NCAA women's tennis singles champion Amanda McDowell!
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Veteran player that spent five years in the Tech program ... Former pitcher who moved to the outfield and earned All-ACC honors in his first year as a full-time hitter ... Has a good, solid stroke at the plate with line drive power to all fields ... Has an excellent throwing arm ... Enters the season as Tech's starter in right field, and was a fixture in the middle of the batting order ... Voted as a 2006 co-captain.
2005: Earned second-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors for the second-straight year ... Hit safely in over 50 games for the second-consecutive season ... Named to the NCAA Atlanta Regional All-Tournament team after batting .462 and collecting at least two hits in all three games ... Drafted in the 14th round by the Colorado Rockies ... Opened the season with a 5-for-9 performance at Georgia Southern (2/12-2/13) with a home run, five RBI and four runs in the two-game series ... Went 2-for-5 with a home run and four RBI in a win over No. 6 Tennessee (2/24) ... Had three hits, including a home run, against Rutgers (3/3) ... Went 4-for-14 in Tech's series win over Virginia (3/10-3/12) ... Had four hits, including a home run, and four RBI at NC State (3/17-3/19) ... Also collected four hits at Maryland (3/31-4/2) ... Went 6-for-10 with a home run in the three-game series at Virginia Tech (4/7-4/9) ... Had four hits and scored six runs against Clemson (4/14-4/16) ... Went 5-for-11 in a three-game sweep at Florida State (4/21-4/23) ... Had two hits, including a home run, at Georgia (4/26) ... Went 5-for-13 with a home run at Boston College (4/28-4/30) ... Had five hits, including a home run, and four RBI in a three-game sweep of USF (5/5-5/6) ... Went 3-for-5 with a home run and five RBI vs. Wofford (5/16) ... Went 8-for-16 in Tech's series win vs. No. 16 Miami (5/18-5/20) ... Hit two home runs, the first multi-home game of his career, in the middle game of the series against the Hurricanes.
2005: Earned second-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors in his first year as a starter ... Hit safely in 50 of 62 games ... Went 6-for-16 (.375) in the ACC Tournament and earned all-tournament honors ... Also named to the all-tournament team at the NCAA Atlanta Regional, going 5-for-16 (.313) with five walks ... Had a walk-off RBI single in Tech's 5-4, 10-inning win over Furman in the opening round ... Showed increased power in the last two weeks of the season, belting three home runs in the last 10 games after hitting three homers in his first 52 games ... Went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI in his first career start at Georgia Southern (2/12) ... Had six hits, including a home run, and six RBI in Tech's sweep of Wake Forest (3/11-3/13) ... Went 5-for-5 in the middle game of that series ... Went 4-for-10 with a home run and three RBI against NC State (3/18-3/20) ... Was just 3-for-13 in three games at Miami (3/25-3/27), but had one of the biggest hits of the game in the series finale, an 11-10 Tech win, when he hit a game-tying, two-run double in the top of the ninth inning ... Went 4-for-9 with 10 RBI in three games vs. Winthrop (4/8-4/10) ... Had two hits and drove in three runs in Tech's 12-2 win over Georgia (4/20) ... Was 6-for-13 with five RBI in Tech's series win at Clemson (4/29-5/1) ... Went 4-for-9 vs. Florida Atlantic (5/6-5/8) and followed that with a 3-for-4 performance vs. Coastal Carolina (5/10) ... Went 5-for-13 with a pair of three-run homers at North Carolina (5/18-5/20).
2004: Made the transition to the outfield midway through the season and showed promise at that position ... Went 2-for-5 in five pinch-hitting appearances.
2003: Redshirted during the season ... Practiced with the team, but did not appear in a game ... Spent the summer with Delaware of the Great Lakes League ... Went 2-0 with a 2.70 ERA in eight appearances, including one start ... Worked 16.2 innings, allowing 11 hits, five earned runs, 13 walks and 11 strikeouts.
2002: Rookie pitcher who emerged as one of the top lefties out of the bullpen ... Made 15 appearances in relief and posted a 1-0 record and a 3.52 ERA in 15.1 innings of work ... Tossed 0.2 shutout innings and earned a hold in Tech's 2-1 win over Coastal Carolina (2/22) ... Struck out four batters in 2.2 IP vs. South Carolina (2/23) ... Did not pitch from 2/23 through 3/15 while suffering from mononucleosis ... Pitched a scoreless 8th to help preserve Tech's 6-5 win over EKU (3/20) ... Earned his first career victory vs. NC State (3/30) pitching 4.0 innings in relief, while facing the minimum number of batters ... Recorded the first base hit of his career with a pinch-hit single vs. Mercer (5/8).
High School: A four-year letterwinner as a pitcher and an outfielder for coach Terry Cadenhead at Sprayberry High School in Marietta ... Earned all-region and all-county honors as a junior in 2000 and a senior in 2001 ... Also lettered two years as a guard and forward on the Sprayberry basketball team ... Member of the prestigious East Cobb Yankees summer baseball program that won the AAU National Championship as well as the Connie Mack World Series.
Personal: Full name is Jeffrey Roy Kindel ... Born January 9, 1983 ... Son of Roy and Kathy Kindel ... Cousin Mike Davis is currently playing minor league baseball in the Kansas City Royals organization ... Earned his degree in Management from Georgia Tech in December, 2005.
Year G-GS W-L SV CG SH ERA IP H R ER BB SO Avg.
2002 15-0 1-0 0 0 0 3.52 15.1 13 7 6 10 13 .241
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