Kristen Brown (2016) - Patterson Medal Winners - University of North Carolina Athletics

Kristen Brown

Induction:
2016
Class:
2016

2016— Kristen Brown: Softball
The first softball player to win the Patterson Medal. Brown set the all-time ACC home run record with her 66th round-tripper in walk-off fashion in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. She was the first Tar Heel with 10 or more home runs in each of her four seasons.

Brown earned first-team All-America honors as a senior after earning third-team honors in 2015. The exercise and sports science major was a three-time first-team All-ACC selection and twice an all-region honoree. After breaking the UNC home run record in just her junior season, she went on to set eight career school records, including home runs (66), total bases (469), RBIs (204), runs (181), slugging percentage (.714), walks (106), sacrifice flies (11) and intentional walks (14). She finished her career second at Carolina in on-base percentage (.452) and fourth in batting average (.356).

An All-ACC Academic team selection and team captain, Brown set five UNC single-season records, including the highest two marks in RBIs and home runs, as well as runs, walks and sacrifice flies, and was third all-time in the ACC in career RBIs, fourth in slugging percentage and total bases and ninth in runs scored.

Brown was named to the USA Softball Women’s Elite Team and was drafted by the Chicago Bandits (NPF), the only ACC player drafted in 2016.