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A two-time first team All-Southern Conference player, Carleigh Nester rewrote Elon’s softball record books, finishing her career first all-time in home runs, single-season home runs, doubles, RBI and slugging percentage. She was also fifth in career hits and seventh in career batting average.
Nester’s 36 homers, 15 single-season home runs, 138 RBI and .608 slugging percentage remain the program standard today, while her 51 doubles are second. Her .663 slugging percentage and 42 RBI in 2014 rank sixth in a season. In 2013, she tied the NCAA Division I record with three doubles in a game.
As a freshman, Nester ranked among the 20 toughest players to strike out in the country, being put down by strikes just eight times in 159 at-bats in 2011. Over the course of her four-year career, Elon softball defeated Power Five opponents in South Carolina, No. 25 Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, and No. 8 Georgia. In the 2013 win over top-10 Georgia, Nester went 2-for-4 with a run scored, batting in the leadoff spot.
Along with earning first team all-conference honors in both 2013 and 2014, Nester was second team all-league in 2011 and was named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team. She was a three-time NCCSIA All-State player and twice earned NFCA Mideast All-Region honors (first team in 2013 and third team in 2014). Nester was named Team Most Valuable Player in both 2011 and 2014, and was a recipient of the C.V. “Lefty” Briggs Scholarship.
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