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Athlete of the Week: Michelle Cooprider
With a smile that can light up any room, Cooprider can throw some serious heat as Hopkinton's pitcher extraordinaire.
Name: Michelle Cooprider
Graduating Class: Class of 2011
Team: Hopkinton Hillers Softball Team
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Position: Pitcher/Left Field
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Senior Year Stats:
Batting Average: .492
Earned Run Average: 1.5
Record: 11 -2
Career Stats:
Batting Average: .509
Earned Run Average: 1.4
Most Memorable Moment: "My most memorable game was the south sectional finals versus Doyle Cassidy this spring," Cooprider said. " We shut them out and played the best we've ever played. We had lost to them in tournament my sophomore year so beating them in the rematch made it that much more fulfilling. This win also made Hopkinton softball history because it was the furthest a softball team had ever gone. I loved having this success with this team because we have always played together since we were little. We had such chemistry as a team and it definitely paid off."
Cooprider will be attending Tufts University in the fall and will be playing on the Tufts softball team. In previous summers she has played on the Central Mass Frenzy, a Hopkinton based club team.
Congratualtions to Michelle from the Hopkinton Patch. It's great to see a hometown hero go on to bigger fields! Good luck at Tufts. Want to wish Michelle well? Tell her in the comments.