A top 25 finalist for USA Softball National Player of the Year in 2008, named ASUN Player of the Year and FGCU’s Female Student-Athlete of the Year after leading the nation with a .638 on-base percentage with a .425 batting average, 22 HRs (fourth in the nation), 68 RBI, 76 runs scored, and an ASUN record 84 walks (fifth-most in NCAA history) ... Her .928 slugging percentage ranked her second in the country ... Was selected the NCAA Division II National Player of the Year and an All-American as a junior in 2007 when she set the NCAA Division II record of 28 home runs while driving in 80 runs ... The Eagles were a combined 110-23 in her two seasons ... Inducted into the ASUN Hall of Fame Class of 2019. 
 

Carmen (Paez) Jimenez
"I hope that when a little girl walks up to the FGCU softball field, she realizes she is stepping foot on blood, sweat, and tears. I hope she is inspired and falls in love with the sport. Past softball players have spent their career training and living on that field. I was one of them. One thing that I want all of those little girls to understand, awards are not just handed out to anyone, they are earned."

Coach David Deiros

"Carmen was the best pure hitter to ever wear the Green and Blue. Her prodigious power was only topped by her competitive ferocity and boundless generosity to her teammates."