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UC Santa Barbara
2008: Started all 54 games during her first season in the blue and gold...Batted .260 during the season with 40 hits and 17 runs...Was third on the team with nine doubles, tied second with two triples and third with four home runs...Her 23 RBI ranked third among the Gauchos...Posted a .422 slugging percentage...Went 5-for-7 during stolen base attempts...Posted a .945 fielding percentage and ranked fourth in the Big West with 116 assists...Had a season-high three hits against Syracuse (Feb. 29), a game in which she went 3-for-3 with a run, two RBI, a double and a walk...Tallied a season-high three RBI on two ocassions: against Loyola Marymount (Mar. 9) and against Pacific (May 4)...Tied a UCSB record for doubles in a game with two against Cal State Fullerton (May 9)...Strung together a 12-game hitting streak running from Mar. 9 thru Mar. 30...The aforementioned streak included five games with two hits apiece...Ended the season amidst a four-game hitting streak.
High School
Played at Newark Memorial High School under coaches Rachel Kahoalii and Clare Alcott...Was an All-Mission Valley Athletic League First Team recipient three consecutive seasons, 2005-07...Was also named Second Team All-East Bay...Helped her team to a second-place finish in the North Coast Section during the 2006 season...Was also a four-year letterwinner for the Cougar volleyball team...Was runner-up for her school's Athlete of the Year and Scholar-Athlete honors...Set school weight lifting records for squats and bench press.
Travel Ball
Played for Strike Zone under coach Don Ford.
Personal
Jessica Robin Beristianos was born in Fremont, Calif. on May 20, 1989...Parents are Olivia and Bob Beristianos...Has a twin sister named Laura and two older siblings: Kristine, who played softball at San Francisco State, and Matthew...Has yet to declare a major at UCSB, but aspires to one day be a pediatrician...If she didn't play softball, she would probably play volleyball or water polo...Favorite athletes include Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Omar Vizquel, and Albert Pujols...Favorite team is the San Francisco Giants...Enjoys watching "The Notebook", "Harry Potter", "Beauty and the Beast", "Serendipity" and "Big Daddy"...Her favorite television show is "Friends"...Enjoys the "Harry Potter" book series and books by Nicholas Sparks...Her favorite aspect of UCSB is the beach.
