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Kiara Dillon Season 2022

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PositionOF
ClassSophomore
HometownLafayette, Ind.
B/TR/R
2024 / AS A SENIOR
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Appeared in 50 games with 48 starts
  • Recorded 22 hits and 22 runs for the Boilermakers
  • Registered a .369 on-base %
  • Stole 12 bases out of 15 attempts
  • Had five sacrifice hits
  • Hit two doubles and two triples
  • Was walked 20 times
  • Finished with a .982 fielding %
  • Played all but two games with a perfect fielding %
  • Totaled 109 catches, 104 putouts and three assists
  • Had six putouts vs. Pittsburgh (3/9) and vs. Michigan State (5/3)

2023 / AS A JUNIOR
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Boiler SAAC President
  • Played and started in all but one game (52 out of 53)
  • Led the team and ranked fifth in the Big Ten in stolen bases, going 20-for-22 on the season
  • Posted a .406 OB%
  • Recorded a season-high of three hits against Michigan State (4/28)
  • Hit four doubles in the season
  • Scored 21 runs through the season with two runs in a single game on four occasions: against Syracuse (2/17), Columbia (2/24), Bradley (2/25) and Michigan State (4/28)
  • Totaled 31 hits in the season  
  • Registered 7 RBI in the season
  • Finished the season with 85 catches, 75 putouts and six assists
  • Secured season-high of six catches against Indiana (3/29) and a season-high of five putouts against Penn State (5/6)

2022 / AS A SOPHOMORE
  • Played and started in all but one game (54 of 55 games)
  • Averaged a .233 batting average and a .300 slugging %
  • Totaled 22 runs, third-most on the team
  • Registered 28 hits and seven RBI
  • Went a perfect 7-for-7 on stolen base attempts
  • Earned a .500 batting average (one run, two hits, to RBI and a homer) in four plate appearances in the season-opener vs. East Carolina (3/11/22)
  • Recorded a season-high three runs vs. East Carolina on the opening weekend of play (2/12/22)
  • Produced a double on five outings
  • Secured three multi-run games (3 vs. East Carolina 2/12/22, 2 vs. Georgetown 2/13/22 and 2 vs. Bucknell 3/13/22)
  • Went a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate vs. Lafayette College (3/11/22), recording a run and an RBI

2021 / AS A FRESHMAN
  • Played in 39 games with 22 starts
  • Pummeled a home run at Wisconsin (5/15)
  • Hit a triple vs. Penn State (2/27)
  • Posted a season high two RBI’s at Minnesota (4/2)
  • Scored a season high two runs at Michigan State (4/23)
  • Had a season high four putouts with 0 errors vs. Michigan (2/26)
  • Stole a base vs. Ohio State (5/2)
  • Was 4-for-5 in stealing bases

HIGH SCHOOL
  • Club Team: Beverly Bandits
  • Varsity starter all four years
  • Two-time All-State honoree, including honorable mention status as a junior
  • Helped her team to a sectional and conference championship in each of her junior and sophomore campaigns
  • Named to the All-Conference four straight years
  • Four-time Academic All-Conference honoree
  • Selected as captain for her junior season
  • Earned Academic All-State as a senior and honorable mention status the year prior
  • Mental Attitude Award recipient as a junior and Athletic Leadership Award winner as a senior
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Senior
2024

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Junior
2023

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Freshman
2021

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