Blue Demons Softball

  Kirsten Verdun

Kirsten Verdun

Player Profile

Class:
Sophomore

Hometown:
Coal City, Ill.

High School:
Coal City

Height:
5-9

Position:
P-1B

B/T:
L/L

05/19/2012

Loss to Illinois State Ends DePaul's Season

Eliminated From NCAA Championship After Dropping 3-0 Decision

05/19/2012

Verdun, DePaul Lose Nine-Inning Heartbreaker

One Mistake Leads to 1-0 NCAA Regional Loss to No. 10/9 Missouri

05/18/2012

DePaul's Late Rally Tops Massachusetts

Blue Demons Win NCAA Regional Opener 3-0 Behind Ciezki, Verdun, Boesel

05/17/2012

Aces Go Face-to-Face at NCAA Regional

Verdun vs. Plourde Headlines DePaul's Showdown Friday Against Massachusetts

05/17/2012

Verdun Earns All-Region First Team Once Again

Sophomore Recognized by NFCA for Second Year in a Row

04/24/2012

Softball vs. Illinois Highlights

DePaul softball highlights and interviews from win over Illinois.

04/01/2012

Softball vs. Louisville Sunday Highlights

Women's softball interviews with Eugene Lenti and Kirsten Verdun and highlights from win over Louisville a Cacciatore Field.

05/06/2012

DePaul Softball

vs. Providence

04/25/2012

DePaul Softball

vs. Syracuse

04/15/2012

DePaul Softball

vs. Pitt

03/31/2012

DePaul Softball

vs. Louisville

CAREER HONORS & AWARDS
2011 BIG EAST Rookie of the Year
2011 NFCA Great Lakes All-Region First Team
2011 All-BIG EAST First Team
2011 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2011 (Freshman Season): Came through with one hit and an RBI in NCAA Regional game against No. 8/4 Missouri... pitched a one-hit shutout in collegiate debut against North Florida... combined for a no-hitter with Bree Brown vs. Boston College... collected 10 strikeouts against Connecticut... had two hits and three RBIs against Boston College, St. John's and Pittsburgh...finished with ateam-high 11 home runs on the season,including a grand slam at Villanova... led DePaul with 43 RBIs and 47 walks... BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week once... named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll four times... led DePaul with 11 multi-RBI games... had an 11-game hitting streak.

High School: The Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune Player of the Year in 2010 set a state record going 40-0 from the circle while leading the Coalers to the Class 2A championship... the consensus All-Stater had a 0.30 earned-run average with 480 strikeouts---the fourth-highest mark in state history... the left-hander recorded four perfect games and 11 no-hitters... she finished with a career record of 83-4 in three seasons, 1,036 strikeouts, 19 home runs and had a 72-game hitting streak during her career... in 2009, she led Coal City to third-place in Class 2A, going 31-3 with a 0.32 ERA... in basketball, Verdun averaged 19.1 points and 10.5 rebounds as a senior... she led the Coalers to 26 wins (tying a school record) and to their first regional title since 1997... Verdun finished her four-year basketball career with 1,421 points and 1,009 rebounds.

Personal: Daughter of Brad and Judy Verdun... has a brother, Ryan... majoring in Communications and Media.