Softball 2010
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Lowe's Senior CLASS Awards Criteria In addition to the core requirement that the candidate be a NCAA Division 1 senior, the finalists and eventual winner will be selected based on personal qualities that define a complete student athlete. These areas of excellence are defined under the categories of Classroom, Character, Community and Competition. Classroom: academic achievements and successfully progressing in regards to earning a degree Character: attributes that define the candidate's personal character, including leadership skills, work ethic and integrity Community: involvement in community and charity activities, utilizing the candidate's status as a college athlete to make an impact in worthwhile causes Competition: achievements within the athlete's respective sport and their role in the success of the team Softball 2010 Athletes: Becky Anderson Blair Bodenmiller Chelsea Bramlett Mandy Correale Lauren Delaney Michele DePasquale Francesca Enea Christa Fullwood Ashley Griffith Alissa Haber Becca Heteniak Liane Horiuchi Tiffany Huff Nina Iduate Alyson Intihar Molly Johnson Megan Langenfeld Alyson McWherter Molly Meyer Elizabeth Milian Janay Mitchell Charlotte Morgan Nikki Nemitz Marissa Nichols Tara Oltman Nicole Pauly Kellie Sirus Brittany Stanley Stacie Townsend Erin Tresselt Becky Anderson (George Mason University) Classroom In the classroom Anderson has been an honor roll student in all but one of her semesters, carrying a cumulative GPA of 3.571 through 7 semesters. She has been named to the Dean's List, is an endowed scholarship recipient and a top academic performer. An accounting major, Anderson performed so well in an internship over the summer that the CPA firm she did the internship with has already hired her to a position in the company following graduation in May. Following her junior season, she was named to the Virginia Sports Information Directors Academic All-State Team. Character In the words of head coach Joe Verbanic, "Becky is honest, trustworthy, reliable and forthright. She is always seeking to do what is the right thing - not just for herself but most importantly thinking of the team, her teammates and others." She has been a leader on the team from the day that she arrived and has been a member of the team leadership council (in lieu of captains). In the process of trying to build the softball program at George Mason, Anderson was someone who really began to change the face of the program and truly set the direction of what it wants to be - one based in and the development of character and class with high ideals and expectations. Community As an active member of Mason's Student-Athlete Advisory Council for three years, Anderson has been at the forefront of the team and the athletic department's community service work. Among the activities she has been a part of, Anderson has participated in Letters 4 Kids, Mason's Victims Rights 5K Fun Run/Walk, the Hunger and Homelessness Action Week Food Drive, and the annual Colonial Athletic Association Blood Challenge. As a member of the Patriots, she has also gone to local elementary schools to read to schoolchildren, and her softball team has hosted a clinic for Girl Scouts. She was a part of the softball team that won the school's community service award in 2007-08 and finished runner-up in 2008-09. She is always one of the people who can be counted on to be there for a project often changing her own schedule to make sure she is there. Competition As the Patriots' top pitcher who has also found success in the batters' box, Anderson has twice been named to the All-CAA First Team and was an All-Rookie selection her freshman year. She has appeared in over 100 games in her career as a pitcher, amassing a 2.60 career ERA and 31 career victories, including 56 complete games, with 284 strikeouts compared to just 136 walks. She set a school record in 2008 with 36 appearances, and during her 2009 junior season, was fourth in the CAA in appearances, innings pitched, strikeouts and fifth in opponent batting average (.234). Offensively, Anderson has 75 hits in her career including six home runs. Blair Bodenmiller (Florida Atlantic University) Classroom Bodenmiller graduated in December of 2008 with a degree in political science and a GPA of 3.96. She is currently pursuing her masters' degree in that same field and has a perfect GPA in her graduate school studies. Character She is known among her teammates for tireless work ethic both on and off the field. Community Bodenmiller has volunteered at several organizations throughout the community including Habitat for Humanity and Relay for Life. She also played a key role in the softball team being named Special Olympics of Palm Beach County's Volunteer Group of the Year for 2008-09. Competition Bodenmiller was named to the All-Sun Belt first team as a junior after hitting .275 and leading the team with eight home runs and 22 RBIs. She was also named to the Sun Belt All-Tournament team after helping the Owls to the title game. She has started all 168 games that she has played in since arriving on campus. She enters her senior season in the top-10 in FAU history in home runs and stolen bases. She was also named FAU's female student-athlete of the year as a sophomore. Chelsea Bramlett (Mississippi State University) Classroom Bramlett was named an ESPN The Magazine/Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America first team Academic All-American in 2008 and a second-team honoree in 2009. Bramlett has been selected to the Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll her junior and sophomore seasons after being selected to the Southeastern Conference Freshman Academic Honor Roll in 2007. She has been named National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Scholar-Athlete twice in her career. Character Bramlett is the type of player who leads not only vocally, but through her actions as well. Each day she puts in extra work in the batting cage and on the practice field. "Chelsea has an outstanding work ethic. She never lets up in games or in practice. She's always giving 100 percent," Mississippi State head coach Jay Miller said. "She doesn't coast and brings a great leadership to not only our team, but our pitching staff as well." Bramlett works with the Bulldog pitching staff on a daily basis, helping develop the hurlers while calling all of the signals during games. "Handling the pitching staff as the catcher is difficult with all of the different personalities and egos involved, but Chelsea does a great job in developing the staff," said Coach Miller. That effort on the field also continues off the field. She coaches youth players in the summer in addition to her work with Mississippi State's winter and summer softball camps. Community Whether it be handing out food, spending time with school children, or helping maintain the Mississippi State campus' beauty, Bramlett has been very active in community service activities during her four years in Starkville. Even with all of the hours she has to devote to softball practices, games, and academics, she still makes a point to devote some of her time to helping others on campus and in the community. An active member of the Mississippi State M-Club student-athlete service organization, she showed her school pride by painting paw prints along roads on the MSU campus. She also worked the University's annual Halloween Carnival, taking time during fall practice to sign autographs and hand out candy to children in the community. Over the holidays, Bramlett helped make some Starkville residents' Thanksgiving special by delivering bags of food to their homes. She also helped decorate trees for Starkville's annual Festival of Trees, an event that raises money for the United Way. Bramlett took to heart the feeling of homesickness that the troops in Iraq must feel. She decided to help bring a little bit of home to some Mississippi State fans stationed there by sending them DVDs of the Bulldogs' home football games. The Cordova, Tennessee, native also lends her time to mentoring youth softball players during MSU's winter and summer softball camps. Throughout the year, she will also take time out of her busy schedule to go to local elementary schools. There she spends her time with the children, reading books to them as part of Bully's Book Blitz initiative. Competition Bramlett has enjoyed an award-winning career during her time at Mississippi State, receiving numerous accolades while setting nearly every single-season and career offensive record. Twice she has been selected to play alongside the best in the world as part of the United States National Team. She was selected for the 2010 United States squad that will play in the International Softball Federation World Championships this summer. The selection comes a year after she helped lead the Red, White and Blue to gold medals at the Canada Cup, KFC World Cup of Softball, and the Japan Cup. Arguably one of the top players in school, SEC, and NCAA history, Bramlett has received NFCA first team All-America accolades each year of her Bulldog career. A two-time top 25 finalist for USA Softball Player of the Year, she is the only Bulldog to ever receive first-team honors three times, and is attempting to become only the school's second four-time All-American. She has twice been named the NFCA/Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year as the top catcher in NCAA Division I. In 2009 she added the Adidas Golden Shoe Award for the top base stealer in the Division I ranks.