2016 Softball Roster

Jim Burgess
Jim Burgess

49 Taylor Schwarz

  • Position 1B
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
  • Highschool Palm Beach Gardens

Biography

Major: Telecommunications – Media & Society
 
Career Honors:
  • 2016 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2015 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2015 NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
  • 2014 NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team
  • 2014 SEC All-Defensive Team
  • 2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2013 SEC All-Tournament Team
  • 2013 SEC First-Year Honor Roll
 
Career Highlights:
  • Made top 10 on 1 single season list: tied for 10th with 13 hit by pitches….Made top 10 on 2 UF career lists: tied for 9th with 148 RBIs and 5th with 35 hit by pitches  
 
As a Senior (2016):
  • Has played in every game this season except two... Serves as Florida’s defensive replacement at first base if she does not start
  • In the second game of UF’s series against Alabama, Schwarz tied the game up at 2-2 in the fourth inning when she mashed her second home run of the season to left
  • SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • Recorded Florida’s first triple of the 2016 season against Jacksonville on Feb. 17. The three-bagger was Schwarz’ fourth of her career
  • Scored a career-high tying three runs vs. JU on Feb. 17
  • Has turned 66 double plays in her career which gives her the school record outright, as she passed Melissa Zick at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic
  • In her first start of the season against USF, Schwarz hit the 20th homer of her career
  • Hit two homers against Georgia in the 2013 SEC Tournament
  • Caught the final out at first base to clinch the Gators 2014 and 2015 NCAA Championships
 
As a Junior (2015):
  • SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete
  • 59 games / 30 starts
  • Recorded three multi-hit and multi-RBI games
  • Notched a pair of RBI in the Gators national-championship clinching win over Michigan on June 3
  • Committed just two errors in 218 chances
  • Was perfect on four stolen-base attempts
  • Tied her career high with four doubles
  • Hit two home runs during the season with the second coming against Mercer on Feb. 22
  • Shared duties at first base with Kayli Kvistad and was used a defensive replacement for Kvistad in the late innings when she didn’t get the starting nod
  • Opened the 2015 campaign with a season-best five-game hitting streak
  • Scored a career-high tying three runs against Hampton on Feb. 6
  • Hit .283 with runners on base and .294 with runners in scoring position
  • Recorded an on-base percentage of .434 in non-SEC games
  • Snagged a season-high 10 putouts on two-separate occasions during the season
 
As a Sophomore (2014):
  • NFCA All-Southeast Region Second Team (IF)
  • SEC All-Defensive Team
  • Was perfect on 147 defensive chances during conference play
  • Improved from her freshman year in batting average, runs scored, hits, doubles, RBI, walks and on-base percentage, while reducing strikeouts
  • Set a career-high with five RBI March 16 at LSU
 
As a Freshman (2013):
  • Named to the SEC All-Tournament Team
  • Finished the season with just two errors and a .995 fielding percentage as UF’s first baseman
  • Had zero errors through the regular season, with both coming in the postseason
  • Batted. 266 her freshman year with three doubles, two triples and nine homers, ranking fourth for UF in the long ball category
  • Paced the SEC in fielding double plays (17) and putouts (398)
  • Led UF in chances and putouts, had 11 multiple-RBI games, eight multiple-hit games and ranked third for the Gators with 37 RBI in 2013
  • Tied a single-game school record with two HR vs. Georgia in SEC Tourney
  • Had six game-winning RBI, including a RBI double that was the game winner in the Super Regional final against UAB for the Gators
  • Turned in the second-highest GPA among all Florida freshman student-athletes in 2013
 
High School / Travel Ball:
  • 2012 graduate of Palm Beach Gardens High School
  • Played travel ball with the Gold Coast Hurricanes, coached by Marty Cooper
  • Led Palm Beach Gardens to the 2012 FHSAA 8A Regional Semifinals, as the Gators were nationally ranked among the top five teams in the country
  • Palm Beach Gardens won three straight District and Regional titles (2009-11), with a district runner-up finish in 2012
  • Gators claimed back-to-back Florida 6A State championships in 2010 and 2011
  • Hit a tiebreaking homer to lead the Palm Beach Gardens to the 2011 state title, earning Player of the Game honors
  • 2012 Miracle Sports Class 8A Florida High School All-State First-Team (IF)
  • 2012 8A All-Conference pick
  • 2012 FACA Softball All-Star
  • Two-time Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel First-Team All-State (2011-12)
  • Three-time Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel All-Area (2010-12)
    • 2012 Defensive Player of the Year
  • Won Palm Beach Gardens’ 2011 Gator Award
  • Also played volleyball in high school
  • Graduated in the top five percent of her class
 
Schwarz’s Career Statistics
Year avg gp-gs ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi bb so sb-att fld%
2013 .266 64-57 154 29 41 3 2 9 38 24 41 5-7 .995
2014 .282 65-64 170 43 48 4 1 8 40 34 31 5-6 .993
2015 .231 59-30 91 27 21 4 0 2 14 15 25 4-4 .991
2016 .167 61-17 66 16 11 0 1 2 11 14 15 4-6 .981
TOTAL .252 249-168 481 115 121 11 4 21 103 87 112 18-23 .991
 
Schwarz’s Career Bests 
CAREER-GAME HIGHS [all-time ranking]:
Hits: 3, at Kentucky, Apr 14, 2013; Longwood, Apr 21, 2013; at FAMU, Mar 02, 2013
Doubles: 1, 12 times
Triples: 1 [t-4th], 4 times
Home runs: 2 [t-3rd], vs Georgia, May 11, 2013
Total bases: 8, at Kentucky, Apr 14, 2013; vs Georgia, May 11, 2013
RBI: 5, at LSU, Mar 16, 2014
Runs scored: 3, 6 times
Walks: 2, 11 times
Hit by pitch: 2 [t-5th], at USF, Feb 06, 2014; at Tennessee, Mar 30, 2014
Struck out: 3 [t-6th], 5 times
Sac flies: 1 [t-9th], Presbyterian, Mar 03, 2013; Hampton, May 17, 2013
Sac bunts: 1, 6 times
At bats: 7 [t-2nd], vs Nebraska, Jun 01, 2013
Stolen bases: 1, 19 times

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 49

    2013Freshman

    1B
    5'9"
    49
  • 49

    2014Sophomore

    1B
    5'9"
    49
  • 49

    2015Junior

    1B
    5'9"
    49
  • 49

    2016Senior

    1B
    5'9"
    49