2019: Recorded an RBI-single and a run scored in her Northwestern debut, a 12-0 win over Utah State (2/8) … Reached base twice with a walk and a single in a 1-0 victory vs. Louisville (2/9) … Hit a game-tying RBI double in the sixth inning against Loyola Marymount (2/9) ... Hit the eventual game-winning home run in the top of the ninth inning to help defeat Louisville (2/15) ... Went 1-for-3 with two walks against North Carolina (2/15) ... Hit one double and reached base twice in victory vs. BYI (2/22) ... Hit one double and recorded two RBI in a victory over Duke (2/22) ... Went 1-for-3 and hit a three-run homer in a 10-0 shutout vs. Utah (2/23) ... Scored in the second inning against Long Beach State (2/23) ... Scored two runs and hit a solo home run, in a win over Cal Poly (3/1) ... Reached base in two of her three plate appearances against Stanford (3/1) ... Knocked in the eventual game-winning RBI with a single in the first inning against Montana (3/3) ... Doubled and walked and came around to score both times in a victory over Tulsa (3/9) ... Scored three times, each of them coming after drawing a walk, to help defeat Grand Canyon (3/9) ... Homered in back-to-back games against Indiana (3/16) and Rutgers (3/22), scoring four runs over the two-game stretch ... Doubled and scored the eventual game-winning run in the first inning versus Rutgers (3/23) ... Went 5-for-10 over the course of a series against Iowa (3/29-3/31) while adding 4 RBIs, 3 runs scored and a home run ... Homered to extend the lead in a win over Nebraska (4/5) ... Went 2-for-5 with two RBI and a run scored against Wisconsin (4/13) ... Went 1-for-4 with an RBI and run scored against Purdue (4/19).
High School: An all-state, all-conference and Chicago Tribune all-area selection in each of her high school seasons, she is ranked as a top-200 national recruit by FloSoftball … Named an All-American as a sophomore, junior and senior … First-Team FloSoftball All-American infielder in 2018 ... Career high school batting average is over .500 with 165 runs scored and 149 RBIs in three seasons … Broke the OPRF single-season home run record with 10 in 2016 before breaking it again with 13 in 2017 … Hit a two-strike, two-out, seventh-inning game-tying triple in the 2016 Illinois state title game … Team won the state title in both 2016 and 2017 while finishing third in 2015 … OPRF team was ranked third in the nation … Played eight years of club ball with the Oak Park Windmills and two years with the Beverly Bandits … Bandits won the 2017 Boulder Independence Day Tournament, were second at the 2017 PGF Shootout and finished third at the 2017 PGF Nationals … Also lettered in basketball and volleyball in high school, serving as captain of the two-time conference champion basketball squad … Class valedictorian and cum laude … Has made the dean's list and the honor roll in every semester … Won the Pascal Math Award … Illinois State Scholar.
Personal: Born Maeve Mullarkey Nelson … Daughter of Ellen and Scott Nelson … Mom played volleyball at Iowa … Sister, Allie Nelson, plays volleyball at Kansas … Father played minor league baseball … Knows how to sing opera and competitively rode horses in barrel racing … High school has produced such diverse talents as Olympic softball gold medalist Dani Tyler, rap artist and actor Ludacris, NBA guard Iman Shumpert, celebrated American novelist and journalist Ernest Hemingway, and former NUSB student-athletes Aly Euler and Jessica Rigas … Majoring in industrial engineering.
High School: An all-state, all-conference and Chicago Tribune all-area selection in each of her high school seasons, she is ranked as a top-200 national recruit by FloSoftball … Named an All-American as a sophomore, junior and senior … First-Team FloSoftball All-American infielder in 2018 ... Career high school batting average is over .500 with 165 runs scored and 149 RBIs in three seasons … Broke the OPRF single-season home run record with 10 in 2016 before breaking it again with 13 in 2017 … Hit a two-strike, two-out, seventh-inning game-tying triple in the 2016 Illinois state title game … Team won the state title in both 2016 and 2017 while finishing third in 2015 … OPRF team was ranked third in the nation … Played eight years of club ball with the Oak Park Windmills and two years with the Beverly Bandits … Bandits won the 2017 Boulder Independence Day Tournament, were second at the 2017 PGF Shootout and finished third at the 2017 PGF Nationals … Also lettered in basketball and volleyball in high school, serving as captain of the two-time conference champion basketball squad … Class valedictorian and cum laude … Has made the dean's list and the honor roll in every semester … Won the Pascal Math Award … Illinois State Scholar.
Personal: Born Maeve Mullarkey Nelson … Daughter of Ellen and Scott Nelson … Mom played volleyball at Iowa … Sister, Allie Nelson, plays volleyball at Kansas … Father played minor league baseball … Knows how to sing opera and competitively rode horses in barrel racing … High school has produced such diverse talents as Olympic softball gold medalist Dani Tyler, rap artist and actor Ludacris, NBA guard Iman Shumpert, celebrated American novelist and journalist Ernest Hemingway, and former NUSB student-athletes Aly Euler and Jessica Rigas … Majoring in industrial engineering.