Michele Tarpey

ACCOLADES
2024 Academic All-ACC

AS A REDSHIRT JUNIOR (2025) (at NC State)

Appeared in 42 games and started 40
Finished the season with a team best .348 batting average
Ranked third on the team with 48 hits and second with 35 RBI’s
Finished the conference slate hitting .357 with 20 hits, including three doubles and just as many homers
Hit a grand slam in the 14-1, five inning win over UNCW on March 1 to mark the first of her career and finished with a career high five RBI’s
Worked a 15 pitch at bat that ended with ball four in the bottom of the seventh in the rubber match against Notre Dame on March 15 and would go on to score the game tying run to end the game into extra innings
Recorded her 100^th career hit at Boston College on March 23 and finished the outing with a homer and single
Maintained an eight-game hitting streak and nine game reached base streak
Finished the season with 13 multi-hit games

AS A REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2024) (at NC State)

Appeared in 47 games and started 46 mainly at first base
Led the team with a .353 batting average
Finished the season with 41 hits, 30 RBI’s, 22 runs, seven doubles, six homers, and two triples
Tied a career high four RBI’s in the win over NC Central (4/24/24)
Tallied three hits – double, single, triple -- in the win over Pitt (5/4/24)
Finished the season with a .976 fielding percentage and was tied for first on the team with 237 putouts

AS A SOPHOMORE (2023) (AT NC STATE)

AS A FRESHMAN (2022) (at NC State)

Played in 51 games, starting 48
Was third on the team in doubles with eight
Tied for third on the team with seven multi-RBI games
Finished the season with a .248 batting average, 31 hits, four home runs, 24 RBI and a .408 slugging percentage
Made three appearances in the circle, tossing 4.1 innings with three strikeouts
Tallied her first career hit against North Florida (Feb. 12)
Hit her first collegiate home run against Central Connecticut State (Feb. 25)
Hit a home run in her first career ACC at-bat (March 4)
Had an outstanding day in the series finale against Syracuse as she finished 2-for-3 with a season-best four RBI and two doubles (March 6)

High School/Prep Career

Was ranked #34 overall in the 2021 class by Extra Innings Softball
A four-year starter for Fuquay-Varina High School, including a two-year captain
2021 PGF Southeast All-American Finalist
Prior to the early end of the 2020 season, Tarpey was batting .727 with three home runs
Two-time North Carolina First Team All-State and News & Observer All-Metro
Comes from a long-line of NC State graduates, including her grandfather, uncle and mother