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Stacey Nelson is an American former All-American pitcher for the Florida Gators

Florida Gators

The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...

softball team. Nelson is considered one of the best pitchers in NCAA softball history, earning 2008-2009 First-Team NFCA/Louisville Slugger All-American honors, 2008-2009 Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

Player of the Year honors and led University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

to its first Women's College World Series

Women's College World Series

The Women's College World Series is the final portion of the NCAA Division I Softball Championship for college softball in the United States. The tournament format consists of two four-team double-elimination brackets. The winners of each bracket then compete in a best-of-three title game series...

berth in 2008 and a national runner-up appearance in the 2009 Women's College World Series

Women's College World Series

. Nelson was also the 13th pick in the 2009 National Pro Fastpitch

National Pro Fastpitch

National Pro Fastpitch , formerly the Women's Pro Softball League , is the only professional women's softball league in the United States. The WPSL was founded in 1997 and folded in 2001. The NPF revived the league in 2004 and currently features four teams: USSSA Pride, Akron Racers, Chicago...

League senior draft by the Washington Glory

Washington Glory

The Washington Glory was a women's softball team based in Fairfax, Virginia. They played during 2007 and 2008 as a member of National Pro Fastpitch....

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Nelson is now pitching for the United States women's national softball team

United States women's national softball team

Collegiate awards and honors

2007 - SEC Academic Honor Roll
2007 - NFCA All-Southeast Region
2007 - NFCA/Louisville Slugger All-American second team
2007 - Easton All-American Pitcher
2008 - SEC First Team
2008 - SEC Academic Honor Roll
2008 - SEC
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

Tournament MVP
2008 - NFCA All-Southeast Region
2008 - NFCA/Louisville Slugger All-American first team
2008 - SEC Player of the Year
2008 - ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

The Magazine Academic First-Team All-American
2008 - Easton
Easton
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All-American Pitcher
2009 - Top three-finalist for the 2009 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year
2009 - SEC First-Team
2009 - SEC Academic Honor Roll
2009 - NFCA/Louisville Slugger All-American first team
2009 - ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year
2009 - SEC Pitcher of the Year
2009 - Lowe's Senior CLASS Award

University of Florida

YEAR	W	L	GP Games pitched In baseball statistics, games pitched is the number of games in which a player appears as a pitcher; a player who is announced as the pitcher must face at least one batter, although exceptions are made if the pitcher announced in the starting lineup is injured before facing a batter, perhaps while...	GS Games started In baseball statistics, games started indicates the number of games that a pitcher has started for his team. A pitcher is credited with starting the game if he faces the first opposing batter...	CG Complete game In baseball, a complete game is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher.As demonstrated by the charts below, in the early 20th century, it was common for most good Major League Baseball pitchers to pitch a complete game almost every start. Pitchers were...	Sh Shutout In team sports, a shutout refers to a game in which one team prevents the opposing team from scoring. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball....	SV Save (sport) In baseball, a save is credited to a pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances. The number of saves, or percentage of save opportunities successfully converted, is an oft-cited statistic of relief pitchers...	IP Innings pitched In baseball, innings pitched are the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that are put out while the pitcher on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one inning pitched. One out counts as one-third of an inning, and two...	H Hit (baseball) In baseball statistics, a hit , also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches first base after hitting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielder's choice....	R	ER Earned run In baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable . Any runner who tags his base and reaches home plate is scored against the pitcher as an earned run...	BB Base on balls A base on balls is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire calls balls. It is better known as a walk. The base on balls is defined in Section 2.00 of baseball's Official Rules, and further detail is given in 6.08...	SO Strikeout In baseball or softball, a strikeout or strike-out occurs when a batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters....	ERA Earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...
2006	14	12	39	24	19	6	5	186.0	171	71	56	43	111	2.11
2007	34	14	58	42	37	14	5	318.0	205	56	43	74	285	0.95
2008	47	5	59	49	43	18	4	352.1	200	56	38	116	363	0.75
2009	41	5	50	41	34	22	3	285.1	162	40	25	52	357	0.61
TOTALS	136	36	206	156	133	60	18	1141.2	738	223	162	285	1116	0.99

Early years

Nelson was born in Los Alamitos, California

Los Alamitos, California

Los Alamitos is a small city in Orange County, California. The city was incorporated in March 1960. The population was 11,449 at the 2010 census, down from 11,536 at the 2000 census...

. She attended Los Alamitos High School

Los Alamitos High School

Los Alamitos High School is a public school for grades 9 to 12 located in Los Alamitos, California, and also serving the city of Seal Beach and the community of Rossmoor. It is the only traditional high school in the Los Alamitos Unified School District; the far smaller Laurel High School serves...

, and was coached during her high school softball career by Jim Dolan. She set school records for career shutout

Shutout

In team sports, a shutout refers to a game in which one team prevents the opposing team from scoring. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball....

s and single season strikeouts, while her high school won the Sunset League title all four years of her career. Her team were 2003 California Interscholastic Federation

California Interscholastic Federation

The California Interscholastic Federation is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. It mirrors similar governing bodies in other states; however, it differs from some of the others in that it covers most high schools in the state of California, both public and...

(CIF) Quarterfinalists and 2004 CIF Runner-ups. She was named the team's Most Valuable Player

Most Valuable Player

In sports, a Most Valuable Player award is an honor typically bestowed upon the best performing player or players on a specific team, in an entire league, or for a particular contest or series of contests...

in 2004 & 2005. Nelson was named to the All-Sunset League and All-County team twice and named 2005 Sunset League Pitcher of the Year and Los Alamitos High School's Female Athlete of the Year.

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