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Amber Jackson (born June 27, 1984) is an African-American, former collegiate All-American, left-handed hitting softball player at shortstop and current Head Coach, originally from Fontana, California. She played for three years with the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats from 2003-2005 before transferring to the Maryland Terrapins for the 2007 season. She is the season and career leader in numerous offensive categories for both institutions, is the MEAC career leader in hits, triples and runs in just three seasons. She played professional softball in the National Pro Fastpitch from 2007-2009 with the defunct Washington Glory and the USSSA Pride. She is one of six NCAA Division I hitters to amass a career .400 average, 200 RBIs with at least 50 home runs and an .800 slugging percentage; additionally, she is also one of the elite players to steal 100 bases, score 200 runs with 300 hits and a .400 average, the only NCAA player to belong to both clubs. ==Bethune-Cookman Wildcats & Maryland Terrapins== Jackson opened her career by being named First Team All-MEAC conference and "Rookie of The Year." In addition, she broke school and conference records for season RBIs and hits with career highs. As well, she also set new Wildcat records in home runs, triples, doubles, slugging percentage and average, the latter of which was another career best and led the NCAA in 2003. As a sophomore, Jackson continued her success by being renamed First Team all-conference as well as "Player of The Year." She broke her own home run record and hit nearly .450 for the 2004 campaign. In 2005, Jackson once again captured identical conference honors from the previous year but also was named a National Fastpitch Coaches' Association Second Team All-American. She would become the first and is still the only player from the HBCUs to accomplish the honor. She posted a new home run total for the school as well as 77 runs to top the NCAA listing for the year.〔 Jackson would lead the Wildcats to a historic run in the NCAA softball tournament by also becoming the first, and so far only, HBCU team to advance to a Super Regional. Against the Texas Longhorns, Jackson managed to get a hit and walk but eventually was eliminated with her team on May 28. It would be Jackson's last season as she would follow Head Coach Laura Watten to the University of Maryland. In her three seasons, she owned every school record for hitting and currently remains the best for average (.464), RBIs (175), home runs (34), triples (28), hits (284), slugging (.797%) and merely ranks second in doubles and walks. Excluding the average and walks, she too held every other MEAC record and still does for triples and hits, but stands top-5 for all other conference career statistics. Playing in the ACC, Jackson was named 2007 First Team all-conference and repeated as an All-American. In one season she would set lasting school records in RBIs, home runs, walks, runs and slugging percentage. Her 24 career best home run total (led the NCAA) was also a conference best, along with the slugging, both now rank top-5 all-time for an ACC season.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2011 Atlantic Coast Conference Softball )〕 Finally, her career best stolen bases also led the ACC and her average and hits are top-10 Maryland Terrapins records. On February 16, the Terrapin knocked in a career single game high 7 RBIs vs. the East Carolina Pirates. In a doubleheader on March 13, Jackson reached the 200 milestone for RBIs defeating the UMBC Retrievers. The next month on April 11 vs. the Georgetown Hoyas in another doubleheader, Jackson hit a walk-off home run against Jennifer Connelly in game one for the 50th in her career. At the end of the season, Jackson uniquely would and does rank top-5 in home runs and stolen bases for a Terrapin career for just that one season. In an overall summation of her career at both schools, Jackson is a top-10 NCAA Division I career hitter in slugging percentage (7th), runs (8th), batting average, triples and runs (10th) all-time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Softball : Division 1 Records )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amber Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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