Florida Gators

Career Honors: A 2010 All-SEC First Team honoree… Also named to the 2010 SEC All-Tournament Team ... A National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Southeast Region in 2009 and 2010 … Two-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III Second Team (2009, 2010) … Additionally a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection (2009, 2010) … All-Southeastern Conference Second Team in 2009 … Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team in 2009 … All-SEC Freshmen Team in 2008 … SEC Freshmen Academic Honor Roll in 2008.

Career Highlights: 

• Led 1 single season list: 80 RBIs….Made top 10 on 5 single season lists: .736 slugging percentage (4^th), 21 homeruns (2^nd), 135 total bases (7^th), 48 strikeouts (7^th), and tied for 2^nd with 6 sacrifice flies….Led 3 UF career lists: 65 homeruns, 462 total bases, and 21 sacrifice flies….Made top 10 on 7 UF career lists: .318 batting average (8^th), .653 slugging percentage (3^rd), .410 on base percentage (10^th), tied for 7^th with 138 runs scored, tied for 6^th with 225 hits, 217 RBIs (2^nd), and 113 walks (6^th)

As a Senior (2011):

• A top-10 finalist for USA Softball’s Player of the Year
• 2011 Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-Southeast Region and All-America first-team selection
• Candidate for the 2011 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award
• First team All-SEC selection in the infield, also named to the 2011 SEC Community Service Team
• Capital One Academic All-America second team selection, Capital One Academic All-District III first team as well as a SEC Academic Honor Roll recipient
• Tallied a career-long and UF-record 20-game hit streak in the 2011 season
• Accepted an invitation to USA Softball’s National Team Selection Camp and was drafted by the National Pro Fastpitch’s Akron Racers in the NPF Senior Draft
• Drove in a league-leading 36 RBI, four sac flies and tied with Kelsey Bruder for the most home runs (11) in league play
• Finished the season ranked first in the NCAA in sac flies (9), fifth in home runs (21) and 12th in RBI per game (1.16)
• Set UF and SEC records for career home runs (65), while setting Florida record for 80 RBI in a season, career UF record with 462 career total bases, sac flies (21)

• Named to the All-SEC first team and All-Southeast Region first team
• Named to the SEC All-Tournament team
• Earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III second-team honors for second straight year
• Broke UF’s career sacrifice flies record with 12 and second with 44 home runs
• Tallied a career-long 11-game hit streak, tied for the fifth longest in UF history
• Tied for first in the SEC and tied the UF single-season record with six sacrifice flies
• Also tied for first in the league with 17 fielded double plays

• Named to the All-SEC second team and NFCA All-Southeast Region team
• Named to the Women’s College World Series All-Tournament team
• Earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III second-team honors
• Hit two home runs, including one game winner, in the first two games of the WCWS
• Already fourth in UF record books with 29 career home runs

• SEC All-Freshman team
• Second on the team with 13 home runs on the season

High School: A 2007 graduate of Canyon High School in Anaheim, Calif. … Coached by Lance Eddy and Dan Hay … Second-team All-American in 2007 … Named the Century League Player of the Year and the Canyon High School Female Athlete of the Year in 2007 … Earned first-team all-state and All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) in 2007, also earned second-team All-CIF honors in 2006 … A three-time member of the All-Century League ... Canyon High School team qualified for the CIF tournament all four years and reached the semifinals in 2007 ... Set Canyon High records for career batting average (.425) and season batting average (.528) … Played with the Southern California Explosion Gold travel team … Coached by Joe Weddle and Mike Gerritse … Team placed ninth in the 14-and-Under Amateur Softball Association of American (ASA) Nationals and claimed the 16-and-Under National Title in 2004 … Played for the Firecrackers at ASA Gold Nationals in 2006 and took second … A four-year scholar athlete with a 3.5+ GPA and three years Top of the Tribe with a 4.0+ GPA … Also played volleyball and soccer … A member of the Fellowship for Christian Athletes and was a 2005-06 nominee for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council Conference.

Bush’s Career Statistics
 

Bush’s Career Bests
CAREER-GAME HIGHS [all-time ranking]:
Hits: 3, 6 times
Doubles: 2 [t-2nd], Auburn, Mar 17, 2010; Texas A&M, May 16, 2009; at FIU, May 23, 2010
Triples: 1 [t-4th], Ole Miss, Mar 14, 2010
Home runs: 2 [t-3rd], 5 times
Total bases: 9 [t-7th], vs Loyola Marymount, Mar 07, 2010 RBI: 7 [t-3rd], at Ole Miss, Mar 19, 2011
Runs scored: 3, vs Marshall, Feb 11, 2011; vs Loyola Marymount, Mar 07, 2010; vs Ball State, Mar 12, 2011
Walks: 3, vs Arizona State, Jun 03, 2011
Hit by pitch: 1, 9 times
Struck out: 4 [t-1st], vs Texas, Feb 24, 2011 Sac flies: 2 [t-1st], vs NC State, Feb 12, 2011 Sac bunts: 1, 8 times
At bats: 5, at UCF, Mar 31, 2010
Stolen bases: 2, at USF, Feb 14, 2010