NCAA Collegiate Player of the Year Award FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2nd, 2010 Danielle Lawrie wins second consecutive USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year Award (Oklahoma City, OK) Softball Canada is very pleased to announce that Danielle Lawrie (Langley, BC), a 2008 Canadian Softball Olympian and Senior Women's National Team member, has been awarded the prestigious 9th Annual USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year award. Lawrie plays for the University of Washington - along with fellow Canadian National Team member Jenn Salling (Port Coquitlam, BC) - and the team will participate in the 2010 Women's College World Series (WCWS) in Oklahoma City. The Huskies are the defending WCWS Series Champions, and Lawrie was also named the Collegiate Player of the Year last year. Lawrie has compiled a 40-3 record with an earned run average of 1.00 heading into the WCWS, and has accumulated 448 strikeouts against only 41 walks in 288.1 innings pitched. Her 24 shutouts led the NCAA and broke her own school record, and she ranks in the top five in the United States in strikeouts, earned run average, walks per seven innings and strikeouts per seven innings. Over her NCAA career, she has notched a total of 1,843 strikeouts, which ranks fourth in all-time NCAA history. She also holds seven of ten school pitching record at the University of Washington. In addition to her tremendous success in the pitcher's circle, Lawrie also contributed heavily at the plate this season, leading the Huskies with 15 homeruns, 57 runs batted in and a .616 slugging percentage. The other finalists for the award were Team Canada teammate Jennifer Yee (North Delta, BC) from Georgia Tech and Megan Langenfeld (Bakersfield, California) from UCLA. Lawrie is only the second player to win the award twice, as past winners include Cat Osterman (three times), Stacey Nuveman and Monica Abbott, as well as Jessica Van der Linden and Angela Tincher. Lawrie is the only Canadian to win the award. -SC- For more information, please contact: Gilles LeBlanc Manager: Marketing and Communications Softball Canada (613) 523-3386 x3105 gleblanc(at)softball.ca Al's Fastball News *Email: fastball(at)pmihrm.com [email protected] NEWS-1: http://www.AlsFastball.com/ NEWS-2: http://fastpitchwest.com/alsfastball VIA http://www.webbox.com _______________________________________________ Alsfastball mailing list [email protected] http://fastpitchwest.com/mailman/listinfo/alsfastball_fastpitchwest.com
