Field Narrowed to 10 for the Finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year

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Field Narrowed to 10 for the Finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate
Player of the Year  




For ImmediateRelease: 5/6/09

Field Narrowed to10 for the Finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate
Player of the Year

OKLAHOMA CITY,Okla. --- The Amateur Softball Association of America
(ASA), theNational Governing Body of Softball in the United States,
has selected its 10Finalists for the 8th Annual USA Softball
Collegiate Player of the Year Award.This award, which is considered
the most prestigious honors in Division Iwomen’s collegiate softball,
is designed to recognize outstanding athleticachievement by female
collegiate softball players across the country. Pastwinners of
this award include UCLA’s Stacey Nuveman, Florida State’s JessicaVan
der Linden, three-time winner Texas pitcher Cat Osterman, Tennessee’sMonica
Abbott and Virginia Tech’s Angela Tincher. 

The Top 10 list represents 10 schools and five different NCAA
Division IConferences. The list is comprised of five seniors,
four juniors, and onesophomore. The 2009 USA Softball Collegiate
Player of the Year will be chosenfrom the 10 finalists. 

The three finalists will be announced May 20th while the winner
ofthe 2009 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Award will
be announcedprior to the start of the 2009 NCAA Women’s College
World Series in OklahomaCity.

2009 Top 10Finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of
the Year 

Name – School –Year – Position – Hometown

Stacie Chambers (Arizona) – Junior –Catcher – Glendale, Az.

Kaitlin Cochran (Arizona State) -Senior- Outfield - Yorba Linda,
Calif.

Amber Flores (Oklahoma) – Junior –Infield – Calexico, Calif.


Alisa Goler (Georgia) – Sophomore –Infield – Frankfort, Ill.


Danielle Lawrie (Washington) –Junior - Pitcher – Langley, British
Columbia 

Charlotte Morgan (Alabama) – Junior–Pitcher/Utility – Moreno
Valley, Calif.

Stacey Nelson (Florida) – Senior –Pitcher – Los Alamitos, Calif.

Amber Patton (DePaul) – Senior –Third Base - Forsyth, Ill.

Missy Penna (Stanford) – Senior –Pitcher/Infield – Miami, Fla.


Tammy Williams (Northwestern) –Senior – Infield - Roscoe, Mo.

About ASA 

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National
GoverningBody of softball in the United States and a member of
the United States OlympicCommittee. The ASA has become one of
the nation’s largest sports organizationsand now sanctions competition
in every state through a network of 83 localassociations. The
ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days toover
240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three
million.For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/

About USA Softball 

USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the
ASA that links theUSA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior
Girls’ National Team programstogether. USA Softball is responsible
for training, equipping and promotingthese four National Teams
to compete in international and domesticcompetitions. The USA
Softball Women’s National Team is one of the only twowomen’s
sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutivegold
medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also
won eightWorld Championship titles including the last six consecutive
as well as claimedtwo World Cup of Softball titles. For more
information about USA Softball,please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.

 

 

 

Holly Krivokapich

Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications
ASA/USA Softball

405-425-3431
www.asasoftball.com

www.usasoftball.com 

 

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