2014 (Senior Year): Did not compete.
2013 (Junior Year): Competed in 50 games on the year with 49 starts, including 47 at first base and two at designated player … Batted .281 on the season with 18 runs on 36 hits … Had four doubles, two home runs and 19 RBI as well as a team-leading 31 walks … Finished second in the MEAC in walks and 68
th in the nation in walks per game … Her walks total ranks second in a single season in NSU’s Division I history and fifth overall … Also ranks fifth in career walks … Hit a two-run home run to tie the game up against UMES on April 6 in the first contest of a doubleheader … Drove in three runs in the second game and ended the day 3-for-7 with two runs and five RBI in those two games … Hit her second career homer later in the season on April 20 against Delaware State in game 1 of a doubleheader … Batted 5-for-6 with two RBI in back-to-back games against Hartford and Villanova on March 16 and 17 … Also had a pair of RBI in game 1 against Howard on March 29.
2012 (Sophomore Year): Played in 45 games and made 43 starts, all at first base … Batted .165 with 15 hits in 91 at bats … Scored seven runs and added three doubles, 10 RBI and a team-leading 23 walks … Finished tied for second in the MEAC in walks … Carried a .967 fielding percentage … Batted 6-for-21 (.286) over the last eight games of the year with eight RBI and five walks … Knocked in a pair of runs May 6 in a 6-3 win over Hampton … Hit a two-run single May 11 against Florida A&M in the MEAC tournament … Had her lone multi-hit game of the year April 14 with a 2-for-4 effort in a Game 1, 7-0 win over Morgan State … Hit 1-for-2 with a pair of runs scored and an RBI April 26 during a 7-0 victory over Howard … Also scored two runs in Game 1 at North Carolina Central on March 28 and then against April 15 against Morgan State … Walked three times in Game 1 at James Madison on April 4 and had eight over a five-game stretch.
2011 (Freshman Year): Started all 48 games at first base, one of four players to start all 48 games for the Spartans … Batted .257 with 19 runs, 35 hits, six doubles, 23 RBI, five sacrifice hits and a team-leading 19 walks … Held a .977 fielding percentage with eight errors and 319 putouts … Went 2-for-4 with a one and four RBI at Florida A&M on April 10, including a bases-clearing double … Added two hits and two RBI in Game 1 against Hampton on March 24 … Went 3-for-3 with two runs scored in Game 1 at UMES on April 21 … Added three hits at UMES on April 27 in the second game of a doubleheader … Batted 1-for-3 with a run scored and three RBI May 1 against North Carolina A&T … Went 2-for-6 with three runs and three RBI in a doubleheader sweep of North Carolina Central on Feb. 19 … Added two hits in Game 2 the next day against Coppin State … Had six multiple-hit games on the season and knocked in two or more runs four times.
High School: Four-year member of the varsity softball team at Ocean Lakes … Earned first-team all-district honors her junior year and second-team all-district honors senior year … Led Ocean Lakes to the Beach District Championship senior year.
Personal: Full name is Melina Alice Valles … Born on Dec. 5, 1991 … Daughter of Mark and Robin Valles …. Has one older brother, Robert … Majoring in sociology with a minor in business.
Valles' Career Hitting Stats| YEAR | AVG | GP-GS | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | TB | BB | SO | SB-ATT |
| 2011 | .257 | 48-48 | 136 | 19 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 41 | 19 | 27 | 0-0 |
| 2012 | .165 | 45-43 | 91 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 22 | 0-0 |
| 2013 | .281 | 50-49 | 128 | 18 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 46 | 31 | 29 | 0-0 |
| Totals | .242 | 143-140 | 355 | 44 | 86 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 52 | 105 | 73 | 78 | 0-0 |
