Biography
Career
Conference USA Freshman of the Year (2017)
First-Team All-Conference USA Pitcher (2017), first in school history
Conference USA All-Freshman Team (2017)
Led C-USA by winning four Conference USA Pitcher of the Week Awards (3/13, 3/27, 5/1, 5/8)
2017 (Freshman) - Conference USA Freshman of the Year... First-Team All-Conference USA Pitcher (first for pitching in four-year C-USA membership)... Conference USA All-Freshman Team... Made 38 appearances and 31 starts... Led Conference USA with a 1.51 ERA, .151 opponent batting average, 3.49 hits allowed per game, four saves, and strikeouts per seven innings (8.1)... Tied for the league lead with the league pitcher of the year with eight shutouts and finished second with 240 total strikeouts... The only freshman in the country to pitch eight shutouts... Nationally, she was fifth in hits allowed per seven innings, tied for 22nd in shutouts, 21st in total strikeouts, 30th in strikeouts per seven innings and 31st in ERA... Set new school record for opponent batting average against and 12 consecutive complete games, while tying the school mark with nine wins in a row... Threw five one-hitters during the season... She was the starting pitcher all seven times that FIU was shutout, including a pair of 1-0 and 2-0 losses... Started the year 4-5, finishing the regular season and conference tournament 9-1... From April 15 to May 12, she produced a 9-0 record with two saves in her non-starts, with three shutouts, including two one-hitters, an ERA of 0.22 and opponent batting average of .113, with 74 strikeouts in 63.2 innings... Her ERA is below 1.00 in the first (0.93), fourth (0.48) and fifth innings (0.97)... Opponents bat less than .100 against her in the first two innings (.090 in the first, .084 in the second) this season... Has more strikeouts than innings pitched in all but the fifth and sixth innings... Gave up three earned runs in last 12 regular season and conference tournament appearances (56.2 innings)... In one stretch of eight-straight appearances (4/22-5/5, 42.2 innings), did not give up an earned run... Allowed five or fewer hits in 34 of 38 season appearances... Struck out 10 or more batters seven times, with a season-best 14 punchouts in a 3-0 one-hit shutout of WKU at home, 4/29... Pitched a season-high eight innings in 5-3 loss to Notre Dame, 3/4... During FIU's school-record 17-game win streak (3/5-4/1), she was 8-0, with a 0.54 ERA, an opponent batting average of .118, six complete games and four shutouts, plus one combined shutout, two saves and 60 strikeouts in 51.2 innings... In FIU's last two home weekends, she got two wins and a save in each three-game series, against WKU and C-USA West-division-leading LA Tech to win back-to-back C-USA Pitcher of the Week honors.
Prep - FIU's second High School All-American (Stephanie Texeira) recruit, she was named Third-Team All-America by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association in July of 2016... Four-year softball and three-year volleyball standout for the Land O'Lakes Gators... Earned Sunshine Athletic Conference East Payer of the Year, Florida Athletic Coaches Association (FACA) District Player of the Year, Herald-Tribune 6A First-Team All-State, TImes' All-Tampa Player of the Year and finalist for 6A FACA Player of the Year in 2016... Finished with 18 wins as a senior, with a 0.78 earned run average (ERA) and 269 strikeouts, as part of a 27-3-1 squad, finishing with a ranking of 28 of prep players by MaxPreps.., Also allowed only 41 hits for an 0.099 opponent batting average... Posted a 1.45 ERA with 15 wins and 141 strikeoutsT as a junior, earning Second-Team All-State and All-Conference honors... Her travel ball team earned Top 10 in the ASA Nationals
Personal - Daughter of Kathryn and Jeffrey Saile... Has two older brothers, Ryan and Leland... Brother Leland plays baseball at the Naval Academy... Major is education, with the goal of pursuing a master's degree in speech pathology to become a speech therapist.
