2024 Softball Roster
Tarpey, Michele
#BehindThe20 with former Pack Stars Abbie Sims and Renada Davis
Wednesday, April 24
Softball: Players Presser (2/15)
Thursday, February 15
Softball: Coach Leftwich Presser (2/15)
Thursday, February 15
EmpowHER with Aisha Weixlmann #Shorts #NCState #GoPack
Monday, October 16
Jersey Number 8
Michele Tarpey
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Height:
- 5-8
- Hometown:
- Fuquay-Varina, N.C.
- High School:
- Fuquay-Varina
Bio
2024 Academic All-ACC
2025 ACC All-Academic
2025 - Redshirt Junior Season
2025 ACC All-Academic
2025 - Redshirt Junior Season
- 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 100th 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
- 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
- Appeared in two games during opening weekend
- Missed the remainder of the season due to injury
- 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)
- 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