BATON ROUGE — Head coach Yvette Girouard announced the addition of transfer Heidi Pizer Tuesday to the LSU softball roster. Pizer comes to the Tigers from Louisiana-Lafayette and will enter as a sophomore for the 2010 season.
“Heidi was originally on our recruiting radar a few years ago as an exceptional two-sport athlete who is very talented and gifted,” Girouard said. “She will fill a need for us in the middle infield as we battled injuries to our infielders last season. We need to take a page out of our national championship baseball team and surround our team with as many truly gifted athletes as possible. Heidi is one of those athletes. We’re very excited that she will be wearing purple and gold next season.”
At Tigard High School in Oregon, Pizer was a four-time All-Pacific Conference selection at shortstop. She also notched four All-Pacific Conference picks in basketball. Pizer went 2-for-5 with a RBI and saw action in eight games for the Ragin’ Cajuns last season.
LSU tallied a 34-18-1 record during the 2009 season and made its 11th NCAA Regional appearance since softball was reinstated in 1997. The Tigers are sixth nationally and have racked up an impressive 441-137-1 record since Girouard took over the program prior to the 2001 season.