A clutch hitter who can change the game with one swing ... Swings the bat hard and rarely gets cheated ... Has the ability to drive in runs and hit for power, something the Aztecs missed in 2008 ... Brings a wealth of experience back to SDSU, including 135 games and 122 starts ... Will look to add depth after redshirting the 2008 season ... Is 12 doubles short of the SDSU record (34) ... Has a strong arm with a quick release.
HONORS
2006 Mountain West Conference All-Tournament Team
Mountain West Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 8, 2005)
SDSU Career Rankings: T-7th in sacrifice flies (3), 8th in doubles (22), T-9th in home runs (7)
2008 Season: Utilized her redshirt season.
2007 Season: Tied for fourth (Lindsey Marquez) on the team with seven doubles ... The seven doubles were just one short of tying her career high of eight, set in 2006 ... Tied for the MWC lead and was tops on the team with three sacrifice flies after not recording any in each of her first two seasons on The Mesa ... Was a perfect 4-for-4 on stolen base attempts, also just one short of her career high of five (2006) ... Started 40 of the 46 games she appeared in ... Was second on the team with 76 assists ... Her 127 at-bats were sixth on the team ... Had five multiple-hit games and two multiple-RBI contests ... Had three game-winning RBI and three game-winning runs ... Was part of a game-winning play on six occasions, tied with Monica Alnes and Melissa Owens for the third-most on the squad ... Helped the Aztecs to an impressive 8-0 record when she was in the cleanup spot ... In the four hole, she went 9-for-26 (.346) with seven runs scored, three doubles and three RBI ... Batted .375 (3-for-8) in limited action against left-handed pitchers ... Was 8-for-24 (.333) when leading off an inning and had three RBI in three at-bats with the bases loaded ... Batted .270 (10-for-37) in 14 games during the first month of the season ... Through her first three seasons, she is batting .318 (35-for-110) with 20 RBI in February ... Had a season-long four-game hit streak from March 17-21 ... Batted .400 (6-for-15) during the streak with five runs and three RBI ... Had a run in five straight games from March 13-21 ... SDSU was 11-1 when she scored a run, 7-2 when she had at least one RBI and 5-0 when she had a multi-hit game.
2006 Season: Named to the Mountain West Conference all-tournament team after batting .556 (5-for-9) with a home run and a team-leading eight RBI ... Tied with four others for first on the team with her seven multi-RBI games ... Third on the team with 29 RBI ... Also was third in doubles (8) and home runs (3) ... Started 46 of the 48 games she appeared in, fourth most on the team ... Had three games with three or more RBI (the most she had in one game in her freshman season was two) ... Went 3-for-5 with a career-high five RBI in SDSU[apos]s 21-5, five-inning win over New Mexico on April 23 ... Also homered and scored two runs ... Was 5-for-6 on stolen base attempts ... Hit .450 (9-for-20) during a career-long six-game hitting streak from Feb. 23-March 1 ... Had two hits apiece in three consecutive games (vs. Colorado State - 4/9/06, vs. UNLV - 4/15/06, and vs. UNLV (game two) - 4/15/06) ... Batted .400 (14-for-35) in night games, the second highest night batting average on the team ... Was 11-for-32 (.344) in the month of February ... Hit .389 (7-for-18) with two home runs and 11 RBI in six games against perennial MWC power Brigham Young ... Was 4-for-8 (.500) with the bases loaded ... Her two homers in MWC play was second most on the team, while her 13 RBI was third ... Aztecs were 14-3 when she scored a run and 13-3 when she had at least one RBI.
2005 Season: SDSU Single-Season Rankings: T-8th in home runs (4)
Tied Megan McDonald for the team lead with four home runs, despite playing in only 41 of the Aztecs[apos] 57 games ... Four homers were tied for the seventh-most in a single season in SDSU history (now tied for eighth) ... Led the squad with a .410 slugging percentage ... Tied for second on the team with seven doubles and was third in RBI (16) ... Batted .254 (31-of-122) with 15 runs scored ... Had eight multiple-hit games and four multi-RBI games ... Aztecs were 5-3 when she had at least two hits and 3-1 when she had two or more RBI ... SDSU was 8-4 when she batted No. 3 in the lineup ... Hit .324 (12-for-37) from the three spot with five doubles and eight RBI ... Had four-game hitting streaks on three occasions including the first four games of the year (Feb. 4-6) and the last four games of the season (May 8-13) ... Hit safely in 11 of her first 14 games ... Batted .341 (14-for-41) with 10 RBI in the month of February ... Was 4-for-13 (.308) with two RBI in the Mountain West Conference tournament ... Went 3-for-3 and added two RBI in a 3-0 Aztec victory over New Mexico on May 6 ... Recorded her first career three-hit game against BYU on April 22 ... Had two doubles and two RBI against St. Mary[apos]s (Feb. 6) ... Went 2-for-3 with two RBI in a SDSU 3-2 win over No. 20 Long Beach State on Feb. 5.
High School: Played four years at Grossmont High School ... Named to all-East County League first team ... Foothiller MVP in 2003 and 2004 ... Coca Cola Tournament MVP 2003 and 2004 ... 2004 East County Player of the Year ... Also lettered four years in basketball and volleyball.
Personal: Taryin Michelle Casillas was born Jan. 4, 1986, in La Mesa, Calif. ... Daughter of Mary Ann and Steve Casillas ... Has a daughter who will turn one this summer ... Major is physical education.