 |
218 |
26 |
.954 |
