2009 texas a&m softball media guide

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2009 tEXAS A&m SOFtBALLtABLE OF cOntEntS

2 .................................. Aggie Softball Complex

4 ...................Olympic Sports Training Center

5 .......................................................Netum Steed

6 .....................................Aggie Softball Camps/

How to get to the Softball Complex

8 .......................................2009 Season Outlook

10 .................................. Quick Facts and Roster

11 .........................................Roster Breakdowns

Returning Player Bios

12 ......................................................... Erin Glasco

14 ........................................... Rhiannon Kliesing

16 ...................................................Macie Morrow

18 .............................................................Kara Rau

20 ................................................... Alex Reynolds

22 ........................................................Holly Ridley

24 .............................................Bailey Schroeder

26 .................................................Kelsey Spittler

28 .................................................... Andrea Tovar

30 ............................................... Natalie Villarreal

Newcomer Bios

32 .............. Rebecca Arbino/Taryn Broussard

33 ........................... Savana Lloyd/Eden Morris

34 ......................... Kelsea Orsak/ Maroon Club

36 .............................................................. Jo Evans

37 ..........................Evans’ Year-by-Year Record

38 ........................................... Evans … Up Close

39 ........................................................Joy Jackson

40 ............................................ Mary Jo Firnbach

41 ................. Stephen Grove/Milton Overton

42 .....................................................Support Staff

44 .......................Dr. Elsa A. Murano/Bill Byrne

45 ....................................12th Man Foundation

46 ..........................................NCAA Compliance

48 ............................................ Baylor/Iowa State

49 ..............................................Kansas/Missouri

50 ...................................... Nebraska/Oklahoma

51 ...................................Oklahoma State/Texas

52 .........................................................Texas Tech/ Big 12 Composite Schedule

54 .....................Non-Conference Opponents/ A&M Home Tournament Schedules

56 ................................. All-Time Series Records

58 .......................................2008 Season Review

60 ............. 2008 Overall and Big 12 Statistics

61 ........................................ 2008 Game Results

62 ...........2008 Big 12 Standings and Honors

63 ..................... 2008 Big 12 Conference Stats

64 .......... 2008 Big 12 Conference-Only Stats

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66 ........................A&M in the NCAA Regionals and Super Regionals

67 ......................A&M in the Women’s College

World Series

68 ........................................World Series Teams

69 ...................................... National Champions

70 ............. Aggie Olympian Jennifer McFalls

71 ....................................................All-Americans

72 ............................................Aggies in the Pros

74 ........................................ Honors and Awards

76 ................................................. All-Time Roster

77 ............................ Individual Career Records

78 .......................... Individual Season Records

79 .............................. Big 12 Standings by Year

80 ......................Big 12 Team Season Records

81 ..............Individual Big 12 Season Records

82 .......................Year-by-Year Team Statistics/

Team Season Records

83 ......................................Year-by-Year Leaders

85 .............. NCAA National Statistics Leaders

87 ....................................... Year-by-Year Results

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96 .............................................This is Texas A&M

99 ....................................Colleges and Degrees

100 ............................................Aggie Traditions

102 ..................................... Aggie Terminology

103 ......................................Student Rec Center

104 ....................................... Academic Services

106 .............................Academic Achievement

107 ..............................................Career Services

108 ......................................Aggies of Influence

110 ....................... Women’s Athletics Success

114 ............................... Premier Sports Venues

116 .......... Aggie Athletes Involved/Champs

118 ....................................George Bush Library

119 ................................Aggie Sports Museum

120 ....................Bryan/College Station, Texas

122 .......................................Media Information

123 ................................Primary Media Outlets

124 ..................................... AggieAthletics.com

125 ...............................Athletics Facilities Map

126 ............................... The Big 12 Conference

127 ...................................Softball Terminology

128 ................................ Radio/TV Speed Chart

CreditsThe 2009 texas A&M soft ball Media Guide is an official publication of the Texas A&M Athletic Department and was written, designed and typset by Assistant Media Relations Director Deanna Werner with assistance from publications specialist Cyndi Mousner. The guide was printed by the insite Group. Most photographs are courtesy of Glen Johnson of Johnson studio of Professional Photography in Bryan and UsA softball.

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With three national championships and 19 NCAA playoff appearances to its credit,

the Texas A&M softball team also has one more item on its long list of honors. In March, 1994 the Aggies were awarded the Aggie Softball Complex, the first-ever field of their own. When construction began on the Texas A&M Student Recreation Center and Natatorium in 1993, the A&M softball team was forced from its previ-ous home field located on one of the intramural fields at Penberthy Fields on the A&M campus. The Aggies adopted Bee Creek Park in College Station as their home field throughout the 1993 season and most of the 1994 season. But with the help of former directors of athletics John David Crow, Wally Groff and the entire A&M athletic department, the Aggies now have their own place to hang their hel-mets. On March 30, 1994, A&M played its first of-

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ficial game at its new field and did so in style with a doubleheader sweep of in-state foe Texas-San Antonio. When it was originally built in 1994, the soft-ball stadium was only that, a stadium. There was no team meeting room, offices or locker rooms. In 2003, after years of having to change in their cars

and under the stands, the Aggie softball team was awarded additional facilities to go along with the stadium. It was then that Aggie softball truly had a softball complex, not just a stadium. The new facili-ties include home and visitor locker rooms, coaches offices, on-site training facilities, a team meeting room and equipment rooms. In addition to serving as the home of A&M softball, the complex served as a host site for the gold medal USA softball team during its 2000 Cen-tral Park to Sydney Tour and also functioned as one of the sites for the National Fastpitch Coaches As-sociation’s Exposure camp. Furthermore, the complex has served as the host site for numerous high school softball district, area and region state playoff games. Park highlights include raised seating for 1,750, a lighted field with Tifway 419 Bermuda

outfield, sunken dugouts with heaters, four light-ed batting cages, two bullpens and an enclosed press box. Center field depth is 220 feet, while right and left field depths are each 190 feet. The grounds crew, supervised by Leo Goertz and as-sisted by Craig Potts, is responsible for playing surface maintenance, and in 1999 was named NFCA/Turface Maintenance Field of the Year for the second time. In 2004 it was named field of the year for the Central Region. In the summer following the 2005 season, the Aggie Softball Complex received a face-lift. A new drainage system was installed un-der a state-of-the-art playing surface; along with a warning track. Also constructed was an eight-foot graphically enhanced padded wall with banners displaying playoff appearances and decorative bunting in and around the stadium. The players’ lounge also received new furniture. Located on the west side of the A&M cam-pus adjacent to the Anderson Track and Field Complex and the Soccer Stadium and across the street from Olsen Field, the complex is rep-resentative of the A&M athletic department’s continued support of its women’s programs and its commitment to excellence on and off the field.

Three National Championships 19 NCAA Playoff Appearances

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...HOmE OF tEXAS A&m SOFtBALL

softbAll field 1,750 CAPACitY

softbAll bUildinG 3,768 sq. ft.

•Team Room (827 sq. ft.) 3 Computer Workstations Leather Couches 56” Flat Screen TV Storage Closet Team Conference Area

•Aggie Players’ Locker Room (495 sq. ft.) 27 Personal Oak Lockers Individual Equipment Lockers Showers and Bathrooms •Aggie Coaches’ Locker Room (495 sq. ft.)

•Coaches’ Offices

•Equipment Room

•Visiting Coaches Locker Room (251 sq. ft.)

•Visiting Players Locker Room (717 sq. ft.)

•Tunnel Access to Dugouts / Field

• Raised Seating • Enclosed Press Box

• Sunken Dugouts • Lighted Batting Cages

• Lighted Field • Bullpens


• Five Athletic Training Offices• Athletic Trainers Locker Rooms• Two Doctors’ Offices with Waiting Room

Texas A&M student-athletes have access to one of the nation’s finest rehabilitation units in college athlet-ics at the Bright Building.

• One Whirlpool

• One 15-Person Hot Tub

• One 15-Person Cold Plunge

OLympic SpOrtS AtHLEtic training

The 16 training tables were used at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

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nEtum StEEdtexas A&M operates what many

consider to be the nation’s top

strength and conditioning facility

— the netum A. steed Physiology

research and Conditioning labora-

tory. the 23,736-square-foot facility

houses one of the country’s largest

weight rooms and provides ample

space for training athletes for col-

legiate competition.

the weight room has 85 separate training stations, 45,000 pounds of free weights and an additional

10,000 pounds of dumbbells. It has a marked 40-yard dash area and provides space and equipment for physical perfor-mance assessment, including measurement of body composi-tion, strength, endurance, power, speed, agility, range of motion and cardio-respiratory function.

n e t U M s t e e d M i s s i o n s tAt e M e n t

to give every Tex-as A&M athletic

team a competitive edge by empower-ing each athlete to achieve personal and athletic suc-cess through exceptional speed, strength and con-ditioning training.

s tA f f t r U t h s

• Every athlete is impor tant.

• Provide a successful environment for athletes every day.

• Never give up on an athlete.

• Treat every staff member with respect, trust and loyalty, and support each other with open communication.


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how to Get to the AGGie softbAll CoMPlex

From houston: Take I-45 north to Conroe, turn left (west) onto Hwy. 105 to Na-vasota. When you reach Navasota, turn right (north) onto Hwy. 6 to College Sta-

tion. Or take Hwy. 290 west toward Hempstead and exit Hwy. 6 to College Station. When you reach College Station, take the Emerald Parkway/F.M. 2818 exit and turn left. Approximately 1.5 miles later, you will pass the traffic signal at the Welsh Road intersection. Before you reach the next light, you will veer to the right onto F.M. 2154 (Welborn Road). Go to the third stoplight (George Bush Drive) and turn left. Take the next right onto Olsen Road. You will see Olsen Field on your right, and the softball complex will be on your left. Park in the baseball parking lot.

From dallas: Take I-35 south to Waco, then turn left (east) onto Hwy. 6 to College Station. Once you arrive in College Station, take the University Drive exit and turn

right (west). You will soon pass the campus on your left (south). Take the Welborn Road (F.M. 2154) exit and turn left (south). At the third stoplight, turn right (west) onto Joe Routt Blvd./John Kimbrough Blvd. At the stop sign, turn left (south) onto Olsen Road. The softball complex is on the right, just past Reed Arena.

From Austin: Take Hwy. 290 east toward Houston, exit onto Hwy. 21 and turn left. Exit Hwy. 47 toward College Station. Hwy. 47 will turn into Hwy. 60. Exit F.M. 2818

to the right (south). At the first stop light, turn left (east) onto George Bush Drive. Then turn left (north) onto Olsen Road. You will see Olsen Field on your right, and the softball complex will be on your left. Park in the baseball parking lot.

We are happy again to offer our annual softball camps. They will be exciting

and offer coaching expertise from nationally known softball coaches and players. This year we are offering two full camps, with the first being offered as a var-sity skills camp (ages 13-18). The second ses-sion caers to ages 9-12. We believe separat-ing age groups will allow us to run a more effective camp with more individual instruction. There will be some free time for relaxation, but be prepared to work hard. I hope you take home some fond memories along with better skills. I hope to see you this summer, and best of luck in your season.

— Jo Evans, Head Coach, Texas A&M Softball

CAMP sessionsSession I June 14-17 Ages 13-18 Resident $395.00 Day $345.00Session II June 18-21 Ages 9-12 Resident $395.00 Day $345.00

For any additional information, please call979-845-1040 or 979-458-2903

writeAggie softball Camp

P.o. box 11190College station, tx 77842

or [email protected]

Camp information and registration is also available onwww.AggieAthletics.com

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2009 AGGIE SofTbAllSEASon ouTlook

Following its second-consecu-tive trip to the Women’s Col-

lege World Series, a program-best 57 wins and a national runner-up finish, the Texas A&M softball team looks to carry its success from 2008 into 2009.

“Our goal for this season is to pick up where we left off last season,” said A&M head coach Jo Ev-ans, who is entering her 13th season at the helm of the Aggies. “We have established a great culture of winning and tremendous team chemistry. Our goal is to carry that winning culture and that great chemistry into the 2009 season. We expect to con-tinue to compete for championships.” The defending Big 12 Champions are led by Evans, a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year, and associate head coaches Joy Jackson and Mary Jo Firnbach. The 2008 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Midwest Region Coaching Staff of the Year is at the helm of a 2009 squad that returns nine letterwinners and seven starters, while welcoming five celebrated newcomers. “We have a very young squad,” Evans said. “Our returners played in the national champion-ship series last season, so they have been tested at the highest level. They handled the pressure and stress with poise and grace, and they will take that experience with them into this season. They are a hardworking group and anxious to show the coun-try they can pick up where last year’s team left off.

“Our freshman class will have the opportunity to be in our starting lineup,” Evans continued. “Each one of them is competing hard for a position and I anticipate them making an immediate impact on our program. They are very competitive and have the desire to be great players and help us win cham-pionships. I am encouraged by what I have seen so far and look forward to watching them grow and develop.”

PITCHERS

With the departure of three-time All-American Megan Gibson and two-time All-American

Amanda Scarborough, there are some big shoes to fill in the circle, but sophomore Rhiannon Klies-ing, freshman Rebecca Arbino and transfer Savana Lloyd are up to the challenge. Kliesing boasted a 1.40 earned run average and a 12-4 record in 2008. She made 21 appear-ances with six shutouts and 99 strikeouts. The Pearland, Texas, native also batted .279 last season with nine of 29 hits for extra bases. Arbino was a four-year starter at Clovis High School in Clovis, Ca-lif., where she was named most valuable player as a junior and rookie of the year as a freshman. “Rhiannon and Rebecca both have the ability to control a game and to lead our team in the circle,” said Evans. “Rhiannon gained valuable experience last season and learned a lot from working with Megan Gibson and Amanda Scarborough. She un-derstands what it takes to be successful in the Big

12 and on the national stage. Rebecca has tremendous po-tential and talent and is eager to establish herself as a go-to pitcher on our staff. “ Lloyd is a senior and transfers to A&M from Bos-ton College where she played three seasons for the Eagles. The southpaw made 62 ap-pearances, earned three saves and fanned 77 batters. “Savana will play an im-portant role as we will look to her to be our reliever,” con-tinued Evans. “She gives us much-needed depth in the circle, understands and ac-cepts her role and has proven to be a great team player. Our pitchers understand it will take all three of them to com-pete for a national title.”

CATCHERS

Behind the plate, senior co-captain Erin Glasco

brings a wealth of experience, catching almost every pitch last season after transferring to A&M from Notre Dame. The Johnston City, Ill., prod-uct posted a perfect fielding percentage, playing in all 67 games. A member of the Big

12 All-Tournament team in 2008, Glasco hit .280 and is the leading returner with 12 doubles. “Erin was a huge part of our success last sea-son,” Evans said. “She came in and did a tremendous job for us and returned this season with great con-fidence. She is comfortable behind the plate and in the batter’s box. She is becoming a very good leader on and off the field and understands what it takes for us to be successful. She is doing a great job with our young pitching staff and her leader-ship and presence on the field will be a key to our success.” Freshman Eden Morris (Cohutta, Ga.) will provide Glasco some relief behind the plate. Mor-ris was a three-year letterwinner at Dalton High School and played select ball for the Georgia Elite Gold.

INFIELD

The A&M infield has some familiar faces, starting with junior Macie Morrow and sophomore Nat-

alie Villarreal. Morrow returns at shortstop, while Villarreal digs her spikes in for another season at second base. Morrow started 67 games at shortstop in 2008 and is the returner with the best batting av-erage (.290) and most hits (60). From Sugar Land, Texas, Morrow also has great speed with eight sto-len bases last season and 25 for her career. Villarreal is the leading returner in several offensive catego-

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ries, including runs (41), doubles (12), triples (4) and RBI (33). An All-Big 12 second-team selection, the Frisco, Texas, local also tallied a team-high 12 sacrifice hits and will most likely be seen in the two hole this year. “Macie and Natalie have been very solid up the middle for us,” Ev-ans said. “Our team led the nation in fielding percentage last season and Natalie and Macie deserve a lot of credit. Our pitching staff is young, so they will play a crucial part in our team defense. They have shown they can handle the pressure of playing for Big 12 Championships and national championships. Their presence on the field and the example they set for our freshmen will be invaluable.” When she’s not in the circle, Kliesing will see time at first base

Pearland High School in Pearland, Texas. She was also an all-state selection and played for the Texas Aces Gold club team. “Kelsea is inexperienced in the outfield, but has great speed and great potential,” said Evans. “She will likely be our leadoff hitter.”

SCHEDULE

Eleven NCAA Tournament teams, one team that joined Texas A&M at the Women’s College World

Series and 25 home games highlight the 2009 Ag-gie softball schedule. In another ambitious sched-ule, A&M is slated to play 18 games against teams that competed in the NCAA Tournament in 2008, including four squads that advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals. “We are excited about our 2009 schedule,” said Evans. “We have a great non-conference slate which features three home tournaments and a three-game series against the University of Ari-zona. We have the finest fans in the country and they will have the opportunity to watch some of the best teams in the nation compete at our sta-dium. ” A&M opens regular season play by welcom-ing Tulsa and UTSA to College Station for the first of three home tournaments Feb. 6-7. The Aggies then spend back-to-back weekends on the road, one in Baton Rouge, La., for the Easton Tiger Clas-

sic (Feb. 13-15) and the other in Houston for the Marriott Houston Classic (Feb. 20-22). A&M remains in College Sta-tion for its next two early season invitationals. The Aggies’ bring in tough competition, hosting the eight-time national champion Arizona Wildcats for a three-game series Feb. 27-March 1. A&M also welcomes NCAA Tournament teams Louisiana Tech, Stephen F. Austin and Kent State March 6-8. “We look forward to playing so many home games this season,” Evans said. “We had a great follow-ing last year and so many people followed us throughout the WCWS. There has been an increase in at-tendance at our home games and scrimmages this fall, and I think

along with freshman Taryn Broussard. Broussard is from Lake Jackson, Texas, and was a two-year letterwinner at Brazoswood High School. She was named first-team all district, first-team all county and offensive player of the year. Broussard played for the Texas Connection Gold for three years. A&M’s third departure from 2008 was third baseman, Jamie Hinshaw. The Missouri City, Texas, native was a four-time All-Big 12 performer and named an NFCA All-American in 2008. Junior Alex Reynolds will take over the hot corner with sopho-more Kara Rau in tight contention. Reynolds was an All-Big 12 first-team honoree after hitting .364 in league play. The Tomball, Texas, product was seen mostly as a designated player but also spent time at first base. Rau was an all-district selection at third base at Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas, and earned the team’s MVP award as the varsity co-captain her senior year.

OUTFIELD

Two of three starters return in the outfield – se-nior co-captain Holly Ridley and sophomore

Kelsey Spittler. Ridley has the most home runs (8) of any returning letterwinner and boasts the highest returning slugging percentage (.532) and on-base percentage (.418). A native of Sugar Land, Texas, she is projected to start in right field and to provide power in the middle of the lineup. From Caldwell, Texas, Spittler earned a starting position in left field her first season and returns with a .270 batting av-erage after starting 66 games in ’08. “Holly made a smooth transition from the in-field to the outfield and has shown good versatility,” commented Evans. “Kelsey made an impact on our program as a freshman and will continue to devel-op and get stronger in the outfield.” Junior Bailey Schroeder and sophomore An-drea Tovar will work hard to fight for positions in the outfield as well. Schroeder is a team player who saw time in the outfield, pinch hitting and pinch running. She was born and raised in College Sta-tion, Texas, and recorded a .444 batting average and a 1.000 fielding percentage last year. Tovar (Seguin, Texas) mainly saw time as a pinch runner in her freshman campaign and used her speed to score 20 runs. Freshman Kelsea Orsak is penciled in to be A&M’s centerfielder after 2008 All-Big 12 first-team selection and Women’s College World Series All-Tournament team member, Jami Lobpries, was lost to graduation. Orsak was a Louisville Slugger/NFCA High School All-American and a four-year starter at

that is due to our success last season. Our home schedule gives our fans the opportunity to watch us play more games than ever. We have a tradition of competing very well at home and our stadium is a tough place to play.” In between hosting back-to-back tourna-ments, Aggie softball faces Houston on the road in a doubleheader on March 4. The Cougars made it to the NCAA Super Regionals in ’08. A&M travels to Boca Raton, Fla., March 13-15 for its final non-conference weekend. The Aggies face host Florida Atlantic, Bethune Cookman, Lib-erty and regional-qualifier Purdue. The defending Big 12 Regular Season and Tournament Champions open conference play March 21-22 at home against Nebraska. The Ag-gies host Texas (April 1), Oklahoma State (April 8), Texas Tech (April 10-11), Baylor (April 15) and Iowa State (April 25-26). The team travels to Baylor (March 25), Kansas (March 28-29), Missouri (April 4-5), Oklahoma (April 18-19) and Texas (May 2). The Tigers, Sooners and Longhorns each made the NCAA Tournament last season. The Big 12 Championship is May 8-10 at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla. The NCAA Tournament schedule commences May 15-17 with NCAA Regionals to be held at campus sites. The WCWS is May 28-June 3 in Oklahoma City.

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QUICk FACTSLOCATION ............................College Station,TexasFOUNDED ......................................................1872ENROLLMENT ............................................. 48,126NICkNAME ..................................................AggiesCOLORS .................................... Maroon and WhiteCONFERENCE ...............................................Big 12PRESIDENT ............................... Dr. Elsa A. MuranoDIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ......................Bill ByrneHOME FIELD ........ Aggie Softball Complex (1,750)OPENED .........................................................1994DIMENSIONS ............... 190 (LF), 220 (CF), 190 (RF)

COACHING STAFFHEAD COACH ....................... Jo Evans (Utah, 1983)RECORD AT A&M ...................469-233-2 (12 years)OVERALL RECORD.................782-443-2 (23 years)ASSOCIATE HEAD COACHES.................................

Joy Jackson (Utah, 1991) Mary Jo Firnbach (Southern Illinois, 1991)

TEAM INFORMATION2008 RECORD ...............................................57-102008 BIG 12 RECORD (FINISH) ..............17-1 (1st)2008 POSTSEASON ................... National Runner-UpLETTERWINNERS RETURNING/LOST ..............9/5 STARTERS RETURNING/LOST ..........................7/3PITCHERS RETURNING/LOST .................................1/2NEWCOMERS .....................................................................5

TEAM HISTORYA&M ALL-TIME RECORD .............. 1444-553-2 (.723)

34th seasonA&M ALL-TIME BIG 12 RECORD ..172-108-1 (.614)

14th seasonNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS .....................................3

(’82-AIAW; ’83-NCAA; ’87-NCAA)WORLD SERIES APPEARANCES .............................. 11

(AIAW: ’79-80-81-82; NCAA: ’83-84-86-87-88-07-08)

NCAA POSTSEASON APPEARANCES ................... 19 (’83-84-85-86-87-88-90-91-94-96-99-00-02-03-04-05-06-07-08)

NCAA POSTSEASON RECORD ...............58-41 (.586)

MEDIA RELATIONS INFO.SOFTBALL CONTACT ......................... Deanna WernerOFFICE PHONE ...................................... (979) 458-3883CELL PHONE .......................................... (231) 288-3700FAx ............................................................. (979) 845-0564PRESS BOx ............................................. (979) 862-1733EMAIL .............................dwerner@athletics.tamu.eduWEBSITE...............................www.AggieAthletics.com

NUMERICAL ROSTERNo. Name Pos. B/T Ht. Cl-Exp. Hometown/Previous2 Orsak, Kelsea UT L-R 5-10 Fr-HS Pearland, Texas/Pearland3 Rau, Kara INF R-R 5-5 So-SQ League City, Texas/Clear Creek4 Schroeder, Bailey OF R-R 5-4 Jr-2L College Station, Texas/A&M Consolidated5 Reynolds, Alex INF R-R 5-8 Jr-2L Tomball, Texas/Tomball6 Morris, Eden UT R-R 5-10 Fr-HS Cohutta, Ga./Dalton7 Glasco, Erin C L-R 5-7 Sr-1L Johnston City, Ill./NotreDame8 Tovar, Andrea OF L-R 5-5 So-1L Seguin, Texas/Seguin9 Broussard, Taryn 1B/OF L-L 5-11 Fr-HS Lake Jackson, Texas/Brazoswood10 Spittler, Kelsey OF L-L 5-6 So-1L Caldwell, Texas/Caldwell11 Arbino, Rebecca RHP R-R 6-0 Fr-HS Clovis, Calif./Clovis12 Lloyd, Savana LHP L-L 5-7 Sr-TR Kirkland, Wash./Boston College13 Ridley, Holly OF R-R 5-9 Sr-3L Sugar Land, Texas/Clements14 Morrow, Macie SS L-R 5-8 Jr-2L Sugar Land, Texas/Clements16 Villarreal, Natalie 2B L-L 5-4 So-1L Frisco, Texas/Frisco22 Kliesing, Rhiannon RHP/1B L-R 5-10 So-1L Pearland, Texas/Pearland

Head Coach: Jo EvansAssociate Head Coach: Joy JacksonAssociate Head Coach: Mary Jo FirnbachDirector of Operations: Stephen GroveTrainer: Stephanie Kee

ALPHABETICAL ROSTERNo. Name Pos. B/T Ht. Cl-Exp. Hometown/Previous11 Arbino, Rebecca RHP R-R 6-0 Fr-HS Clovis, Calif./Clovis9 Broussard, Taryn 1B/OF L-L 5-11 Fr-HS Lake Jackson, Texas/Brazoswood7 Glasco, Erin C L-R 5-7 Sr-1L Johnston City, Ill./NotreDame22 Kliesing, Rhiannon RHP/1B L-R 5-10 So-1L Pearland, Texas/Pearland12 Lloyd, Savana LHP L-L 5-7 Sr-TR Kirkland, Wash./Boston College6 Morris, Eden UT R-R 5-10 Fr-HS Cohutta, Ga./Dalton14 Morrow, Macie SS L-R 5-8 Jr-2L Sugar Land, Texas/Clements2 Orsak, Kelsea UT L-R 5-10 Fr-HS Pearland, Texas/Pearland3 Rau, Kara INF R-R 5-5 So-SQ League City, Texas/Clear Creek5 Reynolds, Alex INF R-R 5-8 Jr-2L Tomball, Texas/Tomball13 Ridley, Holly OF R-R 5-9 Sr-3L Sugar Land, Texas/Clements4 Schroeder, Bailey OF R-R 5-4 Jr-2L College Station, Texas/A&M Consolidated10 Spittler, Kelsey OF L-L 5-6 So-1L Caldwell, Texas/Caldwell8 Tovar, Andrea OF L-R 5-5 So-1L Seguin, Texas/Seguin16 Villarreal, Natalie 2B L-L 5-4 So-1L Frisco, Texas/Frisco

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California (1) Georgia (1) Texas (11)

Rebecca Arbino Eden Morris Taryn Broussard Holly Ridley Rhiannon Kliesing Bailey Schroeder Macie Morrow Kelsey Spittler Kelsea Orsak Andrea Tovar Kara Rau Natalie Villarreal Alex Reynolds

Seniors (3) Juniors (3) Sophomores (5) Freshmen (4)

Erin Glasco Macie Morrow Rhiannon Kliesing Rebecca ArbinoSavana Lloyd Alex Reynolds Kara Rau Taryn BroussardHolly Ridley Bailey Schroeder Kelsey Spittler Eden Morris Andrea Tovar Kelsea Orsak Natalie Villarreal

Pitchers (3) Infield (5) Outfield (4) Catchers (1) Utility (2)

Rebecca Arbino Taryn Broussard Holly Ridley Erin Glasco Eden MorrisRhiannon Kliesing Macie Morrow Bailey Schroeder Kelsea OrsakSavana Lloyd Kara Rau Kelsey Spittler Alex Reynolds Andrea Tovar Natalie Villarreal

TExAS A&M SofTbAll2008 Record: 57-10 • 2008 Big 12 Conference Record (Finish): 17-1 (1st)

Final Ranking: 2nd • Last Postseason Appearance: 2008 NCAA National Runner-Up

STARTING FIELDERS RETURNING: 7Pos. Name Cl. GP-GS Avg. Runs Hits RBI

C Erin Glasco Sr. 67-67 .280 15 51 291B Rhiannon Kliesing So. 53-53 .279 16 29 16SS Macie Morrow Jr. 67-67 .290 35 60 26 INF Alex Reynolds Jr. 53-43 .269 9 29 15 OF Holly Ridley Sr. 58-57 .288 29 40 32OF Kelsey Spittler So. 66-66 .270 23 44 222B Natalie Villarreal So. 67-67 .255 41 54 33

STARTING PITCHERS RETURNING: 1 Opp. Pos. Name Cl. ERA W-L App GS CG SO BA

RHP Rhiannon Kliesing So. 1.40 12-4 21 16 15 99 .197

FIELDERS LOST: 4Pos. Name GP-GS Avg. Runs Hits RBI

1B Megan Gibson 67-67 .339 44 62 483B Jamie Hinshaw 67-67 .332 48 68 33OF Jami Lobpries 62-62 .252 25 40 301B Amanda Scarborough 15-14 .447 15 4 1

PITCHERS LOST: 2 Opp. Pos. Name Cl. ERA W-L App GS CG SO BA

RHP Megan Gibson Sr. 1.20 41-4 46 45 42 344 .176RHP Amanda Scarborough Sr. 2.27 4-2 6 6 4 34 .199

NEWCOMERS: 5 Pos. Name Hometown Previous School

RHP Rebecca Arbino Clovis, Calif. Clovis1B/OF Taryn Broussard Lake Jackson, Texas BrazoswoodLHP Savana Lloyd Kirkland, Wash. Boston College UT Eden Morris Cohutta, Ga. DaltonUT Kelsea Orsak Pearland, Texas Pearland

SQUAD BREAkDOWN BY POSITION

SQUAD BREAkDOWN BY CLASS

BIRTHDAYSJanuary 29, 1988 Alex ReynoldsFebruary 14, 1989 Natalie VillarrealMarch 24, 1989 Kelsey Spittler 11, 1987 Savana LloydMay 16, 1989 Rhiannon Kliesing 31, 1989 Kara RauAugust 13, 1989 Eden Morris 29, 1988 Bailey SchroederSeptember 11, 1986 Erin Glasco 12, 1989 Kelsea Orsak 29, 1986 Holly RidleyOctober 9, 1989 Taryn BroussardNovember 11, 1987 Macie MorrowDecember 10, 1988 Andrea Tovar 10, 1989 Rebecca Arbino

PRONUNCIATIONTaryn Broussard ...........................BREW-sardRhiannon Kliesing ......................KLEE-singMacie Morrow ..............................MAR-oweBailey Schroeder .........................SHRAY-duhrNatalie Villarreal ..........................vil-la-REELMary Jo Firnbach ........................FERN-bock

SQUAD BREAkDOWN BY STATE

Illinois (1) Washington (1)Erin Glasco Savana Lloyd

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2008 • J U N I O RWas behind the plate in 64 games for the Ag-gies ... Appeared in the DP role three times ... Hit .280 on the season with 12 doubles ... Drove in 29 RBIs ... First home run at A&M came against SFA (2/20) ... Posted 10 multiple-hit games and five multiple-RBI games ... Posted a five-game hitting streak (2/8-2/13) ... Went four consecutive games with at least one RBI (2/17-2/22) ... Had a seven-game hitting streak (3/14-3/26) ... Was 4-for-6 against Oklahoma State (4/16) with two runs scored and three RBIs...Named member of the Big 12 All-Tournament team ... Was 4-for-7 (.571) with two RBIs in the College Station Super Regional against Stanford (5/24-5/25).

AT N OT R E DA M E 2007 • S O P H O M O R E

Saw action in 40 games, starting 39 … Posted a .200 batting average … Drove in nine RBIs on 19 hits, two doubles and a homerun … Went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBIs against Virginia in the Crispers/JU Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla. (3/2) … Blasted a game-winning, three-run homer in the fifth inning against the Cavaliers (3/ 3) … Was 1-for-2 with a run scored and two RBIs against St. John’s (3/24) … Was 2-for-3 with a run scored against Syracuse (4/1).

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Drove in two runs with an RBI single in game one vs. Connecticut (9-0 Irish victory) ... Picked up her fourth RBI of the season with a double in game one vs. Western Michigan (2-0 Irish vic-tory) ... Posted a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning to end game one against Villanova and cap Notre Dame’s three-run rally in the inning ... Crushed her first career home run off the Ivy Field scoreboard in game two against Villanova, driving in the winning run in Notre Dame’s 8-3 victory ... Ended another game with an RBI single, this time to push Notre Dame to an eight run rule victory over Rutgers in game one ... Finished 2-for-3 in game one against Rutgers ... Added to Notre Dame’s lead in game two against Rutgers with a two-RBI double (7-0 Irish victory) ... Hit a two-run home run to kick start a rally in game two at Seton Hall (her second BIG EAST home run of the year), but the rally fell short in a 4-3 loss to the Pirates ... Went 1-for 2 in each of the first two games of the NCAA Regional against UC Santa Barbara and No. 11 Northwestern ... Had a great afternoon against Southern Illinois in an elimination game at the NCAAs, going 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored ... Was 1-for-3 with two RBIs against Northwestern.

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A four-year letterwinner at Johnston City High School in Johnston City, I l l . … Earned all-conference and all-state honors each season of her career (2002-05) … Led her team to four consecutive Black Diamond Conference Champi-onships and two regional titles (2003, 2005) … Helped her club team, Southern Force, claim the 2004 ASA Gold National Championship with a perfect 7-0 record in the tournament … Served as a two-time team captain for the softball team … Holds the Johnston City High School record for career hits and career batting average (.421) … Also competed in basketball and volleyball, serving as a team captain for both teams.

P E R S O N A LErin Marie Glasco was born Sept. 11, 1986 … Daughter of Vickie and Gerry Glasco of John-ston City, Ill. … Has two siblings Tara (25) and Geri Ann (14) ... Oldest sister Tara was a pitcher for Southern Illinois University softball team … Member of National Honor Society, Math Team, student council and Top Ten Seniors … Was the class valedictorian … Chose Texas A&M because of the tradition, the coaches and her teammates … Business management major … Plans to own her own hair salon.

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“Erin was a tremendous addition to our team last year. She is a leader behind the plate, does a great job with our young pitching staff, and is one of our best hitters.”

— Head Coach Jo Evans

GLASCO’S A&M CAREER STATISTICSYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2008 .280 67-67 182 15 51 12 0 1 29 66 .363 21 8 40 0 .377 1 7 1-1 467 15 0 1.000TOTAL .280 67-67 182 15 51 12 0 1 29 66 .363 21 8 40 0 .377 1 7 1-1 467 15 0 1.000

If You Could Eat Lunch With Just One Person, Who Would It Be?

Barack Obama

What Is Your Favorite Cereal?Lucky Charms

Describe The Feeling That Came Over You After Beating No. 1 Florida To Advance to the WCWS Championship Series ...

I can’t…. it was surreal to be able to compete for a national championship. To know that everything that you have worked so hard for has truly paid off is a feeling that can’t be described on paper.

Your Favorite Hangout On Campus?

Steed

What Is Your Favorite Word And Why?

“WOO HOO HOO HOO!” it expresses my excitement and makes my teammates laugh. Ask them about it.

If You Could Be Any Athlete In The World, Who Would You Like To Be?

Albert Pujols

What Is One Random Fact About You That No One Could Guess By Looking At You?

That I cry in movies all the time.

If You Were A Crayon, What Color Would You Be?

Yellow

What Is One Place In The U.S. You Would Like To Visit And Why …

New York City. I want to see Ground Zero and the new memorial.

Who Were Your Childhood Idols?Dot Richardson and Lisa Fernandez

If You Could Trade Places With One Of Your Teammates, Who Would It Be And Why?

Savana, just wanna know what she’s thinking all the time and why she asks so many questions.

Your Favorite Aggie Tradition?Yells!

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2008 • F R E S H M a NPosted a 12-4 record in 16 starts in the circle ... Boasted a 1.40 ERA ... Struck out 99 batters in 110.1 innings of work ... Logged three straight shutouts against SFA (2/20) Sam Houston (2/22) and Temple (2/23) ... Struck out a career-high 11 batters against No. 18 Louisiana-Lafayette (3/8) ... Recorded six shutouts in 15 complete games ...Tossed first career no-hitter against Texas State (4/23)... Hit .279 for the Aggies ... Logged playing time at first base, on the mound and as designated player ... Had four multiple-hit games and five multiple-RBI games ... Went on a five-game hitting streak (2/22- 2/27) ... Went 3-for-4 against North Texas (2/24) with two RBIs and a run scored ... Hit first career home run against Texas State (4/23) ... Second career home run was against Texas (5/10) ... Was 4-for-8 (.500) with a double, two homers, a walk and three runs scored against Stanford (5/24-5/25) in the College Station Super Regional ... Drove in the go-ahead run against Louisiana-Lafayette (5/30) at the WCWS … Tallied three hits, two RBIs and two walks at the WCWS.


Posted a 0.34 ERA as a junior at Pearland High School… Earned First Team All-Greater Houston and all-district MVP honors. Named EA Sports First-Team All-American, Houston Chronicle Player of the Year and High School Sports Live Ford Athlete of the Year … Received Louisville Slugger/NFCA first team South Central Region honors in 2005 and 2006 and All-American accolades again in 2006 … As a freshman was

named Pearland High School Gatorade Player of the Year … Was voted Newcomer of the Year in her district and Brazoria County All-County … Played summer ball for the Texas Aces Gold out of Sugar Land, Texas.

P E R S O N A LRhiannon Nichole Kliesing was born May 16, 1989 … Daughter of Larry and Julie Kliesing of Pearland, Texas … Has one sister, Adrienne (15) … Cousin Scott Derry plays football at the Uni-versity of Texas … Was in the top 10 percent of her class and a member of the National Honor Society … Received academic all-district honors in 2004 and 2005 and was a NFCA All-Academic Scholar-Athlete each year … Chose Texas A&M because she wanted to go here since she was 10 and she loves the school and everything about it … Biomedical Science major.

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“Rhiannon is a very good athlete. She is our most con-sistent hitter and will be a leader on the mound and in the infield.”


kLIESING’S CAREER STATISTICSHitting Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2008 .279 53-53 104 16 29 5 0 4 16 46 .442 7 4 20 0 .348 0 3 0-0 228 37 3 .989TOTAL .279 53-53 104 16 29 5 0 4 16 46 .442 7 4 20 0 .348 0 3 0-0 228 37 3 .989

Pitching ERA W-L App GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR BF B/Avg WP HBP SFA SHA BK2008 1.40 12-4 21 16 15 6 1 0 110.1 81 28 22 27 99 11 0 5 449 .197 3 4 0 7 0TOTAL 1.40 12-4 21 16 15 6 1 0 110.1 81 28 22 27 99 11 0 5 449 .197 3 4 0 7 0

If Money Were Not An Object, What Would You Do With Your Life?

Have a ranch with a lot of animals

What Cartoon Character Best Describes You?

SpongeBob


Kelsea Orsak so I could be fast

Who Has Had The Most Influence In Your Life?

My mom

If You Could Live Anywhere In The World For A Year, Where Would It Be?

Ireland

Your Signature Hairstyle Or Hair Accessory To Wear During A Game?

White head band…straight ponytail

Your Favorite Moment Of The 2007-08 Season?

Being at the Women’s College World Series

Who Would You Want To Play You In The Movie About Your Life?

Reese Witherspoon

Your Favorite Hangout On Campus?

The team room

What Song(s) Are Playing In Your iPod or CD Player Right Now?

Rascal Flatts

What Super-Power Would You Most Like To Have And Why?

To fly because you could get places faster and it would be fun.


Lime green or pink

What Are Your Goals For the Upcoming Season?

To help our team get back to the World Series

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2008 • S O P H O M O R EStarted all 67 games at shortstop .. . Tallied 60 hits and 35 runs ... Posted a team-high 18 multiple-hit games ... Drove in multiple runs six times ... Went on a four-game hitting streak (2/8-2/9) ... First home run of the season came against Cal St. Northridge (2/9) ... Second home run was against No. 6 Northwestern (2/15) ... Third homer was a two-run shot against Texas State (4/23) ... Was 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI against Nebraska (5/11) in Big 12 Championship game ... Hit a two-run homer in Aggies’ 9-4 win over Stanford (5/25)... Singled and scored game-winning run against Florida (6/1) at WCWS to advance A&M to champion-ship series.

2007 • F R E S H M a NAppeared in 57 games for the Aggies as a fresh-man … Made 56 starts … Held a .261 batting average … Drove in 35 runs on a team-leading 11 doubles and three home runs … Batted .333 with bases loaded … Posted a .588 success rate in advancing runners … Scored and drove in two runs after going 4-for-4 against SFA (2/21) … Went 3-for-4 against McNeese State (3/3) with three runs scored and a season-high five RBIs off of a double and a home run … Success-fully stole 17 bases on 23 attempts … Posted seven multiple-RBI games.


A four-year letterwinner for coach David Mc-Corkle at Clements High School … First team 20-5A All-District selection in 2003 … Member of the NFCA All-State team in 2004 and 2005 … Led All-Greater Houston in stolen bases (34) in 2004 and garnered the highest batting average in 2005 (.622) … Named Louisville Slugger/NFCA High-School All-American in 2005 and 2006 … First team 20-5A All-District Co-MVP in 2005 and 2006 … Was a three-time team

MVP … Finished out her senior year as a first team all-district, all-state, all-region and All-Greater Houston selection … Also lettered in basketball where she was named second team all-district in 2004 and 2005 … Played select ball for Magic Gold.

P E R S O N A LMacie Morrow was born Nov. 11, 1987, in Hous-ton … Daughter of Tim and Cindy Morrow of Sugar Land, Texas … Chose Texas A&M because she loved the softball team and thougth the school was awesome … Major is undecided.

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“Macie continues to develop offensively and defensively. She is a steady force in the infield and has the potential to be a threat at the plate.”


MORROW’S CAREER STATISTICSYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2007 .261 57-56 176 32 46 11 1 3 35 68 .386 18 0 35 0 .322 5 7 17-23 85 102 11 .9442008 .290 67-67 207 35 60 7 2 4 26 83 .401 18 0 40 0 .344 2 2 8-11 92 107 12 .943TOTAL .277 124-123 383 67 106 18 3 7 61 151 .394 36 0 75 0 .333 7 9 25-34 177 209 23 .944


Sky blue

Your Favorite Moment Of The 2007-08 Season?

Beating Florida in the WCWS to advance to the Championship Series

On The Weekends I Like To…Hang out with my friends, shop and relax

What Is Your Favorite Day?Christmas

Your Favorite Aggie Tradition?Ring dunk

Do You Like Scary Movies Or Happy Endings?

Happy endings

Who Would You Want To Play You In The Movie About Your Life?

Cameron Diaz

If You Could Live Anywhere In The World For A Year, Where Would It Be?

Italy

What Was The Last Book You Read?

The Purpose Driven Life

What Song(s) Are Playing In Your iPod or CD Player Right Now?

Lil’ Wayne and Led Zeppelin

Who Has Had The Most Influence In Your Life?

My parents


Travel, my life would be a vacation


I was born a red head.

Who Were Your Childhood Idols?My older brother

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Was an all-district selection at third base and earned the team’s MVP award as the varsity co-captain her junior year at Clear Creek High School...Named to the La Porte Tournament All-Tournament team as a freshman in 2004 and again as a sophomore in 2005 ... Received al l-distr ict honors at f irst base, al l-county honorable mention and was named to the Al-len Tournament All-Tournament team ... Was a recipient of her team’s Hustle Award ... Served as captain of her summer team the Houston Mystixx which she played for since 2003.

P E R S O N A LKara Lynn Rau was born May 31, 1989 ... Daugh-ter of Cressa and Rodney Rau of League City, Texas ... Has three siblings, Rodney (24), Kristan (18) and Travis (13) ... Was actively involved in Future Farmers of America and Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Clear Creek High School ... Chose Texas A&M because of the traditions ... Major is undecided.

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“Kara has been working hard at third base and in the cages. She has the ability to drive the ball and con-tribute to our offensive output. She gives us depth at third and has the potential to come off the bench and pinch hit for us.”


What Is The Weirdest Thing You Will Ever Admit To Having Done In The Past?

When I was little my aunt would take me to the mall with her and while she was shopping I would go and button up all of the buttons and zip up all the zippers to every shirt I saw until she was done shopping at that store.


I love cartoons

What Is Your Biggest Asset You Bring To The Team?

I’m a hard worker, and I think I push people to be their best.

What Is The Silliest Prank You Ever Played On Someone?

I went camping with my family awhile back and my mom told me to put some sunscreen on my little brother’s back, so I did, in a smiley face form. And at the end of the day he was burnt all over his back besides the smiley face. I got in big trouble.

What Do You Think You Will Be Doing Five Years From Now?

Teaching little third graders

What Inspires You?Coach Evans’ speeches. She always makes you want to be a better player every time she talks.

What Cartoon Character Best Describes You?

Mickey Mouse

Why You Chose Your Jersey Number And Any Significant Meaning Behind It?

To be honest, I had a choice of numbers and 3 is my little brother’s number in all the sports he plays, and I knew he would love us being the same number.

Your Favorite Aggie Tradition?Aggie Muster

Your Wardrobe Consists Of …A lot of shorts and t-shirts


I would have to say Kelsea Orsak, because she is really fast, and I would love to know what that feels like.

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2008 • S O P H O M O R EMade an appearance in 53 of the Aggies’ 67 games, with 43 starts … Hit .269 on the season … Logged seven multiple-hit games and four multiple-RBI games … Was 2-for-2 against No. 1 Arizona (2/16) … Went 3-for-6 against Stephen F. Austin, hitting a solo home run in game two of the doubleheader ... Second homer came in a 7-0 win over Florida State (3/1) ... Was 3-for-3 with three RBIs in a 7-0 win over Baylor (3/19) ... Went 3-for-5 with two RBIs in two-game se-ries with Texas Tech (3/21-22) ... Went on a five game hitting streak (3/19-3/29) ... Honored as a member of All-Big 12 first team.

2007 • F R E S H M a NLogged playing time in 47 games … Started 42 primarily in the designated player role … Earned Big 12 Player of the Week accolades (4/17) … Batted .275 in 109 plate appearances … Had a .467 success rate in advancing runners … Drove in 21 runs off of six doubles and five home runs … Scored three times and plated a run against McNeese State (3/3) in the Texas A&M Invitational … Drove in a season-high four RBIs against Houston (5/20) in the College Station Regional … Went 3-for-4 against Kansas (4/14) with a double and three RBIs … Led the team with 10 sacrifice bunts.


A four-year letterwinner at Tomball High School … Named to the District 16-5A Honorable Mention Team in 2003 … Selected to the first team NFCA All-South Central Region in 2004 … Named to the NFCA All-American third team … Member of the 5A All-State Tournament Team … First team 16-5A All-District and second team All-Greater Houston … Was a second team infield NFCA All-American selection in 2005 … Member of the NFCA All-South Central Region first team … First team All-Greater Houston

and all-district … Finished out 2006 garnering first team all-district and All-Greater Houston honors … Played for several select teams, in-cluding the Texas Peppers, Team Texas, Spring Klein Sudden Impact Gold and Spring Klein Impact Gold.

P E R S O N A LAlex Reynolds was born Jan. 29, 1988, in Hous-ton … Daughter of Doug and Suzanne Reynolds of Tomball, Texas … Has a brother, Austin (16) … Chose Texas A&M because “it’s a great school with an awesome atmosphere and genuine people” … University Studies–Business major.

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“Alex is a very competitive player. She has worked hard to get into the starting lineup. I expect her to be an RBI leader for us.”


REYNOLD’S CAREER STATISTICSYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2007 .275 47-42 109 10 30 6 0 5 21 51 .468 14 1 43 0 .363 0 10 0-0 84 3 1 .9892008 .269 53-43 108 9 29 6 0 2 15 41 .380 21 1 38 1 .386 2 4 2-2 55 0 1 .982TOTAL .272 100-85 217 19 59 12 0 7 36 92 .424 35 2 81 1 .375 2 14 2-2 139 3 2 .986


I would still finish my degree here at A&M but then I would build a mansion in California, buy a loft in downtown New York City and probably a couple of other exotic places in the world and travel and go shopping all the time and try all different kinds of food.

What Is Your Favorite Cereal?Cinnamon Toast Crunch

What Is Your Favorite Way To Relax From It All?

Getting pedicures, taking long naps and doing absolutely nothing

What Is The Silliest Prank You Ever Played On Someone?

When I was younger I pinned my little brother down and put makeup on his face then went around calling him “Austina” as he chased me around with his plastic baseball bat.

If You Could Be Any Athlete In The World, Who Would You Like To Be?

Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan

Your Wardrobe Consists Of …A wide selection of everything but shoes because I have size 11 feet


Natalie, because we are complete opposites and I love her to death.

Who Were Your Childhood Idols?Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street

Why You Chose Your Jersey Number And Any Significant Meaning Behind It?

It was my first number when I started playing softball because I was in love with Jeff Bagwell.


Hot Pink

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2008 • J U N I O RSaw action in 58 of the Aggies’ 67 games, making 57 starts … Hit .288 on the season … Logged nine multiple-hit and multiple-RBI games … Went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI against Oregon State (2/9) … Went 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored against North Texas (2/24) . . . Hit second and third career triples against Cal State Fullerton (3/15) and Baylor (3/26) ... Hit eight home runs on the season ... All-Big 12 first team selection ... Big 12 All-Tournament team ... Academic All-Big 12 first team… Was 4-for-7 (.571)with two home runs, six RBIs and three runs scored against Stanford (5/24-5/25) in the College Station Super Regional.

2007 • s O P H O M O R ESaw action in 21 games … Made 16 starts before missing part of the season due to an ap-pendectomy … Posted four multiple-RBI games … Tied a career-high with three runs driven in against SFA (2/21) … Belted three home runs … Was 3-for-4 in the pinch-hitter role … Batted .333 with runners in scoring position.

2006 • F R E s H M A NStarted all 53 games at shortstop … Registered seven multiple-hit games … Had six multiple-RBI games … Posted a .423 slugging average tying for third on team in doubles (10) and home runs (5) … Ranked fifth on team in runs scored with 23 … Went 2-for-2 against UTSA (2/15) with a double and her first collegiate home run … Played solid defense and went

2-for-3 at the plate to help the Aggies defeat No. 1 Arizona (3/16) … Hit 3-for-4 against Okla-homa State (4/12) with a double and three RBIs … Had five game-winning RBIs, three of which came against ranked opponents – No. 17 Fresno State (2/10), No. 14 Washington (3/18) and No. 21 Oklahoma (4/9).

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A four-year letterwinner for coach David Mc-Corkle at Clements High School … Named second team all-district and All-Greater Hous-ton in 2002 … Selected first team all-district and All-Greater Houston in 2003 … First team all-district and All-Greater Houston in 2004 … All-state selection in 2004 … Named MVP as

a junior … Finished 2005 as a first team all-district and All-Greater Houston selection … Received the Ranger Golden Glove Award as a freshman … A three-year member of the Impact Gold club team coached by Darren Gibson.

P E R s O N A LHolly Red Ridley was born Sept. 29, 1986, in Houston … Daughter of Danny and Susan Ridley of Sugar Land, Texas … Has a younger brother, Daniel (20), who is a sophomore at A&M … Student Athlete Advisory Committee and Aggie Athletes Involved representative … Involved in HOSTS program … Chose Texas A&M because of “the great program, coaches, excellent academics and friendly atmosphere” … Communication major.

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“Holly has been a good leader for our ball club. She is having a great time playing the game and it shows in the tremendous results she had last season.”


RIDLEy’s CAREER sTATIsTICsYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2006 .232 53-53 142 23 33 10 1 5 22 60 .423 8 6 25 1 .299 1 3 0-1 89 94 21 .8972007 .157 21-16 51 6 8 1 0 3 9 18 .353 2 1 19 0 .204 0 2 0-0 3 14 0 1.0002008 .288 58-57 139 29 40 6 2 8 32 74 .532 22 9 37 1 .418 0 4 3-3 18 2 0 1.000TOTAL .244 132-126 332 58 81 17 3 16 63 152 .458 32 16 81 2 .339 1 9 3-4 110 110 21 .913

your Favorite Aggie Tradition?The Aggie Ring

your Favorite Moment Of The 2007-08 season?

Winning the Big 12 and the Big 12 tournament and making it to the championship game of the Women’s College World Series

Who Would you Want To Play you In The Movie About your Life?

Tina Fey

If you Could Live Anywhere In The World For A year, Where Would It Be?

Greece

What Cartoon Character Best Describes you?

Mowgli, the little boy from the Jungle Book. After watching a home video with my fiancé, he told me I looked like Mowgli when I was little.

What Is your Favorite Cereal?Reese’s Peanut Butter Puffs

What super-Power Would you Most Like To Have?

Read minds

If Money Were Not An Object, What Would you Do With your Life?

Travel

What Is One Place In The U.s. you Would Like To Visit And Why …

Boston for the history and the baseball

On The Weekends I Like To…Relax and hang out

If you Were A Crayon, What Color Would you Be?

Cerulean (a shade of blue)

your Favorite Hangout On Campus?

Bright

What Was The Last Book you Read?

Black-No-More

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2008 • s O P H O M O R EAppeared in 42 of the Aggies’ 61 games and started in 14 … Split time between left and right field … Posted nine at-bats on the season … Scored 15 runs ... Recorded 11 putouts ... Reg-istered first RBI of the season against San Diego (3/14) Logged hits against San Diego (3/14), Iowa State (4/5), Kansas (4/19) and Arizona State (6/3) in the championship series of the WCWS … Academic All-Big 12 second team.

2007 • F R E s H M A N Saw action in 48 games … Made 28 starts primarily in right field … Honored as a Texas A&M/Verizon Scholar Athlete at the CHAMPS Awards Banquet … Drove in seven runs on two doubles and three home runs … All three home runs came within a four-game span during the Texas A&M Invitational … Posted first career grand slam against McNeese State (3/3) … Went 2-for-2 in a 8-0 shutout of Iowa State (3/25).


A four-year letter winner for coach Shelley Batson at A&M Consol idated High School … Named to the All-Brazos Valley “Diamond Dozen” team in 2004 and 2006 … First team all-district selection three times … Finished out 2006 with all-state accolades and was named the team’s co-MVP while garnering the academic award and spirit award … Also lettered in volleyball and basketball … Played select ball for the Texas Peppers under coach Jimmy Gaskins.

P E R s O N A LBailey Brown Schroeder was born on Aug. 29, 1988 … Daughter of Glenn and Alissa Schroeder of College Station, Texas … Has an older sister, Paige (23), who attended A&M, and a younger sister, Lexie (14) … Both parents attended A&M … Received an all-state academic award for her efforts in the classroom her senior year … National Honor Society … Junior Leader-ship Brazos … Fellowship of Christian Athletes … Chose Texas A&M because of “the great atmosphere and it has always been a lifelong dream to become an Aggie” … Community health major.

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“Bailey has tremendous work ethic and is an integral part of our team. She has the ability to play all of the outfield positions which gives us much needed depth in our lineup.”


sCHROEDER’s CAREER sTATIsTICsYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2007 .203 48-28 59 13 12 2 0 3 7 23 .390 4 0 24 1 .254 0 1 2-2 14 1 0 1.0002008 .444 42-14 9 15 4 0 0 0 1 4 .444 2 1 1 0 .583 0 0 0-1 11 1 0 1.000TOTAL .235 90-42 68 28 16 2 0 3 8 27 .397 6 1 25 1 .307 0 1 2-3 25 2 0 1.000


Sitting on the bus going into the gates of the World Series on Championship day. All our fans were cheering us on at the tailgate, I will never forget it.

If you Could Trade Places With One Of your Teammates, Who Would It Be And Why?

I would trade places with Natalie just so I would know what she is always thinking.

What song Best Describes you When you First Wake Up In The Morning?

Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson

What Is your Favorite Day?The day that fall semester finals are done. You know you won’t have to worry about any more school for an entire month, you can quit studying, Christmas is coming soon and the season is right around the corner.


Lola Bunny from Space Jam because she is very athletic and competitive, but still has a nice side.

your Favorite Aggie Tradition?Saying “Howdy” to complete strangers on campus (or even around town for that matter) and getting your Aggie Ring

If you Could Be Any Athlete In The World, Who Would you Like To Be?

I would love to be Danica Patrick so I could get rich by driving a car.

Describe The Feeling That Came Over you After Beating No. 1 Florida To Advance to the WCWs Championship series…

I was extremely excited! I just remember thinking to myself that this is every softball player’s dream and it is actually happening to me. The feeling was indescribable.

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2008 • F R E s H M A NStarted 66 of the Aggies’ 67 games … Hit .270 on the season … Logged eight multiple-hit games and six multiple-RBI games … Launched first career home run against Sam Houston State (2/13) off of former high school teammate Brandi Crnkovic … Second homer was a three-run blast against No. 14 Washington … Had a double and two RBIs against North Texas (2/24) … Was 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI in the second game of a doubleheader against Houston (2/27) . . . Had a f ive -game hitting streak (2/27-3/1) ... Went 2-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and two RBIs in a 8-0 win over Baylor (3/26) ... Was 3-for-3 with a double, a run scored, and two RBIs in the second game of a doubleheader against Iowa State (4/5) ... Made a spectacular game-saving catch on her knees in left field against Oklahoma (4/13) ... Her RBI triple in the ninth inning against Florida (6/1) at the WCWS advanced A&M to the champion-ship series.


Was named to the Texas Girls Coaches Associa-tion All-State Team as a sophomore and was an all-district selection and a two-time district of-fensive MVP selection … Selected to All-Brazos Valley Dandy Dozen Team twice … Honored by the Texas Sports Writers Association as a fresh-man … Was an all-state selection … Played travel ball for the Houston Power Gold … Was a starter on the varsity basketball team at Caldwell High School.

P E R s O N A LKelsey Jo Spittler was born March 24, 1989 … Daughter of Dennis and Marie Spittler of Caldwell, Texas … Has a sister, Courtney (22) and a brother, Cody (16) … Cousin Angela Spit-tler plays softball at the University of Houston … Was actively involved in Future Farmers of America and Fellowship of Christian Athletes … Chose to attend A&M because she has always wanted to come here since she was little … Kinesiology major … Plans to be a strength and conditioning coach.

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“Kelsey gained a lot of experience as a freshman. She is an offensive threat and did a great job in our lineup last year.”


sPITTLER’s CAREER sTATIsTICsYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2008 .270 66-66 163 23 44 5 1 2 22 57 .350 10 2 30 0 .315 3 6 3-6 59 0 2 .967TOTAL .270 66-66 163 23 44 5 1 2 22 57 .350 10 2 30 0 .315 3 6 3-6 59 0 2 .967

What super-Power Would you Most Like To Have And Why?

Superhuman strength

What Is your Favorite Cereal?Peanut butter Captain Crunch


Mighty Mouse

Who Has Had The Most Influence In your Life?

My mom

What Is your Life’s Passion?To be a strength coach or a coach

your Favorite Hangout On Campus?

The team room


Hawaii

Why you Chose your Jersey Number And Any significant Meaning Behind It?

I was number 10 in high school and it’s my favorite number.

your signature Hairstyle Or Hair Accessory To Wear During A Game?

A ponytail with a visor

What Inspires you?Always striving to become better and stronger to become successful and great at what I do.


Blue

If you Could Trade Places With One Of your Teammates, Who Would It Be And Why?

Bailey, because she is always positive

What Is your Favorite Day?Friday

your Favorite Aggie Tradition?Yells

On The Weekends I Like To…Spend time with my loved ones

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2008 • F R E s H M A NAppeared in 51 of the Aggies’ 67 games, pri-marily as a pinch runner … Recorded three at-bats on the year – against Utah State (2/10), Iowa State (4/5) and Arizona State (6/3) in the championship series of the WCWS … Tallied 20 runs…Logged five stolen bases ... Scored game-winning run against Virginia Tech (5/29) in opening game of WCWS.


A four-year letterwinner for coach John Garcia at Seguin High School … Was a three-time first team all-district selection and a second team selection in 2004 … Named the team MVP following her freshman and senior seasons … Received the team golden glove award as a sophomore and a junior … Was Seguin High School’s Top Female Athlete in 2007 … Honored with the Timmerman Sisters award … Played travel ball for the Lady Rage and coach Johnny Guerrero.

P E R s O N A LAndrea Shay Tovar was born Dec. 10, 1988 … Daughter of Abel and Sheryll Tovar of Seguin, Texas … Has one brother, Ryan (17) … Has two aunts and uncles and a cousin who all attended A&M … Was a four-time first team All-Academic selection … Ranked 14th in her high school class and was a member of National Honor Society … Chose Texas A&M because it is the only place she has ever wanted to go … Sport management major.

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“Andrea has made great strides since her freshman year. She gives us depth in the outfield and is always a threat on the base paths.”


TOVAR’s CAREER sTATIsTICs Year Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2008 .000 51-0 3 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 2 0 .000 0 0 5-7 0 0 0 .000TOTAL .000 51-0 3 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 2 0 .000 0 0 5-7 0 0 0 .000

Why you Chose your Jersey Number And Any significant Meaning Behind It?

I chose number 8 because it was my number in high school and it just really stuck with me.

your Wardrobe Consists Of …Softball shirts, shorts, sweats and jeans


Paris

Who Has Had The Most Influence In your Life?

My parents


I would like to be able to read minds because then I wouldn’t have to guess at what people are thinking.

If Money Were Not An Object, What Would you Do With your Life?

I’d really just want to be happy, but I’d love to travel and see different places.

What Is your Favorite Cereal?Lucky Charms

What Is One Random Fact About you That No One Could Guess By Looking At you?

Most people can’t guess that I’m hispanic just by looking at me.

On The Weekends I Like To…Hangout with friends, relax, go out, go to the movies and sleep

What Inspires you?I’m inspired by my family, especially my parents because without them I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Were you Named After Anyone?My dad


Either pink or one of those pretty blue/teal colors

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2008 • F R E s H M A NStarted all 67 of the Aggies’ games at second base … Hit .255 on the season … Logged 12 multiple-hit and six multiple-RBI games … Drove in 33 RBIs on the season … Recorded three RBIs against Oregon State (2/9) … Hit first career home run against Nevada (2/15) … Was 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs against Notre Dame (2/16) … Hit 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored and a season-high four RBIs against North Texas (2/23) … Was 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored and three RBIs against Temple (2/23) … Committed just four errors in 248 chances ... Honored as an All-Big 12 Second Team selection … Sacrificed the game-winning run into scoring position in the opening game of the WCWS against Virginia Tech (5/29) … Recorded a team-high 12 sacrifice hits … Tallied a team-high four hits at the WCWS.


Named to the all-state team in 2006 and re-ceived district MVP honors … Voted by her Frisco teammates as team MVP, offensive MVP and defensive MVP … Was an all-district selec-tion in 2005 as well as a member of the All-DFW team in both 2005 and 2006 … Named all-district newcomer of the year and all-city team MVP as freshman in 2004 … Also lettered in basketball and garnered all-district honorable mention honors … Received the Irving High All-Girls Award her freshman and sophomore seasons.

P E R s O N A LNatalie Christine Villarreal was born Feb. 14, 1989 … Daughter of Tammy and Bumby Vil-larreal of Irving, Texas … Has two siblings, Ryan (15) and Misty (24) … Chose Texas A&M because she liked everything about it and has wanted to go here since she was little … Major is undecided.

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“Natalie is our best defensive player. She has tremendous range and is very heady. She gained valuable experi-ence last year and I expect her to have a break-out year at the plate. ”


VILLARREAL’s CAREER sTATIsTICsYear Avg GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB-ATT PO A E FLD%2008 .255 67-67 212 41 54 12 4 4 33 86 .406 16 3 34 1 .311 4 12 7-8 107 137 4 .984TOTAL .255 67-67 212 41 54 12 4 4 33 86 .406 16 3 34 1 .311 4 12 7-8 107 137 4 .984

What song(s) Are Playing In your iPod or CD Player Right Now?

Sowing Season by Brand New


To teleport from place to place

What Is your Favorite Way To Relax From It All?

Lay on the couch, listen to music and play Xbox


The Women’s College World Series


Red just because it’s my favorite color

Do you Like scary Movies Or Happy Endings?

Scary movies

What Is One Place In The U.s. you Would Like To Visit?

Hollywood

On The Weekends I Like To…Chill

your signature Hairstyle Or Hair Accessory To Wear During A Game?

I have to wear my visor and everyone knows my hair.

What Is your Favorite Day?Saturday

Name Five Of The Most Important Things In your Life.

1. God2. Family3. Friends4. Ball5. School

What Are your Goals For the Upcoming season?

To go all the way but take it one game at a time

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A four- year starter at Clovis High School in Clovis, Calif. … Was the Sassano Blanket award winner and named second team all-state in 2008 … Named rookie of the year as a freshman and MVP as a junior … Tallied 20 strikeouts in a single game in 2008 … Recorded seven no-hitters and 26 shutouts her junior and senior years … Totaled 695 career strikeouts … Played for Corona Angels 18 Gold club team coached by Marty Tyson … Her team finished fifth at Nationals in 2007 and second in 2008 … Also finished second at the Colorado tournament in 2008 … Selected as an Addidas Top 100 athlete in 2007.

P E R s O N A LRebecca Louise Arbino was born Dec. 10, 1989, in Lake Los Angeles, Calif. … Daughter of Ron and Elizabeth Arbino of Clovis Calif. … Has a sister, Nicole (21) … Three-time academic All-American … Chose Texas A&M because “I wanted to experience college far from home and it felt like home 10 minutes after being here” … loves to sing … Major is undecided.

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A two-year letterwinner at Brazoswood High School … Received first-team all-district, first-team all-county and offensive player of the year awards … Selected to the all-star team and then chosen to play in the All-American game at the Sparkler Tournament in Westminster, Colo., in 2006 … 2004 Home Run Derby Champion at the Colorado Fireworks Tournament … Also played volleyball for two years … Played for Texas Connection Gold for three years coached by Sandra Mader and Amy Schmaltz and was named team captain.

P E R s O N A LTaryn Bren Broussard was born on Oct. 9, 1989 … Daughter of Troy and Starr Broussard of Lake Jackson, Texas … Has a sister, Tanah (16) … Her grandfather, Cotton Peterson, played football at A&I Kingsville and her uncle, Biff Peterson, played baseball at Blinn Junior College … Named Who’s Who in the Junior Class at Bra-zoswood High School … Member of academic all-district team … Chose Texas A&M because

“I knew that it had a great softball team and I thought that Coach Evans could take my softball skills to a new level” … Sport Manage-ment major … Plans to work in the professional sports field.

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AT B O s TO N CO L L E G E2008 • J U N I O R

Started five games in the circle and appeared in 12 … Recorded 13 strikeouts in 20 and two-thirds innings pitched … Posted a 6.10 ERA … Threw a season-high four innings against Western Carolina (2/23)… Did not allow a run in four appearances.

2007 • s O P H O M O R EMade 17 pitching appearances and posted an 8.10 ERA... Did not allow a run in her final four appear-ances of the season ... Threw four innings against Rhode Island (4/10), allowing just one run on four hits while striking out four.

2008 • F R E s H M A NMade 33 appearances on the mound and started 14 games ... Tied for a team-high eight wins, going 8-6 with an ERA of 4.08 ... Had 50 strikeouts in 75 innings pitched ... Threw two complete games and saved three other contests ... Came in relief and picked up first career win in a 5-4 victory against Florida Atlan-tic ... Pitched seven innings, allowing only three hits in a 4-3 win over Florida International ... Picked up a win, striking out five batters over six innings in an 8-2 win against Florida Atlantic ... Earned a 15-3 victory against Connecticut (3/22) ... Earned a 3-1 win over Holy Cross, striking out three hitters over six innings

... Won first ACC game in 3-2 victory against North Carolina … Struck out five Terriers over five innings in 5-2 victory over Boston University ... Secured a 5-2 win over Virginia (4/29), recording six strikeouts.


A 2005 graduate of Juanita High School in Kirkland, Wash… Lettered three years in softball for coach Tim Crowder … All-conference selection all three years … All-KingCo First Team in 2004 and 2005 … Named team MVP … Chosen as the team’s captain in 2004 and 2005 as she captained her high school team to the state tournament for the school’s first time in 10 years … Named to the Seattle All-star team … Received athlete of the week awards from both the Seattle Times and Eastside Journal in the 2005 season … Played ASA travel ball with the Ab-solute Blast Gold.

P E R s O N A LSavana Lloyd was born March 11, 1987 ... Daughter of Jim and Kristen Lloyd of Kirkland, Wash. … Has an older sister, Amanda (23) … Chose Texas A&M because “I love the team, the traditions and the at-mosphere on campus. When I visited, I knew I wanted to be a part of it” … University Studies major with a focus in business and a minor in human resources and communication.

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A three-year letterwinner at Dalton High School in Dalton, Ga. … Georgia Daily Citizen News All-Region Team Honorable Mention in 2005 and 2006 … North Cobb Warrior Classic All-Tournament Team in 2005 and 2006 … Played select ball for Georgia Elite Gold under coach Chenita Rogers and coach Leonard Moody … Her team placed ninth at 2007 ASA Nationals in College Station, Texas … Also a four-year letter-winner in swimming … Named most dedicated athlete of her senior class.

P E R s O N A LEden Elizabeth Morris was born on Aug. 13, 1989, in East R idge, Tenn. … Daughter of Marcus and Janie Morris of Cohutta, Ga. … Has a brother, Cole (21) … Three-time Scholar Athlete … Member of the National Honor Society … Chose Texas A&M because “it is a phenomenal school with wonderful traditions, friendly people, and a great softball program” … Psychology major.


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A four-year letterwinner at Pearland High School … Louisville Slugger/NFCA High School All American … Two-time TGCA 5A All-State selection and TXSWA All-State honoree … Louisville Slugger/NFCA High School All-Region … Was named PHS Offensive Player of the Year twice, Most Improved Player and Rookie of the Year … Three-time all-county and all-district selection … RBI Preseason Player of the Year, TGCA All-Star and All-Greater Houston first team honoree in 2008 … Played travel ball for the Texas Aces Gold from 1998-2008 ... Her team placed ninth at Colorado Fireworks Tour-nament and ASA Gold Nationals in 2007.

P E R s O N A L Kelsea Dawne Orsak was born on Sept. 12, 1989 … Daughter of Gary and Kim Orsak of Pearland, Texas … Has two sisters, Ashleigh (21) and Brooke (13) … Her father played for Phi Slama Jama (University of Houston men’s basketball team), her older sister Ashleigh played volley-ball at UH and her younger sister Brooke was a state champion gymnast in 2007 … Member of academic all-state team and Houston Scholar

Athlete Nominee in 2008 … Chose Texas A&M because “I love the tradition, the people, and the softball team is amazing. The first time I got a chance to meet the team while being recruited, I knew I wanted to share their passion for the game and be a part of the Fightin’ Texas Aggies” … Business marketing major.

THE mAroon club

The Maroon Club is the booster organization dedicated to supporting the coaches and stu-

dent-athletes of women’s athletics at Texas A&M University. With continual growth in memberships, the Maroon Club boasts its enthusiastic moral and financial support by predominantly promoting the existence and visibility of women’s sports. Contri-butions from Aggie friends, fans and family assist in the long term development and enhancement of women’s athletics at Texas A&M. Funds are primari-ly used for various ongoing marketing and promo-

you’ll get an up close and personal look at some of the best programs in the country...

• Opportunitiestoattendpre-andpost-game receptions with players and coaches• Invitationstospecialsocialevents,such as kick-off events and the annual end of the year Women’s Athletic Banquet• Membershipgifts• Monthlycoaches’luncheonsthatbring members up-to-date on sport and athlete information• Invitationscharterbustrips• Championshipandpostseasonwatchparties

tional projects to assist in the advertising efforts of our women’s sports programs. Uniquely, the Maroon Club’s assets are directed to events specifi-cally designed to increase fan support, attendance, sport awareness and fellowship of women athletes and their supporters. Additional plans for Maroon Club monies would include the need to provide in-service/educational programs for our coaching staffs and female student-athletes, i.e. nutrition, motivation and diversity education.

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N :Maroon Club

Texas A&M AthleticsP.O. Box 11190

College station, TX 77842(979) 846-3024

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during her tenure at texas a&M, head coach Jo evans has

made her mark on the aggie softball program, taking it from a team with a lot of history into a formidable contender on the national stage. evans’ aggies have posted 12 straight 30-win seasons including four 40-win sea-sons and a school-record 57 wins in 2008.

“2008 was a phenomenal year for our program, said Evans. “Our team motto was ‘Do Your Job’ and our players lived up to that motto all season long. Our team played with great character, resilience, te-nacity, integrity, a great work ethic and an undying love for its school, teammates and program. It was a magical year, filled with many memorable mo-ments, establishing a standard of what we should expect from our program year in and year out.”

In 2007, Evans reached her 700th career vic-tory as A&M made a return to the WCWS for

the first time in nearly 20 seasons. The Ag-gies made their best start in school history,

posting a 12-game winning streak. Before the start of Big 12 play, A&M climbed to

a No. 2 national ranking and amassed an astounding 28-3 record behind the iron shoulders of Amanda Scarbor-ough and Gibson. The Aggies finished the season with a 46-14 mark, making their 18th postseason appearance and

bringing home the College Station Regional and Super Regional titles.

Four players from the ’07 squad (Gibson, Hinshaw, Scarborough

and Sharonda McDonald) were named to the All-Big 12 teams. Gibson and Scarborough

went on to earn NFCA All-America first-team honors. The 2006 season showed some amazing highs but also noted a few lows for a young squad that had one senior in the starting lineup with six un-derclassmen. The Ag-gies managed upset wins over then No. 1 Arizona in the Judy

Garman Classic, in Fullerton, Calif., and then

again against No. 1 Texas in A u s t i n , but also split Big 12 con-tests with

With Evans at the helm, A&M has advanced to the postseason eight times with six straight

appearances since 2002. In the past three years, Ev-ans steadily improved the Aggies by more than 10 victories a year which led to two consecutive trips to the Women’s College World Series in 2007 and 2008. A&M gutted its way into the WCWS Cham-pionship Series last season and posted a national runner-up finish in addition to the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles. The Aggies finished the season ranked No. 2 in the national polls with a 57-10 overall record and led the nation with a .983 fielding percentage. A 17-1 league record and two conference trophies in ’08 earned Evans her third Big 12 Coach of the Year honor. In addition, Evans and Associate Head Coaches Joy Jack-son and Mary Jo Firnbach were voted the 2008 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Midwest Re-gion Coaching Staff of the Year. Under Evans, senior ace Megan Gibson received her third NFCA All-America accolade, was one of three finalists for the 2008 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award and was named Big 12 Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year, mark-ing the first time in conference history that a single athlete achieved both awards. Senior third baseman Jamie Hin-shaw earned NFCA All-America third-team honors, while six players were selected to the All-Big 12 teams, including Gibson, Hinshaw, Jamie Lobpries, Holly Ridley, Alex Reynolds and Natalie Villarreal.

Texas Tech and Iowa State. Nonetheless, the Aggies went on to finish fourth in league play (11-6), with five players earning All-Big 12 accolades – Scar-borough, Rocky Spencer, McDonald, Hinshaw and Gibson. A&M made its 17th postseason appearance and finished the year with a 34-19 mark. Gibson and Hinshaw went on to earn NFCA Midwest All-Region second-team honors. The Texas A&M softball team reached more than just one milestone in 2005. Evans earned her 600th career victory in addition to the Aggies win-ning their first conference title. A&M posted an as-tounding 34-2 record half-way through the season and a 47-10 record overall. The Aggies advanced to their fourth consecutive NCAA Regional, sweeping McNeese State and Penn State before falling to Ala-bama in the newly instated Super Regional at the Aggie Softball Complex. Six Aggies earned All-Big 12 honors including NFCA first-team All-American Scarborough who was also named Big 12 Freshman and Big 12 Player of the Year. Gibson earned NFCA All-America third-team honors, McDonald brought home the NFCA/adidas Golden Shoe award for her speed on the base-paths and Evans was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year. In 2004, Evans’ young squad went through early-season growing pains before making a mag-nificent run through league play that began with a sweep of No. 9 Oklahoma and included an 11-game win streak. The Aggies finished the Big 12 in second place, the school’s highest-ever conference finish, and advanced to a third consecutive NCAA Region-al. Freshman speedster McDonald was honored as the Big 12 Freshman of the Year while Jessica Kap-chinski was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and earned third-team NFCA All-America honors.

name: Jo Evans

date of Birth: July 29, 1960

Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah

education: University of Utah B.S. in commercial recreation (1983)

M.S. in sports management (1996)

coac h i n g h o n o r s • Three-TimeBig12Conference

Coach of the Year (2004, ’05, ‘08)

• HighCountryAthleticConference Coach of the Year (1988, ’89)

• WesternAthleticConferenceCoachoftheYear (1991, ’94)

• RegionCoachoftheYear (1989-Central, 1994-West)

• CollegeWorldSeriesAppearances (1991, ’94, ‘07, ‘08)

• All-AmericaAwards:10 Utah Charmelle Green, 1990, 91 (2nd team) Ali Andrus, 1994 (2nd team) Amy Timmel, 1994 (2nd team) Texas A&M Selena Collins, 2002 (3rd team) Amanda Scarborough, 2005 (1st team), 2007 (1st team) Megan Gibson, 2005 (2nd team), 2007 (1st team), 2008 (1st team) Jamie Hinshaw, 2008 (3rd team)

ot h e r h o n o r • UtahSoftballHallofFame(1999)

the evans File

Three-Time Big 12 Coach of the Year

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Evans was not left out as she was named the 2004 Big 12 Coach of the Year. In 2003 Evans led her team to three tournament titles, series sweeps of No. 5 Nebraska and No. 17 Oklahoma State, the program’s first winning record in Big 12 play and the Aggies placed a record seven players on the All-Big 12 first and second teams.

Evans came to Texas A&M in the summer of 1996 with 11 years

of collegiate coaching experience and an adeptness and capacity to build winning programs. She re-placed Bob Brock, who stepped aside after three national cham-pionship titles and 15 years at the helm of the Aggies. Although A&M experienced tremendous success under Brock during the 1980s, the Aggies had not been to the Col-lege World Series since 1988 and won its last national championship in 1987. Evans began her head-coaching career at Colorado State University in 1986, following two seasons as an assistant coach at Florida State. The Rams finished with a 13-16 record in her first sea-son as head coach, but it was in her fourth and final season that Evans took the program to new heights. That year the Rams finished with a 37-14 record and a co-conference championship title. Evans, who led CSU to a 91-67 mark during her four-year stint, collected back-to-back High Country Athletic Confer-ence Coach of the Year honors her final two seasons and was chosen as the Central Region Coach of the Year in 1989. Evans returned home, to Utah, in 1991 to take over her alma mater and quickly got things going as she directed the Utes to a 32-30 record in her first season followed by a trip to the College World

coach evans’Year-BY-Year record

overall conference conference regional ncaa

Year W l tie Pct. W l tie Place tournament tournament WcWs

co lo r a d o s tat e 1986 13 16 — .448 3 7 — 6th — — —1987 18 20 — .474 4 6 — 4th 3rd — —1988 23 17 — .575 4 6 — 4th 2nd — —1989 37 14 — .725 7 3 — 1st 4th — —

U ta h 1990 32 30 — .516 2 8 — 6th 3rd — —1991 28 16 — .636 8 2 — 1st 1st 1st 0-21992 25 20 — .556 9 1 — 1st 1st 2nd —1993 23 22 — .511 6 6 — 5th n/a — —1994 51 13 — .797 22 4 — 2nd n/a 1st 1-21995 31 20 — .608 20 7 — 2nd n/a 4th —1996 32 22 — .593 17 7 — 3rd n/a — —

t e Xa s a&M1997 37 29 — .561 7 9 — 6th T 5th — —1998 32 25 2 .559 6 10 2 7th T 9th — —1999 41 22 — .651 7 11 — 7th T 7th 4th —2000 32 23 — .582 8 10 — 4th 2nd T 5th —2001 32 19 — .627 7 11 — 7th T 5th — —2002 40 18 — .689 9 9 — 5th T 5th 2nd —2003 38 22 — .633 10 8 — 5th T 7th 2nd —2004 33 22 — .600 13 3 — 2nd T 5th 4th —2005 47 10 — .824 14 4 — 1st T 5th 2nd —2006 34 19 — .642 11 6 — 4th T 5th 3rd —2007 46 14 — .767 12 6 — 4th T 5th 1st 0-22008 57 10 — .850 17 1 — 1st 1st 1st 3-3

evans’ coaching stoPs total total total Winningschool Years Wins losses ties Percentage

colorado state 4 91 67 — .576Utah 7 222 143 — .608texas a&M 12 469 233 2 .668

career total 22 782 443 2 .639

Series in her second. That season, on her way to the CWS, the Utes captured the Western Athletic Conference regular season and tournament titles and defeated Texas A&M at the regionals in College Station to advance to Oklahoma City. For her team’s accomplishments that season, Evans was honored as the 1991 WAC Coach of the Year.

In 1992 Evans’ Utes repeated their WAC dominance by capturing their second consecutive regular and postseason WAC titles. Their quest for a second straight trip to the CWS was cut short, how-ever, when they lost to the eventual national champion UCLA in the regional finals. In 1994, the Utes made their sec-ond trip to the World Se-ries with record-setting performances along the way. The Utes rewrote the Utah record books for virtually every statis-tical category including most wins (51), best fin-ish in the World Series (5th), highest national ranking (7th) and best winning percentage (.797), to name a few.

Evans was once again honored as the WAC Coach of the Year and was also named as the West Region Coach of the Year by her peers. When A&M came calling in 1996, the opportu-nity was too sweet to pass up. The facilities, history, budget and entire Aggie experience overwhelmed Evans on her visit and she knew she was ready for the move and for a new challenge. “Leaving Utah and coming to A&M was the toughest decision I have ever had to make,” said Evans. “I was incredibly happy at Utah and I was ex-cited about what we had accomplished. “I was familiar with A&M because I had com-peted against them as a player and a coach for many years and was impressed with what they had been able to do. When I got the call about the position I didn’t know that I was interested, but after talking to them for over an hour I got excited. I wondered what it would be like to leave my comfort zone and rebuild another program at a place that had the fa-cilities and budget that A&M offered. “When I came on my visit I was impressed by the facilities and the idea of being able to practice outside in the winter (year-round practices) as well as being able to compete in the Big 12 Conference. I ultimately took this job because I thought I needed a new challenge. I was excited to get the opportu-nity to come here. I felt like I had done what I could at Utah and it was time to move on.”

As a player at Utah, Evans earned High Country All-Conference Honors in 1982 as she led the

team to a World Series appearance. She also was named as an ASA All-American in Women’s Class-A Nationals. Evans has three siblings, her oldest sister, Karen, and brother, Craig, live in Salt Lake City, and Vicki lives in Walnut Cove, North Carolina. Evans is the daughter of Bill and Bonnie Evans of Salt Lake City.

In her career Evans racked up 782 wins to 443 losses and two ties, good for a .639 winning per-

centage. She advanced to postseason play 13 times and holds five regular season conference titles and three postseason titles.

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ag g i e Fa M i lY

“ The Aggie family is something that is very unique. It is a body of people who embrace the values of teamwork, community, integrity, loyalty and hard work. It is nice because my coaching philosophy reflects what this uni-versity represents so the two mesh perfectly together.

I had serious doubts about our players feel-ing like part of a family among a student body of 44,000, but I have been absolutely amazed by the family atmosphere and the feeling here. Our athletes really feel like they are part of this whole experience and university. Aggie Muster epitomizes that family atmosphere and the feel-ing of being one with a group. Our players feel that and it is special. Everyone knows that we are a unique university and they see us and they want that kind of feeling. That is a great draw. ”

coac h i n gP h i lo s o P hY

“ I recognize that I need to be my players’ biggest fan. I need to make sure they feel confident and they know that I have confidence in them. I try to create an environment for them that is relaxing and positive and feels like a family, the kind of atmosphere where they can continue to grow and develop.

I have always been ex-tremely competitive and my intensity in my early years would take over sometimes. I was just so consumed by the almighty win. Obviously now I still want to win, but I have a better perspective and I try to get my players to understand that perspective.

I see myself focusing more on the process as opposed to the outcomes and that becomes less consuming. I feel myself more in the mo-ment than if I am only focused on winning and I try to convey that to my players.

Like anything, you lead by example with your actions, so if I can be relaxed and enjoy what I am doing then I feel like it will help the players be the same way. There is a whole lot more going on than just playing ball so it is important to create an environment where they understand priorities and perspective and that softball is not the only thing in their life.

I have to make sure that there is enough intensity and make sure that our players are being motivated and driven. There is a fine balance there. ”

W hY coac h i n g?“ I have loved the game of softball ever since I got involved at the age of ten. I knew I wanted to coach when I was in high school. I was someone who always had a vision of what I wanted to do. I was around coaches and around the game constantly so it was always a part of my life and I loved to play.

I am one of those people that if I could have played forever I would have done that. I just loved to play the game. I had a passion for it and know I am getting to do what I really want to do. ”

P h i lo s o P hY o F l i F e

“ What I really believe is that you get what you give. My players hear me say that all the time. So if they give positive energy and a posi-tive attitude and enthusiasm then they will get that in return. I feel like that about my life as well. If you surround yourself with positive people then you are going to have a positive experience. I can’t expect to have good experiences and get much out of my life if I don’t put anything into it.

respect each other and they are accepting of each other. We work very hard to recruit that type of player/person.

The nice thing about A&M is that it draws people to it. There are a lot of great athletes that want to come to this school, so we can look at that group and choose the athletes who have great attitudes, great work ethic, conscientious students, who are people of character. This is the type of player currently competing in our program. I will continue to recruit players who are unselfish, versatile, and have a passion for the game. ”

Fa M i lY at M o s P h e r e

“ We are incredibly fortunate because we have a group of athletes that really like each

other and that makes a lot of difference. It is easy to get a group of people together and end up having cliques, but we don’t have that.

We try to establish a family atmosphere for our players. When our freshman class ar-rives I spend time with them talking about the things they are going to encounter in this whole experience and really encourage them to take care of each other.

So when each class comes in they recognize these are their friends and family who they will take care of for the next four years. We talk about that collectively as a team as well. When we have any sort of problems arise we try to quickly confront the issues and deal with it in a respect-ful manner and it has worked out very well.

I couldn’t be happier with the people we have in our program. Having a group that recruits can see taking care of each other has been a great draw. ”

to U g h n o n - co n F e r e n c es c h e d U l e

“ I believe we should play the toughest non-conference schedule possible. Our program is at a point where we are among the best in the nation and we need to play the best to continue to improve and move towards our goal of a national title. ”

B i g 12 co n F e r e n c e“ It is a tremendous privilege to coach in the Big 12 Conference. Very few coaches get the opportunity to coach in a conference like the Big 12 and compete against this caliber of teams. The country recognizes our conference as one of the best in the country. Every team that participates in the Big 12 has the ability to compete in post-season play. Every team in our conference is tough and there is no one team that dominates in conference play. The Big 12 title is up for grabs every year and the parity in our conference is what makes it fun and exciting. ”

coach Jo evans … UP close

I believe good things come back to you if you are surrounded by positive people, bright people, and if you open yourself up to new ideas. I recognize that I get more out of life if I try to follow this path. I make time to read and I enjoy hearing new ideas and different views. I know this allows my world to get bigger.

Thatismygoal:tonotpigeonholemyselfor get myself into such a corner that my world is softball and ESPN Sportscenter. I find myself gravitating away from sports, when I leave the field, and trying to broaden my horizons.”

Fav o r i t e a&M t r a d i t i o n

“ I love Aggie Muster. Of all the Aggie tradi-tions Muster is my favorite. We don’t just say you are going to be a part of our family, we live it and follow through with it and that is what Aggie Muster is all about. ”

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“ There is a balance. It is very important for us to recruit great athletes with great charac-ter. We have built our program around great athletes in the 10 years I have been here and the reason we have had success is because our players are athletic, but also great people. They

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Joy Jackson is beginning her 13th season with the softball program after being promoted from assistant coach to associate head coach in 2004. she joined head coach Jo

evans in the trek from Utah to aggieland in the summer of 1996 after serving one year as a full-time assistant coach for evans and the Utes.

Jackson is responsible for coaching the outfield-ers, base running and lefty slap at A&M. In addi-

tion, Jackson is the recruiting coordinator and man-ages administrative duties. During her tenure at A&M, 15 Aggie outfielders have been voted to the All-Big 12 Conference team by the league coaches, including the entire 2004 and 2005 Aggie outfield.Jackson first served under Evans as a student as-sistant coach at Utah in 1990. In 1991, Jackson served as an assistant softball coach at Murray High School, in Murray, Utah, while also completing her degree in health science. After helping the Spar-tans reach the Utah High School State Tournament in her first season, Jackson was promot-ed to head coach in 1992. While leading Murray to a return trip to the state tour-nament, Jackson also doubled as a volun-teer assistant coach under Evans at Utah and helped guide the Utes to a berth in the NCAA regional tour-nament.

Raised in Plain City, Utah, Jackson

served as an assistant coach for Melinda Fischer at Illinois State from 1993-95. In her final season before returning to Utah, Jackson helped lead Illinois State to the Missouri Valley Conference title, as well as a berth in the NCAA tournament for the first time in seven years.

A four-year letter-winner at Utah

from 1986-89, Jack-son played both third base and outfield

name: Joy Jackson

date of Birth: Dec. 18, 1966

Birthplace: Ogden, Utah

education: University of Utah, B.S. in Health Science (1991)

coac h i n g c a r e e r1990 ................... Student Assistant Coach, University of Utah

1991 ................... Assistant Coach, Murray High School, Murray, Utah

1992 ................... Head Coach, Murray High School Volunteer Assistant Coach, Utah

1993-95 ............ Assistant Coach, Illinois State

1996-04 ............ Assistant Coach, Texas A&M

2004-Pres. ........ Associate Head Coach, Texas A&M

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w i t h o u r o u t f i e l d .

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p r o g r a m a n d i s a n

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associate head coach, 13th season

during her career. As a sophomore, she helped lead the Utes to the 1987 High Country Athletic Conference title and secure a trip to the NCAA tournament. Jackson was voted team captain as a se-nior and also was named to the all-region first team.

Jackson is the daughter of Ken and Linda Jackson of Ogden, Utah. She is

the youngest of four children and the only girl. Jackson’s older brothers include Lynn, of Layton, Utah, Lonn, Ogden, Utah and the late Nedd of Plain City, Utah.

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Firnbach made an immediate and positive im-pact on the A&M softball program in two short

years, budding the team’s fielding percentage to .971 her first season, only to lead the nation with a stingy .983 fielding percentage in 2008. The Aggies’ team batting average also increased to an impres-sive .284 in 2007 and an even better .290 last year.Firnbach’s major job functions include working with hitters, infielders, team defense and team of-fense. She also shares recruiting duties, assists with camps and clinics and the overall management of the program.

As a student, Firnbach was a four-year standout at third base at Southern Illinois University,

where in 1991 she earned an undergraduate degree in community health education. While at Southern Illinois, Firnbach was named team captain in 1991, a season in which the Salukis went 42-7 and were the Gateway Conference regular season and tour-nament champions. She was a two-time Gateway All-Conference first-team selection and an All-Mid-west second-team selection. On the professional level Firnbach played the 1991 season for the Raybestos Brakettes in Strat-ford, Conn. The Brakettes won the national cham-pionship and the gold medal at the Olympic Sports Festival. She also played with the Michigan Cruise in Ann Arbor, Mich., finishing fifth at the national tournament in 1994.

Firnbach entered the coaching profession imme-diately following graduation, serving as a vol-

unteer assistant coach for two seasons at her alma mater, while completing her master’s degree in sport psychology. She served as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan from 1993 to 1995 where she helped lead the Wolverines to a Big Ten Conference regular season and tournament cham-pionship, the National Invitational Tournament title and to an appearance in the College World Series. Firnbach then served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Illinois State for three years. The Redbirds won Missouri Valley Conference crowns in 1996 and 1997 before being named the head coach of the Orange in 1998.

Mary Jo Firnbach enters her third season as the associate head coach of the aggie softball team. Firnbach came to aggieland after serving seven seasons as the head

coach of the orange at syracuse University, where she com-piled an overall record of 174-169-1. Under her direction, sU established a new school record for victories (36) and made its third appearance in the Big east championship, earning coaching staff of the Year honors in 2005.

name: Mary Jo Firnbach

date of Birth: June 17, 1969

Birthplace: Wonderlake, Ill.

education: University of Southern Illinois, B.S. in Community Health Education (1991) M.S. in Sports Psychology (1993)

coac h i n g c a r e e r

1991-93 ....... Volunteer Assistant Coach, Southern Illinois

1993-95 ....... Assistant Coach, University of Michigan

1995-99 ....... Assistant Coach, Illinois State

1999-2006 .. Head Coach, Syracuse University

2006- Pres. ......Associate Head Coach, Texas A&M

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n a t e t o h a v e a c o a c h

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Firnbach also received several accolades recognizing her accomplishments on and off the playing field. She was named the Gateway Conference Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s and was Southern Illinois’ nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year in 1991. In 1996 Firn-bach was inducted into the Southern Illinois University Athletic Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Woodstock High School Hall of Fame.

associate head coach, 3rd season

mAry Jo FIrnbAcH

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director oF soFtBall oPerations, 5th season

STEpHEn GrovE

associate athletic director

mIlTon ovErTon

Stephen Grove is in his seventh year with the ath-letic department and fifth as a member of the

Texas A&M softball staff after accepting his current position in November of 2004. He is responsible for handling the day-to-day operational duties associ-ated with Aggie softball and all the team’s travel-ing logistics and schedules as well as planning and assisting with on-campus recruiting. He also works hand-in-hand with the athletic marketing office in promoting and marketing Aggie softball and serves as the director of the popular Aggie Softball Sum-mer Camp and the newly established Texas A&M Hitting Camps. Before moving over to softball specifically, Grove served as the media relations director for the softball team from 2003 to 2005, and the soc-cer team in 2004. As a member of the media rela-tions staff, he was responsible for the development, editing and publication of the softball and soccer media guides as well as assisting with football, baseball, basketball, track and cross country media guides. He also worked events including the 2003 NCAA Baseball College Station Regional before serving as the assistant tournament director for the 2005 NCAA Softball Regional and Super Regional held in College Station.

During his time with the softball team, Grove filled the role of color commentator for Aggie softball radio broadcasts that have been heard on AggieAthletics.com as well as KZNE 1150 in Col-lege Station and the surrounding area. He got his start in radio as the sideline reporter for Southern Sports Tonight during Texas A&M football games in the 2002 season. After serving one season with the soccer team, Grove was named as the No. 5 Soccer Media Relations Director in the country by Soccer-Buzz Magazine.

The 33-year-old Grove is a 1998 and 2003 gradu-ate of Texas A&M. After receiving his bache-

lor’s degree he returned to A&M and received his master’s of science degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Sport Management in 2003. Grove is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches As-sociation and enjoys spending time with his four nephews as well as traveling, scuba diving, playing golf, hunting and spending time at his family cabin in Colorado.

Milton Overton is in his seventh year at Texas A&M and his sixth year as an associate athlet-

ic director. In addition to managing all technologi-cal aspects of the athletic department, Overton also serves as the athletic administrator responsible for overseeing the men’s and women’s tennis, soccer, softball and men’s and women’s swimming and div-ing programs. He also manages the athletic depart-ment’s computerized mail and inventory systems. Overton, who came to A&M in May 2002, served as the assistant athletic director for academ-ic and associate director the Center for Athletic Aca-

demic Services prior to his promotion to his current position in September 2003. Overton earned masters degrees in both hu-man relations and education and a bachelor’s de-gree in sociology from Oklahoma, where he also was a four-year starting offensive lineman for the Sooner football team from 1991-1995. He is cur-rently pursuing a doctorate in higher education/administration from Oklahoma. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Overton and his wife, Eunice have two sons Micaiah Alexander (7) and Lebbeus Thomas (3).

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Amy Bragg, one of the first registered dieticians in the nation to work full time in Division I athletics, is in her

sixth year as director of performance nutrition for the Texas A&M athletic department. Bragg provides nutritional programming for A&M’s student-athletes. Passionate about utilizing the environ-ment to teach student-athletes about nutrition, Bragg views eating at team meals and choosing recovery foods after team workouts as hands-on educational opportuni-ties. Nutrition services offered to student-athletes range from grocery shopping tours and cooking demonstration classes to team meetings and one-on-one counseling for performance enhancement. Bragg also plans training table, travel and pregame meals and works closely with

the coaching, strength and conditioning and athletic training staffs, recommending ways to help maximize the student-athletes’ health and performance. In 2007, Bragg was honored as the Big 12 Sports Nutritionist of the Year.

Born and raised in Pittsburg, Texas, Bragg received a bachelor of business administration degree in finance

from the University of Texas in 1995 and a bachelor of sci-ence degree in human nutrition and foods from the Uni-versity of Houston in 2000. Following her graduation from Houston, Bragg served as a nutrition coach and consultant in the Hous-ton area. She has advised more than 6,000 athletes and others on how to improve their athletic performance and general health by controlling their weight and increas-

ing muscle mass, strength and stam-ina.

Bragg, whose hobbies in-

clude cooking, bik-ing and reading, is married to Bobby Bragg. They are the proud parents of daughter Rebecca Mallory Bragg, born January 18, 2005.

athletic trainer

STEpHAnIE kEE

Stephanie Kee, a nationally certi-

fied and licensed athletic trainer, is in her first season as athletic trainer for the Texas A&M softball team after spending five sea-sons with the Aggie volleyball program.

Kee joined A&M in August 2004 after spending two years at Arizona State University, where she was an athletic

trainer responsible for women’s water polo and also assist-ed with football. In addition, Kee worked for Physiotherapy Associates in Chandler, Ariz., assisting with the daily care and rehabilitation of patients. Kee, who received a master’s degree in higher and post-secondary education at ASU in May 2004, also served as an athletic trainer on the medical staffs at the 2003 ESPN Summer X games and the 2004 Winter X Games, treating elite athletes during championship competition.

Kee obtained bachelors of science degrees in both ath-letic training and sports behavior from West Virginia

University in 2002. The Morgantown, W. Va., native served as a student athletic trainer for the Mountaineers while

completing her studies, working with women’s gymnastics and volleyball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and football. In addition, Kee interned for the strength and condi-tioning program at WVU, assisting with gymnasts and track and field athletes. A National Academy of Sports Medicine certified performance enhancement specialist, the former Stepha-nie Weaver is married to Matt Kee, a physical therapist and athletic trainer for the Texas A&M athletic department. Stephanie enjoys playing golf, exercising and biking dur-ing her spare time.

assistant Media relations director

DEAnnA WErnEr

Deanna Werner is in her first year with the Texas A&M athletic department after joining the staff

in August 2008. She is responsible for the nationally-ranked Aggie softball and soccer programs. Prior to her arrival in College Station, Werner served as a graduate assistant in the women’s commu-nications office at the University of Arkansas for two years. Werner was the primary contact for the Razor-back softball and swimming and diving programs, and assisted with soccer, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, track and field, cross country, golf and tennis. Her 2008 swimming and diving media guide was named third

best in the nation by College Sports Information Di-rectors of America. Werner also created the first NCAA Women’s College World Series blog at the 2007 cham-pionship. Werner served as the assistant sports information director and the assistant volleyball/softball coach at Illinois College from 2004-06, where she was responsi-ble for all 18 varsity sports. In addition, Werner worked in the sports department at the Jacksonville (Ill.) Jour-nal-Courier. Werner got her start in sports information as a stu-dent assistant at Kalamazoo College, where she received

director oF PerForMance nUtrition

Amy brAGG

her bachelor’s de-gree in economics and business in 2004. She received her master’s de-gree in recreation and sports man-agement from Arkansas in May of 2008. The Mus-kegon, Mich., native is a also a member of CoSIDA.

mInDy GArrISon

Mindy Gar-rison is

in her first year as athletic aca-demic supervi-sor at Texas A&M where she works with the base-ball, softball and

volleyball teams.

athletic acadeMic sUPervisor

A 2005 graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in Recreation, Park, and Tour-ism Sciences, Garrison earned her master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from A&M in 2007. Upon graduation, Garrison spent one year as an academic advisor for the Baylor University football and women’s basketball teams before her return to Aggieland. Garrison was a four-year letterwinner for the women’s basketball team from 2001-05, earning

three Academic All-Big 12 honors in her career. As a senior, she helped the Aggies to postseason play for the first time in nine years. A native of San Marcos, Texas, Garrison is a member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics.

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athletic Fields staFFFRONT ROW (L-R): Mat Pierce, assistant athletic fields manager Craig Potts, Kyler McNew, Kolby Templeton, E.J. Perez, Jordan Vasquez, Kent Kieschnick.

BACK ROW (L-R): Athletic Fields manager Leo Goertz, Jeff Van Meter, Daniel Ryan, Larry Horn, Rob Wilson, Andrew Siegel, Zach Elias, Justin Potthoff.

associate director oF strength and conditioning

raycHEllE EllSWorTH

Raychelle Ells-worth is one

of the most highly regarded strength and condition-ing coaches in the nation, and in 2007 the strength and conditioning coach for the Tex-

as A&M softball team received the most prestigious honor awarded in her profession by being named Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches as-sociation (CSCCa). At the time, Ellsworth was one of only 60 in the country to hold the esteemed honor, and she remains one of only three females to have earned the distinction.

A member of the Texas A&M Class of ‘94, Ells-worth returned to her alma mater in the summer of 1996 to assist in the strength and conditioning of the Aggie athletes. In addition to softball, Ells-worth directs the strength and conditioning pro-gram for the Aggie volleyball team. Ellsworth, who is strength and conditioning coach certified and a certified strength and conditioning specialist, also is the practicum coordinator for strength and conditioning in the A&M kinesiology department’s master’s exercise physiology program. Ellsworth’s athletes also have been recog-nized nationally for their accomplishments in the weight room. Under her instruction and guidance, A&M volleyball, softball and basketball athletes have earned a total of 21 All-American Athlete cer-tificates from the National Strength and Condition-ing Association.

Ellsworth returned to a full-time posi-tion at A&M after serving as an assistant coach at the University of Washington from 1995-96. While with the Huskies, Ellsworth was respon-sible for the softball team, which won the Pac-10 championship and was the runner-up at the ’96 NCAA Women’s College Softball World Series. She also was responsible for men’s and women’s track and field and tennis, as well as women’s gymnastics and soccer. Born and raised in Schulenburg, Texas, Ells-worth received her bachelor’s degree in kinesiol-ogy with a minor in health in 1994. The former Raychelle Michalke is married to Craig Ellsworth. The couple has two children, a son, Tucker Jamison Ellsworth, born July 6, 1998, and a daughter, Jenna Raye Ellsworth, born April 10, 2001.

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their own practice courts, locker rooms, a weight room, an athletic training room, and offices under the same roof. In the fall of 2008, the $23 million Cox-McFerrin Center for Aggie Basketball opened its doors as part of an expansion to Reed Arena. Known as one of the most innovative and influential leaders in terms of marketing, Byrne has made an impressive impact in mar-keting Aggie Athletics. In January of 2006, A&M awarded the school’s athletic multimedia marketing rights for 10 years to a joint venture of Learfield Communications, ISP Sports, and FSN Southwest – known collectively as Texas A&M Sports Properties. The agreement is one of the top multimedia rights contracts in the country and provides sig-nificant income for A&M athletics throughout the length of the agree-ment. The forward-thinking Byrne tabbed the guaranteed revenue from the Learfield agreement to finance the department’s ambitious video screen and ribbon board expansion project, which included Kyle Field, Reed Arena, and a portable video screen mounted on a 53-foot 18-wheeler. The video screens are operated by 12th Man Productions, nationally recognized as one of the finest in-house video production programs in America. Success on the field, coupled with a focus on the school’s in-game marketing, helped boost attendance across the board re-sulting in increased season ticket revenue. Under Byrne’s leadership, season ticket sales in football have increased 13 percent since 2003. Season ticket sales for men’s and women’s basketball have more than doubled since 2003 – men’s basketball has grown by 107 percent and women’s basketball by an impressive 199 percent. Increased attendance at home contests has also been aided by the creation of a fan rewards program for frequent attendance. The 12th Man Team Rewards Program is a fan-loyalty program which al-lows A&M’s Athletic Department to thank their most dedicated fans’ continued support and attendance at the school’s home athletic events. Upon its inception six years ago, attendance records at A&M were immediately shattered. To date, each sport offered at A&M has set at least one new school attendance record.

Bill Byrne is in his sixth year of Building Champions as Director of Athletics at Texas A&M University.

With more than 25 years experience as a Division I athletic di-rector, Byrne has impressive credentials and a track record for produc-ing champions on and off the field. Since arriving in Aggieland in December of 2002, the Aggies have won 23 Big 12 Conference Championships in 10 different sports and captured four team national championships in equestrian. The 23 championships won by the Aggies from January 2003 through the end of the 2008 season rank second in the league. In fact, no Big 12 member school surpassed the 15 conference championships won by the Aggies during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons combined. In the prestigious Director’s Cup all-sport rankings, Byrne has guided A&M to its three highest finishes in school history. The Aggies’ best finish was 12th in 2007-08. Under Byrne’s leadership, the department has made signifi-cant upgrades in facilities and increased revenue opportunities, while remaining focused on winning on the playing field and in the class-room. Byrne manages an athletic budget in excess of $70 million for the 2008-09 year. During his tenure at A&M, he has overseen the construction or renovation of approximately $60 million in ath-letic facilities. Byrne teamed with the 12th Man Foundation, the in-stitution’s primary fundraising organization for athletics, to develop a comprehensive master plan for A&M’s athletic facilities. Together, they secured several major gifts for the second phase of A&M’s Champion-ship Vision Capital Campaign. Citing the need for an indoor football facility and an indoor track and field stadium, Byrne ensured the multi-purpose $36 million McFerrin Athletic Center became a reality in 2007 and 2008, respec-tively. The complex boasts two full sized football fields, a state-of-the-art hydraulic track capable of hosting national championships, a Magic Carpet system, and seating for 5,000 spectators. At the same time, Byrne recognized the need for a basketball practice facility which would allow the basketball teams to each have

Dr. Murano interrupted her Texas A&M service in 2001 when President George W. Bush asked her to serve as Under Secretary for Food Safety for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, making her the highest-ranking food safety official in the U.S. government. In leading the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, she was responsible for an agency with a budget of ap-proximately $1 billion and about 10,000 employees, with the mis-sion of working to improve public health through the application of science in policy decisions. She returned to Aggieland in January 2005 as Vice Chan-cellor and Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, joint positions in which she served until being appointed President of Texas A&M. As Vice Chancellor and former Director of Texas AgriLife Research (formerly the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station), she led a transformation of agricultural programs and four state agencies within The Texas A&M University System to the benefit of stu-dents, peers and the agricultural community represented in 254 counties across Texas. While serving as Dean, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences experienced significant growth in enrollment and enhancement of its teaching, research and service endeavors. In

Dr. Elsa A. Murano is the 23rd Presi-

dent of Texas A&M University. Taking of-fice on Jan. 3, 2008, at age 48, she is the first woman and first Hispanic-American to lead the oldest public institution of higher learning in Texas—now one of the larg-

est teaching and research universities in the nation. Her association with the university dates back to 1995, when she joined the Texas A&M faculty as an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science and Associate Director of the Center for Food Safety within the Institute for Food Science and Engineering. Dr. Murano was named Director of the Center in 1997 and served in that position until 2001. Also, she rose to the rank of Professor and was named holder of the Sadie Hatfield Professorship in Agriculture.

Bill Jones, Chairman .................................. Austin

John D. White, Vice-Chairman ............. Houston

Ida Clement Steen ........................San Antonio

Morris E. Foster ..................................... Houston

Lupe Fraga ............................................. Houston

Dr. Richard Box ......................................... Austin

Erle Nye ........................................................Dallas

Gene Stallings ...................................... Powderly

James P. Wilson .................................Sugar Land

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Thomas E. Wehrly ............................ Statistics

Richard L. Carlson ........Geology & Geosciences

Anne McGowan .......................... Accounting

Elena Castell-Perez .................Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Robert Strawser........................... Accounting

Christine Townsend ............Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences

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President, 2nd Yearconjunction with her deanship, Dr. Murano chaired a blue-ribbon task force to study ways for enhancing the undergraduate experi-ence at the University, which has ultimately become known as “The Murano Report.” A noted expert on food safety, Dr. Murano was principal in-vestigator or co-principal investigator in research projects total-ing more than $8.7 million during her professorial career, initially at Iowa State University and continuing at Texas A&M. She has been widely published, as author or co-author of seven books, book chapters or monographs, and scores of scholarly papers, abstracts and related materials. Dr. Murano began her professorial career in 1990 as an As-sistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Preventative Medicine at Iowa State, the position she held prior to joining the Texas A&M faculty. She received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Florida International University, and earned both a master’s degree in anaerobic microbiology and a doctorate in food science and technology from Virginia Tech. She is married to Dr. Peter S. Murano, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Food Science and Director of Texas A&M’s Insti-tute for Obesity Research and Program Development.

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83 Big 12 and Big Eight Conference champion-ships. Byrne’s 48 Big 12 titles ranked second in the league during his tenure at Nebraska. The Huskers also won 10 na-tional championships, including three in foot-ball and two in women’s volleyball. Together, Byrne’s teams compiled an extremely impressive string of nine straight top 25 finishes in the Director’s Cup Division I-A standings. Husker student-athletes excelled in the classroom, and 109 were named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans. In 1996, the Big Eight and Southwest Conferences combined forces to form the Big 12. Byrne played a pivotal role in the formation of what has become one of the nation’s powerhouse conferences. Byrne’s first role as athletic director was at the University of Or-egon from 1984-1992. Byrne arrived in Eugene, Oregon in late 1982, where he served 18 months as an associate athletic director, before being appointed one of the youngest athletic directors in the country in May of 1984. Under his watch, the Ducks captured 16 Pac 10 Conference championships and four national championships in track and field and cross country. It was at Oregon where Byrne first earned the reputation for outstanding hiring practices. He also made major changes to the landscape of Oregon’s athletic facilities and earned the nickname, “Bill the Builder.” Byrne began his collegiate career as the director of alumni relations at his alma mater Idaho State and then served as executive director of the New Mexico Lobo Club from 1976-79. He was the assis-tant athletic director for external operations at San Diego State from 1980-82. Throughout his career, Byrne has been recognized with the highest awards an athletic administrator can receive. Among his many accolades, honors include the U.S. Sports Academy 2007 Carl Maddox Sports Management Award; the 2002 winner of the National Football Foundation John L. Toner Award; the 1999 Central Region National As-sociation of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Director of the Year; president of NACDA in 1991-92; and the National Athletic Fund-raisers Association Fundraiser of the Year in 1985. Byrne is a 1967 graduate of Idaho State University, where he also served as student body president. He earned an MBA in 1971. Byrne’s wife of more than 40 years is Dr. Marilyn Kent Byrne, who has expertise in leadership development, team building, and ex-ecutive coaching. The Byrnes have two sons – Bill III and Greg. Bill is a vice president of Visa USA in San Francisco, and Greg is the director of athletics at Mississippi State University. Greg and his wife Regina live in Starkville, Miss., with their sons, Nicholas and Davis.

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While at A&M, Byrne has hired nine head coaches in eight sports. Eight of his hires have achieved postseason competi-tion within their first two seasons. Student-athletes at A&M have con-tinued to excel in the classroom during Byrne’s tenure. In the 2007 spring com-mencement ceremonies, a record number of 116 student-athletes earned their de-grees. Academics continues to be a prior-ity within the Athletic Department. In the 2007 calendar year, 225 student-athletes completed their degrees and another 240 earned diplomas in 2008. Byrne came to A&M after serving as the Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska from 1992-2002. Under his watch, the Cornhuskers won an impressive

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When do you become a prospective student-athlete? When you start classes for the 9th grade. Before the 9th

grade, you become a prospective student-athlete if the university provides you (or your relatives or friends) any financial aid or other benefits that the university does not provide to prospective students generally.

When do you become a recruited prospective student-athlete? There are four ways: 1. A university provides you with an official (i.e.,

expense-paid) visit; 2. A university coach or booster* has an in-person, off-

campus encounter with you or your parent(s) or legal guardian;

3. A university coach telephones you, your fam-ily or guardian for the purpose of recruitment on more than one occasion; or

4. A university issues you a National Letter of Intent or written offer of athletically-related financial aid.

*NOTE: At the Division I level, a representative of athletic in-terests (booster) may not solicit your enrollment in any man-ner (e.g., no phone calls, letters or in-person encounters).

Does the NCAA require you to achieve certain academic minimum standards to be initially eligible? Yes, it does. To be immediately eligible at a Division

I university, you must be a qualifier. To be a qualifier means that you graduated from high school with at least 16 core courses (i.e., college preparatory courses that your high school will maintain on a form called a 48-H), and a minimum GPA in those core courses as well as a corresponding ACT or SAT score on a na-tional testing date. You must register with the NCAA Clearinghouse to learn if you are a qualifier. You will find information on the Clearinghouse if you visit the internet website described above.

Does the NCAA require you to have your amateur status certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse? For students initially enrolling on or after Aug. 1, 2008,

yes, the NCAA will require you to have your amateur status certified.

Would you violate NCAA amateur rules if you enter into an agreement with an agent or a person who calls him/herself something other than an agent (e.g., advisor) who is marketing your athletic ability? Yes, you would. It’s not permissible for a student-athlete

to agree (orally or in writing) to be represented by or take benefits from an agent without jeopardizing NCAA eligibility. Please note that it does not matter what this person calls him/herself; if he or she is marketing your athletic ability, he or she is an agent.

When may university coaches begin corresponding (includ-ing text messaging) with you? Telephoning you? Personally contacting you? Provide you with an official visit to the university? The answers to these questions vary from sport to

sport, but you may find them all in the NCAA’s Guide for the College Bound Student at www.ncaa.org or by calling the NCAA at 1-800-638-3731.

When may you telephone a university coach or visit a university campus at your own expense? You may telephone a university coach at your own

expense or visit a university at your own expense (i.e., unofficial visit) at any age and as often as you choose.

May you and your family accept benefits from a university or its boosters? Unless the university staffer or booster is a member of

your family or has a “pre-existing relationship” (call us to find out what this means) with you or your family, no, you may not accept such benefits. NCAA member institutions have decided that prospective student-athletes should be able to choose the university they

attend without being influenced by gifts or other perks given by a university or its boosters. You (or your family) may not receive any benefit, inducement or arrangement such as cash, clothing, cars, improper expenses, transportation, gifts or loans to encourage you to sign a National Letter of Intent or to attend an NCAA school.

May a booster contact you, telephone you or write you? Unless the university staffer or booster is a member of

your family, no, athletic representatives (boosters) may not contact, telephone you or write you for the purpose of recruiting.

May you ask Texas A&M former students about Texas A&M athletics? About non-athletic aspects of Texas A&M? You should not ask Texas A&M former students about

Texas A&M athletics because NCAA rules prohibit for-mer students or A&M boosters from discussing Texas A&M athletics with you or your parents/relatives. How-ever, if you telephone or write former students about non-athletics aspects of Texas A&M (e.g., the business college), they may answer your questions.

May you attend an A&M Club luncheon or meeting? Yes, but only under certain conditions. If the luncheon/

meeting is open to the general public, you may attend. Furthermore, you must pay for your own meal and transportation unless the A&M Club provides compli-mentary meals and transportation to all other guests on a basis unrelated to athletics (e.g., all high school seniors from the local community). An A&M Club may even invite you to attend a function, but the invitation may not be limited only to athletes; the invitation must be made available for non-athletic reasons (e.g., senior night, incoming A&M freshmen night, etc.) and must be sent in the same manner as for all other participating students. This same restriction will continue to apply after you sign a National Letter of Intent with Texas A&M. A Texas A&M signee must be treated the same as any other high school student. For example, you or any other prospects in attendance may not be singled out to be introduced, as this would be a violation of NCAA publicity legislation related to prospects.

As a prospective student-athlete, you may have the athletic ability to play at the Division I level. If so,

you may be exposed to a large amount of recruitment from various universities across the nation. Through-out the recruitment process, coaches may reference various NCAA rules and regulations. The rules are designed for various reasons, but the two primary reasons are to ease the pressures on the prospective student-athlete and to level the playing field from one university to another.

During the recruiting process you may have some of the following questions: When and how often may I visit a university’s campus? How many times may a coach observe me in practice or a competition? When, where and how often may a coach telephone me? What academic credentials do I need to be eligible to play collegiate sports?

All of these answers and more may be obtained from Texas A&M University or the NCAA by request-ing the NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete. This guide may be provided to a prospective student-athlete at any time. The guide will discuss issues related to Division I, II and III, academic eligi-bility, financial aid, recruitment and many more. To receive the guide, simply request it from the Texas

A&M coach who is recruiting you or call the NCAA Hotline at 1-800-638-3731 or go online at www.ncaa.org. Select the Academics and Athletes link, select the Eligibility and Recruiting link and click on the Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete.

Violations of NCAA rules during your recruitment may jeopardize your collegiate eligibility; therefore, you and your parents need to learn as much as pos-sible about the recruitment process.

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General InformatIonlocation: Waco, Texasfounded: 1845enrollment: 14,541nickname: Lady BearsColors: Green & GoldSoftball facility (Capacity): Getterman Stadium (1,250)Interim President: David E. Garlandathletic Director: Ian McCaw

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern State ’93)office Phone: (254) 710-3055record at Baylor: 326-170 (8 years)Career record: 465-202 (11 years)associate head Coach: Mark Lumley (Arizona ’85)assistant Coach: Britni Sneed (LSU ’02)

team InformatIon2008 record: 23-222008 Big 12 record: 4-13 (8th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 12/7Starters returning/lost: 7/2Pitchers returning/lost: 3/1Series record: A&M leads 51-18-1last meeting: A&M won 8-0 in Waco, Texas

meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Kyle CornishSID office Phone: (254) 710-2743SID Cell Phone: (254) 709-4657SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (254) 710-1369Press Box Phone: (254) 710-1045Website: baylorbears.comSID mailing address: 1500 South University Parks Dr. Waco, TX 76706

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Glenn MooreHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Ames, Iowafounded: 1858enrollment: 26,856nickname: CyclonesColors: Cardinal & GoldSoftball facility (Capacity): Southwest Athletic

Complex (509)President: Dr. Gregory L. Geoffroyathletic Director: Jamie Pollard

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler (Missouri ’01)office Phone: (515) 294-3426record at Iowa State: 65-72 (3 years)Career record: 218-148 (7 years)assistant Coach: Gary Hinesassistant Coach: Crystal Turner (Ohio ’03)

team InformatIon2008 record: 29-292008 Big 12 record: 4-14 (T-9th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 12/5Starters returning/lost: 7/3Pitchers returning/lost: 2/1Series record: A&M leads 30-5last meeting: A&M won 1-0 in Oklahoma City,

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meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Matt ShoultzSID office Phone: (515) 294-1393SID Cell Phone: (515) 520-7642SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (515) 294-0558Press Box Phone: (515) 294-6178Website: cyclones.comSID mailing address: 1800 S. 4th St. Jacobson Building Ames, IA 50011

Alex Johnson Junior • Infielder

Stacy Gemeinhardt-CeslerHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Lawrence, Kan.founded: 1866enrollment: 29,613nickname: JayhawksColors: Crimson & BlueSoftball facility (Capacity): Arrocha Ballpark

(750)Chancellor: Dr. Robert Hemenwayathletic Director: Lew Perkins

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Tracy Bunge (Kansas ’86)office Phone: (785) 864-7964record at Kansas: 388-314-2 (12 years)Career record: 480-381-2 (15 years)associate head Coach: Buddy Foster (SEMO ’91)assistant Coach: Christi Musser (Kansas ’03)

team InformatIon2008 record: 37-192008 Big 12 record: 7-11 (7th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 13/5Starters returning/lost: 8/1Pitchers returning/lost: 3/0Series record: A&M leads 42-14last meeting: A&M won 8-0 in College Station,

Texas

meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Christine DieckmannSID office Phone: (785) 864-7942SID Cell Phone: (785) 393-3358SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (785) 864-7944Press Box Phone: (785) 393-3358Website: kuathletics.comSID mailing address: 1651 Naismith Drive, Room 104 Lawrence, KS 66045-7538 Val Chapple

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Tracy BungeHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Columbia, Mo.founded: 1839enrollment: 28,070nickname: TigersColors: Old Gold & BlackSoftball facility (Capacity): University Field

(500)Chancellor: Dr. Brady Deatonathletic Director: Michael Alden

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Ehren Earleywine (Westminster ’94)office Phone: (573) 882-6501record at missouri: 87-41 (2 years)Career record: 230-96 (5 years)assistant Coach: Melissa Tucci (Marist College ‘01)assistant Coach: Mark Redburn (UMSL)

team InformatIon2008 record: 47-172008 Big 12 record: 11-6 (3rd)2008 Postseason: NCAA Super Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: 19th letterwinners returning/lost: 17/2Starters returning/lost: 7/2Pitchers returning/lost: 2/1Series record: A&M leads 28-19last meeting: A&M won 9-4 in College Station,

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meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Emily G. MurraySID office Phone: (573) 884-8519SID Cell Phone: (573) 268-4275SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (573) 882-4720Press Box Phone: (573) 884-2971Website: mutigers.comSID mailing address: P.O. Box 677 Columbia, MO 65205

Rhea Taylor Sophomore • Outfielder

Ehren EarleywineHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Lincoln, Neb.founded: 1869enrollment: 22,000nickname: Cornhuskers, HuskersColors: Scarlet & CreamSoftball facility (Capacity): Bowlin Stadium

(2,500)Chancellor: Harvey PerlmanInterim athletic Director: Tom Osborne

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Rhonda Revelle (Nebraska ’84)office Phone: (402) 472-8801record at nebraska: 615-323 (16 years)Career record: 623-339 (17 years)associate head Coach: Lori Sippel (Nebraska ’88)assistant Coach: Diane Miller (MSSU ‘92)

team InformatIon2008 record: 25-282008 Big 12 record: 4-14 (T-9th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 15/2Starters returning/lost: 10/0Pitchers returning/lost: 3/0Series record: A&M leads 30-21last meeting: A&M won 6-3 in Lincoln, Neb.

meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Matt SmithSID office Phone: (402) 472-7780SID Cell Phone: (402) 472-2263SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (402) 472-2005Press Box Phone: (402) 472-6932Website: huskers.comSID mailing address: 116 South Stadium P.O. Box 880123 Lincoln, NE 68588-0123

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Rhonda RevelleHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Norman, Okla.founded: 1890enrollment: 29,721nickname: SoonersColors: Crimson & CreamSoftball facility (Capacity): OU Softball

Complex-Marita Hynes Field (1,000)President: David Borenathletic Director: Joe Castiglione

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Patty Gasso (LBSU ’84)office Phone: (405) 325-8361record at oklahoma: 686-222-2 (14 years)Career record: 848-281-2 (17 years)associate head Coach: Melyssa Lombardi

(Oklahoma ’97)assistant Coach: Tripp MacKay (Oklahoma State ’00)

team InformatIon2008 record: 47-142008 Big 12 record: 16-2 (2nd)2008 Postseason: NCAA Super Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: 10th letterwinners returning/lost: 11/6Starters returning/lost: 8/2Pitchers returning/lost: 1/2Series record: Oklahoma leads 33-19last meeting: A&M won 1-0 in College Station,

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meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Cassie GageSID office Phone: (405) 325-8372SID Cell Phone: (405) 312-8123SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (405) 325-7623Press Box Phone: (405) 325-8177Website: soonersports.comSID mailing address: 180 West Brooks St., Suite 2525 Norman, OK 73019

Samantha Ricketts Senior • Infielder

Patty GassoHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Stillwater, Okla.founded: 1890enrollment: 32,265nickname: CowgirlsColors: Orange & BlackSoftball facility (Capacity): Cowgirl Stadium

(752)President: Burns Hargis athletic Director: Mike Holder

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Rich Wieligman (Lubbock Christian ’85)office Phone: (405) 744-4655record at oklahoma State: 51-58 (2 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Tom Gray

(Cal State-Northridge ’86)assistant Coach: Clarisa Crowell (Virginia Tech ’02)

team InformatIon2008 record: 26-252008 Big 12 record: 9-9 (4th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 12/6Starters returning/lost: 8/1Pitchers returning/lost: 2/1Series record: A&M leads 35-20last meeting: A&M won 4-3 in Stillwater, Okla.

meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Mike NotewareSID office Phone: (405) 744-7756SID Cell Phone: (405) 612-4843SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (405) 744-7754Press Box Phone: (405) 744-7266Website: okstate.comSID mailing address: 220 Athletics Center Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078

Alysia Hamilton Sophomore • Second Base

Rich WieligmanHead Coach

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General InformatIonlocation: Austin, Texasfounded: 1873enrollment: 50,006nickname: LonghornsColors: Burnt Orange & WhiteSoftball facility (Capacity): McCombs Field

(1,254)President: Dr. William Powers athletic Director: Christine Plonsky

CoaChInG Staffhead Coach: Connie Clark (Cal State Fullerton ’87)office Phone: (512) 471-6230record at texas: 469-225-3 (11 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Corrie Hill (UT-Arlington ’91)assistant Coach: Marla Looper (Florida State ’95)

team InformatIon2008 record: 29-23-22008 Big 12 record: 9-9 (T-4th)2008 Postseason: NCAA Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 13/3Starters returning/lost: 8/0Pitchers returning/lost: 3/1Series record: A&M leads 18-13last meeting: A&M won 3-1 in Oklahoma City,

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meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Kitley SpencerSID office Phone: (512) 232-9438SID Cell Phone: (512) 848-8157SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (512) 471-6040Press Box Phone: (405) 744-7266Website: texassports.comSID mailing address: P.O. Box 7399 Bellmont Hall 327 Austin, TX 78713

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General InformatIonlocation: Lubbock, Texasfounded: 1923enrollment: 29,000nickname: Red RaidersColors: Scarlet & BlackSoftball facility (Capacity): Rocky Johnson

Field (589)President: Dr. Guy Bailey athletic Director: Gerald Myers

CoaChInG StaffInterim head Coach: Amy Suiter (Washington ’04)office Phone: (806) 742-3355 x262record at texas tech: N/A, 1st seasonCareer record: N/A, 1st seasonassistant Coach: Dustin Suiter assistant Coach: Dave Hanson

team InformatIon2008 record: 23-362008 Big 12 record: 8-10 (6th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today rankings: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 8/9Starters returning/lost: 6/3Pitchers returning/lost: 3/1Series record: A&M leads 20-12last meeting: A&M won 3-1 in Lubbock, Texas

meDIa relatIonSSoftball SID: Jody RoginsonSID office Phone: (806) 742-3355 ext. 232SID Cell Phone: (806) 786-5217SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (806) 742-1970Press Box Phone: (806) 742-4989Website: texastech.comSID mailing address: 6th & Boston Box 43021 Lubbock, TX 79409 Leah Legler

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Feb. 5 Paradise Classic – Honolulu, Hawai’i Oklahoma at Hawai’i 10:00 p.m.Feb. 6 Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Texas Tech vs. UCF Noon Oklahoma State vs. Stanford 1:00 p.m. Aggie Classic – College Station, Texas Tulsa at Texas A&M 1:00 p.m. UTSA at Texas A&M 3:30 p.m. Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Kansas vs. UTEP 4:00 p.m. Texas Tech vs. Wagner 4:30 p.m. Baylor at Florida 5:00 p.m. Paradise Classic – Honolulu, Hawai’i Oklahoma vs. UAB 5:00 p.m. Time Warner Texas Invitational – Austin, Texas Florida State at Texas 5:00 p.m. Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Kansas vs. Arizona 6:00 p.m. Oklahoma State vs. Western Michigan 6:30 p.m. Paradise Classic – Honolulu, Hawai’i Oklahoma vs. LSU 7:00 p.m. Time Warner Texas Invitational – Austin, Texas Stephen F. Austin at Texas 7:30 p.m.Feb. 7 UNI Dome Classic – Cedar Falls, Iowa Nebraska vs. Dayton 11:00 a.m. Baylor at Florida Noon Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Oklahoma State vs. McNeese State Noon Texas Tech vs. Oregon Noon UNI Dome Classic – Cedar Falls, Iowa Nebraska vs. North Dakota 1:00 p.m. Aggie Classic – College Station, Texas Tulsa at Texas A&M 1:00 p.m. Time Warner Texas Invitational – Austin, Texas Iowa at Texas 1:30 p.m. Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Oklahoma State vs. Central Florida 2:30 p.m. Texas Tech vs. Stanford 2:30 p.m. Aggie Classic – College Station, Texas UTSA at Texas A&M 3:30 p.m. Kansas vs. Northwestern 5:00 p.m. Kansas vs. Stanford 7:00 p.m. Bradley Tournament – Peoria, Ill. Iowa State vs. IUPUI 2:00 p.m. Iowa State vs. Western Illinois 6:00 p.m.Feb. 8 Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Oklahoma State vs. Northwestern 11:00 a.m. Baylor at Florida Noon Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Kansas vs. Nevada Noon Bradley Tournament – Peoria, Ill. Iowa State vs. Wright State Noon Iowa State at Bradley 2:00 p.m. Kajikawa Classic – Phoenix, Ariz. Texas Tech vs. Western Michigan 2:00 p.m. UNI Dome Classic – Cedar Falls, Iowa Nebraska vs. South Dakota State 4:00 p.m. Nebraska at Northern Iowa 6:00 p.m.Feb. 11 Texas A&M at Sam Houston State 4:30 p.m. Texas State at Texas 5:00 p.m.Feb. 13 UCF Invite – Orlando, Fla. Kansas vs. South Carolina 10:00 a.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma vs. NC State 11:00 a.m. Oklahoma State vs. North Carolina St. 1:00 p.m. Florida Lipton Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech vs. Florida Atlantic 1:45 p.m. Kansas vs. Western Carolina 2:30 p.m. Getterman Classic - Waco, Texas Northwestern State at Baylor 3:00 p.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma vs. Texas State 3:00 p.m. Easton Tiger Classic – Baton Rouge, La. Texas A&M vs. Sam Houston State 3:45 p.m. Florida Lipton Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech at Florida 4:00 p.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma State vs. Houston 5:00 p.m. New Mexico at Baylor 5:30 p.m. Jacksonville Tournament – Jacksonville, Fla. Iowa State vs. Northern Colorado 10:00 a.m. Iowa State vs. Presbyterian 12:15 p.m.Feb. 14 Florida Lipton Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech vs. Florida Atlantic 7:00 a.m. Georgia State Tournament – Atlanta, Ga. Missouri vs. Evansville 9:00 a.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma State vs. Texas State 9:00 a.m. Florida Lipton Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech vs. Georgia Tech 9:15 a.m. Easton Tiger Classic – Baton Rouge, La. Texas A&M vs. Ohio State 11:45 a.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma State vs. Indiana 1:00 p.m. Georgia State Tournament – Atlanta, Ga. Missouri vs. Virginia Tech 1:30 p.m. Easton Tiger Classic – Baton Rouge, La. Texas A&M at LSU 2:00 p.m. Getterman Classic - Waco, Texas UT-San Antonio at Baylor 3:00 p.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma vs. Indiana 3:00 p.m. UCF Invite – Orlando, Fla. Kansas vs. Bradley 4:30 p.m. Marriott Houston Classic – Houston, Texas Oklahoma at Houston 5:00 p.m. Mississippi at Baylor 5:30 p.m. UCF Invite – Orlando, Fla. Kansas vs. Tennessee 6:30 p.m. Jacksonville Tournament – Jacksonville, Fla. Iowa State vs. Presbyterian 9:00 a.m. Iowa State at Jacksonville 3:45 p.m.Feb. 15 Jacksonville Tournament – Jacksonville, Fla.

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SOfTBall cOmPOSiTE SchEdulE San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Oklahoma State vs. San Diego 6:30 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Oklahoma at Cal State Fullerton 7:30 p.m. Iowa State vs. Cal State-Northridge 9:00 p.m.Mar. 15 FAU Parents’ Weekend Tourney – Boca Raton, Fla. Texas A&M vs. Rutgers 8:00 a.m. Coastal Carolina Tournament – Myrtle Beach, S.C. Missouri vs. North Carolina 10:00 a.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Nebraska vs. Penn State 11:00 a.m. Texas vs. Florida State 11:00 a.m. San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Oklahoma State vs. Connecticut 11:00 a.m. Texas Tech vs. Quinnipiac 11:00 a.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Oklahoma vs. Bowling Green 1:00 p.m. Iowa State vs. New Mexico State 1:30 p.m. San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Texas Tech vs. North Carolina 1:30 p.m.Mar. 17 Western Illinois at Kansas 3:00 p.m. North Dakota State at Nebraska (DH) 3:00 p.m. Prairie View A&M at Baylor 4:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Missouri State 5:00 p.m. Prairie View A&M at Baylor 6:00 p.m. Texas Tech at San Diego State TBAMar. 18 Western Illinois at Missouri (DH) 2:00 p.m. South Dakota at Nebraska (DH) 3:00 p.m. Houston at Texas (DH) 5:00 p.m. Northern Iowa at Oklahoma 6:00 p.m. Texas Tech at San Diego TBAMar. 19 Iowa State at Missouri State 4:00 p.m. North Texas at Texas 6:30 p.m. Northern Iowa at Oklahoma State 7:00 p.m.

Mar. 21 Baylor at Texas Tech* 2:00 p.m. Iowa State at Oklahoma* 2:00 p.m. Texas at Missouri* 2:00 p.m. Nebraska at Texas A&M* 2:00 p.m. Kansas at Oklahoma State* 7:00 p.m.Mar. 22 Baylor at Texas Tech* Noon Iowa State at Oklahoma* Noon Texas at Missouri* Noon Nebraska at Texas A&M* Noon Kansas at Oklahoma State* 2:00 p.m.Mar. 24 South Dakota State at Nebraska (DH) 3:00 p.m. Missouri at Houston 5:00 p.m. Central Arkansas at Baylor 6:30 p.m.Mar. 25 Creighton at Kansas 2:00 p.m. Missouri at Houston 3:00 p.m. Drake at Nebraska (DH) 3:00 p.m. Creighton at Kansas 4:00 p.m. Northern Iowa at Iowa State 4:00 p.m. Texas Southern at Texas (DH) 4:00 p.m. North Texas at Oklahoma 5:00 p.m. Texas A&M at Baylor* 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma State at Tulsa 7:00 p.m.Mar. 26 Texas Tech at Texas* 6:30 p.m.Mar. 28 Oklahoma at Texas* 1:00 p.m. Missouri at Baylor* 2:00 p.m. Texas A&M at Kansas* 2:00 p.m. Texas Tech at Iowa State* 2:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Nebraska* 2:00 p.m.Mar. 29 Missouri at Baylor* Noon Texas A&M at Kansas* Noon Texas Tech at Iowa State* Noon Oklahoma at Texas* Noon Oklahoma State at Nebraska* 1:00 p.m.Mar. 30 Texas Tech at UT-San Antonio 1:00 p.m.Mar. 31 Baylor at North Texas 2:00 p.m. North Dakota State at Iowa State 2:00 p.m. Baylor at North Texas 4:00 p.m. North Dakota State at Iowa State 4:00 p.m.Apr. 1 Border Wars – Tulsa, Okla. Oklahoma State vs. Arkansas 3:00 p.m. Missouri at Kansas* 4:00 p.m. Baylor at Oklahoma* 5:00 p.m. Missouri at Kansas* 6:00 p.m. Creighton at Nebraska 6:00 p.m. Texas at Texas A&M* 6:30 p.m. Border Wars – Tulsa, Okla. Oklahoma State vs. Tulsa 7:00 p.m. Baylor at Oklahoma* 7:00 p.m.Apr. 2 Iowa State at Drake (DH) 3:00 p.m. Texas A&M-CC at Texas (DH) 4:00 p.m. Apr. 4 Iowa State at Texas* 1:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Baylor* 2:00 p.m. Kansas at Texas Tech* 2:00 p.m. Texas A&M at Missouri* 2:00 p.m. Nebraska at Oklahoma* 2:00 p.m.Apr. 5 Kansas at Texas Tech* Noon Iowa State at Texas* Noon Texas A&M at Missouri* Noon Oklahoma State at Baylor* 1:00 p.m. Nebraska at Oklahoma* 1:00 p.m.Apr. 7 Iowa State at Iowa 5:00 p.m. Texas State at Baylor 6:30 p.m.Apr. 8 North Texas at Texas Tech 3:00 p.m. Nebraska at Kansas* 4:00 p.m. S. Illinois-Carbondale at Missouri 4:30 p.m. Arkansas at Oklahoma 5:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Texas A&M* 5:00 p.m. Nebraska at Kansas* 6:00 p.m.

Long Beach, Calif. Iowa State vs. BYU 1:15 p.m. Texas A&M Invitational – College Station, Texas Monmouth N.J. at Texas A&M 2:30 p.m. QTI Invitational – Waco, Texas Louisiana-Monroe at Baylor 3:00 p.m. NFCA Leadoff Classic – Columbus, Ga. Nebraska vs. Penn State 3:00 p.m. Long Beach State Tournament – Long Beach, Calif. Iowa State at Long Beach State 3:30 p.m. Rutgers at Baylor 5:30 p.m. Arizona at Texas A&M 6:00 p.m. San Diego State Tournament – San Diego, Calif. Missouri vs. Oregon 6:30 p.m. New Mexico at Oklahoma State 7:00 p.m.Feb. 28 NFCA Leadoff Classic – Columbus, Ga. Nebraska vs. Long Island 10:00 a.m. North Texas Invite – Denton, Texas Kansas vs. Harvard 11:00 a.m. Florida Cox Communications Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech vs. Pacific 12:30 p.m. Long Beach State Tournament – Long Beach, Calif. Iowa State vs. Cal State-Northridge 1:00 p.m. OU/Sooner Legends Tournament – Norman, Okla. Creighton at Oklahoma 1:15 p.m. Kansas at North Texas 1:30 p.m. Texas A&M Invitational – College Station, Texas Monmouth N.J. at Texas A&M 2:30 p.m. QTI Invitational – Waco, Texas Louisiana Tech at Baylor 3:00 p.m. NFCA Leadoff Classic – Columbus, Ga. Nebraska vs. South Carolina 3:00 p.m. New Mexico at Oklahoma State 3:00 p.m. Texas at UTEP (DH) 3:00 p.m. OU/Sooner Legends Tournament – Norman, Okla. St. Louis at Oklahoma 3:30 p.m. San Diego State Tournament – San Diego, Calif. Missouri vs. Santa Clara 4:00 p.m. Florida Cox Communications Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech at Florida 5:15 p.m. Rutgers at Baylor 5:30 p.m. Arizona at Texas A&M 6:00 p.m. San Diego State Tournament – San Diego, Calif. Missouri at San Diego State 6:30 p.m. Long Beach State Tournament – Long Beach, Calif. Iowa State vs. Fresno State 7:45 p.m.Mar. 1 North Texas Invite – Denton, Texas Kansas vs. Harvard 9:00 a.m. Florida Cox Communications Invitational – Gainesville, Fla. Texas Tech vs. Pacific 9:00 a.m. Long Beach State Tournament – Long Beach, Calif. Iowa State vs. Long Beach State 11:00 a.m. San Diego State Tournament – San Diego, Calif. Missouri vs. UCLA 11:00 a.m. Texas at UTEP 11:00 a.m. QTI Invitational – Waco, Texas Louisiana-Monroe at Baylor Noon OU/Sooner Legends Tournament – Norman, Okla. St. Louis at Oklahoma 12:15 p.m. Arizona at Texas A&M 12:15 p.m. New Mexico at Oklahoma State 1:00 p.m. San Diego State Tournament – San Diego, Calif. Missouri vs. San Diego 1:30 p.m. North Texas Invite – Denton, Texas Kansas at North Texas 2:00 p.m. OU/Sooner Legends Tournament – Norman, Okla. Creighton at Oklahoma 2:30 p.m.Mar. 3 Texas at Texas State 6:00 p.m.Mar. 4 Southern Illinois at Missouri (DH) 2:00 p.m. Baylor at Centenary 5:00 p.m. Tulsa at Oklahoma 5:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Wichita State 6:00 p.m. Texas A&M at Houston 7:00 p.m.Mar. 5 Texas at Texas A&M-CC (DH) 3:00 p.m.Mar. 6 Easton SEC/Pac-10/Big 12 Challenge – Tuscaloosa, Ala. Baylor vs. Washington 1:00 p.m. Missouri Teams Tournament – Springfield, Mo. Missouri vs. Missouri-Kansas City 2:00 p.m. KU Invitational – Lawrence, Kan. North Dakota State at Kansas 3:00 p.m. Easton SEC/Pac-10/Big 12 Challenge – Tuscaloosa, Ala. Baylor vs. Georgia 3:30 p.m. OU/Worth Tournament – Oklahoma City, Okla. Tennessee at Oklahoma 5:00 p.m. Aggie Invitational – College Station, Texas Utah at Texas A&M 5:15 p.m. UNLV Tournament – Las Vegas, Nev Texas Tech vs. UC-Santa Barbara 5:15 p.m. Mizuno Classic – Stillwater, Okla. Cleveland State at Oklahoma State 7:00 p.m. UNLV Tournament – Las Vegas, Nev Texas Tech at UNLV 7:30 p.m.Mar. 7 Shocker Invitational – Wichita, Kan. Nebraska vs. North Dakota 11:00 a.m. Iowa State at New Mexico Noon UNLV Tournament – Las Vegas, Nev Texas Tech vs. Notre Dame Noon Shocker Invitational – Wichita, Kan. Nebraska at Wichita State 1:30 p.m. OU/Worth Tournament – Oklahoma City, Okla. Northwestern at Oklahoma 1:30 p.m.

Missouri Teams Tournament – Springfield, Mo. Missouri vs. Southeast Missouri State 2:00 p.m. KU Invitational – Lawrence, Kan. Eastern Illinois at Kansas 2:30 p.m. Aggie Invitational – College Station, Texas Kent State at Texas A&M 3:00 p.m. OU/Worth Tournament – Oklahoma City, Okla. Tennessee at Oklahoma 4:00 p.m. Easton SEC/Pac-10/Big 12 Challenge – Tuscaloosa, Ala. Baylor at Alabama 4:00 p.m. Northern Iowa at Kansas 4:30 p.m. Mizuno Classic – Stillwater, Okla. Drake at Oklahoma State 5:00 p.m. Aggie Invitational – College Station, Texas Utah at Texas A&M 5:15 p.m. Easton SEC/Pac-10/Big 12 Challenge – Tuscaloosa, Ala. Baylor vs. Georgia 6:30 p.m. Mizuno Classic – Stillwater, Okla. N. Colorado at Oklahoma State 7:00 p.m.Mar. 8 Missouri Teams Tournament – Springfield, Mo. Missouri vs. St. Louis 11:00 a.m. Shocker Invitational – Wichita, Kan. Nebraska vs. North Dakota 11:00 a.m. Mizuno Classic – Stillwater, Okla. N. Colorado at Oklahoma State 11:00 a.m. UNLV Tournament – Las Vegas, Nev. Texas Tech vs. Notre Dame 11:00 a.m. Mizuno Classic – Stillwater, Okla. Arkansas at Oklahoma State 1:00 p.m. OU/Worth Tournament – Oklahoma City, Okla. Northwestern at Oklahoma 1:30 p.m. KU Invitational – Lawrence, Kan. North Dakota State at Kansas 12:30 p.m. Missouri Teams Tournament – Springfield, Mo. Missouri vs. Missouri State 1:00 p.m. Easton SEC/Pac-10/Big 12 Challenge – Tuscaloosa, Ala. Baylor at Alabama 1:30 p.m. Iowa State at New Mexico 2:00 p.m. Aggie Invitational – College Station, Texas Louisiana Tech at Texas A&M 2:30 p.m. Shocker Invitational – Wichita, Kan. Nebraska at Wichita State 4:00 p.m. Northern Iowa at Kansas 4:30 p.m. Aggie Invitational – College Station, Texas Stephen F. Austin at Texas A&M 4:45 p.m.Mar. 10 Baylor at Southern Mississippi 6:00 p.m. Texas at Cal State Northridge (DH) 1:00 p.m. Oklahoma at Texas Tech* 1:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Texas Tech* 3:30 p.m.Mar. 11 Baylor at LSU 6:00 p.m. Northern Iowa at Missouri 3:00 p.m. Tulsa at Oklahoma State 7:00 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Texas at Cal State Fullerton 7:30 p.m.Mar. 12 Texas Tech vs. South Dakota St. (DH) 11:00 a.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Texas vs. Bowling Green 1:00 p.m. Kansas at Missouri State 2:00 p.m. Baylor at Northwestern State 3:00 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame 3:00 p.m. Texas vs. Penn State 3:00 p.m. Baylor at Northwestern State 5:00 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Oklahoma vs. Florida State 5:30 p.m. Nebraska vs. Pacific 7:30 p.m. Nebraska vs. Louisiana-Lafayette 9:30 p.m.Mar. 13 Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Oklahoma vs. DePaul 11:00 a.m. Texas vs. Arizona 11:00 a.m. San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Texas Tech vs. New Mexico State 11:00 a.m. Texas Tech vs. Cal State Northridge 1:30 p.m. Coastal Carolina Tournament – Myrtle Beach, S.C. Missouri at Coastal Carolina 3:00 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Nebraska vs. Arizona State 3:00 p.m. FAU Parents’ Weekend Tourney – Boca Raton, Fla. Texas A&M vs. Bethune Cookman 3:00 p.m. San Diego State Classic – San Diego, Calif. Iowa State vs. Quinnipiac 4:00 p.m. San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Oklahoma State vs. Cal St.-Northridge 4:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at San Diego State 6:30 p.m. FAU Parents’ Weekend Tourney – Boca Raton, Fla. Texas A&M at Florida Atlantic 7:00 p.m. Iowa State vs. San Diego 9:00 p.m.Mar. 14 Coastal Carolina Tournament – Myrtle Beach, S.C. Missouri vs. Michigan State 8:30 a.m. Missouri vs. North Carolina 11:00 a.m. FAU Parents’ Weekend Tourney – Boca Raton, Fla. Texas A&M vs. Liberty Noon San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Texas Tech vs. Connecticut 1:30 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Nebraska vs. New Mexico 3:00 p.m. Texas vs. Pacific 3:00 p.m. FAU Parents’ Weekend Tourney – Boca Raton, Fla. Texas A&M vs. Purdue 3:00 p.m. San Diego State Classic II – San Diego, Calif. Oklahoma State vs. Quinnipiac 4:00 p.m. Judi Garman Classic – Fullerton, Calif. Oklahoma vs. Louisiana-Lafayette 5:30 p.m. San Diego State Classic – San Diego, Calif. Iowa State at San Diego State 6:30 p.m.

Baylor at Texas* 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma State at Texas A&M* 7:00 p.m.Apr. 10 Baylor at Iowa State* 2:00 p.m. Texas at Nebraska* 5:00 p.m. Missouri at Oklahoma State* 5:30 p.m. Texas Tech at Texas A&M* 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Kansas* 7:00 p.m.Apr. 11 Texas at Nebraska* 11:00 a.m. Baylor at Iowa State* Noon Oklahoma at Kansas* 1:00 p.m. Missouri at Oklahoma State* 1:00 p.m. Texas Tech at Texas A&M* 2:00 p.m.Apr. 13 Texas Tech at Texas State (DH) 1:00 p.m.Apr. 14 Nebraska at Iowa State* 3:30 p.m. UMKC at Kansas 5:00 p.m. UMKC at Kansas 7:00 p.m.Apr. 15 Texas at Texas Tech* 3:00 p.m. Missouri S&T at Missouri (DH) 5:00 p.m. Baylor at Texas A&M* 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma State at Oklahoma* 7:00 p.m.Apr. 16 Iowa State at Nebraska* 5:00 p.m.Apr. 18 Kansas at Texas* 1:00 p.m. Nebraska at Baylor* 2:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Iowa State* 2:00 p.m. Missouri at Texas Tech* 2:00 p.m. Texas A&M at Oklahoma* 2:00 p.m.Apr. 19 Nebraska at Baylor* Noon Kansas at Texas* Noon Oklahoma State at Iowa State* Noon Missouri at Texas Tech* Noon Texas A&M at Oklahoma* 1:00 p.m.Apr. 21 Kansas at Tulsa 3:00 p.m. North Dakota at Nebraska*(DH) 3:00 p.m. Kansas at Tulsa 5:00 p.m. UT-San Antonio at Baylor 5:00 p.m.Apr. 22 Iowa State at Missouri* 2:00 p.m. Iowa State at Missouri* 4:00 p.m. Northern Iowa at Nebraska 5:00 p.m. Oklahoma at North Texas 6:00 p.m. Texas at Baylor* 6:30 p.m. Sam Houston State at Texas A&M 6:30 p.m. Wichita State at Oklahoma State 7:00 p.m.Apr. 23 Texas Tech at UTEP 3:00 p.m. Missouri State at Oklahoma State 5:00 p.m. Drake at Kansas 7:00 p.m.Apr. 25 Iowa State at Texas A&M* 1:00 p.m. Baylor at Kansas* 2:00 p.m. Oklahoma at Missouri* 2:00 p.m. Nebraska at Texas Tech* 2:00 p.m. Texas at Oklahoma State* 2:00 p.m.Apr. 26 Baylor at Kansas* Noon Iowa State at Texas A&M* Noon Oklahoma at Missouri* Noon Nebraska at Texas Tech* Noon Texas at Oklahoma State* NoonApr. 28 Kansas at Wichita State (DH) 5:00 p.m. Nebraska at Creighton 6:00 p.m.Apr. 29 Creighton at Iowa State 3:00 p.m. Creighton at Iowa State 5:00 p.m. Oklahoma State at Oklahoma* 7:00 p.m.Apr. 30 UT-San Antonio at Texas (DH) 5:00 p.m.May 2 Kansas at Iowa State* 2:00 p.m. Nebraska at Missouri* 2:00 p.m. Texas Tech at Oklahoma State* 2:00 p.m. Texas A&M at Texas* 6:00 p.m. May 3 Kansas at Iowa State* Noon Nebraska at Missouri* Noon Texas Tech at Oklahoma State* Noon

May 8 Big 12 Championships TBAMay 9 Big 12 Championships TBAMay 10 Big 12 Championships TBA

May 15 NCAA Regionals TBAMay 16 NCAA Regionals TBAMay 17 NCAA Regionals TBAMay 22 NCAA Super Regionals TBAMay 23 NCAA Super Regionals TBAMay 28-June 2 Women’s College World Series - Oklahoma City, Okla. TBA

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a r I z o n alocation: Tucson, Ariz.Chartered: 1885enrollment: 38,000nickname: WildcatsColors: Cardinal & NavyConference: Pacific-10facility (Capacity): Hillenbrand Stadium

(2,956)athletic Director: Jim Livengoodhead Coach: Mike Candrearecord at School: 1131-228-2 (23 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Larry Rayassistant Coach: Teresa Wilsonoffice Phone: (520) 621-49202008 record: 41-192008 Conference record: 13-8 (3rd)2008 Postseason: WCWS participant2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: No. 7Starters returning/lost: 6/3letterwinners returning/lost: 12/6Series record: Arizona leads 9-25Softball SID: Matt AlvarezSID office Phone: (520) 621-4163SID Cell Phone: (520) 576-3239SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (520) 621-2681Website: arizonaathletics.com

B e t h U n e Co o K m a nlocation: Daytona Beach, Fla.founded: 1904enrollment: 3,600nickname: WildcatsColors: Maroon & GoldConference: Mid-Eastern Athleticfacility (Capacity): Sunnyland Park (300)athletic Director: Lynn W. Thompsonhead Coach: Chris Cochranrecord at School: 43-72 (2 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Amy Bellisariassistant Coach: Holly Busseyoffice Phone: (386) 481-22452008 record: 21-362008 Conference record: 9-3 (4th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 7/5letterwinners returning/lost: 7/5Series record: First MeetingSoftball SID: Michael StambaughSID office Phone: (386) 481-2278SID Cell Phone: (785) 979-5721SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (386) 481-2238Website: bccathletics.com

location: Boca, Raton, Fla. founded: 1961enrollment: 26,000nickname: OwlsColors: Blue & RedConference: Sun Beltfacility (Capacity): FAU Softball

Stadium (700)athletic Director: Craig Angeloshead Coach: Joan Joycerecord at School: 622-322 (13 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Chan Walkerassistant Coach: John Strattonoffice Phone: (561) 297-37132008 record: 35-262008 Conference record: 17-7 (2nd)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 6/2letterwinners returning/lost: 13/2Series record: A&M leads 3-1Softball SID: Justin JohnsonSID office Phone: (561) 297-3513SID Cell Phone: (561) 302-0461SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (561) 297-3963Press Box Phone: (561) 297-1020Website: fausports.com

h o U S to n I l l I n o I Slocation: Urbana-Champaign, Ill.founded: 1867enrollment: 42,326nickname: Fighting IlliniColors: Orange & BlueConference: Big Tenfacility (Capacity): Eichelberger Field

(1,500)athletic Director: Ron Guentherhead Coach: Terri Sullivanrecord at School: 288-216-2 (9 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Donna DiBiaseassistant Coach: Katie O’Connelloffice Phone: (217) 265-82292008 record: 30-322008 Conference record: 8-12 (T-6th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 5/4letterwinners returning/lost: 13/9Series record: A&M leads 4-2Softball SID: Leslie WhiteSID office Phone: (217) 244-4982SID Cell Phone: (859) 338-5383SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (217) 333-5540Website: fightingillini.com

K e n t S tat elocation: Kent, Ohiofounded: 1910enrollment: 33,786nickname: Golden FlashesColors: Navy Blue & GoldConference: Mid-Americanfacility (Capacity): Kent State Softball

Field (550)athletic Director: Laing Kennedyhead Coach: Karen Linder record at School: 350-271 (12 years)Career record: 603-471-1 (23 years)assistant Coach: Kim Burkeassistant Coach: Amy Densevichoffice Phone: (330) 672-21622008 record: 46-12 2008 Conference record: 20-22008 Postseason: NCAA Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 6/4letterwinners returning/lost: 11/6Series record: A&M leads 1-0Softball SID: Aaron ChimentiSID office Phone: (330) 672-8468SID Cell Phone: (330) 807-5789SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (330) 672-2112 Website: kentstatesports.com

texaS a&m InVItatIonal PreSenteD By the DIStrICt on lUther

Feb. 27-March 1, 2009 • Aggie Softball Complex • College Station, TexasA r i zo n A • M o n M o u t h • t E XA S A&M • t E XA S S o u t h E r n

12:00 p.m. Monmouth vs. Texas Southern 2:30 p.m. Monmouth vs. texas a&m 6:00 p.m. texas a&m vs. Arizona

12:00 p.m. Monmouth vs. Texas Southern 2:30 p.m. Monmouth vs. texas a&m 6:00 p.m. texas a&m vs. Arizona

10:30 a.m. Texas Southern vs. Monmouth 12:15 p.m. texas a&m vs. Arizona

aGGIe ClaSSIC PreSenteD By honey BaKeD ham

Feb. 6-8, 2009 • Aggie Softball Complex • College Station, Texasp r A i r i e v i e w A & M • t E XA S A&M • t u l S A • u t S A

10:30 a.m. Tulsa vs. UTSA 1:00 p.m. Tulsa vs. texas a&m 3:30 p.m. UTSA vs. texas a&m

10:30 a.m. Tulsa vs. UTSA 1:00 p.m. Tulsa vs. texas a&m 3:30 p.m. UTSA vs. texas a&m

10:30 a.m. Tulsa vs. Prairie View A&M 12:15 p.m. UTSA vs. Prairie View A&M

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l I B e r t ylocation: Lynchburg, Va.founded: 1971enrollment: 11,311nickname: Lady FlamesColors: Red, White & BlueConference: Big Southfacility (Capacity): Liberty Softball

Field (500)athletic Director: Jeff Barberhead Coach: Paul Wetmorerecord at School: 413-461-1 (15 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Tuesday Van EngenGraduate assistant: Joanna Hardinoffice Phone: (434) 582-72552008 record: 20-40-12008 Conference record: 5-10 (T-4th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 6/4letterwinners returning/lost: 9/4Series record: First MeetingSoftball SID: Jennifer SheltonSID office Phone: (434) 592-4849SID Cell Phone: (828) 638-3876SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (434) 582-2076Website: LibertyFlames.com

l S Ulocation: Baton Rouge, La.founded: 1860enrollment: 25,896nickname: TigersColors: Purple & GoldConference: Southeasternfacility (Capacity): Tiger Park (2,489)athletic Director: Joe Allevahead Coach: Yvette Girouard record at School: 407-119 (8 years)Career record: 1,166-369 (28 years)associate Coach: James DeFeoassistant Coach: Megan Smithoffice Phone: (225) 578-39472008 record: 44-182008 Conference record: 17-112008 Postseason: NCAA Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: 18th Starters returning/lost: 3/6letterwinners returning/lost: 8/8Series record: A&M leads 3-0Softball SID: Matt DunawaySID office Phone: (225) 578-1869SID Cell Phone: (225) 226-5034SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (225) 578-1861Press Box Phone: (225) 578-0155Website: lsusports.net

lo U I S I a n a t e C hlocation: Ruston, La.founded: 1894enrollment: 10,600nickname: Lady TechstersColors: Red & BlueConference: Western Athleticfacility (Capacity): Lady Techster Softball

Complex (1,000)athletic Director: Derek Dooleyhead Coach: Sarah Dawsonrecord at School: 138-221 (6 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Shelli Mansonassistant Coach: Amber Milesoffice Phone: (318) 257-30162008 record: 37-282008 Conference record: 7-10 (4th)2008 Postseason: NCAA Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 8/1letterwinners returning/lost: 15/4Series record: A&M leads 34-24Softball SID: Malcolm ButlerSID office Phone: (318) 257-3144SID Cell Phone: (318) 614-4513SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (318) 257-3757 Website: latechsports.com

m C n e e S e S tat e m o n m o U t hlocation: West Long Branch, N.J.founded: 1933enrollment: 4,500nickname: HawksColors: Midnight Blue & WhiteConference: Northeast Conferencefacility (Capacity): MU Softball Parkathletic Director: Dr. Marilyn McNeilhead Coach: Carol Sullivan record at School: 153-138-1 (7 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Courtney Oliveroffice Phone: (732) 263-58412008 record: 19-22-12008 Conference record: 9-8 (5th) 2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 7/2letterwinners returning/lost: 12/5Series record: First MeetingSoftball SID: Eddy OcchipintiSID office Phone: (732) 263-5834SID Cell Phone: (732) 567-2252SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (732) 571-3535Website: GoMUHawks.com

n o r t h e r n I l l I n o I Slocation: DeKalb, Ill.founded: 1895enrollment: 25,254nickname: HuskiesColors: Cardinal & BlackConference: Mid-Americanfacility (Capacity): Mary M. Bell

Field (600)athletic Director: Jeff Compherhead Coach: Lindsay Chouinardrecord at School: 13-30 (1 season)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Megan Ciolliassistant Coach: Kara Amundsonoffice Phone: (815) 753-22452008 record: 13-302008 Conference record: 7-132008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 10/6Series record: A&M leads 8-3Softball SID: Zach PetersSID office Phone: (815) 753-9572SID Cell Phone: (815) 508-3375SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (815) 753-7700 Website: niuhuskies.com

location: Lake Charles, La. founded: 1939enrollment: 8,992nickname: CowgirlsColors: Royal Blue & YellowConference: Southlandfacility: Cowgirl Diamondathletic Director: Tommy McClellandhead Coach: Natalie Poolerecord at School: N/A 1st seasonCareer record: 212-215 (7 years)assistant Coach: Andy Lottassistant Coach: Kellie Blanchardoffice Phone: (337) 475-54752008 record: 23-392008 Conference record: 15-14 (5th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 8/2letterwinners returning/lost: 12/3Series record: A&M leads 22-4Softball SID: Pam LaFosseSID office Phone: (337) 475-5207SID Cell Phone: (337) 274-9981SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (337) 475-5928Website: mcneesesports.com

location: Houston, Texasfounded: 1927enrollment: 34,663nickname: CougarsColors: Scarlet, White & NavyConference: Conference USAfacility (Capacity): Cougar Softball

Stadium (1,200)athletic Director: Dave Maggardhead Coach: Kyla Holasrecord at School: 300-187 (8 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Kim Nesloneyassistant Coach: Abbie Simsoffice Phone: (713) 743-93682008 record: 54-112008 Conference record: 21-22008 Postseason: NCAA Super Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: No. 13Starters returning/lost: 7/2letterwinners returning/lost: 11/4Series record: A&M leads 12-3Softball SID: Tiffanie HatleySID office Phone: (713) 743-9408SID Cell Phone: (713) 598-3347SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (713) 743-9411Press Box Phone: (713) 743-8263Website: UHCougars.com

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o h I o S tat elocation: Columbus, Ohiofounded: 1870enrollment: 59,091nickname: BuckeyesColors: Scarlet & GrayConference: Big Tenfacility (Capacity): Buckeye Field (800)athletic Director: Gene Smithhead Coach: Linda Kalafatisrecord at School: 407-273 (12 years)Career record: 680-388-2 (20 years)assistant Coach: Ali Violaassistant Coach: Erica Beachoffice Phone: (614) 292-90172008 record: 33-232008 Conference record: 7-13 (8th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 7/5letterwinners returning/lost: 11/5Series record: 7-0Softball SID: Alissa ClendenenSID office Phone: (614) 292-0134SID Cell Phone: (860) 882-321SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (614) 292-8547Website: OhioStateBuckeyes.com

P r a I r I e V I e W a & mlocation: Prairie View, Texasfounded: 1876enrollment: 8,080nickname: PanthersColors: Purple & GoldConference: Southwesternfacility (Capacity): (175)Interim athletic Director: Fred

Washington head Coach: Lana Williamsrecord at School: N/A 1st seasonCareer record: N/A 1st seasonassistant Coach: Vernon Blandoffice Phone: (936) 261-39052008 record: 15-282008 Conference record: 9-82008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 4/5Series record: A&M leads 2-0Softball SID: Reggie RouzanSID office Phone: (936) 261-9106SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: 936-261-9159Website: sports.pvamu.edu

P U r D U elocation: West Lafayette, Ind.founded: 1869enrollment: 39,102nickname: BoilermakersColors: Old Gold & BlackConference: Big Tenfacility (Capacity): Varsity Softball

Complex (1,000)athletic Director: Morgan J. Burkehead Coach: Kim Maherrecord at School: 95-85-1 (3 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Linda Garzaassistant Coach: Boo Gilletteoffice Phone: (765) 494-32172008 record: 35-232008 Conference record: 9-92008 Postseason: NCAA Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 7/2letterwinners returning/lost: 14/5Series record: First MeetingSoftball SID: Wendy MayerSID office Phone: (765) 494-3919SID Cell Phone: (765) 414-1379SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (765) 447-5447Website: purduesports.com

r U tG e r S S a m h o U S to n S tat elocation: Huntsville, Texasfounded: 1879enrollment: 16,866nickname: BearkatsColors: Orange & WhiteConference: Southlandfacility (Capacity): Bearkat Softball

Complex (400)athletic Director: Bobby Williamshead Coach: Bob Brockrecord at School: 178-198 (7 years)Career record: 910-500-1 (25 years)assistant Coach: Selena Collinsoffice Phone: (936) 294-39202008 record: 30-312008 Conference record: 15-152008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 10/1letterwinners returning/lost: 14/2Series record: A&M leads 76-13Softball SID: Paul RidingsSID office Phone: (936) 294-1764 SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (936) 294-3538Press Box Phone: (936) 294-4132Website: gobearkats.com

S t e P h e n f. aU S t I nlocation: Nacogdoches, Texasfounded: 1921enrollment: 11,900nickname: LadyjacksColors: Purple & White, Red TrimConference: Southlandfacility (Capacity): Hoya Field (500)athletic Director: Robert Hillhead Coach: Gay McNuttrecord at School: 36-25 (1 year)Career record: 408-413 (14 years)assistant Coach: Craig Snideroffice Phone: (936) 468-40112008 record: 36-252008 Conference record: 18-11 (4th)2008 Postseason: NCAA Regionals2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 8/1letterwinners returning/lost: 15/1Series record: 46-4-0Softball SID: Brian RossSID office Phone: (936) 468-5800SID Cell Phone: (936)556-1168SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (936) 468-4593Press Box Phone: (936) 556-118Website: sfajacks.com


location: San Antonio, Texasfounded: 1969enrollment: 28,534nickname: RoadrunnersColors: Navy Blue, Orange & WhiteConference: Southlandfacility (Capacity): Roadrunner

Field (300)athletic Director: Lynn Hickeyhead Coach: Lori Cookrecord at School: 89-70 (3 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Stephanie Hughesassistant Coach: Michelle Cheathamoffice Phone: (210) 458-41712008 record: 25-252008 Conference record: 20-10 (T-2nd)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 6/4letterwinners returning/lost: 8/8Series record: 25-6Softball SID: Kyle StephensSID office Phone: (210) 458-4551SID Cell Phone: (210) 887-3636SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (210) 458-4569Website: goutsa.com

t e x a S S tat elocation: San Marcos, Texasfounded: 1899enrollment: 29,125nickname: BobcatsColors: Maroon & GoldConference: Southlandfacility (Capacity): Bobcat Field (1,000)athletic Director: Dr. Larry Teishead Coach: Ricci Woodardrecord at School: 301-165-1 (8 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Peejay Brunassistant Coach: Aimee Vaughnoffice Phone: (512) 245-77532008 record: 35-182008 Conference record: 25-52008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRletterwinners returning/lost: 13/4Series record: A&M leads 53-9Softball SID: Denise ThompsonSID office Phone: (512) 245-2988SID Cell Phone: (512) 216-3440SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (512) 245-2967Press Box Phone: (512) 245-3654Website: txstatebobcats.com

t U l S alocation: Tulsa, Okla.founded: 1894enrollment: 4,165nickname: Golden HurricaneColors: Old Gold, Royal Blue & CrimsonConference: Conference USAfacility (Capacity): Donna J Hardesty

Sports Complex (1,000)athletic Director: Bubba Cunninghamhead Coach: John Bargfeldtrecord at School: 98-77 (4 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Kirin Kumarassistant Coach: Chrissy Strimpleoffice Phone: (918) 631-21232008 record: 34-252008 Conference record: 14-10 (3rd)2008 Postseason: NCAA Regional2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 9/2letterwinners returning/lost: 13/2Series record: A&M leads 9-1Softball SID: Eric HollierSID office Phone: (918) 631-2492SID Cell Phone: (225) 978-4590SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (918) 631-3913Website: tulsahurricane.com

U ta h location: Salt Lake City, Utahfounded: 1850enrollment: 28,205nickname: UtesColors: Crimson & WhiteConference: Mountain Westfacility (Capacity): Ute Field (1,500)athletic Director: Dr. Chris Hillhead Coach: Amy Hoguerecord at School: 28-27 (1 year)Career record: 225-109 assistant Coach: Tracee Withersassistant Coach: Adrian Gregoryoffice Phone: (801) 581-35142008 record: 28-272008 Conference record: 10-10 (3rd)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 5/5letterwinners returning/lost: 10/5Series record: A&M leads 15-5Softball SID: Mike DeVineSID office Phone: (801) 581-8997SID Cell Phone: (801) 580-4502SID e-mail: [email protected] fax: (801) 581-4358 Website: UtahUtes.com

location: New Brunswick, N.J.founded: 1766enrollment: 35,000nickname: Scarlet KnightsColor: ScarletConference: Big Eastfacility: RU Softball ComplexInterim athletic Director: Carl Kirschnerhead Coach: Jay Nelsonrecord at School: 43-66 (2 years)Career record: Sameassistant Coach: Misty Beaverassistant Coach: Diana Consolmagnooffice Phone: (732) 445-42342008 record: 23-322008 Conference record: 7-15 (T-9th)2008 Postseason: N/A2008 final nfCa/USa today ranking: NRStarters returning/lost: 6/2letterwinners returning/lost: 11/6Series record: A&M leads 6-0Softball SID: Hasim PhillipsSID office Phone: (732) 445-4200SID Cell Phone: (732) 470-9457SID e-mail: [email protected] Website: scarletknights.com

aGGIe InVItatIonal PreSenteD By the CIty of ColleGe StatIon

March 6-8, 2009 • Aggie Softball Complex • College Station, TexasK E n t S tAt E • lo u i S i A n A t E c h • S t E p h E n F. Au S t i n • t E XA S A&M • u tA h

10:00 a.m. Kent State vs. Stephen F. Austin 12:15 p.m. Utah vs. Kent State 3:00 p.m. Stephen F. Austin vs. Louisiana Tech 5:15 p.m. Utah vs. texas a&m

10:00 a.m. Kent State vs. Stephen F. Austin 12:15 p.m. Utah vs. Stephen F. Austin 3:00 p.m. Kent State vs. texas a&m 5:15 p.m. Utah vs. texas a&m

10:00 a.m. Kent State vs. Utah 12:15 p.m. Stephen F. Austin vs. Louisiana Tech 2:30 p.m. Louisiana Tech vs. texas a&m 4:45 p.m. Stephen F. Austin vs. texas a&m

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Adelphi 1 0 0

Akron 3 0 0

Alabama 0 3 0

Alabama-Birmingham 1 0 0

Albany 1 0 0

Angelo State 4 0 0

arIzona 8 23 0

Arizona State 5 12 0

Arkansas 6 0 0

Auburn 2 2 0

Ball State 3 0 0

Baylor 51 18 1

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Boston College 3 0 0

Boston University 3 0 0

Bowling Green 6 1 0

Brigham Young 5 2 0

Brigham Young-Hawaii 2 0 0

Butler 2 0 0

Cal Poly Pomona 6 4 0

Cal Poly SLO 4 0 0

UC Santa Barbara 1 1 0

Cal State Fullerton 16 18 0

Cal State Northridge 4 2 0

California 9 4 0

Canisius College 1 2 0

Charleston 1 1 0

Centenary 9 0 0

Central Michigan 8 1 0

Central Oklahoma State 1 0 0

Coastal Carolina 1 0 0

Colgate 1 0 0

Colorado State 7 2 0

Connecticut 2 0 0

Creighton 7 8 0

Dayton 2 0 0

DePaul 1 1 0

Drake 1 0 0

East Carolina 1 0 0

Eastern Illinois 1 0 0

Evansville 4 0 0

Florida 3 2 0

Florida A&M 2 0 0

florIDa atlantIC 3 1 0

Florida State 5 4 0

Fordham 3 0 0

Fresno State 6 10 0

Florida International 2 0 0

Furman 4 0 0

George Mason 1 0 0

Georgia 1 3 0

Georgia State 3 0 0

Georgia Tech 1 0 0

Hawaii 3 2 0

hoUSton 12 3 0

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Idaho State 2 0 0

IllInoIS 4 2 0

Illinois-Chicago 1 1 0

Illinois State 21 7 0

Indiana 11 5 0

Indiana State 3 1 0

Iowa 1 4 0

IoWa State 30 5 0

KanSaS 42 14 0

Kansas State 1 0 0

Kent State 1 0 0

Lamar 1 0 0

Leigh 0 2 0

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Long Beach State 5 10 0

Louisiana-Lafayette * 12 11 0

loUISIana State 3 0 0

loUISIana teCh 34 24 0

Loyola Marymount 1 0 0

Massachusetts 2 3 0

mCneeSe State 22 4 0

Miami Ohio 2 0 0

Michigan 3 3 0

Michigan State 5 1 0

Middle Tennessee State 0 1 0

Midwestern 1 0 0

Minnesota 12 8 0

Mississippi 3 0 0

Mississippi State 1 2 0

mISSoUrI 28 19 0

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neBraSKa 31 21 0

Nebraska-Omaha 1 0 0

Nevada-Las Vegas 8 2 0

Nevada-Reno 2 0 0

New Mexico 16 5 0

New Mexico State 7 2 0

Nicholls State 10 4 0

North Carolina 3 1 0

North Carolina State 1 0 0

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North Texas 3 0 0

Northeast Louisiana 20 1 0

Northern Colorado 1 0 0

northern IllInoIS 8 3 0

Northwestern 4 3 0

Northwestern State 12 0 0

Northwood 1 0 0

Notre Dame 5 1 0

ohIo State 7 0 0

oKlahoma 19 33 0

Oklahoma City 6 6 0

oKlahoma State 35 20 0

Ole Miss 1 1 0

Oregon 4 2 0

Oregon State 5 2 0

Pacific 3 4 0

Pan American 2 0 0

Penn State 10 3 1

PraIrIe VIeW a&m 2 0 0

Princeton 2 0 0

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Robert Morris 1 0 0

rUtGerS 6 0 0

St. Edward’s 3 0 0

Saint Louis 4 0 0

St. Mary’s 7 1 0

Sacramento State 0 1 0

Sam hoUSton State 77 13 0

Samford 1 0 0

San Diego 3 0 0

San Diego State 2 2 0

San Jose State 2 1 0

San Francisco 1 0 0

South Carolina 15 11 0

South Florida 4 0 0

Southeast Missouri State 1 0 0

Southeastern Louisiana 4 0 0

Southern Illinois 3 0 0

Southern Mississippi 12 0 0

Southern Utah 1 0 0

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Southwest Missouri State 9 1 0

Stanford 4 0 0

StePhen f. aUStIn 46 4 0

Syracuse 4 0 0

Temple 3 1 0

Tennessee 0 2 0

Tennessee-Chattanooga 3 1 0

Tennessee Tech 1 0 0

texaS 16 15 0

Texas-Arlington 67 14 0

texaS-San antonIo 25 6 0

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 6 0 0

Texas Lutheran 3 0 0

texaS State ** 54 9 0

Texas Southern 1 0 0

texaS teCh 20 12 0

Texas Wesleyan 3 0 0

Texas Woman’s University 7 0 0

Toledo 2 0 0

tUlSa 9 1 0

UCLA 6 8 0

U.S. International 3 3 0

Utah 16 5 0

Utah State 11 6 0

Virginia 4 1 0

Virginia Tech 1 0 0

Washington 3 4 0

Weber State 1 0 0

West Texas State 9 0 0

Western Illinois 5 1 0

Western Michigan 5 2 0

Wichita State 6 0 0

Winthrop College 2 0 0

Wisconsin 2 0 0

Wisconsin-GB 1 0 0

Wyoming 1 0 0

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By True Brown12th Man Magazine

On paper, the date looks inno-cent enough. Feb. 20, 2008

brought Stephen F. Austin to the Aggie Softball Complex for a mid-week doubleheader, and the box scores show Texas A&M cruised to a pair of convincing wins over the Ladyjacks, 7-1 and 3-0. In game one, pitcher and cleanup hitter Amanda Scarborough was solid, posting a 3-for-4 mark and upping her batting average to a dan-gerous .447. Even when she departed early in the nightcap after a foul ball off her right foot, coach Jo Evans said removing the All-American from the lineup was done as a precautionary measure. That precaution soon turned into a season-chang-ing event. After it was soon revealed that Scarborough would miss the remainder of her senior season with a rare mid-foot lisfranc injury, those outside the Aggie program immediately be-gan doubting whether the Aggies could even contend for a Big 12 title, much less muster a repeat of the pre-vious season’s trip to the Women’s College World Se-ries. Three months later, the rest of the country was convinced.

Not only did A&M blitz its Big 12 brethren for both the league’s regular-sea-son and tournament titles, the Aggies gut-ted their way into the WCWS Cham-pionship Series. An untouchable Arizona State team eventu-ally ended the Ag-gies (57-10, 17-1 Big 12) magical season, but even the doubt-ers were inspired by what A&M’s team-first group accomplished. “It was some-body different every game,” said A&M ace

defending league champion Baylor, a game in which seven players recorded hits. The win started a remarkable run through the conference slate, as the Aggies rattled off 11 consecutive victories before dropping a tight, one-run decision in the first game of a doubleheader at Oklahoma State. The effects of the loss did not stick around long, as A&M claimed game two of the twin bill and did not lose again for 46 days. The late-season surge, which included a perfect re-cord in both Regional and Su-per Regional play, secured the Aggies a return trip to Okla-homa City. Last year’s WCWS

Megan Gibson, who finished the year with a 41-4 record. “You never knew who was going to get the big hit or who was go-ing to score the big run, and that made it exciting. Everyone would be excited for one anoth-er, and that goes back to Feb. 20 when Amanda went down. Our whole team came together then, and that’s what this team was all about.” It certainly was. While Gib-son, a National Player of the Year finalist, dominated in the circle after Scarborough’s injury, the Aggies routinely cashed in on game-changing plays from vir-tually every player in the lineup. Scarborough’s absence was announced on March 19. Later that day, the Aggies opened Big 12 play with a 7-0 throttling of Jo Evans Macie Morrow

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appearance was short-lived, but Evans spoke at length prior to the 2008 season about the team’s desire to not only return but to make noise when they arrived. With the steady veteran nucleus of Gibson, third baseman Jamie Hinshaw and center fielder Jami Lobpries leading the way, the Aggies certainly accomplished that goal. All three seniors manned anchor positions on the field, and their experience set the tone for a lineup that saw three freshmen claim starting positions. First baseman/pitcher Rhiannon Kliesing, second baseman Natalie Villarreal and left fielder Kelsey Spittler all played in 50-plus games for Ev-ans’ squad. The group played an important role in A&M’s airtight defense, which committed only 32 errors and led the nation with a stingy .983 fielding percentage. “That’s why we won the games we did,” said Evans, who made her fourth trip to the WCWS last season. “We made plays, day in and day out, and we expected to make plays. It didn’t have to be fancy; it just had to get the job done. Typically, when we were beaten, somebody came out and just beat us. Fortunately that didn’t happen very often.” Even when the competition was at its tough-est, A&M often prevailed. The Aggies spent the first two weekends of the year at tournaments in California and Arizona. In California, the Aggies steamrolled No. 18 Oregon State, 9-1. The following weekend, A&M edged top-ranked Arizona, 3-2, be-fore splitting games with No. 6 Northwestern and No. 15 Washington (losing 8-7 and winning 10-4, respectively). And when they were at home, the Aggies were almost untouchable. A&M piled up a gaudy 27-1 record in College Station, including two big wins against Big 12 runner-up Oklahoma in mid-April. The lone home defeat came in extra innings to WCWS participant Louisiana-Lafayette, a loss the Aggies later avenged in a winners’ bracket game in Oklahoma City.

Gibson was fantastic no matter where the games were played. She turned in a season for the ages, dominat-ing in the circle while batting a team-best .339. She pow-ered her way to 13 home runs and 48 RBIs, all while drawing 55 walks—almost double the total of any other player on A&M’s roster. Her career marks of 56 home runs and 164 walks are the most in Big 12 history. She also finished atop the school record book in RBIs, doubles and total bases. But no performances

“She was so tough out there,” Evans said. “She just willed (the Florida game) to happen. When we couldn’t put runs across or get the big hit, she was the one who hung on and gave us a chance. Her mental makeup and her sheer will and determina-tion were pretty phenomenal. It comes along may-be only a couple times in a coach’s career.” While the departures of A&M’s seniors cer-tainly leave a few large holes to fill, Evans and Co. have enough talent spread around to be taken se-riously. Transfer catcher Erin Glasco was excellent this season, as were shortstop Macie Morrow and right fielder Holly Ridley. Another talented fresh-man class is in College Station this year, including California All-State pitcher Rebecca Arbino, so the Aggies don’t plan on departing the national con-sciousness any time soon. And as 2008 definitively showed, it sometimes takes just one day to forever bolster a season.

Macie Morrow

Megan Gibson

Jami Lobpries

Amanda Scarborough

meant more than those at the WCWS. First, she out-dueled National Player of the Year Angela Tincher from Virginia Tech. Then, she allowed just four hits and escaped a bases-loaded jam late to preserve a 2-1 win over Louisiana-Lafay-ette. Finally, in the loser-goes-home elimination game against No. 1 Florida, Gibson pitched a nine-inning gem against the hard-hitting Gators to push the Aggies into the Championship Series.

Jamie Hinshaw

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2008 oVErall sEAson stAtIstIcsRecord: 57-10 Home: 27-1 Away: 10-2 Neutral: 20-7 Big 12: 17-1

Player AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB ATT PO A E FLD%Scarborough, Amanda .447 15 14 38 6 17 3 0 2 13 26 .684 4 0 7 0 .500 0 2 0 1 42 10 1 .981Schroeder, Bailey .444 42 14 9 15 4 0 0 0 1 4 .444 2 1 1 0 .583 0 0 0 1 11 1 0 1.000Gibson, Megan .339 67 67 183 44 62 17 1 13 48 120 .656 55 4 26 0 .500 0 2 12 12 180 67 1 .996Hinshaw, Jamie .332 67 67 205 48 68 12 1 5 33 97 .473 24 1 28 0 .401 2 0 18 18 46 140 7 .964Morrow, Macie .290 67 67 207 35 60 7 2 4 26 83 .401 18 0 40 0 .344 2 2 8 11 92 107 12 .943Ridley, Holly .288 58 57 139 29 40 6 2 8 32 74 .532 22 9 37 1 .418 0 4 3 3 18 2 0 1.000Glasco, Erin .280 67 67 182 15 51 12 0 1 29 66 .363 21 8 40 0 .377 1 7 1 1 467 15 0 1.000Kliesing, Rhiannon .279 53 53 104 16 29 5 0 4 16 46 .442 7 4 20 0 .348 0 3 0 0 228 37 3 .989Spittler, Kelsey .270 66 66 163 23 44 5 1 2 22 57 .350 10 2 30 0 .315 3 6 3 6 59 0 2 .967Reynolds, Alex .269 53 43 108 9 29 6 0 2 15 41 .380 21 1 38 1 .386 2 4 2 2 55 0 1 .982Villarreal, Natalie .255 67 67 212 41 54 12 4 4 33 86 .406 16 3 34 1 .311 4 12 7 8 107 137 4 .984Lobpries, Jami .252 62 62 159 25 40 9 2 2 30 59 .371 28 6 22 0 .381 1 4 14 15 43 1 1 .978Gegen, Mandy .100 26 1 10 6 1 0 0 0 1 1 .100 3 0 5 0 .308 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 1.000Tovar, Andrea .000 51 0 3 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 2 0 .000 0 0 5 7 0 0 0 .000

Totals .290 67 67 1722 332 499 94 13 47 299 760 .441 231 39 330 3 .383 15 47 73 85 1353 517 32 .983Opponents .183 67 67 1621 104 297 38 1 27 100 418 .258 103 20 477 1 .240 3 25 41 47 1263 451 77 .957

LOB - Team (461), Opp (316). DPs turned - Team (12), Opp (12). CI - Team (0), Opp (1). IBB - Team (1), Gibson 1. Picked off - Lobpries 1.

Player ERA W L APP GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHAGibson, Megan 1.20 41 4 46 45 42 21 1 0 303.2 188 61 52 68 344 22 1 18 1069 .176 7 13 0 3 18Kliesing, Rhiannon 1.40 12 4 21 16 15 6 1 0 110.1 81 28 22 27 99 11 0 5 411 .197 3 4 0 0 7Scarborough, Amanda 2.27 4 2 6 6 4 1 0 0 37.0 28 15 12 8 34 5 0 4 141 .199 3 3 0 0 0

Totals 1.33 57 10 67 67 61 29 1 0 451.0 297 104 86 103 477 38 1 27 1621 .183 13 20 0 3 25Opponents 4.74 10 57 67 67 31 3 0 1 421.0 499 332 285 231 330 94 13 47 1722 .290 37 39 10 15 47

PB - Team (17), Glasco 17, Opp (15). Pickoffs - Team (2), Glasco 2, Opp (1). SBA/ATT - Glasco (40-46), Gibson (24-27), Kliesing (13-15), Scarborough (4-5), Reynolds (1-1).

2008 bIg 12 stAtIstIcsConference Record: 17-1 Home: 8-0 Away: 9-1

Player AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB ATT PO A E FLD%Schroeder, Bailey .500 9 0 4 7 2 0 0 0 0 2 .500 1 1 1 0 .667 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Gegen, Mandy .500 5 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 .500 1 0 1 0 .667 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Kliesing, Rhiannon .444 15 15 9 1 4 1 0 0 0 5 .556 0 0 3 0 .444 0 0 0 0 61 7 1 .986Hinshaw, Jamie .410 18 18 61 19 25 6 0 3 13 40 .656 6 0 6 0 .456 1 0 4 4 17 34 3 .944Gibson, Megan .385 18 18 52 17 20 4 1 4 14 38 .731 17 2 10 0 .549 0 0 2 2 24 20 0 1.000Reynolds, Alex .364 18 18 44 6 16 4 0 0 10 20 .455 10 0 11 1 .473 1 1 1 1 11 0 1 .917Ridley, Holly .349 18 18 43 14 15 2 1 2 15 25 .581 8 6 7 1 .509 0 3 1 1 4 0 0 1.000Lobpries, Jami .347 18 18 49 7 17 4 1 1 14 26 .531 8 4 10 0 .475 0 0 4 4 12 0 0 1.000Spittler, Kelsey .321 18 18 53 6 17 4 0 0 11 21 .396 1 0 8 0 .327 1 0 0 1 14 0 0 1.000Villarreal, Natalie .281 18 18 57 13 16 2 4 2 10 32 .561 4 2 9 0 .338 2 3 1 1 36 35 1 .986Glasco, Erin .269 18 18 52 7 14 2 0 0 10 16 .308 5 2 8 0 .356 0 4 0 0 155 6 0 1.000Morrow, Macie .220 18 18 59 9 13 1 0 0 7 14 .237 7 0 12 0 .299 1 0 1 2 23 16 4 .907Tovar, Andrea .000 14 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 .000 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .000

Totals .329 18 18 486 112 160 30 7 12 105 240 .494 68 17 86 2 .425 6 11 15 18 357 118 10 .979Opponents .173 18 18 416 27 72 8 1 8 25 106 .255 22 10 152 1 .232 0 14 15 17 337 115 23 .952

LOB - Team (140), Opp (78). DPs turned - Team (3), Opp (5). CI - Team (0), Opp (1). IBB - Team (1), Gibson 1. Picked off - Lobpries 1.

Player ERA W L APP GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHAKliesing, Rhiannon 1.40 3 0 4 3 3 0 0 0 20.0 18 5 4 2 20 4 0 0 77 .234 1 1 0 0 4Gibson, Megan 1.41 14 1 15 15 14 6 0 0 99.0 54 22 20 20 132 4 1 8 339 .159 2 9 0 0 10

Totals 1.41 17 1 18 18 17 6 0 0 119.0 72 27 24 22 152 8 1 8 416 .173 3 10 0 0 14Opponents 6.29 1 17 18 18 4 0 0 1 112.1 160 112 101 68 86 30 7 12 486 .329 8 17 5 6 11

PB - Team (5), Glasco 5, Opp (2). Pickoffs - Team (2), Glasco 2, Opp (1). SBA/ATT - Glasco (15-17), Gibson (10-12), Kliesing (5-5).

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2008 gAmE REsults GAmE DATE OPPOSING TEAm SCORE R-H-E R-H-E INNS OVERALL BIG 12 PITCHER OF RECORD ATTEND TImE$ Feb 08, 2008 vs. New Mexico State W 3-2 3-5-0 2-7-1 7 1-0-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 1-0) 0 1:54$ Feb 08, 2008 vs. Cal Poly 1-5 L 1-9-1 5-9-1 7 1-1-0 0-0-0 Scarborough (L 0-1) 0 2:22$ Feb 09, 2008 vs. Cal State Northridge W 3-0 3-6-0 0-2-0 7 2-1-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 2-0) 0 2:04$ Feb 09, 2008 vs. Oregon State W 9-1 9-14-1 1-5-1 7 3-1-0 0-0-0 Scarborough (W 1-1) 0 2:07$ Feb 10, 2008 vs. Utah State W 9-0 9-6-1 0-1-2 5 4-1-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 3-0) 0 1:24 Feb 13, 2008 SAM HOUSTON STATE W 6-0 6-12-0 0-0-3 7 5-1-0 0-0-0 Scarborough (W 2-1) 999 1:56^ Feb 15, 2008 vs. Nevada W 5-0 5-6-0 0-5-1 7 6-1-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 4-0) 0 1:53^ Feb 15, 2008 vs. Northwestern 7-8 L 7-4-0 8-12-0 7 6-2-0 0-0-0 Scarborough (L 3-2) 0 2 DA^ Feb 16, 2008 vs. Arizona W 3-2 3-8-0 2-6-1 7 7-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 5-0) 0 1:57^ Feb 16, 2008 vs. Notre Dame W 4-1 4-5-0 1-2-1 7 8-2-0 0-0-0 Scarborough (W 3-1) 0 2:04^ Feb 17, 2008 vs. Washington W 10-4 10-9-1 4-10-1 7 9-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 6-0) 0 2:05 Feb 20, 2008 STEPHEN F. AUSTIN W 7-1 7-10-3 1-4-1 7 10-2-0 0-0-0 Scarborough (W 4-2) - 2:07 Feb 20, 2008 STEPHEN F. AUSTIN W 3-0 3-6-0 0-2-1 7 11-2-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 1-0) 819 1:43% Feb 22, 2008 TEMPLE W 7-0 7-9-0 0-3-2 7 12-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 7-0) 0 1:52% Feb 22, 2008 SAM HOUSTON STATE W 2-0 2-3-0 0-2-1 7 13-2-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 2-0) 960 1:48% Feb 23, 2008 NORTH TEXAS W 13-1 13-11-1 1-1-2 5 14-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 8-0) 0 1:38% Feb 23, 2008 TEMPLE W 6-0 6-7-0 0-2-2 7 15-2-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 3-0) 1453 1:50% Feb 24, 2008 NORTH TEXAS W 9-1 9-13-0 1-7-1 6 16-2-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 4-0) 866 2:08 Feb 27, 2008 HOUSTON W 2-0 2-5-0 0-5-1 7 17-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 9-0) - 1:31 Feb 27, 2008 HOUSTON W 8-7 8-10-2 7-12-2 7 18-2-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 5-0) 1096 2:15# Feb 29, 2008 vs. DePaul W 8-0 8-11-0 0-1-1 6 19-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 10-0) 0 1:26# Feb 29, 2008 vs. Georgia Tech W 2-0 2-4-0 0-3-0 7 20-2-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 6-0) 0 1:19# Mar 01, 2008 vs. Florida State W 7-0 7-7-0 0-5-4 7 21-2-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 11-0) 0 2:08# Mar 01, 2008 vs. UMASS 1-4 L 1-9-2 4-5-0 7 21-3-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (L 6-1) 0 1:35# Mar 02, 2008 vs. NC State W 4-0 4-6-1 0-3-1 7 22-3-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 12-0) 0 1:40! Mar 07, 2008 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE W 1-0 1-6-0 0-4-1 7 23-3-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 13-0) 0 2:00! Mar 07, 2008 BYU W 3-1 3-7-1 1-6-0 7 24-3-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 7-1) 978 2:04! Mar 08, 2008 ILLINOIS W 7-3 7-6-0 3-5-1 7 25-3-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 14-0) 1466 2:15! Mar 08, 2008 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 1-2 L 1-4-0 2-4-0 (8) 25-4-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (L 7-2) 1466 2:17+ Mar 14, 2008 vs. Utah W 3-1 3-7-0 1-4-0 7 26-4-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 15-0) 0 1:54+ Mar 14, 2008 at San Diego W 9-0 9-11-0 0-2-1 5 27-4-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (W 8-2) 0 1:23+ Mar 15, 2008 vs. Cal State Fullerton W 4-1 4-7-0 1-5-0 7 28-4-0 0-0-0 Gibson (W 16-0) 0 2:00+ Mar 15, 2008 at San Diego State Univ. 0-3 L 0-5-0 3-5-2 6 28-5-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (L 8-3) 0 1:42+ Mar 16, 2008 vs. Long Beach State 1-2 L 1-4-0 2-6-0 7 28-6-0 0-0-0 Kliesing (L 8-4) 0 1:45 * Mar 19, 2008 BAYLOR W 7-0 7-7-1 0-4-0 7 29-6-0 1-0-0 Gibson (W 17-0) 1552 1:55 * Mar 21, 2008 at Texas Tech W 7-3 7-11-2 3-5-1 (9) 30-6-0 2-0-0 Gibson (W 18-0) 317 3:04 * Mar 22, 2008 at Texas Tech W 3-1 3-9-1 1-4-1 7 31-6-0 3-0-0 Kliesing (W 9-4) 281 2:11 * Mar 26, 2008 at Baylor W 8-0 8-9-0 0-1-2 6 32-6-0 4-0-0 Gibson (W 19-0) 1297 1:39 * Mar 29, 2008 MISSOURI W 5-1 5-12-0 1-3-1 7 33-6-0 5-0-0 Gibson (W 20-0) 1062 1:42 * Mar 30, 2008 MISSOURI W 9-4 9-10-0 4-4-1 7 34-6-0 6-0-0 Gibson (W 21-0) 858 1:58 * Apr 05, 2008 at Iowa State W 11-1 11-7-0 1-4-1 5 35-6-0 7-0-0 Gibson (W 22-0) 268 1:36 * Apr 05, 2008 at Iowa State W 9-1 9-13-1 1-7-2 5 36-6-0 8-0-0 Kliesing (W 10-4) 268 1:23 * Apr 09, 2008 at Texas W 3-1 3-7-2 1-3-1 7 37-6-0 9-0-0 Gibson (W 23-0) 1111 1:57 * Apr 12, 2008 OKLAHOMA W 4-2 4-7-0 2-4-2 7 38-6-0 10-0-0 Gibson (W 24-0) 1723 1:57 * Apr 13, 2008 OKLAHOMA W 1-0 1-5-0 0-2-0 7 39-6-0 11-0-0 Gibson (W 25-0) 1244 1:43 * Apr 16, 2008 at Oklahoma State 5-6 L 5-7-1 6-7-3 7 39-7-0 11-1-0 Gibson (L 25-1) - 1:50 * Apr 16, 2008 at Oklahoma State W 4-3 4-11-2 3-7-1 7 40-7-0 12-1-0 Kliesing (W 11-4) 216 1:53 * Apr 19, 2008 KANSAS W 14-0 14-10-0 0-0-2 5 41-7-0 13-1-0 Gibson (W 26-1) 1837 1:30 * Apr 20, 2008 KANSAS W 8-0 8-11-0 0-3-2 6 42-7-0 14-1-0 Gibson (W 27-1) 1056 1:46 Apr 23, 2008 TEXAS STATE W 11-0 11-9-0 0-0-3 5 43-7-0 14-1-0 Kliesing (W 12-4) 865 1:22 * Apr 26, 2008 at Nebraska W 6-0 6-10-0 0-3-1 7 44-7-0 15-1-0 Gibson (W 28-1) 427 2:25 * Apr 27, 2008 at Nebraska W 6-3 6-10-0 3-8-1 7 45-7-0 16-1-0 Gibson (W 29-1) 406 2:29 * Apr 30, 2008 TEXAS W 2-1 2-4-0 1-3-1 7 46-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 30-1) 2055 1:50~ May 10, 2008 vs. Iowa State W 1-0 1-3-0 0-2-0 7 47-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 31-1) 1638 1:18~ May 10, 2008 vs. Texas W 3-1 3-4-0 1-5-1 7 48-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 32-1) 859 1:43~ May 11, 2008 vs. Nebraska W 5-0 5-10-0 0-4-2 7 49-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 33-1) 736 2:13= May 16, 2008 STEPHEN F. AUSTIN W 2-0 2-5-2 0-4-0 7 50-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 34-1) 1436 1:43= May 17, 2008 LA TECH W 4-0 4-5-0 0-2-2 7 51-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 35-1) 1270 1:42= May 18, 2008 LA TECH W 6-0 6-9-0 0-0-3 7 52-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 36-1) 1100 1:28> May 24, 2008 STANFORD W 6-1 6-7-1 1-3-1 7 53-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 37-1) 1594 2:05> May 25, 2008 STANFORD W 9-4 9-13-0 4-8-2 7 54-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 38-1) 1416 2:20@ May 29, 2008 vs. Virginia Tech W 1-0 1-2-2 0-5-1 7 55-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 39-1) 6240 1:58@ May 30, 2008 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette W 2-1 2-5-0 1-4-2 7 56-7-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 40-1) 0 2:37@ Jun 01, 2008 vs. Florida 1-6 L 1-3-1 6-9-1 7 56-8-0 17-1-0 Gibson (L 40-2) 6871 2:34@ Jun 01, 2008 vs. Florida W 1-0 1-6-0 0-7-0 (9) 57-8-0 17-1-0 Gibson (W 41-2) 4928 2:41@ Jun 02, 2008 vs. Arizona State 0-3 L 0-2-0 3-7-0 7 57-9-0 17-1-0 Gibson (L 41-3) 7062 2:02@ Jun 03, 2008 vs. Arizona State 0-11 L 0-4-2 11-10-0 7 57-10-0 17-1-0 Gibson (L 41-4) 6619 2:18

* Big 12 Conference game ^ Kajikawa Classic, Tempe, Ariz. ! Aggie Classic, College Station, Texas = NCAA Regionals, College Station, Texas() Extra inning game % Texas A&M Invitational, College Station, Texas + San Diego Classic II, San Diego, Calif. > NCAA Super Regionals, College Station, Texas$ Cathedral City Kickoff, Cathedral City, Calif. # NFCA Leadoff Classic, Columbus, Ga. ~ Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla. @ Women’s College World Series, Oklahoma City, Okla.

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2008 BiG 12 HonoRS

A L L - B i G 12S o f T B A L L T E A M

First TeamPosition Player School Yr.

P/UT Jen Bruck Missouri Sr.P Meagan Denny Texas Sr.P/1B Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr.P D.J. Mathis Oklahoma Jr.C Lindsey Vandever Oklahoma So.1B Amanda Renth Missouri Sr.1B Samantha Ricketts Oklahoma Jr.2B Andee Allen Missouri Jr.3B Jamie Hinshaw Texas A&M Sr.3B Brette Reagan Baylor Jr.SS Loryn Johnson Texas So.SS Savannah Long Oklahoma Sr.of Jami Lobpries Texas A&M Sr.of Holly Ridley Texas A&M Jr.OF Rhea Taylor Missouri Fr.OF Nicole Wesley Baylor So.INF Crystal Carwile Nebraska Jr.UT Amber Flores Oklahoma So.DP/1B Alex Reynolds Texas A&M So.

Second TeamPosition Player School Yr.

P Stacy Delaney Missouri Jr.P Lauren Eckermann Oklahoma Sr.1B Jennifer Corkin Texas Tech Sr.2B Alysia Hamilton Oklahoma State Fr.2B natalie Villarreal Texas A&M fr.3B Amanda Jobe Kansas So.3B Lindsey Ubrun Missouri Jr.SS Mariah Gearhart Oklahoma State Fr.SS Leah Legler Texas Tech So.OF Kim Kaye Oklahoma State Sr.OF Dougie McCaulley Kansas Jr.OF Meghan Mullin Nebraska Jr.OF Susan Ogden Oklahoma Sr.OF Montana Patin Texas Tech Jr.OF Kirsten Shortridge Baylor So.OF Desiree Williams Texas Jr.OF Betsy Wilson Kansas Sr.INF Sydni Jones Iowa State So.DP Tallie Thrasher Texas So.

B i G 12 P L AYE R So f T H E W E E K

February 12 Amber Flores Oklahoma So. 18 Jordan Daniels Baylor Sr. 26 Tallie Thrasher Texas So.

March 4 Rhea Taylor Missouri Fr. 10 Lindsey Ubrun Missouri Jr. 18 Val Chappel Kansas Jr. 25 Tallie Thrasher Texas So.

April 1 Jen Bruck Missouri Sr. 8 Amber Flores Oklahoma So. Jamie Hinshaw Texas A&M Sr. 15 Jami Lobpries Texas A&M Sr. 22 Rhea Taylor Missouri Fr. 29 Amanda Renth Missouri Sr.

May 6 Heidi Foland Nebraska Fr.

B i G 12 P i Tc H E R So f T H E W E E K

February 12 D.J. Mathis Oklahoma So. 18 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr. 26 D.J. Mathis Oklahoma So.

March 4 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr. 10 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr. 18 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr. 25 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr.

April 1 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr. 8 Ashly Jacobs Texas Tech So. 15 Megan Gibson Texas A&M Sr. 22 Meagan Denny Texas Sr. 29 Lauren Eckermann Oklahoma Sr.

May 6 Brittany Barnhill Texas Fr.

P L AYE R o f T H E YE A R

Megan Gibson, Texas A&M, P/1B, Sr.

f R E S H M A n o f T H E YE A R

Rhea Taylor, Baylor, OF, Fr.

P i Tc H E R o f T H E YE A R

Megan Gibson, Texas A&M, P/1B, Sr.

D E f E n S i V E P L AYE Ro f T H E YE A R

Savannah Long, Oklahoma, SS, Sr.

coAc H o f T H E YE A R

Jo Evans, Texas A&M

B i G 12 To u R n A M E n Tc H A M P i o n

Texas A&M

B i G 12 To u R n A M E n T M o S T o u TS TA n D i n G P L AYE R

Megan Gibson, Texas A&M

B i G 12A L L - To u R n A M E n T T E A M

Player, School

Brette Reagan, BaylorRachel Zabriskie, Iowa StateSamantha Ricketts, OklahomaCrystal Carwile, NebraskaMolly Hill, NebraskaHaley Long, NebraskaMeghan Mullin, Nebraska

Player, School

Erin Glasco, Texas A&MMegan Gibson, Texas A&MJamie Hinshaw, Texas A&MHolly Ridley, Texas A&MJennifer Corkin, Texas TechDevin Zargoza, Texas Tech

2008 finAL confEREncE SofTBALL STAnDinGS conference overall conference Series in 2008 School W L T Pct. W L T Pct Bu iSu Ku Mu nu ou oSu uT TAMu TTu

Texas A&M 17 1 0 .944 57 10 0 .851 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-1 2-0 ---- 2-0Oklahoma 16 2 0 .889 47 14 0 .770 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 ---- 2-0 2-0 0-2 2-0

missouri 11 6 0 .647 47 17 0 .734 1-0 2-0 2-0 ---- 1-1 0-2 2-0 1-1 0-2 2-0

Texas 9 9 0 .500 29 23 2 .556 1-1 2-0 1-1 1-1 2-0 0-2 1-1 ---- 0-2 1-1

Oklahoma State 9 9 0 .500 26 25 0 .510 2-0 1-1 1-1 0-2 2-0 0-2 ---- 1-1 1-1 1-1

Texas Tech 8 10 0 .444 23 36 0 .390 2-0 2-0 0-2 0-2 2-0 0-2 1-1 1-1 0-2 ----

Kansas 7 11 0 .389 37 19 0 .661 1-1 1-1 ---- 0-2 1-1 0-2 1-1 1-1 0-2 2-0

Baylor 4 13 0 .235 23 22 0 .511 ---- 1-1 1-1 0-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 1-1 0-2 0-2

Iowa State 4 14 0 .222 29 29 0 .500 1-1 ---- 1-1 0-2 1-1 0-2 1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2

Nebraska 4 14 0 .222 25 28 0 .472 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-1 ---- 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2

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i n D i V i D uA L P i Tc H i n G(minimum 1-inning pitched per game played by team)

Player APP ERA W-L SV iP H R ER BB So

Megan Gibson, TAMu 45 0.99 41-3 0 296.2 178 50 42 65 339D.J. Mathis, OU 44 1.18 31-7 1 237.1 126 45 40 83 263Rhiannon Kliesing, TAMu 21 1.40 12-4 0 110.1 81 28 22 27 99Valerie George, KU 41 1.96 18-11 3 179.0 143 68 50 60 185Stacy Delaney MU 37 2.01 20-4 2 181.1 150 72 52 41 178Anna Whiddon, OSU 32 2.02 10-9 3 142.0 110 55 41 49 117Brittany Turner, BU 24 2.03 3-4 2 65.2 47 31 19 29 48Meagan Denny, UT 41 2.08 21-11 3 202.0 154 65 60 73 289Lauren Eckermann, OU 28 2.10 13-4 0 113.1 101 40 34 22 88Jenny Isham, BU 22 2.18 11-3 0 74.0 69 25 23 21 45

H i TS Player G H H/G

Rhea Taylor, MU 64 88 1.38Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 67 68 1.01Andee Allen, MU 64 67 1.05Amber Flores, OU 61 67 1.10Leah Legler, TTU 59 65 1.10Savannah Long, OU 61 65 1.07Dougie McCaulley, KU 55 63 1.15Megan Gibson, TAMu 67 62 .93Courtney Wray, ISU 58 61 1.05Loryn Johnson, UT 54 61 1.13

H o M E R u n SPlayer G HR HR/G

Amanda Renth, MU 58 20 .34Lindsey Ubrun, MU 61 16 .26Amber Flores, OU 61 15 .25Kim Kaye, OSU 51 14 .27Jen Bruck, MU 58 14 .24Savannah Long, OU 61 13 .21Samantha Rickets, OU 60 13 .22Megan Gibson, TAMu 67 13 .193 tied with 12 home runs

W i n SPlayer W L G

Megan Gibson, TAMu 41 4 46D.J Mathis, OU 31 7 44Meagan Denny, UT 21 11 44Stacy Delaney, MU 20 4 37Valerie George, KU 18 11 41Jen Bruck, MU 16 10 33Rachel Zabriskie, ISU 15 14 41Molly Hill, NU 15 17 35Lauren Eckermann, OU 13 4 28Rhiannon Kliesing, TAMu 12 4 21

T E A M B AT T i n GTeam G AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR BB So SB-ATT

Baylor 45 .307 1243 197 381 47 5 19 95 149 82-93 Oklahoma 61 .295 1595 355 471 74 10 78 226 252 50-71 Texas A&M 66 .292 1697 332 495 93 13 47 230 317 72-84 Oklahoma State 51 .291 1392 219 405 62 2 33 141 252 46-57 Missouri 64 .287 1677 362 481 61 17 65 206 348 138-170 Nebraska 53 .270 1359 190 367 48 8 15 109 221 72-85 Texas 54 .261 1384 208 361 70 5 49 137 312 56-72Iowa State 58 .260 1512 215 393 55 11 38 95 319 67-87 Kansas 56 .259 1398 253 362 62 3 41 162 281 49-65 Texas Tech 59 .254 1553 200 394 55 10 25 118 297 50-58

T E A M P i Tc H i n GTeam G ERA W L SV iP H R ER BB So

Texas A&M 66 1.20 57 9 0 444.0 287 93 76 100 472 Oklahoma 61 1.54 47 14 1 400.0 279 110 88 118 388 Missouri 64 2.41 46 17 6 422.0 384 193 145 100 362 Kansas 56 2.41 36 19 5 372.0 331 171 128 133 292 Texas 54 2.67 29 23 3 362.0 322 163 138 150 411 Oklahoma State 51 2.72 26 25 6 344.2 325 176 134 155 267 Baylor 45 3.04 23 22 4 306.1 288 174 133 124 192 Iowa State 58 3.15 29 29 4 382.0 393 213 172 113 272 Texas Tech 59 3.31 23 36 5 402.1 414 256 190 182 270 Nebraska 53 3.47 25 28 2 349.1 363 219 173 178 302

R u n S B AT T E D i nPlayer G RBi RBi/G

Amanda Renth, MU 58 60 1.03Lindsey Ubrun, MU 61 58 .95Samantha Ricketts, OU 60 51 .85Megan Gibson, TAMu 67 48 .72Amber Flores, OU 61 46 .75Susan Ogden, OU 61 45 .74Montana Patin, TTU 56 44 .79Jen Bruck, MU 58 43 .74Lindsey Vandever, OU 59 40 .68Savannah Long, OU 61 39 .64

ToTA L B A S E SPlayer G TB TB/G

Amanda Renth, MU 58 129 2.22Amber Flores, OU 61 125 2.05Megan Gibson, TAMu 67 120 1.79Savannah Long, OU 61 118 1.93Lindsey Ubrun, MU 61 112 1.84Samantha Ricketts, OU 60 108 1.80Loryn Johnson, UT 54 107 1.98Rhea Taylor, MU 64 101 1.58Kim Kaye, OSU 51 98 1.92Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 67 97 1.45

S T R i K E o u T SPlayer G So So/G

Megan Gibson, TAMu 46 344 7.93Meagan Denny, UT 41 289 10.01D.J. Mathis, OU 44 263 7.76Valerie George, KU 41 185 7.23Delaney Stacy, MU 37 178 6.87Molly Hill, NU 35 171 6.28Rachel Zabriskie, ISU 41 146 5.23Alex Hupp, NU 30 126 6.63Anna Whiddon, OSU 32 114 5.77Amanda Crabtree, OSU 25 104 6.96

R u n SPlayer G R R/G

Rhea Taylor, MU 64 64 1.00Amber Flores, OU 61 61 1.00Savannah Long, OU 61 51 .84Julie Silver, MU 64 48 .75Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 59 48 .72Leah Legler, TTU 59 47 .80Megan Gibson, TAMu 67 44 .66natalie Villarreal, TAMu 67 41 .61Val Chapple, KU 56 40 .713 tied with 38 runs

S To L E n B A S E S Player G SB SB/G

Rhea Taylor, MU 64 57 .89Kirsten Shortridge, BU 41 24 .59Mariah Gearhart, OSU 50 24 .48Julie Silver 64 24 .38Meghan Mullin, NU 53 20 .38Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 67 18 .27Kelsey Kidwell, ISU 58 18 .31Desiree Williams, UT 54 17 .31Leah Legler, TTU 59 16 .272 tied with 14 stolen bases

o P P o n E n T S B AT T i n G AV G .Player G AB H Avg.

D.J. Mathis, OU 44 800 126 .158Megan Gibson, TAMu 46 1069 188 .176Rhiannon Kliesing, TAMu 41 411 81 .197Brittany Turner, BU 24 238 47 .197Meagan Denny, UT 41 735 154 .210Anna Whiddon, OSU 32 510 110 .216Stacy Delaney, MU 37 682 150 .220Valerie George, KU 41 646 143 .221Sarah Vertelka, KU 24 348 80 .230Tye Coats, TTU 36 422 99 .235

i n D i V i D uA L B AT T i n G(minimum of 2 at-bats per game played by team)

Player G AVG AB R H RBi 2B 3B HR BB

Rhea Taylor, MU 64 .402 219 64 88 21 2 4 1 9Brette Reagan, BU 45 .385 130 35 50 36 11 1 10 32Amber Flores, OU 61 .381 176 61 67 46 9 2 15 45Andee Allen, MU 64 .379 177 34 67 36 15 4 1 16Dougie McCaulley, KU 55 .375 168 36 63 23 8 1 0 16Nicole Wesley, BU 45 .375 120 19 45 14 1 1 0 4Jordan Daniels, BU 41 .362 130 15 47 34 10 2 6 7Savannah Long, OU 61 .359 181 51 65 39 14 0 13 13Loryn Johnson, UT 54 .355 172 27 61 33 10 0 12 16Kirsten Shortridge, BU 41 .354 147 27 52 12 2 1 0 4

T E A M f i E L D i n GTeam G Po A E PcT DP PB SBA-ATT

Texas A&M 66 1332 506 30 .984 11 17 41-47 Oklahoma 61 1200 480 38 .978 22 7 25-38 Texas 54 1086 355 45 .970 18 5 39-51 Oklahoma State 51 1034 388 49 .967 12 13 52-70 Missouri 64 1266 516 67 .964 17 12 39-50 Kansas 56 1116 470 61 .963 16 10 33-45 Baylor 45 919 393 52 .962 13 8 24-37 Nebraska 53 1048 417 64 .958 20 12 51-62 Iowa State 58 1146 483 78 .954 22 14 45-62 Texas Tech 59 1207 536 86 .953 18 8 44-56

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Player APP ERA W-L SV iP H R ER BB So

D.J. Mathis, OU 11 1.15 10-1 0 73.1 36 13 12 25 73Lauren Eckermann, OU 8 1.33 5-1 0 42.0 36 10 8 10 27Rhiannon Kliesing, TAMu 4 1.40 3-0 0 20.0 18 5 4 2 20Megan Gibson, TAMu 15 1.41 14-1 0 99.0 54 22 20 20 132Meagan Denny, UT 15 2.19 6-4 1 70.1 58 24 22 19 85Ashly Jacobs, TTU 14 2.30 5-5 1 73.0 75 30 24 30 31Anna Whiddon, OSU 14 2.81 5-6 2 62.1 58 34 25 18 46Stacy Delaney, MU 9 3.05 4-0 1 43.2 33 22 19 11 41Jen Bruck, MU 12 3.31 7-4 1 61.1 69 37 29 14 32Sarah Odom, OSU 11 3.33 3-1 1 33.2 42 19 16 6 9

H i TS Player G H H/G

Rhea Taylor, MU 17 26 1.53Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 18 25 1.39Loryn Johnson, UT 18 22 1.22Crystal Carwile, NU 18 21 1.17Mariah Gearhart, OSU 17 21 1.24Susan Ogden, OU 18 20 1.11Savannah Long, OU 18 20 1.11Megan Gibson, TAMu 18 20 1.11Amanda Renth, MU 17 20 1.18Amber Flores, OU 18 19 1.06

H o M E R u n SPlayer G HR HR/G

Amanda Renth, MU 17 9 .53Kim Kaye, OSU 18 5 .28Savannah Long, OU 18 4 .22Loryn Johnson, UT 18 4 .22Megan Gibson, TAMu 18 4 .22Montana Patin, TTU 18 4 .22Crystal Carwile, NU 18 4 .22Susan Ogden, OU 18 4 .22Tallie Thrasher, UT 18 4 .22

W i n SPlayer W L G

Megan Gibson, TAMu 14 1 15D.J Mathis, OU 10 1 11Jen Bruck, MU 7 4 12Meagan Denny, UT 6 4 15Lauren Eckermann, OU 5 1 8Ashly Jacobs, TTU 5 5 14Anna Whiddon, OSU 5 6 14Stacy Delaney, MU 4 0 9Valerie George, KU 4 8 125 tied with 3 victories

T E A M B AT T i n GTeam G AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR BB So SB-ATT

Texas A&M 18 .329 486 112 160 30 7 12 68 86 15-18 Oklahoma 18 .294 503 105 148 16 3 19 69 72 24-29 Missouri 17 .279 434 91 121 18 5 18 51 96 25-35 Oklahoma State 18 .274 482 72 132 19 1 7 46 91 10-14 Texas 18 .255 440 69 112 24 0 17 37 93 21-25 Baylor 17 .246 448 44 110 13 1 3 43 64 20-23 Nebraska 18 .241 469 43 113 13 3 5 26 87 18-25 Iowa State 18 .233 446 39 104 16 1 12 22 101 12-15 Texas Tech 18 .231 484 65 112 20 5 13 37 104 9-11 Kansas 18 .220 431 62 95 19 0 8 48 99 19-23

T E A M P i Tc H i n GTeam G ERA W L SV iP H R ER BB So

Oklahoma 18 1.21 16 2 0 127.0 83 26 22 36 110 Texas A&M 18 1.41 17 1 0 119.0 72 27 24 22 152 Texas 18 3.06 9 9 1 114.1 105 57 50 43 115 Oklahoma State 18 3.28 9 9 4 117.1 126 68 55 33 67 Missouri 17 3.44 11 6 2 110.0 111 65 54 28 81 Texas Tech 18 3.66 8 10 2 128.0 139 79 67 60 67 Baylor 17 4.09 4 13 1 118.0 124 82 69 51 61 Kansas 18 4.16 7 11 1 117.2 148 85 70 49 83 Nebraska 18 4.81 4 14 0 122.1 146 104 84 74 85 Iowa State 18 5.42 4 14 0 113.2 153 109 88 51 72

R u n S B AT T E D i nPlayer G RBi RBi/G

Amanda Renth, MU 17 24 1.41Susan Ogden, OU 18 17 .94Montana Patin, TTU 18 17 .94Holly Ridley, TAMu 18 15 .83Jami Lobpries, TAMu 18 14 .78Lindsey Vandever, OU 16 14 .88Megan Gibson, TAMu 18 14 .78Andee Allen, MU 17 14 .824 tied with 13 RBIs

ToTA L B A S E SPlayer G TB TB/G

Amanda Renth, MU 17 50 2.94Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 18 40 2.22Crystal Carwile, NU 18 38 2.11Loryn Johnson, UT 18 38 2.11Megan Gibson, TAMu 18 38 2.11Susan Ogden, OU 18 36 2.00Savannah Long, OU 18 35 1.94Kim Kaye, OSU 18 33 1.83Montana Patin, TTU 18 33 1.832 tied with 32 bases

S T R i K E o u T SPlayer G So So/G

Megan Gibson, TAMu 15 132 9.33Meagan Denny, UT 15 85 8.46D.J. Mathis, OU 11 73 6.97Valerie George, KU 17 59 5.68Molly Hill, NU 15 52 4.96Anna Whiddon, OSU 14 46 5.17Rachel Zabriskie, ISU 17 46 4.27Delaney Stacy, MU 9 41 6.57Alex Hupp, NU 12 33 5.17Jen Bruck, MU 12 32 3.65

R u n SPlayer G R R/G

Rhea Taylor, MU 17 20 1.18Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 18 19 1.06Amber Flores, OU 18 17 .94Megan Gibson, TAMu 18 17 .94Leah Legler, TTU 18 16 .89Holly Ridley, TAMu 18 14 .78Julie Silver, MU 17 14 .82natalie Villarreal, TAMu 18 13 .724 tied with 12 runs

S To L E n B A S E S Player G SB SB/G

Rhea Taylor, MU 17 13 .76Tallie Thrasher, UT 18 7 .39Amber Flores, OU 18 7 .39Desiree Williams, UT 18 7 .39Kirsten Shortridge, BU 16 6 .38Val Chapple, KU 18 5 .28Mariah Gearhart, OSU 17 5 .2913 tied with 4 stolen bases

o P P o n E n T S B AT T i n G AV G .Player G AB H Avg.

D.J. Mathis, OU 11 244 36 .148Megan Gibson, TAMu 15 339 54 .159Stacy Delaney, MU 9 162 33 .204Lauren Eckermann, OU 8 160 36 .225Meagan Denny, UT 15 256 58 .227Rhiannon Kliesing, TAMu 4 77 18 .234Anna Whiddon, OSU 14 237 58 .245Kirsten Shortridge, BU 11 187 48 .257Brittany Barnhill, UT 10 149 39 .262Ashly Jacobs, TTU 14 276 75 .272

i n D i V i D uA L B AT T i n G(minimum of 2 at-bats per game played by team)

Player G AVG AB R H RBi 2B 3B HR BB

Rhea Taylor, MU 17 .481 54 20 26 6 0 1 1 3Nicole Wesley, BU 17 .419 43 5 18 3 0 0 0 3Jamie Hinshaw, TAMu 18 .410 61 19 25 13 6 0 3 6Amanda Renth, MU 17 .392 51 9 20 24 3 0 9 6Andee Allen, MU 17 .391 46 8 18 14 6 1 1 7Megan Gibson, TAMu 18 .385 52 17 20 14 4 1 4 17Loryn Johnson, UT 18 .373 59 10 22 11 4 0 4 1Savannah Long, OU 18 .370 54 12 20 11 3 0 4 3Gearhart, Mariah, OSU 17 .368 57 10 21 5 3 0 0 3Alex Reynolds, TAMu 18 .364 44 6 16 10 4 0 0 10

T E A M f i E L D i n GTeam G Po A E PcT DP PB SBA-ATT

Texas A&M 18 357 118 10 .979 3 5 15-17 Oklahoma 18 381 154 14 .975 7 3 9-15 Texas 18 343 113 13 .972 9 3 15-21 Missouri 17 330 135 18 .963 4 5 14-17 Baylor 17 354 162 20 .963 4 2 11-17 Texas Tech 18 384 179 23 .961 5 3 13-17 Oklahoma State 18 352 133 20 .960 2 2 27-31 Nebraska 18 367 153 22 .959 6 6 24-25 Kansas 18 353 149 28 .947 5 5 20-26 Iowa State 18 341 140 30 .941 4 5 25-32

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R e g i o n a lCollege Station, Texas

Minnesota ....................3 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................1 Utah ............................. 0

Utah ................................3 Texas a&M ................ 0

1994R e g i o n a l

Tucson, Ariz.Texas a&M ..................6 Rutgers ........................ 2

Arizona ..........................5 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................9 Canisius College ...... 0 Arizona ..........................6 Texas a&M ................ 0

1996R e g i o n a l

Fresno, Calif.Fresno State .................5 Texas a&M ................ 2

Long Beach St. ................4 Texas a&M ................ 1

1999R e g i o n a l

Seattle, Wash.Texas a&M ..................4 Hawaii .......................... 3

Cal State Fullerton .....2 Texas a&M ................ 1

Hawaii ............................8 Texas a&M ................ 3

2000R e g i o n a l

Tempe, Ariz.Penn State ....................3 Texas a&M ................ 2

Arizona State ...............4 Texas a&M ................ 2

2002R e g i o n a lNorman, Okla.

Texas a&M ..................6 Arkansas ..................... 2

Oklahoma .....................7 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................2 Texas ............................ 1

Oklahoma .....................8 Texas a&M ................ 1

2003R e g i o n a l

Tucson, Ariz.Texas a&M ..................8 Boston College ......... 4

Texas a&M ..................5 South Carolina .......... 0

Arizona ..........................3 Texas a&M ................ 0


Arizona ....................... 10 Texas a&M ............... 5

1983C e n T R a l R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasTexas a&M ..................5 Kansas ......................... 0

Texas a&M ..................1 Kansas ......................... 0

1984aT - l a R g e R e g i o n a l

Fullerton, Calif.Cal State Fullerton .....5 Texas a&M ................ 1

Texas a&M ..................2 Cal State Fullerton .. (8) 1

Texas a&M ..................5 Cal State Fullerton....... 3

1985S o u T h


Texas a&M ..................3 Louisiana Tech .......... 0

Louisiana Tech ............5 Texas a&M ................ 1


1986C e n T R a l


Texas a&M ..................1 Kansas ......................... 0

Texas a&M ..................1 Kansas .................(10) 0

1987C e n T R a l R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasTexas a&M ..................4 Louisiana Tech .......... 0


1988S o u T h R e g i o n a l

Ruston, Calif.Texas a&M ..................1 Florida State .............. 0



Texas a&M ..................1 Louisiana Tech ..... (8) 0

1990S o u T h R e g i o n a l

Lafayette, La.Florida State ................5 Texas a&M ................ 0

2004R e g i o n a lAthens, Ga.

Michigan St. .................5 Texas a&M ................ 1

Texas a&M ..................6 Chattanooga ............. 0

Georgia ..........................5 Texas a&M ................ 1

2005R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasMcNeese St. .................3 Texas a&M ................ 6

Texas a&M ..................3 Penn State .................. 2

Penn State ....................2 Texas a&M ................ 9

2005S u p e R R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasAlabama ........................4 Texas a&M ................ 1

Texas a&M ..................5 Alabama ..................... 6

2006R e g i o n a lAmherst, Mass.

Lehigh ............................4 Texas a&M ................ 3

Texas a&M ..................6 Albany ......................... 5

Lehigh ............................4 Texas a&M ................ 3

2007R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasSam Houston...............5 Texas a&M ................ 9

Houston ........................8 Texas a&M ................ 1

Texas a&M ............... 11 Sam Houston ............ 0

Texas a&M ............... 13 Houston ...................... 2

Houston ........................0 Texas a&M ................ 5

2007S u p e R R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasFlorida ............................0 Texas a&M ................ 2

Texas a&M ..................2 Florida ......................... 3

Florida ............................0 Texas a&M ................ 2

2008 R e g i o n a l

College Station, TexasStephen F. Austin .......0 Texas a&M ................ 2



S u p e R R e g i o n a lCollege Station, Texas

Stanford ........................1 Texas a&M ................ 6

Texas a&M ..................9 Stanford ...................... 4

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wOmen’S cOllege wORld SeRIeS1979

5 T h — a i aWOmaha, Neb.

UCLA ..............................5 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................6 Arizona ........................ 2

Texas a&M ..................2 Arizona State............. 0

Texas a&M ..................4 Western Illinois ......... 2

Northern Colorado ....2 Texas a&M ................ 0

1980 3 R d — a i aWNorman, Okla.

Texas a&M ..................1 Southwest Missouri State .. 0

Indiana ..........................1 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................1 California .................... 0

Texas a&M ..................3 Cal Poly Pomona ...(11) 2


Texas a&M ..................1 Western Michigan ... 0

Utah State.....................1 Texas a&M ................ 0

1981 4 T h — a i aWNorman, Okla.

Utah State.....................2 Texas a&M ................ 1


Texas a&M ..................1 Western Michigan ... 0

Texas a&M ..................3 Michigan State ......... 2

Texas a&M ..................1 Missouri ...................... 0

UCLA .............................1 Texas a&M ................ 0

1982a i aW n aT i o n a l

C h a M p i o n SU.S. International .......1 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................2 Southwest Missouri State .. 0


Texas a&M ..................5 California .................... 0

Texas a&M ..................2 Central Michigan ...... 0

Texas a&M ..................5 Michigan .................... 0

Texas a&M ..................4 Oklahoma State ......... 1

Texas a&M ..................5 Oklahoma State ....(8) 3

1983 n C a a

C h a M p i o n SSouth Carolina ............2 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................1 Indiana ........................ 0


Texas a&M ..................1 Cal State Fullerton....... 0

Texas a&M ..................1 UCLA ...................(14) 0

Texas a&M ..................1 Cal State Fullerton ..(12) 0

1984 2 n d — n C a a

Texas a&M ..................1 Cal Poly Pomona .. (25) 0

Texas a&M ..................5 Nebraska .................... 2

Texas a&M ..................2 UCLA ...................... (8) 0

Texas a&M ..................1 Northwestern ..... (13) 0

UCLA ..............................1 Texas a&M ................ 0

UCLA ..............................1 Texas a&M ........(13) 0

1986 2 n d — n C a a

Texas a&M ..................1 Creighton ...........(10) 0

Texas a&M ..................6 Indiana ........................ 0


Texas a&M ..................1 California ............(10) 0


1987 n C a a

C h a M p i o n STexas a&M ..................3 Central Michigan ..... 0

Texas a&M ..................2 Cal State Fullerton ...(13) 1

UCLA ..............................1 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................4 Nebraska .................... 0

Texas a&M ..................1 UCLA ............................ 0

Texas a&M ..................4 UCLA ............................ 1

19885 T h — n C a a

Fresno State .................3 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................3 Northern Illinois ....... 0

Cal Poly-Pomona........1 Texas a&M ................ 0

20077 T h — n C a a

Tennessee .....................2 Texas a&M ................ 0

Texas a&M ..................4 Baylor ........................... 7

20082 n d — n C a a

Virginia Tech ................0 Texas a&M ................ 1

Texas a&M ..................2 Louisiana-Lafayette .. 1

Florida ............................6 Texas a&M ................ 1

Texas a&M ..................1 Florida ......................... 0

Texas a&M ..................0 Arizona State............. 3

Arizona State ............ 11 Texas a&M ................ 0

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wORld SeRIeS TeamS

1988(5th place)

Front Row (l-R): Erika Eriksson, Julie Smith, Barbara Kajs, Julie Carpenter, Tory Parks, Zina Ochoa and Renee Blaha.

Back Row (l-R): Student assistant coach Judy Trussell, Karen Rob-ertson, Catherine Stedman, Erin Newkirk, Liz Mizera, Carrie Height-ley, Rhonda Halbert, Stacey Crainer and head coach Bob Brock.

1986 (2nd place)

Front Row (l-R): Zina Ochoa, Shawn Andaya, Judy Trussell, Tory Parks, Rita Shea, Tara Szymczak, Paige Sparks and Julie Carpenter.

Back Row (l-R): Assistant coach Shan McDonald, Cindy Cooper, Karen Athana-cio, Debbie Rollman, Liz Mizera, head coach Bob Brock, Mary Schwind, Carrie Heightly, Erin Newkirk, Cindy Foster and trainer Karen Tong.

1984(2nd place)

Front Row (l-R): Ann Hadley, Rose Ruffino, Judy Trussell, Gay McNutt, Pattie Holthaus, Ludie Roland and Shawn Andaya.

Middle Row (l-R): Deb Rollman, Yvette Guerrero, Mary Schwind, Josie Carter, Iva Jackson, Tiffany Ohnstad, Cindy Cooper and Paige Peterson.

Back Row (l-R): Assistant coach Sue Lilley, trainers Karen Tong and Sharon Strahan, Yvette Lo-pez , L inda Lancaster, head coach Bob Brock and student assistant coach Shan McDonald.

not pictured: Cindy Foster.

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1987 nCaa ChaMpionSFront Row (l-R): Renee Blaha, Shawn Andaya, Liz Mizera, Erin Newkirk, Kar en Robertson, Carrie Heightley, Kelli Biggs, and Erika Eriksson.

Back Row (l-R): Julie Smith, Zina Ochoa, Julie Carpenter, Judy Trussell, Tory Parks, Chris Blume (trainer), Pattie Holthaus (as-sistant coach), and Bob Brock (head coach).

1983 nCaa ChaMpionS

Front Row (l-R): Gay McNutt, Carrie Austgen, Pattie Holthaus, Ann Hadley, Cindy Foster, and Deb Roll man.

Middle Row (l-R): Karen Tong (trainer), Denise Campbell (trainer), Tiffany Ohn-stad, Paige Peterson, Cindy Cooper, Lori Stoll, and Rose Ruffino.

Back Row (l-R): Bob Brock (head coach), Mary Schwind, Linda Lancaster, Shan McDon ald, Iva Jackson, Josie Carter, Sue Lilley (as sist ant coach), and Maria Resendez (student assistant).

1982 aiaW ChaMpionS

Front Row (l-R): Denise Camp bell (train-er), Melody Pritchard, Shannon Murray, Gay McNutt, Pattie Holthaus, Carrie Austgen, Rose Ruffino, and Maria Resendez.

Back Row (l-R): Bob Brock (head coach), Karen Guerrero, Mary Lou Young blood, Lori Stoll, Shan McDon ald, Josie Carter, Linda Lan c aster, Iva Jackson, Carmen Garza (man-ager), and Sue Lilley (assistant coach).

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Gold Medalist, USA Olympic Softball Team2000 Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia

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Megan Gibson2005, ‘07, ‘08

Karen Guerrero1982

Jessica Kapchinski2004

Jennifer McFalls1993

Gay McNutt1985

Shawn Andaya1984, ‘85, ‘87

Josie Carter1984, ‘85

Cindy Cooper1984, ‘86,’86

Erin Field1996

Selena Collins2002

Liz Mizera1987, ‘88

Kendall Richards1996

Amanda Scarborough2005, ‘07

Julie Smith1987

Lori Stoll1980, ‘81, ‘82, ‘83

Judy Trussell1985

Missi Young1991

Jamie Hinshaw2008

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National Pro Fastpitch (NPF), formerly the Women’s Pro

Softball League, is intended to provide family entertainment for people of all ages and to showcase the top talent in softball today. It is the goal of the league to entertain and provide positive role models for young people. NPF demonstrates that a good work ethic, dedication and love for what one does will allow everyone to achieve their life’s goals. NPF athletes demonstrate this by their actions, both on-and-off the field. They are prominent people within their communities and avail themselves to their fans, particularly the young ones. The WPSL captured the attention of fastpitch softball fans worldwide when it exploded onto America’s sports scene in 1997. Since then, the WPSL has regularly showcased an unparalleled brand of fastpitch softball played by the world’s best female athletes. The WPSL can trace its origins back to the first professional softball league. Former LPGA Tour member Janie Blaylock, softball legend Joan Joyce and tennis icon Billie Jean King, founded the Inter-national Women’s Professional Softball Association (IWPSA) in 1976. The league featured 10 teams in cities across the nation, including Meriden, Conn., Chicago, Ill., Prescott, Ariz. and San Jose, Calif. In the WPSA’s first season, each team played a 120-game schedule that featured 60 doubleheaders. The fledgling association survived four sea-sons before lack of funds, high travel costs and inadequate facilities ultimately led to its demise. Despite the absence of a professional league, the following decade proved to be extremely prosper-ous for the sport of fastpitch softball in the United States. In 1982, the NCAA began to sanction the Women’s College World Series, a move that led to increased participation and exposure for the sport.

Internationally, the USA Softball Women’s National Team won back-to-back gold medals at the 1986

ISF World Championship and the 1987 Pan Ameri-can Games. The college game also benefited from rule changes enacted in 1987 that increased the game’s offensive output and ultimately its popular-ity. Some felt it was the perfect time to reintroduce the world to professional softball, but few acted upon their beliefs. Former Utah State University softball player Jane Cowles was in the minority. Along with her collegiate head coach John Horan, Cowles developed a plan for a women’s professional fastpitch softball league. In February 1989, she introduced a blueprint for the league to her parents John and Sage Cowles, owners of the Cowles Media Company, who agreed to provide fi-nancial backing for the endeavor. Field research and market studies began later that fall and continued to take place through 1993. In January 1994, plans for a barnstorming tour were announced, and 18 months later two teams com-prised of former collegiate all-stars played exhibi-tion games in cities throughout the Midwest. The tour was an overwhelming success and provided the framework for a true professional league.

Eight years of successful research and plan-ning finally culminated in May 1997, with the Cowles family and title sponsor AT&T Wireless Ser-vices launching Women’s Pro Fastpitch (WPF). After completing two seasons as WPF, officials changed the name to WPSL in 1998.

The WPSL consisted of four teams located in the Eastern United States in 2000. The world’s most

talented fastpitch softball players, including former Olympians, collegiate All-Americans and all-con-ference selections, highlighted the 15-player ros-ters of the league’s four squads. The Akron Racers, Florida Wahoos, Ohio Pride and Tampa Bay FireStix each participated in the WPSL regular season. The Florida Wahoos defeated the Ohio Pride in the championship series held in Springfield, Mo. The 2001 “Tour of Fastpitch Champions” al-lowed the WPSL to focus on expansion. The WPSL expansion plan took into consideration the need to re-shape the current structure of the league to accommodate the addition of important strategic partners vital to future growth and success of the League. The 2001 tour traveled to 11 cities that were targeted as WPSL expansion candidates. Competi-

tion featured games between the WPSL Gold and All-Star teams as well as Canada, the USA National Teams and local all-star teams. Nine of these games were televised, seven on ESPN2 and two “live” on ESPN, a first for the WPSL. The season was deemed a success with more than three million households witnessing a WPSL game. Numerous cities are also being developed for future ownership in the league. The “Deuce” televised over 30 games from 1999 to 2001. The broadcasts consistently out-rated those of Major League Soccer (MLS) and the National Hockey League (NHL).

Play was suspended during the 2002 season to restructure the organization and allow the

league additional time to develop and explore new expansion markets. However, a WPSL All-Star team competed in two exhibition games against the Tennessee All-Stars as part of the National Soft-ball Association’s A division Eastern World Series in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The WPSL All-Stars also conducted two clinics as part of the weekend ac-tivities. On Nov. 21, 2002, WPSL announced a re-branding strategy and official name change to National Pro Fastpitch. Major League Baseball part-nered with NPF as its Official Development partner as a continuation of MLB’s efforts to connect with female athletes and women. As “Official Development Partner” in 2003, Major League Baseball provided introductions to Major League Baseball Clubs, community partners, broadcast partners and to MLB.com. This landmark relationship is sure to elevate NPF to new levels. As part of its long-term sales, marketing and promotional campaign, NPF featured an All-Star Tour in 2003. The tour provided each of the league’s expansion team owners with tools to lay the groundwork in their marketplace for the official launch of league play in 2004.

In 2004, all the hard work and planning paid off for fans, athletes, coaches and league officials with

the relaunch of the league in six markets: Stockton, California; Tucson, Arizona; Houston, Texas; Akron, Ohio; Lowell, Massachusetts; Montclair, New Jer-sey. The 2004 season was distinguished by 178 league-wide games, 96 of the best female softball players in the country, the continued support of Major League Baseball as the Official Development Partner of NPF in the category of women’s fastpitch softball, NPF playoffs (both best of three series went three games) and the inaugural NPF Cham-pionship with the NY/NJ Juggernaut capturing the Championship Cowles Cup with a victory over the New England Riptide, fourth place finisher in the regular season. In December 2004, owners of the individual NPF teams announced a plan intended to transi-tion operations of NPF from the founding Cowles family to an operating group consisting of team owners.

The efforts of the new ownership group in 2005 focused on solidifying broadcast agreements lo-

cally and nationally, soliciting sponsorship support, and aligning with national softball associations to bring meaningful competition to each team mar-ket and various grassroots events across the coun-try. The group continues to recruit new teams and strengthen team ownership in each market. The 2005 regular season included a total of 144 games and 23 opponents including six NPF teams, plus women’s ASA major teams and interna-

hiSToRiCal RoSTeRoF aggieS in The

pRoFeSSional league

Beth gerken .......................Tampa Bay FireStix, 1997 Georgia Pride, 1998

Kim gonzalez .....................Tampa Bay FireStix, 1997

Jennifer McFalls ................WPSL Gold, 2001

liz Mizera .............................Orlando Wahoos, 1997 1997 WPF Champions; WPF Hitter of the Year Durham Dragons, 1998

gina perez ............................Tampa Bay FireStix, 1997-99 1999 WPSL Champions; 2All-Star

Kendall Richards ...............Georgia Pride, 1999 Florida Wahoos, 2000 2000 WPSL Champions; All-Star WPSL All-Stars, 2001

dawn Wuthrich ..................Tampa Bay FireStix, 1997 Virginia Roadsters, 1998 Carolina Diamonds, 1999 Florida Wahoos, 2000 2000 WPSL Champions

Selena Collins .....................Texas Thunder, 2004 Chicago Bandits, 2005-06

adrian gregory .................Texas Thunder, 2005-06

nicole Robinson ................Texas Thunder, 2005

Rocky Spencer ...................Texas Thunder, 2006 Philadelphia Force, 2007-08

Sharonda Mcdonald .......Philadelphia Force, 2007-08

Megan gibson ...................Philadelphia Force, 2009- 1st Year

Jami lobpries .....................Philadelphia Force, 2009- 1st Year

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tional teams such as Canada, Mexico, Russia, Ven-ezuela, China and Australia. The season concluded the last weekend in August when the Akron Rac-ers beat the Chicago Bandits 5-4 in extra innings to claim the NPF Championship Title. The Juggernaut joined forces with Telecare to broadcast six games in 2005. Telecare reaches almost a million homes in the Long Island area. Comcast SportsNet Chicago aired seven original broadcasts of Chicago Bandits games in 2005. ESPN2 aired two games during the NPF Champion-ship series. The final game was broadcast on ESPN2 with a very impressive .48 rating.

In 2006, the Philadelphia Force and the Connecti-cut Brakettes joined the 2005 Defending Cham-

pions, the Akron Racers, the 2005 Regular Season Champions, the Chicago Bandits, the New England Riptide, the Arizona Heat and the Texas Thunder for league play. The schedule included a 48-game regular season schedule for each of the seven NPF teams including seven, four-game home series and five, four-game road series. The New England Riptide beat the Connecticut Brakettes to win the NPF Championship title at the end of August with a score of 2-0. The Chicago Bandits were once again the regular season champions. The Philadelphia Force partnered with TV2 Sports, which was broadcast by Service Electric to air 14 games during the 2006 season. TV2 Sports reaches 750,000 households in both the Lehigh Val-ley of Pennsylvania and parts of North/West Jersey. Five New England Riptide games were broadcast on Fox Sports Net New England which reaches five million homes all over New England and Comcast SportsNet Chicago once again broadcast select Bandit games. Additionally, five games were na-tionally televised on ESPN/ESPN2 during the 2006 season.

The 2007 season included six teams competing in a total of 132 regular season games, includ-

ing games against Team China, Venezuela, Denso Japan Pro Team, plus the Michigan Ice and Stratford Brakettes. The season concluded the last weekend in August when the league’s newest team, the Washington Glory took home the NPF Champion-ship Title and the coveted Cowles Cup by beating the Rockford Thunder 3-1. The Championship Se-ries was hosted by Cardinal Youth Softball in Kim-berly, Wis. Glory and Team USA pitcher Monica Ab-bott picked up the win for Washington. She pitched the first five innings and didn’t allow a run to the

Thunder. The win was her second of the weekend over Rockford, the first being a no-hitter. With her efforts, Abbott was named the NPF Championship Series Most Valuable Player.

The 2008 season included six teams competing in a total of 168 regular season games, includ-

ing games against Chinese Taipei, Canada, Venezu-ela and the Netherlands. In late May, NPF secured a partnership with Fox SportsNet (FSN) to nationally televise eleven games on a tape-delayed basis to fans across the country (seven from Akron and four from Philadelphia). Having the “Game of the Week” was a big step forward for NPF and brought our world-class athletes into the living room of many new fans with an average rating of .07 or 60,000+ viewers on a weekly basis, despite a mid-week af-ternoon timeslot. A group of players were selected from each team to join forces as “Team NPF” to com-pete twice against the U.S. Olympic Softball Team as part of their Bound-4-Beijing Tour. Both games were televised on ESPN and even though these were USA Softball broadcasts, our equipment and apparel sponsors received valuable exposure, NPF

AGGIES ON CURRENTNPF TEAMS

Megan gibson .............2009-1st yearJami lobpries ...............2009-1st year

was covered in a very positive light and our athletes were promoted to a national audience by the World Wide Leader in Sports. The season concluded the last weekend in August when the fantastic journey for the Chicago Bandits came to a magical end in Kimberly, Wis. as they defeated the Washington Glory by a final score of 6-4 to win the 2008 NPF Championship Series and Cowles Cup Trophy. Games 1-6 were broad-cast via internet radio and Gametracker with video streaming available on a tape-delayed basis at The Softball Channel.com. The final game was also pro-duced by The Softball Channel.com and available to viewers live at MLB.com.

Although NPF continues expansion efforts, at this time, six teams will compete in 2009. NPF

is exploring opportunities to bring the USA Softball Team to each ballpark as part of its post-Olympic tour and as an added competitive element to the season schedule. Team owners will once again add to the star-power of their rosters by bringing Olympians on board. NPF remains committed to building a national television schedule and finding solid partners with whom it shares a common audi-ence attraction and reachability. TV and live video streaming will provide consistent and measurable return for our sponsors. NPF knows how important it is to support grassroots softball. The task is to utilize national marketing and media campaigns to generate national and local awareness not just for NPF, but for the sport of softball at all levels, to help develop grassroots programs, continue to in-troduce young female athletes to the sport and at the same time, provide elite female athletes with opportunities to showcase their skills, talents and abilities on the playing field and in the community.

NPF is dedicated to working with partners who will commit to the effort of promoting NPF and

supporting professional fastpitch softball in the United States and continues to develop and build working relationships with key fastpitch organiza-tions, including the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) and National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA).

The development partnership with Major League Baseball, the broadcast support of local and na-

tional networks, the support of industry sponsors, the experience and commitment of team owners and the exceptional talent of NPF athletes and coaches combine and point toward a future that is bright and full of promise.

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TexaS a&m HOnORS and awaRdSolyMpianS

2000Olympic Games

Sydney, AustraliaJennifer McFalls .............USA, gold medalist

1996Olympic GamesAtlanta, Georgia

Jennifer McFalls ...................... USA, alternate

iSF WoMen’S WoRld ChaMpionShip

1998Fujinomiya, Japan

Jennifer McFalls .............USA, gold medalist

iSF JunioR giRlS’ WoRld ChaMpionShip

1985Fargo, North Dakota

Liz Mizera .................... USA, bronze medalistZina Ochoa................. USA, bronze medalist

1987Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Julie Smith .......................USA, gold medalist

pan aMeRiCan gaMeS

1983 Caracas, Venezuela

Shan McDonald ...... Canada, gold medalistLori Stoll ..........................USA, silver medalist

1987 Catherine Stedman ......USA, gold medalist

Indianapolis, IndianaJosie Carter .....................USA, gold medalistLiz Mizera .........................USA, gold medalist

1999Winnipeg, Canada

Jennifer McFalls .............USA, gold medalist

u.S. olyMpiC FeSTival

1987 North Carolina

Liz Mizera .................South, bronze medalistJulie Smith ...............South, bronze medalist

1994 St. Louis, Missouri

Jennifer McFalls .....South, bronze medalist

1995 Denver, Colorado

Jennifer McFalls ............East, silver medalist

BRodeRiCK SpoRTS aWaRd SoFTBall

Lori Stoll .................................................1982-83

all-aMeRiCanS

Lori Stoll ............................... 1980, ’81, ’82, ’83Karen Guerrero ..........................................1982Shawn Andaya .....................1984,* ’85,* ’87Josie Carter .........................................1984, ’85Cindy Cooper ......................1984,* ’85,* ’86Gay McNutt .................................................1985Judy Trussell ...............................................1985Liz Mizera .............................................1987, ’88Julie Smith ...................................................1987Missi Young ...............................................1991*Jennifer McFalls .........................................1993Erin Field ................................................... 1996^Kendall Richards ......................................1996Selena Collins .......................................... 2002^Jessica Kapchinski ................................. 2004^Amanda Scarborough ....................2005, ’07Megan Gibson ....................... 2005,* ’07, ‘08Jamie Hinshaw ....................................... 2008^

all-Region

Carrie Austgen .......................... 1981, ’82, ’83Karen Guerrero ..................................1981, ’82Maria Resendez .................................1981, ’82Melody Pritchard ......................................1981Lori Stoll ....................................... 1981, ’82, ’83Nancy Sullivan ..........................................1981Pattie Holthaus .......................... 1982, ’83, ’84Gay McNutt ......................... 1982, ’83, ’84, ’85Mary Lou Wargo-Youngblood ..............1982Iva Jackson ..................................................1983Shawn Andaya ................... 1984, ’85, ’86, ’87Josie Carter .........................................1984, ’85Cindy Cooper ............................. 1984, ’85, ’86Mary Schwind .......................... 1984, ’85, ’86*

Judy Trussell ............................1985, ’86,* ’87Liz Mizera .................................1986,* ’87, ’88Renee Blaha ...............................................1987Julie Smith ...................................................1987Julie Carpenter ..........................................1988Erin Newkirk ...............................................1988Carrie Heightley ............................1988,* ’89*Michelle Mayfield .....................................1990Dana Mitchell ...........................................1990*Chris Wilfong ............................................1990*Missi Young .........................................1990, ’91Jennifer McFalls ....................... 1992,* ’93, ’94Stephanie Schulte ....................................1992Dawn Wuthrich .........................................1992

Sharla Cannon ...........................................1993Kim Gonzalez ...................................1993,* ’94K.K. Kalhoefer .............................................1993Beth Gerken ................................................1994Merry Mapp ................................................1994Erin Field ..............................................1995, ’96Kendall Richards ...............................1995, ’96Mya Truelove ..............................................1995Ashley Lewis .............................................1998*Lisa Klam ....................................................1999*Selena Collins ........................... 2000,* ’02, ’03Angie Long ................................................2000Kelly Ferguson .........................................2001*Hollee Hayden .........................................2001*Crystal Martin ..........................................2001*Adrian Gregory ................................2003,* ’04Lindsay Wilhelmson ...............................2003*Jessica Kapchinski ....................................2004Sharonda McDonald ............2004, ’05,* ’07Megan Gibson ................ 2005, ’06,* ’07, ‘08Amanda Scarborough .....................2005, 07Jamie Hinshaw ...............................2006*, 08*

TaiaW playeR oF The yeaR

Lori Stoll .......................................................1980Lisa Martinez .............................................1981

nSCa all-aMeRiCan aThleTe

Tanya Klecker .............................................1998Lisa Klam ......................................................1999Hollee Hayden ...................................2000, ’01Megan Gibson ...........................................2008

nCaa all-Regional TeaM

Jamie Smith ................................................1999Selena Collins .............................................2002Cheryl Fowler .............................................2002Adrian Gregory ..........................................2002Crystal Martin ............................................2003Jana James ..........................................2003, ’04Lindsay Wilhelmson .................................2003

Olympic gold medalist and All-American Jennifer McFalls (left) and three-time All-American Shawn Andaya (right)

Four-time All-American Lori Stoll

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aCadeMiC all-aMeRiCan

Tiffany Ohnstad ........................................1984Amanda Scarborough ..........................2007*

aCadeMiC all-Big 12

F i R S T T e a MDanielle Lemuth ........................... 1997, 2000Amanda Whalen .......................................1998Tammy Donnell .........................................1999Tiffany Esters ......................................2000, ’01Rachel Lewis ...............................................2000Angie Long .................................................2000Susanna Reed ............................................2000Adrian Gregory .............................. 2004, 2005Jill Weynand ...............................................2004Lindsay Park ................................................2004Rocky Spencer ...................................2005, ’06Joy Davis ..............................................2006, ’07Amanda Scarborough ............ 2005, ’06, ’07Lisa Gorzycki ..............................................2006Jami Lobpries ............................. 2006, ’07, ‘08Christina Smith ..........................................2007Holly Ridley .................................................2008

S e Co n d T e a MJoy Davis ......................................................2005Nicole Robinson ........................................2004Rocky Spencer ...........................................2004Lindsay Park ................................................2005Lisa Gorzycki ..............................................2007Amanda Scarborough ............................2008Bailey Schroeder .......................................2008

h o n o R a B l e M e n T i o nKamie Johnson ..........................................1997Amy Schmaltz ............................................1997Trina Solesbee ...........................................1997Tiffany Esters ..............................................1999Angie Shetler .............................................2000Crystal Martin ............................................2001

* Denotes second-team selection^ Denotes third-team selection

College WoRld SeRieS all-TouRnaMenT

Lori Stoll ...............................................1980, ’83Cindy Cooper .............................................1983Pattie Holthaus ..........................................1983Iva Jackson ..................................................1983Gay McNutt .........................................1983, ’84Shawn Andaya ........................... 1984, ’86, ’87Josie Carter .................................................1984Cindy Cooper .............................................1986Liz Mizera .............................................1986, ’87Judy Trussell ...............................................1986Julie Smith ...................................................1987Megan Gibson ...........................................2008Jamie Hinshaw ....................................... 2008^

Big 12 playeR oF The yeaR

Kendall Richards (Co) ..............................1996Selena Collins .............................................2002Jessica Kapchinski ....................................2004Amanda Scarborough ............................2005Megan Gibson ...........................................2008

Big 12 piTCheR oF The yeaR

Megan Gibson ...........................................2008

Big 12 all-ConFeRenCe

F i R S T T e a MErin Field .................................................. P, 1996Kendall Richards ...................................S, 1996Ashley Lewis ........................................UT, 1998Selena Collins ........................ C, 2000, ’02, ’03Hollee Hayden ....................................OF, 2001Lindsay Wilhelmson ............................. P, 2002Kristin Gunter ......................................1B, 2003Crystal Martin ..................................... SS, 2003Jessica Kapchinski ....................................2004Adrian Gregory ..........................................2004Sharonda McDonald ............... 2004, ’05, ’07

Megan Gibson ........................... 2005, ’07, ‘08Jana James ..................................................2005Amanda Scarborough ............ 2005, ’06, ’07Rocky Spencer ...........................................2005Jamie Hinshaw .................................. 2006, ‘08Jami Lobpries .............................................2008Alex Reynolds ............................................2008Holly Ridley .................................................2008

S e Co n d T e a MLori Gioco ................................................ P, 1997Gina Perez ............................................OF, 1997Jamie Smith ......................................... SS, 1997Stephanie Trumbull ..........................UT, 1998Tammy Donnell ..................................OF, 1999Tiffany Esters .......................................OF, 1999Lisa Klam ...................................UT, 1999, 2001Amy Vining .............................................. P, 1999Angie Long ..........................................1B, 2000Jessica Slataper ......................... P, 2001, 2002Kelly Ferguson ....................................1B, 2002Lindsay Wilhelmson ..........................DP, 2003Jana James ...........................................OF, 2003Adrian Gregory ...................................2B, 2003Jana James ..................................................2004Rocky Spencer ...................................2004, ’06Nicole Robinson ........................................2004Jamie Hinshaw ..................................2005, ’07Lindsay Park ................................................2005Megan Gibson ...........................................2006Sharonda McDonald ...............................2006Natalie Villarreal ........................................2008

h o n o R a B l e M e n T i o nHeather Hayden .................................OF, 1996Gina Perez ............................................OF, 1996Mya Truelove .......................................1B, 1996Machelle Weldon ...............................OF, 1996

Big 12 ChaMpionShip all-TouRnaMenT

Trina Solesbee ...........................................1997Selena Collins .............................................2000Angie Shetler ............................................2000Cheryl Fowler .............................................2002

Sharonda McDonald ...............................2004Megan Gibson ..................................2005, ’06, ’08 (Most Outstanding Player)Jami Lobpries .............................................2006Jamie Hinshaw .................................. 2007, ‘08Erin Glasco ..................................................2008Holly Ridley .................................................2008

Big 12 piTCheR oF The WeeK

Erin Field ................................. March 12, 1996 May 6, 1996Lori Gioco .................................. April 25, 1997 Amy Vining ................................March 3, 1999 March 10, 1999 March 30, 1999 May 9, 2000 February 27, 2001 March 20, 2001Jessica Slataper .......................March 5, 2001 April 9, 2002 April 13, 2004 April 27, 2004Amanda Scarborough .....February 8, 2005 March 29, 2005 February 13, 2007 April 24, 2007Jill Weynand .............................March 8, 2005Megan Gibson ................. February 27, 2007 February 18, 2008 March 4, 2008 March 10, 2008 March 26, 2008 April 1, 2008 April 15, 2008

Big 12 playeR oF The WeeK

Kendall Richards .....................March 5, 1996 April 2, 1996 May 6, 1996Tiffany Esters ......................... March 10, 1998 March 23, 1999Lisa Klam ....................................March 3, 1999Selena Collins ........................ March 21, 2000 April 2, 2002Kelly Ferguson ......................... April 10, 2001Crystal Martin ....................... March 25, 2003 April 22, 2003Lindsay Wilhelmson ...............March 5, 2003Adrian Gregory ...........................April 8, 2003 March 22, 2005Megan Gibson ................. February 13, 2007 March 6, 2007Alex Reynolds .......................... April 17, 2007Jamie Hinshaw ...........................April 8, 2008Jami Lobpries ........................... April 15, 2008

TexaS a&M FeMale aThleTe oF The yeaR

Jennifer McFalls .........................................1994Amanda Scarborough ............................2005

TexaS a&M SoFTBall playeR oF The yeaR

1979 ...............................................Cindy Gough1980 ............................................... Ronda Reese1981 ....................................................... Lori Stoll1982 .......................................... Karen Guerrero Shan McDonald1983 ....................................................... Lori Stoll1984 .......................................... Pattie Holthaus1985 ................................................. Gay McNutt1986 ..............................................Cindy Cooper1987 ........................................... Shawn Andaya Judy Trussell

1988 ...........................................Julie Carpenter Liz Mizera1989 .........................................Carrie Heightley Erin Newkirk Tory Parks1990 ................................................. Missi Young1991 ................................................. Missi Young1992 ......................................... Jennifer McFalls1993 ..............................................Kim Gonzalez Jennifer McFalls1994 ..............................................Kim Gonzalez Jennifer McFalls1995 .......................................................Erin Field Kendall Richards1996 .......................................................Erin Field Kendall Richards1997 .....................................................Lori Gioco1998 ...............................................................none1999 ...................................................... Lisa Klam Amy Vining2000 ............................................. Selena Collins2001 ............................................Kelly Ferguson2002 ............................................. Selena Collins2003 .............................................Crystal Martin2004 ................................... Jessica Kapchinski2005 ............................ Amanda Scarborough2006 ........................................... Megan Gibson2007 ........................................... Megan Gibson Amanda Scarborough2008 ............................................Megan Gibson

Two-time All-American and Academic All-American Amanda Scarborough

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* Alford, Michele .....................................’77 **** Andaya, Shawn ............’84, ’85, ’86, ’87 * Anderson, Donna ................................’93 * Anderson, Robin ..................................’76 Andrews, Linda ....................................’75 ** Athanacio, Karen .........................’85, ’86 **** Atkins, Sherah ............... ’01, ’02, ’03, ‘04 **** Austgen, Carrie ............’80, ’81, ’82, ’83 * Awalt, Ashley ........................................’03

B * Barrack, Jordana ..................................’99 * Batker, Erika ...........................................’93 * Beightol, Julie .......................................’95 *** Bellamy, Kim ..................’75, ’76, ’77, ’78 Berrier, Debbie .....................................’74 * Biggs, Kelli ..............................................’87 Blackwood, Liz ......................................’74 **** Blaha, Renee ..................’87, ’88, ’89, ’90 * Boswell, Cathy ..............................’75, ’77 Brown, Debrah .................................... ’74 Brown, Karen .........................................’85 Brown, Sandra ......................................’78 ** Brown, Shirley ...............................’77, ’78 * Brundrett, Shannon ............................’76 Brunson, Donna ...................................’78 * Bunting, Christy ...........................’94, ’95 * Burns, Kelly ............................................’93

C * Cady, Jessi ..............................................’96 **** Cannon, Sharla .............’90, ’91, ’92, ’93 *** Carpenter, Julie ....................’86, ’87, ’88 **** Carter, Josie ...................’82, ’83, ’84, ’85 * Cockrell, Nikki .......................................’95 **** Collins, Selena .............. ’00, ’01, ’02, ‘03 **** Cooper, Cindy ............... ’83, ’84, ’85, ’86 Cotton, T.K. ............................................ ’91 * Coulter, Amy .........................................’93 **** Crainer-Lucas, Stacey .’88, ’89, ’90, ’91

d Darce, Becky ..........................................’78 **** Davis, Jennifer .............. ’00, ’01, ’02, ‘03 **** Davis, Joy ........................’04, ’05, ’06, ’07 * Demchuk, Tammie ..............................’92 Donaghey, Betsy ..........................’77, ’78 * Donnell, Tammy .................................. ’99 Doss, Didi ...............................................’91 ** Downing, Summer ......................’93, ’94 ** Durham, Laura .............................’04, ’05

e **** Eriksson, Erika ...............’87, ’88, ’89, ’90 **** Esters, Tiffany ................’98, ’99, ’00, ’01 ** Evans, Sami ............................’75, ’78, ’79

F *** Ferguson, Kelly .....................’00, ’01, ’02 ** Fickey, LaRita .........................’74, ’75, ’76 ** Field, Erin ........................................’95, ’96 **** Foster, Cindy .................’83, ’84, ’85, ’86 **** Fowler, Cheryl .................’00, ’01, ’02, 03 Friudenberg, Roshele .........................’82

g ** Gerken, Beth .................................’94, ’95 ** Gegen, Mandy .............................. ’07, ‘08 **** Gibson, Megan ............. ’05, ’06, ’07, ‘08 ** Gilley, Shannon ............................’95, ’96 ** Gioco, Lori ......................................’96, ’97 * glasco, erin ................................. ’08 * Glover, Ashley .......................................’92

** Gonzalez, Kim ...............................’93, ’94 * Gothard, Diane .....................................’76 **** Gorzycki, Lisa ................’04, ’05, ’06, ’07 **** Gough, Cindy ................’76, ’77, ’78, ’79 **** Gregory, Adrian ............’02, ’03, ’04, ’05 *** Guerrero, Karen ............’79, ’80, ’81, ’82 Gumm, Teresa .......................................’82 * Guthrie, Belinda ...................................’76 * Gunter, Kristen ............................ ’03, ’04

h *** Hadley, Ann ...........................’83, ’84, ’85 *** Halbert, Rhonda ..................’88, ’91, ’92 * Hartman, Becky........................... ’76, ’77 **** Hayden, Heather.......... ’94, ’95, ’96, ’97 *** Hayden, Hollee .....................’99, ’00, ’01 **** Hebert, Morgan ........... ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05 **** Heightley, Carrie .......... ’86, ’87, ’88, ’89 * Herd, Sharon .........................................’89 **** Hinshaw, Jamie ............ ’05, ’06, ’07, ‘08 **** Holthaus, Pattie ............ ’81, ’82, ’83, ’84 ** Hopper, Adrienne ........................’01, ’02 Howell, Teresa .......................................’94 * Hughes, Angie ......................................’90 ** Hymel, Toni ....................’76, ’77, ’78, ’79

J **** Jackson, Iva ....................’82, ’83, ’84, ’85 **** James, Jana ....................’02, ’03, ’04, ’05 ** Johnson, Kamie ............................’96, ’97

K **** Kajs, Barbara .................. ’88, ’89, ’90, ’91 **** Kalhoefer, K.K. ...............’90, ’91, ’92, ’93 **** Kapchinski, Jessica (Slataper) .......’01, ’02, ’03, ‘04 Karcher, Connie ....................................’74 Kemp, Annette .....................................’77 ** Kemp, Natasha .............................’95, ’96 **** Klam, Lisa .......................’99, ’00, ’01, ’02 **** Klecker, Tanya ...............’95, ’96, ’97, ’98 * Kliesing, Rhiannon .................... ’08 Kraus, Vicky ............................................’81

l *** Lancaster, Linda ...................’82, ’83, ’84 ** Lawler, Amy .................................. ’98, ’99 **** Lemuth, Danielle .........’97, ’98, ’99, ’00 * Lewis, Ashley .........................................’98 *** Lewis, Rachel .................’98, ’99, ’00, ’01 **** Long, Angie ...................’97, ’98, ’99, ’00 ** Lopez, Yvette................................ ’84, ’85 **** Lobpries, Jami ............... ’05, ’06, ’07, ‘08

M * Mach, Irene ............................................’80 Mallory, Dawn ......................................’91 ** Mapp, Merry ..................................’94, ’95 * Markham, Krista ...................................’93 ** Markowsky, Vicki .................’75, ’77, ’79 *** Martin, Crystal ..............’00, ’01, ’02, ’03 ** Martinez, Heather .......................’99, ’00 Martinez, Lisa ........................................’82 **** Mayfield, Michelle .......’89, ’90, ’91, ’92 * Melancon, Emmy .................................’97 **** McDonald, Shan ..........’80, ’81, ’82, ’83 **** McDonald, Sharonda .’04, ’05, ’06, ’07 **** McFalls, Jennifer ..........’91, ’92, ’93, ’94 **** McGuire, Marianne .....’95, ’96, ’97, ’98 * McMullen, Julie ....................................’98 **** McNutt, Gay ..................’82, ’83, ’84, ’85 * McSpadden, Michel ............................’89 McSweeney, Patty ...............................’76 Meseck, Jane .........................................’83 **** Mitchell, Dana ..............’89, ’90, ’91, ’92 **** Mizera, Liz ......................’85, ’86, ’87, ’88 *** Mock, Mary ....................’75, ’76, ’77, ’78

** Morrow, Macie .................... ’07, ‘08 * Mortensen, Jennifer ...........................’92 ** Motal, Glorian ...............................’79, ’80 Moulton, Pam .......................................’74 * Munger, Shannon ...............................’90 **** Murray, Shannon .........’79, ’80, ’81, ’82

n **** Newkirk, Erin .................’86, ’87, ’88, ’89 * Nichols, JoAnn ......................................’78

o ** Oakley, Robin ................’74, ’75, ’76, ’77 **** Ochoa, Zina ...................’85, ’86, ’87, ’88 ** Ohnstad, Tiffany ...................’83, ’84, ’85

p Padgett, Jessie ......................................’80 *** Park, Lindsay .................’03, ’04, ’05, ’06 **** Parks, Tory ......................’86, ’87, ’88, ’89 * Patton, Laura .........................................’94 **** Perez, Gina .....................’94, ’95, ’96, ’97 * Peterson, Paige ............................’83, ’84 * Portier, Toni ....................................’78, ’79 *** Pritchard, Melody ................’80, ’81, ’82

Q * Quitta, Diane .................................’75, ’76

R * Rasch, Stephanie .................................’96 Rau, Kara .................................... ’08 **** Reed, Susanna ..............’97, ’98, ’99, ’00 **** Reese, Rhonda ..............’78, ’79, ’80, ’81 * Renner, Krissy....................................... ’99 *** Resendez, Maria ...................’80, ’81, ’82 ** Reynolds, alex .................... ’07, ‘08 ** Richards, Kendall .........................’95, ’96 *** Ridley, holly ................. ’06, ’07, ‘08 **** Rippee, Lindsey ............’00, ’01, ’02, ’03 **** Ripple, Lauren ..............’99, ’00, ’01, ’02 ** Robertson, Karen .........................’87, ’88 **** Robinson, Nicole .........’02, ’03, ’04, ’05 Roland, Ludie ....................................... ’84 **** Rollman, Debbie ..........’83, ’84, ’85, ’86 ** Rowan, Beverly .....................’05, ’06, ’07 **** Ruffino, Rose ................. ’81, ’82, ’83, ’84

S * Sandvik, Terri .................’74, ’75, ’77, ’78 Savage, Sarah ...............................’74, ’75 **** Scarborough, Amanda ... ’05, ’06, ’07, ‘08 **** Schmaltz, Amy .............. ’95, ’96, ’97, ’98 ** Schroeder, Bailey ................ ’07, ‘08 *** Schulte, Stephanie ......’89, ’90, ’91, ’92 **** Schwind, Mary ..............’83, ’84, ’85, ’86 *** Segal, Stacey .........................’90, ’92, ’93 * Shadow, Emily ......................................’07 ** Shea, Rita ....................................... ’85, ’86 * Shelton, Sarah ......................................’80 ** Shetler, Angie .............................. ’00, ’01

Shivner, Julie ........................................ ’79 * Smith, Christina ...........’04, ’05, ’06, ’07 **** Smith, Jamie .................. ’97, ’98, ’99, ’00 ** Smith, Julie ....................................’87, ’88 * Smith, Ronda ................................’06, ’07 ** Smitherman, Stephanie ............’93, ’94 *** Solesbee, Trina ..................... ’96, ’97, ’98 **** Spencer, Rocky .............’03, ’04, ’05, ’06 * Spittler, Kelsey ............................ ’08 Stabler, Susan .......................................’75 * Stedman, Catherine ...........................’88 Stoewer, Terri ........................................’80 **** Stoll, Lori .........................’80, ’81, ’82, ’83 * Stout, Sara ..............................................’94 **** Sullivan, Nancy .............’78, ’79, ’80, ’81 ** Szymczak, Tara ............................ ’85, ’86

T * Takacs, Deborah ..................................’79 ** Test, Kristine ................................. ’06, ’07 Thiessen, Dana .....................................’79 ** Toney, Shelley ...............................’93, ’94 * Tovar, andrea ............................. ’08 **** Truelove, Mya ................ ’94, ’95, ’96, 97 *** Trumbull, Stephanie ...........’98, ’99, ’00 **** Trussell, Judy .................’84, ’85, ’86, ’87 ** Tuck, Barbi .....................................’93, ’94 ** Tucker, Kami ...................................’96, 97 * Turnbow, Heather ...............................’93 ** Turner, Kim ....................................’96, ’97

v * villarreal, natalie ....................... ’08 **** Vining, Amy ...................’98, ’99, ’00, ’01

W *** Wargo-Youngblood, Mary Lou .......’79, ’80, ’81, ’82 ** Weikel, Kara ...................................’00, ’01 ** Weldon, Machelle .......................’95, ’96 * Wells, Jenifer .........................................’93 *** Weynand, Jill .........................’03, ’04, ’05 ** Whalen, Amanda .........................’98, ’99 * Whigham, Pam .....................................’81 Whitely, Ruth .........................................’75 * Wilcox, Kassie ........................................’94 * Wilfong, Chris ...............................’90, ’92 **** Wilhelmson, Lindsay ..’01, ’02, ’03, ’04 Williamson, Janice .......................’76, ’77 * Williamson, Sharon .............................’77 ** Wunderlich, Patti .........................’06, ’07 **** Wuthrich, Dawn ........... ’90, ’91, ’92, ’93

y ** Young, Missi ..........................’90, ’91, ’92

Z *** Zemanek, Liz .........’75, ’76, ’77, ’78, ’79

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1. 254 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 2. 251 Gay McNutt ...................... 1982-85 3. 249 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 4. 248 Gina Perez ......................... 1994-97 5. 244 Michelle Mayfield ........... 1989-92 6. 242 Barbara Kajs ...................... 1988-91 7. 241 Judy Trussell ..................... 1984-87 8. 239 K.K. Kalhoefer................... 1990-93 9. 238 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 10. 237 Dawn Wuthrich ............... 1990-93 237 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08

aT B aTS 1. 787 Pattie Holthaus ................ 1981-84 2. 773 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 3. 747 Judy Trussell ..................... 1984-87 747 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 5. 739 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 6. 737 Sharonda McDonald ..... 2004-07 7. 736 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 8. 720 Carrie Austgen.............. *1981-83 720 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 10. 714 Dawn Wuthrich ............... 1990-93

R u n S 1. 195 Sharonda McDonald ..... 2004-07 2. 178 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 3. 168 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 4. 147 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 5. 137 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 6. 130 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05 7. 121 Judy Trussell ..................... 1984-87 121 Dawn Wuthrich ............... 1990-93 9. 119 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 10. 105 Pattie Holthaus ................ 1981-84

h i TS 1. 279 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 2. 249 Sharonda McDonald ..... 2004-07 3. 235 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 4. 233 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 5. 228 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 6. 225 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 7. 213 Dawn Wuthrich ............... 1990-93 213 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 9. 211 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 10. 208 Pattie Holthaus ................ 1981-84

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1. .422 Kendall Richards ............. 1995-96 2. .379 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 3. .364 Julie Smith ........................ 1987-88 4. .361 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 5. .355 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 6. .338 Sharonda McDonald ..... 2004-07 7. .336 Erin Field ............................ 1995-96 8. .331 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 9. .315 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 .315 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08

R u n S B aT T e d i n 1. 183 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 2. 141 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03 3. 139 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 4. 131 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 5. 130 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 6. 126 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 7. 125 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 8. 117 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05 9. 113 Sharla Cannon ................. 1990-93 10. 106 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 106 Jana James ........................ 2002-04

d o u B l e S 1. 48 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 48 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 3. 47 Jana James ........................ 2002-05 4. 46 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 5. 42 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 6. 40 Sharla Cannon ................. 1990-93 40 Tiffany Esters .................... 1998-01 8. 39 Kendall Richards ............. 1995-96 39 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 10. 36 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03

T R i p l e S 1. 28 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 2. 24 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 3. 14 Pattie Holthaus ................ 1981-84 4. 13 Iva Jackson ........................ 1982-85 5. 12 Stephanie Schulte .......... 1989-92 6. 11 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 11 Dawn Wuthrich ............... 1990-93 8. 10 Mel Pritchard.................. *1981-82 9. 8 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 8 K.K. Kalhoefer................... 1990-93 8 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 8 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05

h o M e R u n S 1. 56 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 2. 39 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03 3. 34 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 4. 29 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05 5. 28 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 6. 25 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 7. 20 Lindsay Wilhelmson ...... 2001-04 8. 17 Kendall Richards ............. 1995-96 9. 16 Crystal Martin .................. 2000-03 16 holly Ridley .......2006-present

ToTa l B a S e S 1. 447 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 2. 408 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 3. 358 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 4. 339 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03 5. 333 Lisa Klam ........................... 2000-02 6. 331 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 7. 330 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05 8. 325 Josie Carter ....................... 1982-85 9. 310 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 10. 305 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97

S lu g g i n g p e R C e n Tag e 1. .717 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 2. .687 Kendall Richards ............. 1995-96 3. .608 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 4. .571 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03

5. .562 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 6. .554 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 7. .553 Erin Field ............................ 1995-96 8. .505 Jana James ........................ 2002-05 9. .486 Kelly Ferguson ................. 2000-02 10. .476 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05

S To l e n B a S e S 1. 153 Sharonda McDonald ..... 2004-07 2. 83 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 3. 82 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 4. 63 Joy Davis ............................ 2004-07 5. 56 Jana James ........................ 2002-05 6. 53 Hollee Hayden ................. 1999-01 7. 50 Tiffany Esters .................... 1998-01 8. 47 Tanya Klecker ................... 1995-98 9. 45 Judy Trussell ..................... 1984-87 45 Carrie Austgen............... *1981-83

Wa l K S 1. 172 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 2. 98 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03 3. 91 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 4. 86 K.K. Kalhoefer................... 1990-93 5. 82 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 6. 77 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 7. 75 Sharla Cannon ................. 1990-93 8. 71 Lindsay Wilhelmson ...... 2001-04 9. 66 Jana James ........................ 2002-05 10. 64 Rocky Spencer ................. 2003-06 64 Jami Lobpries................... 2005-08

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1. 154 Lindsay Wilhelmson .... 2001-04 2. 111 Sharonda McDonald ..... 2004-07 3. 108 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 4. 103 Adrian Gregory ............... 2002-05 5. 102 Crystal Martin .................. 2000-03 6. 99 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 7. 98 Sharla Cannon ................. 1990-93 8. 94 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03 94 Jamie Smith ...................... 1997-00 10. 92 Jana James ........................ 2002-05

p u To u T S 1. 1896 Gay McNutt ...................... 1982-85 2. 1849 Mya Truelove .................... 1994-97 3. 1541 Mary Schwind .................. 1983-86 4. 1382 Carrie Heightley .............. 1986-89 5. 1154 Selena Collins .................. 2000-03 6. 1039 Sharla Cannon ................. 1990-93 7. 915 Stephanie Schulte .......... 1989-92 8. 823 Angie Long ....................... 1997-00 9. 751 Lisa Klam ........................... 1999-02 10. 712 Kelly Ferguson ................. 2000-02

a S S i S TS 1. 704 Shawn Andaya ................ 1984-87 2. 541 Jennifer McFalls .............. 1991-94 3. 473 Jamie Hinshaw ................ 2005-08 4. 458 Jamie Smith ...................... 1997-00 5. 431 Rhonda Halbert .............. 1989-92 431 Liz Mizera .......................... 1985-88 7. 420 Judy Trussell ..................... 1984-87 8. 406 Renee Blaha...................... 1987-90 406 Jennifer Davis .................. 2000-03 10. 381 Crystal Martin .................. 2000-03

W i n S 1. 145 Lori Stoll ............................. 1980-83 2. 114 Shawn Andaya ................ 1984-87 3. 95 Shan McDonald .............. 1980-83 4. 88 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 5. 78 Dana Mitchell .................. 1989-92 5. 77 Julie Carpenter ................ 1986-88 6. 71 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 7. 65 Kim Gonzalez ................... 1993-94 8. 62 Missi Young ...................... 1990-92 62 Amy Vining ....................... 1998-01 62 Jessica Kapchinski .......... 2001-04

i n n i n g S p i TC h e d 1. 1317.1 Lori Stoll ............................. 1980-83 2. 1141.1 Shawn Andaya ................ 1984-87 3. 875.2 Dana Mitchell .................. 1989-92 4. 838.0 Shan McDonald .............. 1980-83 5. 728.2 Julie Carpenter ................ 1986-88 6. 711.1 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 7. 704.1 Amy Vining ....................... 1998-01 8. 675.2 Jessica Kapchinski .......... 2001-04 9. 599.2 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 10. 521.2 Kim Gonzalez ................... 1993-94

p i TC h i n g S T R i K e o u TS 1. 1357 Lori Stoll ............................. 1980-83 2. 1234 Shawn Andaya ................ 1984-87 3. 711 Jessica Kapchinski .......... 2001-04 4. 679 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 5. 563 Amy Vining ....................... 1998-01 6. 555 Missi Young ...................... 1990-92 7. 537 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 8. 527 Shan McDonald .............. 1980-83 9. 349 Lindsay Wilhelmson ...... 2001-04 10. 324 Julie Carpenter ................ 1986-88

e a R n e d R u n av e R ag e 1. 0.34 Lori Stoll ............................. 1980-83 2. 0.43 Shawn Andaya ................ 1984-87 3. 0.48 Shan McDonald .............. 1980-83 4. 0.72 Missi Young ...................... 1990-92 5. 1.02 Kim Gonzalez ................... 1993-94 6. 1.40 Rhiannon Kliesing ..2008-present 7. 1.45 Amanda Scarborough .. 2005-08 8. 1.87 Erin Field ............................ 1995-96 9. 1.91 Megan Gibson ................. 2005-08 10. 2.01 Jessica Kapchinski .......... 2001-04

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1. 294 Josie Carter ..............................1982 2. 283 Carrie Austgen........................1982 3. 269 Mel Pritchard...........................1981 4. 265 Carrie Austgen........................1981 5. 261 Pattie Holthaus .......................1982 6. 259 Pattie Holthaus .......................1981 7. 255 Mary Lou Youngblood .........1981 8. 254 Mary Lou Youngblood .........1981 254 Rhonda Reese .........................1981 10. 251 Iva Jackson ...............................1982

R u n S 1. 60 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 2. 53 Sharonda McDonald ............2005 3. 51 Megan Gibson ........................2005 51 Jennifer McFalls .....................1993 51 Jennifer McFalls .....................1994 6. 50 Megan Gibson ........................2007 7. 48 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 48 Beth Gerken ............................1994 48 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 10. 47 Iva Jackson ...............................1982

h i TS 1. 97 Josie Carter ..............................1982 2. 83 Beth Gerken ............................1994 83 Jennifer McFalls .....................1994 83 Kendall Richards ....................1996 5. 81 Pattie Holthaus .......................1982 81 Iva Jackson ...............................1982 7. 80 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 80 Julie Smith ...............................1987 9. 79 Mel Pritchard...........................1981 10. 76 Karen Guerrero .......................1981

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1. .454 Kendall Richards ....................1996 2. .427 Jennifer McFalls .....................1993 3. .405 Megan Gibson ........................2005 .405 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 5. .388 Megan Gibson ........................2007 .388 K.K. Kalhoefer..........................1993 .388 Kendall Richards ....................1995 8. .383 Josie Carter ..............................1985 9. .374 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 10. .371 Liz Mizera .................................1985

R u n S B aT T e d i n 1. 72 Josie Carter ..............................1982 2. 58 Kendall Richards ....................1996 3. 57 Megan Gibson ........................2005 4. 48 Megan Gibson ........................2008 5. 47 Mel Pritchard...........................1981 6. 46 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 46 Merry Mapp.............................1994 8. 45 Sharla Cannon ........................1991 45 Erin Field ...................................1996 10. 44 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2007

d o u B l e S 1. 21 Jana James ...............................2003 2. 20 Kendall Richards ....................1995 3. 19 Kendall Richards ....................1996 4. 18 Jana James ...............................2005 5. 17 Megan Gibson ........................2008 6. 16 Kelly Ferguson ........................2001 7. 15 Rhonda Halbert .....................1991 15 K.K. Kalhoefer..........................1993 15 Mya Truelove ...........................1994 15 Erin Field ...................................1996 15 Tiffany Esters ...........................1999 15 Amanda Scarborough .........2005

T R i p l e S 1. 9 Mel Pritchard...........................1981 9 Iva Jackson ...............................1982 3. 8 Jennifer McFalls .....................1993 8 Dawn Wuthrich ......................1993 5. 7 Jennifer McFalls .....................1992 7 Stephanie Shulte ...................1990 7 Josie Carter ..............................1982 8. 6 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 9. 5 Pattie Holthaus .......................1983 5 Jennifer McFalls .....................1994 5 Barbi Tuck .................................1994 5 Gina Perez ................................1997

h o M e R u n S 1. 18 Liz Mizera .................................1985 18 Megan Gibson ........................2005 3. 16 Selena Collins .........................2002 4. 15 Lisa Klam ..................................1999 5. 13 Megan Gibson ........................2008 13 Megan Gibson ........................2007 7. 12 Selena Collins .........................2003 12 Lindsay Wilhelmson .............2003 12 Megan Gibson ........................2006 10. 11 Amanda Scarborough .........2005

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ToTa l B a S e S 1. 138 Josie Carter ..............................1982 2. 134 Kendall Richards ....................1996 3. 130 Megan Gibson ........................2005 4. 126 Lisa Klam ..................................1999 5. 124 Mel Pritchard...........................1981 6. 120 Megan Gibson ........................2008 7. 119 Liz Mizera .................................1985 8. 116 Selena Collins .........................2002 9. 114 Jennifer McFalls .....................1994 10. 113 Iva Jackson ...............................1982

S lu g g i n g p e R C e n Tag e 1. .832 Liz Mizera .................................1985 2. .823 Megan Gibson ........................2005 3. .741 Megan Gibson ........................2007 4. .732 Kendall Richards ....................1996 5. .720 Jennifer McFalls .....................1993 6. .719 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 7. .712 Selena Collins .........................2002 8. .656 Megan Gibson ........................2008 9. .652 Megan Gibson ........................2006 10. .636 Kendall Richards ....................1995

Wa l K S 1. 55 Megan Gibson ........................2008 2. 51 Megan Gibson ........................2007 3. 47 Selena Collins .........................2003 4. 38 Megan Gibson ........................2006 5. 31 Erin Field ...................................1996 6. 30 Liz Mizera .................................1987 7. 28 Jami Lobpries..........................2008 28 Megan Gibson ........................2005 28 Kendall Richards ....................1996 10. 27 K.K. Kalhoefer..........................1992 27 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2005

S To l e n B a S e S 1. 48 Sharonda McDonald ............2005 2. 47 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 3. 37 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 4. 29 Hollee Hayden ........................2001 5. 27 Joy Davis ...................................2005 27 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2007 7. 26 Lisa Klam ..................................2001 8. 24 Carrie Austgen........................1981 24 Jana James ...............................2005 10. 23 Lisa Klam ..................................1999 23 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2005

e a R n e d - R u n av e R ag e 1. 0.26 Shawn Andaya .......................1985 2. 0.27 Lori Stoll ....................................1982 3. 0.31 Shan McDonald .....................1982 4. 0.33 Lori Stoll ....................................1983 0.33 Lisa Martinez ....................... # 1981 6. 0.35 Lori Stoll ....................................1981 7. 0.37 Lori Stoll ....................................1980 8. 0.39 Shawn Andaya .......................1986 9. 0.44 Shawn Andaya .......................1987 10. 0.46 Julie Carpenter .......................1986

i n n i n g S p i TC h e d 1. 425 Julie Carpenter .......................1988 2. 395 Lori Stoll ....................................1980 3. 393 Dana Mitchell .........................1989 4. 342 Lori Stoll ....................................1981 5. 327.2 Shawn Andaya .......................1984 6. 314 Shan McDonald .....................1981 7. 303.2 Megan Gibson ........................2008 8. 302.2 Shawn Andaya .......................1987 9. 302.1 Kim Gonzalez ..........................1993 10. 298 Shawn Andaya .......................1985

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W i n S 1. 46 Lori Stoll ....................................1981 2. 41 Megan Gibson ........................2008 3. 40 Julie Carpenter .......................1988 4. 36 Shawn Andaya .......................1987 36 Missi Young .............................1991 6. 35 Lori Stoll ....................................1980 35 Shan McDonald .....................1982 8. 34 Lori Stoll ....................................1982 9. 33 Shawn Andaya .......................1984 33 Kim Gonzalez ..........................1993

S T R i K e o u TS 1. 395 Shawn Andaya .......................1984 2. 371 Lori Stoll ....................................1981 3. 344 Megan Gibson ........................2008 4. 340 Lori Stoll ....................................1983 5. 326 Shawn Andaya .......................1987 6. 325 Lori Stoll ....................................1982 7. 321 Lori Stoll ....................................1980 8. 272 Missi Young .............................1990 9. 268 Missi Young .............................1991 10. 267 Shawn Andaya .......................1985 Bold highlighted entries indicate members of 2009 squad* 1981 and 1982 seasons were combined fall/spring . seasons. Spring-only seasons began in 1983.# Martinez competed only during the fall of 1981.

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Nebraska 16 2 0 .889 51 15 0 .772 * Oklahoma 14 2 0 .875 50 9 0 .847 Texas Tech 10 8 0 .556 37 24 0 .606 Kansas 10 8 0 .556 32 27 0 .542 Okla. State 8 8 0 .500 28 23 0 .549 Baylor 7 9 0 .438 38 22 0 .633 Texas a&M 7 11 0 .389 32 19 0 .627 Missouri 5 11 0 .312 31 28 0 .525 Texas 5 13 0 .278 24 29 0 .453 Iowa State 2 12 0 .143 14 27 0 .341


* Texas 17 1 0 .944 50 13 0 .794 Oklahoma 14 2 0 .875 49 16 0 .754 Nebraska 11 5 0 .688 50 14 0 .781 Baylor 10 8 0 .556 46 18 0 .719 Texas a&M 9 9 0 .500 40 18 0 .690 Okla. State 8 10 0 .444 29 23 0 .558 Kansas 7 11 0 .389 33 25 0 .569 Iowa State 6 12 0 .333 19 25 0 .432 Missouri 4 14 0 .222 29 33 0 .468 Texas Tech 2 16 0 .111 13 40 0 .245


* Texas 15 2 0 .882 49 9 0 .840 Okla. State 13 5 0 .722 39 15 0 .722 Missouri 12 5 0 .706 31 20 0 .608 Oklahoma 12 6 0 .667 47 14 0 .770 Texas a&M 10 8 0 .556 38 22 0 .633 Nebraska 10 8 0 .556 39 17 0 .696 Iowa State 6 12 0 .333 19 28 0 .404 Texas Tech 4 14 0 .222 22 41 0 .349 Kansas 4 14 0 .222 26 22 0 .542 Baylor 3 15 0 .167 31 29 0 .517


* Oklahoma 17 5 0 .773 50 20 0 .714 Okla.State 17 5 0 .773 37 20 0 .640 Missouri 10 8 0 .556 31 22 0 .584 Nebraska 10 8 0 .556 42 23 0 .646 Texas a&M 11 11 0 .500 39 21 0 .650 Kansas 10 12 0 .455 31 26 0 .544 Iowa State 6 13 0 .316 17 28 0 .378 Texas Tech 1 20 0 .048 4 44 0 .083

(Note: Baylor and Texas did not participate in Big 12 play)


* Missouri 15 3 0 .833 47 14 0 .770 Oklahoma 14 4 0 .777 54 17 0 .761 Kansas 11 6 0 .647 36 21 0 .632 Nebraska 10 6 0 .625 26 20 0 .565 Okla. State 10 7 0 .588 38 20 0 .655 Texas a&M 7 9 0 .438 37 29 0 .561 Texas 6 10 0 .375 30 24 0 .555 Baylor 4 8 0 .333 38 22 0 .633 Texas Tech 1 13 0 .071 34 29 1 .531 Iowa State 1 13 0 .071 15 24 0 .385


* Nebraska 16 0 0 1.000 48 12 0 .800 Oklahoma 12 5 0 .708 49 15 0 .766 Texas 11 5 0 .688 49 16 0 .754 Texas Tech 10 7 0 .588 45 19 0 .703 Okla. State 9 7 0 .563 42 19 0 .689 Kansas 7 11 0 .389 28 34 0 .452 Texas a&M 6 10 1 .382 32 25 2 .541 Iowa State 5 11 0 .313 16 27 0 .372 Missouri 5 13 0 .278 36 20 0 .643 Baylor 2 14 1 .147 20 36 1 .360


Oklahoma 11 3 0 .786 40 16 0 .714* Texas 10 4 0 .714 45 17 0 .726 Missouri 10 5 0 .667 41 21 0 .661 Nebraska 10 8 0 .556 33 21 0 .611 Kansas 8 8 0 .500 31 30 0 .508 Texas Tech 6 7 0 .462 36 31 0 .537 Texas a&M 7 11 0 .389 41 22 0 .651 Okla. State 4 8 0 .333 21 24 0 .467 Iowa State 5 11 0 .313 23 30 1 .434 Baylor 5 11 0 .313 30 25 0 .545


Oklahoma 17 1 0 .944 66 8 0 .892* Nebraska 15 2 0 .882 52 21 0 .712 Texas 11 5 0 .688 30 27 1 .529 Texas a&M 8 10 0 .444 32 23 0 .582 Okla. State 8 10 0 .444 33 22 0 .600 Texas Tech 7 10 0 .412 19 36 0 .345 Baylor 7 11 0 .389 27 30 0 .474 Missouri 6 12 0 .333 34 27 0 .557 Kansas 5 13 0 .278 30 32 0 .484 Iowa State 4 14 0 .222 18 29 0 .383


* Nebraska 14 3 0 .824 45 17 0 .725 Texas a&M 13 3 0 .813 33 22 0 .600 Missouri 13 4 0 .765 29 26 0 .527 Baylor 11 6 0 .647 48 17 0 .774 Oklahoma 11 7 0 .611 45 22 1 .669 Okla. State 7 10 0 .412 27 28 0 .491 Kansas 7 11 0 .389 33 28 1 .541 Texas 5 13 0 .278 24 25 0 .490 Iowa State 3 13 0 .188 13 31 0 .295 Texas Tech 2 16 0 .111 22 36 0 .379


Texas a&M 14 4 0 .778 47 10 0 .825 Oklahoma 12 6 0 .667 50 17 0 .746 * Texas 11 6 0 .647 49 13 0 .790 Baylor 11 7 0 .611 51 14 0 .785 Missouri 10 8 0 .556 31 24 0 .610 Kansas 9 8 0 .529 31 24 0 .564 Nebraska 9 9 0 .500 36 23 0 .610 Okla. State 7 11 0 .389 35 24 0 .593 Texas Tech 3 15 0 .167 23 25 0 .479 Iowa State 3 15 0 .167 18 32 0 .360


* Texas 15 2 0 .882 55 9 0 .859 Nebraska 13 4 0 .765 44 12 0 .786 Baylor 12 6 0 .667 38 22 0 .633 Texas a&M 11 6 0 .647 34 19 0 .642 Oklahoma 8 10 0 .444 40 21 1 .653 Kansas 8 10 0 .444 36 26 0 .581 Missouri 7 11 0 .389 26 27 0 .491 Okla. State 5 13 0 .278 21 29 0 .420 Iowa State 5 13 0 .278 23 28 0 .451 Texas Tech 4 13 0 .235 19 35 0 .352


Baylor 14 3 0 .824 51 16 0 .761* Oklahoma 14 4 0 .778 55 8 0 .873 Missouri 13 4 0 .765 40 24 0 .625 Texas a&M 12 6 0 .667 46 14 0 .767 Nebraska 10 8 0 .556 37 20 0 .649 Texas 8 10 0 .444 35 20 0 .636 Kansas 7 11 0 .389 33 24 1 .578 Texas Tech 4 12 0 .250 24 27 0 .471 Okla. State 3 15 0 .167 25 33 0 .431 Iowa State 3 15 0 .167 24 40 0 .375


* Texas a&M 17 1 0 .944 57 10 0 .851 Oklahoma 16 2 0 .889 47 14 0 .770 Missouri 11 6 0 .647 47 17 0 .734 Texas 9 9 0 .500 29 23 2 .556 Okla. State 9 9 0 .500 26 25 0 .510 Texas Tech 8 10 0 .444 23 36 0 .390 Kansas 7 11 0 .389 37 19 0 .661 Baylor 4 13 0 .235 23 22 0 .511 Iowa State 4 14 0 .222 29 29 0 .500 Nebraska 4 14 0 .222 25 28 0 .472

* Indicates Big 12 Tournament Champion

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i n n i n g s pitched

149.1 ..........................1996129.3 ..........................2003126.2 ..........................2007126.1 ..........................1999124.0 ..........................2000122.0 ..........................2001122.0 ..........................2005121.0 ..........................2002120.1 ..........................1998119.0 ..........................2008112.0 ..........................2006110.0 ..........................2004108.1 ..........................1997

earned run average

1.02 ............................20041.05 ............................20071.41 ............................20081.44 ............................19991.84 ............................20051.85 ............................20022.06 ............................19962.26 ............................19972.38 ............................20032.33 ............................19982.41 ............................20012.43 ............................2000

runs allowed

26 ................................200427 ................................200834 ................................200736 ................................200241 ................................199946 ................................200549 ................................200151 ................................199851 ................................200057 ................................200659 ................................199760 ................................200372 ................................1996

earned runs allowed

16 ................................200419 ................................200724 ................................200826 ................................199932 ................................200232 ................................200535 ................................199740 ................................199842 ................................200143 ................................200044 ................................199644 ................................2003

strikeouts152 .............................2008127 .............................2007118 .............................200396 ................................200187 ................................200483 ................................200280 ................................200678 ................................200576 ................................199974 ................................199668 ................................199853 ................................200046 ................................1997

walks15 ................................199921 ................................200722 ................................200832 ................................200133 ................................200033 ................................200434 ................................200636 ................................199637 ................................200340 ................................200542 ................................200244 ................................199748 ................................1998

shutouts(includes combined)

9 ..................................20078 ..................................20046 ..................................20086 ..................................20026 ..................................19963 ..................................19973 ..................................20033 ..................................20052 ..................................19992 ..................................20002 ..................................20012 ..................................20061 ..................................1998

opponent Battingaverage

.165 ............................2002

.173 ............................2008

.189 ............................2004

.197 ............................2007

.218 ............................2003

.220 ............................2005

.224 ............................1999

.225 ............................2001

.232 ............................1998

.243 ............................2006

.258 ............................2000

.260 ............................1997

.261 ............................1996

games22 ................................199718 ................................199918 ................................200018 ................................200118 ................................200218 ................................200318 ................................200518 ................................200718 ................................200817 ................................199817 ................................200616 ................................199716 ................................2004

wins17 ................................200814 ................................200513 ................................200412 ................................200711 ............................... 199611 ................................200610 ...............................20039 .............................. 20028 ............................... 20007 ............................... 19977 ............................... 19997 ............................... 20016 ............................... 1998

losses11 ................................199611 ................................199911 ................................200110 ................................199810 ................................20009 ..................................20029 ..................................19978 ..................................20036 ..................................20066 ..................................20074 ..................................20053 ..................................20041 ..................................2008

winningpercentage

.944 ............................2008

.813 ............................2004

.778 ............................2005

.667 ............................2007

.647 ............................2006

.556 ............................2003

.500 ............................2002

.500 ............................1996

.444 ............................2000

.438 ............................1997

.389 ............................1999

.389 ............................2001

.382 ............................1998

at Bats586 .............................1996508 .............................2003487 .............................2005486 .............................2008482 .............................1999470 .............................2007467 .............................2000465 .............................2002452 .............................2001442 .............................2006438 .............................1997428 .............................1998424 .............................2004

runs112 .............................2008100 .............................200592 ................................199681 ................................200476 ................................200674 ................................200373 ................................200761 ................................199750 ................................200247 ................................200043 ................................200140 ................................199936 ................................1998

hits160 .............................2008156 .............................2005153 .............................1996129 .............................2003122 .............................2007121 .............................2006119 .............................2004114 .............................1997111 .............................2002111 .............................2001110 .............................1999108 .............................200081 ................................1998

Battingaverage

.329 ............................2008

.320 ............................2005

.281 ............................2004

.274 ............................2006

.261 ............................1996

.260 ............................1997

.260 ............................2007

.254 ............................2003

.246 ............................2001

.239 ............................2002

.231 ............................2000

.228 ............................1999

.189 ............................1998

douBles30 ................................200828 ................................200627 ................................200527 ................................200327 ................................199625 ................................200721 ................................199715 ................................200214 ................................200012 ................................199912 ................................200111 ................................20049 ..................................1998

triples7 ..................................20087 ..................................20055 ..................................20074 ..................................19973 ..................................19983 ..................................20042 ..................................20021 ..................................19961 ..................................20011 ..................................20031 ..................................20060 ..................................19990 ..................................2000

home runs18 ................................200315 ................................200413 ................................200513 ................................200612 ................................200811 ................................200210 ................................19967 ..................................19997 ..................................20007 ..................................20076 ..................................20015 ..................................19972 ..................................1998

runsBatted in

105 .............................200888 ................................200586 ................................199668 ................................200368 ................................200664 ................................200461 ................................200754 ................................199746 ................................200239 ................................200038 ................................200135 ................................199929 ................................1998

walks68 ................................200863 ................................200762 ................................199661 ................................200357 ................................200554 ................................200648 ................................200245 ................................200140 ................................200438 ................................200037 ................................199731 ................................199923 ................................1998

strikeouts109 .............................200394 ................................200791 ................................199886 ................................200883 ................................200280 ................................200180 ................................200577 ................................200675 ................................199668 ................................199964 ................................199763 ................................200461 ................................2000

stolen Bases53 ................................200529 ................................200128 ................................200426 ................................200719 ................................200315 ................................200814 ................................199713 ................................200012 ................................200212 ................................199911 ................................200610 ................................19989 ..................................1996

stolen Basesattempted

53 ................................200538 ................................200136 ................................200435 ................................200723 ................................199923 ................................200320 ................................200018 ................................200818 ................................199816 ................................200615 ................................200215 ................................199713 ................................1996

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IndIvIdual BIg 12 SeaSOn RecORdSat Bats

1. 71 Gina Perez ................................1996 2. 70 Mya Truelove ...........................1996 3. 66 Rocky Spencer ........................2003 4. 65 Kendall Richards ....................1996 65 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 6. 62 Erin Field ...................................1996 62 Machelle Weldon ...................1996 8. 61 Heather Hayden.....................1996 61 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 61 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008

runs 1. 19 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 2. 17 Megan Gibson ........................2008 3. 16 Megan Gibson ........................2007 4. 15 Kendall Richards ....................1996 15 Sharonda McDonald ............2005 6. 14 Gina Perez ................................1996 14 Holly Ridley..............................2008 8. 13 Heather Hayden.....................1996 13 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 13 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2005 13 Megan Gibson ........................2006 13 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 13 natalie villarreal ............. 2008

hits 1. 31 Kendall Richards ....................1996 2. 25 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 25 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 25 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 5. 23 Jana James ...............................2005 6. 22 Jamie Smith .............................1997 22 Selena Collins ........................2000 22 Angie Long ..............................2000 9. 21 Crystal Martin .........................2003 21 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 21 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2006

Batting average (75% of games, 2.5 ab/gm)

1. .477 Kendall Richards ....................1996 2. .444 rhiannon kliesing .......... 2008 3. .423 Jamie Smith .............................1997 4. .410 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 .410 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 6. .397 Jana James ...............................2005 7. .407 Selena Collins ........................2000 8. .400 Megan Gibson ........................2007 9. .385 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 .385 Megan Gibson ........................2008

runs Batted in

1. 23 Kendall Richards ....................1996 2. 16 Erin Field ...................................1996 3. 15 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 15 Megan Gibson ........................2005 15 Holly Ridley..............................2008 6. 14 Machelle Weldon ...................1996 14 Selena Collins .........................2003 14 Jana James ...............................2005 14 Jami Lobpries..........................2008 14 Megan Gibson ........................2008

douBles

1. 10 Jana James ...............................2003 2. 7 Amanda Scarborough .........2006 3. 6 Kendall Richards ....................1996 6 Erin Field ...................................1996 6 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 6 Megan Gibson ........................2007 6 Jana James ...............................2005 6 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 9. 5 Mya Truelove ...........................1996 5 Lindsay Park ............................2005 5 Amanda Scarborough .........2007

triples

1. 4 natalie villarreal ............. 2008 3 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 3 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2005 4. 2 Gina Perez ................................1997 2 Lisa Klam .................................2002 2 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 2 Sharonda McDonald ............2005 8. 1 16 times

home runs 1. 7 Selena Collins ........................2002 2. 6 Lisa Klam .................................1999 6 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2003 6 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 5. 5 Adrian Gregory ......................2003 5 Adrian Gregory ......................2004 7. 4 Erin Field ...................................1996 4 Megan Gibson ........................2008 9. 3 Kendall Richards ....................1996 3 Tiffany Esters ...........................2000 3 Lisa Klam .................................2001 3 Megan Gibson ........................2005 3 Lindsay Park ............................2005 3 Megan Gibson ........................2006 3 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008

total Bases 1. 49 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 2. 46 Kendall Richards ....................1996 3. 43 Selena Collins ........................2002 4. 40 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 5. 38 Megan Gibson ........................2008 6. 37 Erin Field ...................................1996 7. 33 Lisa Klam .................................1999 33 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2003 33 Adrian Gregory ......................2004 10. 32 Selena Collins ........................2000 32 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2006 32 natalie villarreal ............. 2008

slugging percentage(min. 75% of games; 2 ab / gm)

1. .843 Selena Collins .........................2002 2. .803 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 3. .731 Megan Gibson ........................2008 4. .717 Adrian Gregory ......................2004 5. .708 Kendall Richards ....................1996 6. .667 Megan Gibson ........................2007 7. .660 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2003 8. .656 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2008 9. .612 Amanda Scarborough .........2006 10. .597 Erin Field ...................................1996

walks 1. 19 Megan Gibson ........................2007 2. 17 Megan Gibson ........................2008 3. 15 Selena Collins .........................2003 4. 12 Erin Field ...................................1996 5. 11 Heather Hayden.....................1996 11 Rocky Spencer ........................2005 11 Megan Gibson ........................2006 8. 10 Kendall Richards ....................1996 10 Selena Collins .........................2002 10 Adrian Gregory .....................2002 10 Adrian Gregory .....................2003 10 alex reynolds ................. 2008

stolen Bases 1. 17 Sharonda McDonald ............2005 12 Hollee Hayden ........................2001 3. 11 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 11 Joy Davis ...................................2005 5. 9 Jana James ...............................2005 6. 8 Lisa Klam .................................2001 8 Crystal Martin .........................2003 8 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 8 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2005 9. 5 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2007 5 Tanya Klecker ..........................1997 5 Lisa Klam .................................1999 5 Cheryl Fowler .........................2002

stolen Basesattempted

1. 17 Sharonda McDonald ............2005 2. 15 Hollee Hayden ........................2001 3. 14 Sharonda McDonald ............2004 4. 12 Jana James ...............................2005 5. 11 Joy Davis ...................................2005 6. 10 Sharonda McDonald ............2007 10 Crystal Martin .........................2003 8. 9 Lisa Klam .................................2001 9 Jamie Hinshaw .......................2005 10. 7 Tanya Klecker ..........................1998

earned run average (1 inning per game)

1. 0.38 Jessica Kapchinski .................2004 2. 0.85 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 3. 0.99 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 4. 1.02 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2002 5. 1.07 Megan Gibson ........................2007 6. 1.14 Amy Vining ..............................1998 7. 1.28 Amy Vining ..............................1999 8. 1.40 rhiannon kliesing .......... 2008 9. 1.41 Lori Gioco .................................1997 1.41 Megan Gibson ........................2008

innings pitched 1. 99.0 Megan Gibson ........................2008 2. 91.0 Jessica Kapchinski .................2004 3. 82.1 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 4. 80.1 Erin Field ...................................1996 5. 76.2 Amy Vining ..............................1999 6. 71.0 Amanda Scarborough ........2006 7. 70.2 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 8. 69.1 Jessica Kapchinski ................2003 9. 64.1 Lori Gioco .................................1997 10. 62.1 Amy Vining ..............................2000

wins 1. 14 Megan Gibson ........................2008 2. 12 Jessica Kapchinski .................2004 3. 11 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 4. 8 Erin Field ...................................1996 5. 7 Amanda Scarborough .........2006 7 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 7. 5 Megan Gibson ........................2007 5 Lori Gioco .................................1997 5 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2002 5 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2003 5 Jessica Slataper .....................2003

saves

1. 1 Seven times

shutouts (includes combined)

1. 7 Jessica Kapchinski .................2004 2. 6 Megan Gibson ........................2008 3. 5 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 4. 4 Megan Gibson ........................2007 4 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2002 6. 3 Erin Field ...................................1996 3 Lori Gioco .................................1997 8. 2 Amy Vining ..............................1999 2 Jessica Slataper .....................2002 2 Lindsay Wilhelmson .............2003 2 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 2 Amanda Scarborough .........2006

strikeouts 1. 132 Megan Gibson ........................2008 2. 78 Jessica Kapchinski .................2004 3. 73 Jessica Kapchinski .................2003 4. 72 Amanda Scarborough .........2007 5. 61 Jessica Kapchinski ................2002 6. 56 Jessica Kapchinski ................2001 7. 54 Megan Gibson ........................2007 8. 53 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............2002 53 Amanda Scarborough .........2005 10. 48 Amy Vining ..............................1999

Bold highlighted entries indicate members of 2009 squad

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pitching

hitting statisticsYear g aB r h avg. 2B 3B hr rBi BB so sB / sBa

1981 90 2539 332 638 .251 69 26 20 275 173 173 103 / 1321982 93 2588 392 739 .286 81 34 19 337 183 132 114 / 1381983 52 1366 133 301 .220 22 16 11 106 100 182 38 / 511984 69 1930 219 476 .247 48 12 7 194 125 239 57 / 671985 57 1369 165 433 .316 46 8 29 150 73 117 9 / 111986 54 1400 156 343 .245 32 11 11 113 99 186 49 / 591987 64 1798 261 503 .280 49 11 14 222 118 133 36 / 511988 64 1726 213 414 .280 41 13 9 169 114 103 31 / 391989 58 1645 169 388 .236 32 9 8 131 81 118 38 / 491990 67 1726 193 422 .244 25 11 6 145 126 115 51 / 761991 61 1590 222 420 .264 58 10 5 171 128 146 65 / 791992 60 1503 201 399 .265 52 13 2 162 134 164 57 / 751993 52 1443 252 444 .308 73 21 21 216 99 139 40 / 471994 76 1995 305 541 .271 77 18 17 235 152 203 59 / 741995 56 1479 210 400 .270 72 13 19 180 111 177 40 / 481996 60 1654 283 476 .288 80 5 29 255 159 186 30 / 371997 66 1745 242 449 .257 76 14 26 202 137 189 61 / 741998 59 1498 192 362 .242 58 13 16 157 99 217 82 / 1031999 63 1673 236 475 .284 66 8 26 198 126 198 112 / 1512000 55 1460 215 381 .261 46 8 21 185 140 186 62 / 772001 51 1323 205 373 .282 59 2 24 190 142 185 107 / 1252002 58 1495 194 383 .256 49 11 38 175 143 264 61 / 732003 60 1597 270 423 .265 85 10 55 249 173 306 62 / 732004 55 1468 212 393 .268 47 13 33 172 117 257 129 / 1472005 57 1512 348 508 .336 84 11 52 294 177 215 151 / 1652006 53 1319 223 347 .263 66 6 41 206 157 249 56 / 692007 60 1568 306 445 .284 72 13 43 260 200 324 116 / 1332008 67 1722 332 499 .290 94 13 47 299 231 330 73 / 85

pitching statisticsYear g w l t ip r er era so BB

1980 90 78 12 – 656.0 67 44 0.47 547 561981 93 84 9 – 657.0 48 28 0.30 657 601983 52 41 11 – 398.0 38 21 0.37 428 761984 69 51 18 – 510.1 79 55 0.75 492 1041985 57 45 12 – 475.0 43 33 0.49 358 891986 54 41 13 – 365.0 40 22 0.42 358 551987 64 56 8 – 454.1 64 45 0.69 397 811988 64 43 21 – 446.0 106 71 1.11 157 821989 58 31 27 – 415.0 165 104 1.75 99 1211990 67 47 20 – 461.2 80 54 0.82 365 801991 61 46 15 – 417.0 77 53 0.89 318 731992 60 41 19 – 401.1 82 49 0.85 191 541993 52 38 14 – 350.2 82 65 1.30 169 741994 76 56 20 – 526.0 149 93 1.24 349 851995 56 29 27 – 367.0 170 127 2.42 169 711996 60 39 21 – 413.0 153 93 1.58 207 911997 66 37 29 – 446.1 197 118 1.85 213 1251998 59 32 25 2 406.1 180 122 2.10 278 1671999 63 41 22 – 429.1 134 89 1.45 344 592000 55 32 23 – 374.1 152 113 2.11 237 782001 51 32 19 – 354.0 111 79 1.56 318 752002 58 40 18 – 393.0 109 92 1.64 380 1422003 60 38 22 – 412.1 158 113 1.92 346 1172004 55 33 22 – 376.0 127 89 1.66 363 1142005 57 47 10 – 371.0 137 107 2.02 277 1262006 53 34 19 – 348.1 179 134 2.69 282 1082007 60 46 14 – 403.0 125 77 1.34 405 842008 67 57 10 – 451.0 104 86 1.33 477 103

Team SeaSOn RecORdSgames

76 .................... 199469 .................... 198467 .................... 200867 .................... 199066 .................... 199764 .................... 1987 198863 .................... 199961 .................... 199160 .................... 1992 1996 2003 2007

at Bats1,995 .............. 19941,930 .............. 19841,798 ............ 19871,745 .............. 19971,726 ............ 1988 19901, 722 ............. 20081,673 .............. 19991,654 .............. 19961,645 .............. 1989

runs348 ................. 2005332 ................. 2008306 ................. 2007305 ................. 1994283 ................. 1996270 ................. 2003261 ................. 1987252 ................. 1993242 ................. 1997236 ................. 1999

hits541 ................. 1994508 ................. 2005503 ................. 1987499 ................. 2008476 ................. 1984 1996475 ................. 1999449 ................. 1997445 ................. 2007444 ................. 1993

Batting average

.336 ................ 2005

.316 ................ 1985

.308 ................ 1993

.290 ................ 2008

.288 ................ 1996

.284 ................ 1999 2007.282 ................ 2001.280 ................ 1987.271 ................ 1994

douBles94 ....................200885 ....................200384 ....................200580 ....................199677 ....................199476 ....................199773 ....................199372 ....................1995 200766 ....................1999 2006

triples21 ....................199318 ....................199416 ....................198314 ....................199713 ....................1988 1992 1995 1998 2004 2007 2008

home runs55 ....................200352 ....................200547 ....................200843 ....................200741 ....................200638 ....................200233 ....................200429 ....................1985 199626 ....................1997 1999

runs Batted in

299 ................. 2008294 ................. 2005260 ................. 2007255 ................. 1996249 ................. 2003235 ................. 1994222 ................. 1987216 ................. 1993206 ................. 2006202 ................. 1997

walks231 ................. 2008200 ................. 2007177 ................. 2005173 ................. 2003159 ................. 1996157 ................. 2006152 ................. 1994142 ................. 2001140 ................. 2000137 ................. 1997

strikeouts330 ................. 2008324 ................. 2007306 ................. 2003264 ................. 2002257 ................. 2004249 ................. 2006239 ................. 1984217 ................. 1998215 ................. 2005203 ................. 1994

stolen Bases

151 ................. 2005129 ................. 2004116 ................. 2007112 ................. 1999107 ................. 200182 .................... 199873 .................... 200865 .................... 199162 .................... 2000 2003

stolen Base

attempts165 ................. 2005151 ................. 1999147 ................. 2004133 ................. 2007125 ................. 2001103 ................. 199885 .................... 200879 .................... 199177 .................... 200075 .................... 1992

most wins57 .................... 200856 .................... 1987 199451 .................... 198447 .................... 1990 200546 .................... 1991 200745 .................... 198543 .................... 1988

Fewest wins

29 .................... 199531 .................... 198932 .................... 1998 2000 200133 .................... 200434 .................... 200637 .................... 199738 .................... 1993 2003

most losses

29 .................... 199727 .................... 1989 199525 .................... 199823 .................... 200022 .................... 1999 2003 200421 .................... 1988 1996

Fewest losses

8 ...................... 198710 .................... 2005 200811 .................... 198312 .................... 198513 .................... 198614 .................... 1993 200715 .................... 199118 .................... 1984 2002

innings pitched

526.0 .............. 1994510.1 .............. 1984475.0 .............. 1985461.2 .............. 1990454.1 .............. 1987451.0 .............. 2008446.1 .............. 1997446.0 .............. 1988429.1 .............. 1999417.0 .............. 1991

runs38 .................... 198340 .................... 198643 .................... 198564 .................... 198777 .................... 199179 .................... 198480 .................... 199082 .................... 199382 .................... 1992104 ................. 2008

earnedruns

21 .................... 198322 .................... 198633 .................... 198545 .................... 198749 .................... 199253 .................... 199154 .................... 199055 .................... 198465 .................... 199371 .................... 1988

earnedrun

average0.37 ................ 19830.42 ................ 19860.49 ................ 19850.69 ................ 19870.75 ................ 19840.82 ................ 19900.85 ................ 19920.89 ................ 19911.11 ................ 19881.24 ................ 1994

strikeouts492 ................. 1984477 ................. 2008428 ................. 1983405 ................. 2007397 ................. 1987380 ................. 2002365 ................. 1990363 ................. 2004358 ................. 1985358 ................. 1986

walks54 .................... 199255 .................... 198659 .................... 199971 .................... 199573 .................... 199174 .................... 199375 .................... 200176 .................... 1983 78 ................... 2000 80 ................... 1990

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1981 Melody Pritchard ..................... 2691982 Josie Carter ................................ 2941983 Carrie Austgen .......................... 1721984 Judy Trussell............................... 2251985 Judy Trussell............................... 1501986 Judy Trussell............................... 1601987 Julie Smith .................................. 2221988 Carrie Heightley ....................... 2101989 Renee Blaha ............................... 2021990 Michelle Mayfield .................... 2251991 Rhonda Halbert ........................ 1851992 Stephanie Schulte ................... 1881993 Dawn Wuthrich ......................... 1871994 Beth Gerken ............................... 2451995 Nikki Cockrell ............................ 1751996 Gina Perez ................................... 2121997 Gina Perez ................................... 2161998 Jamie Smith ............................... 1751999 Lisa Klam ..................................... 2012000 Angie Long ................................. 1792001 Lisa Klam ..................................... 1572002 Lisa Klam ..................................... 1982003 Adrian Gregory ......................... 1392004 Sharonda McDonald ............... 1932005 Jana James ................................. 1852006 Sharonda McDonald ............... 1662007 Sharonda McDonald ............... 2142008 natalie villarreal ............... 212

runs1981 Karen Guerrero ............................44 Carrie Austgen .............................441982 Iva Jackson ....................................471983 Carrie Austgen .............................211984 Judy Trussell..................................341985 Liz Mizera .......................................371986 Cindy Cooper ...............................241987 Julie Smith .....................................461988 Tory Parks ......................................351989 Renee Blaha ..................................331990 Renee Blaha ..................................24 Michelle Mayfield .......................24 Dawn Wuthrich ............................241991 Jennifer McFalls ...........................441992 Stephanie Schulte ......................271993 Jennifer McFalls ...........................511994 Jennifer McFalls ...........................511995 Kendall Richards..........................321996 Kendall Richards..........................421997 Gina Perez ......................................32 Jamie Smith ..................................321998 Amy Lawler ...................................281999 Lisa Klam ........................................402000 Lisa Klam ........................................332001 Hollee Hayden .............................342002 Selena Collins ...............................322003 Adrian Gregory ............................412004 Sharonda McDonald ..................482005 Sharonda McDonald ..................532006 Sharonda McDonald ..................342007 Sharonda McDonald ..................602008 Jamie Hinshaw .............................48

hits

1981 Melody Pritchard ........................791982 Josie Carter ...................................971983 Carrie Austgen .............................471984 Cindy Cooper ...............................681985 Liz Mizera .......................................531986 Cindy Cooper ...............................501987 Julie Smith .....................................801988 Carrie Heightley ..........................591989 Erin Newkirk .................................57

1990 Renee Blaha ..................................661991 Jennifer McFalls ...........................671992 Jennifer McFalls ...........................651993 Jennifer McFalls ...........................641994 Beth Gerken ..................................83 Jennifer McFalls ...........................831995 Kendall Richards..........................641996 Kendall Richards..........................831997 Jamie Smith ..................................691998 Ashley Lewis .................................481999 Lisa Klam ........................................702000 Selena Collins ...............................552001 Hollee Hayden .............................532002 Lisa Klam ........................................582003 Jana James ....................................622004 Sharonda McDonald ..................652005 Jana James ....................................662006 Jamie Hinshaw .............................502007 Sharonda McDonald ..................802008 Jamie Hinshaw .............................68

Batting average1981 Karen Guerrero ........................ .3111982 Josie Carter ............................... .3301983 Carrie Austgen ......................... .2731984 Cindy Cooper ........................... .3161985 Josie Carter ............................... .3831986 Cindy Cooper ........................... .3161987 Julie Smith ................................. .3601988 Liz Mizera ................................... .3311989 Erin Newkirk ............................. .2921990 Renee Blaha .............................. .3071991 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .3681992 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .3651993 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .4271994 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .3671995 Kendall Richards...................... .3841996 Kendall Richards...................... .4541997 Jamie Smith .............................. .3381998 Tiffany Esters ............................ .2931999 Lisa Klam .................................... .3482000 Selena Collins ........................... .348

2001 Kelly Ferguson ......................... .3542002 Selena Collins ........................... .3312003 Jana James ................................ .3372004 Sharonda McDonald .............. .3372005 Amanda Scarborough.......... .405 Megan Gibson ......................... .4052006 Megan Gibson ......................... .3112007 Megan Gibson ......................... .3882008 Megan Gibson ......................... .339

runs Batted in1981 Melody Pritchard ........................471982 Josie Carter ...................................721983 Josie Carter ...................................171984 Cindy Cooper ...............................29 Josie Carter ...................................291985 Liz Mizera .......................................361986 Cindy Cooper ...............................221987 Liz Mizera .......................................431988 Liz Mizera .......................................32 Carrie Heightley ..........................321989 Erin Newkirk .................................281990 Stephanie Schulte ......................251991 Sharla Cannon .............................451992 Jennifer McFalls ...........................271993 Jennifer McFalls ...........................401994 Merry Mapp ..................................461995 Kendall Richards..........................341996 Kendall Richards..........................581997 Trina Solesbee ..............................311998 Jamie Smith ..................................20 Stephanie Trumbull ...................201999 Tiffany Esters ................................402000 Selena Collins ...............................392001 Kelly Ferguson .............................402002 Selena Collins ...............................432003 Selena Collins ...............................372004 Jana James ....................................322005 Megan Gibson .............................572006 Megan Gibson .............................372007 Amanda Scarborough...............462008 Megan Gibson .............................48

douBles

1981 Melody Pritchard ......................... 9 M.L. Youngblood .......................... 91982 Josie Carter ...................................121983 Carrie Austgen ............................... 41984 Cindy Cooper ...............................121985 Josie Carter ..................................... 91986 Mary Schwind ............................... 81987 Shawn Andaya .............................121988 Liz Mizera .......................................101989 Erin Newkirk ................................... 61990 Sharla Cannon .............................111991 Rhonda Halbert ...........................151992 Jennifer McFalls ...........................141993 K.K. Kalhoefer ...............................151994 Mya Truelove ................................151995 Kendall Richards..........................201996 Kendall Richards..........................191997 Mya Truelove ................................141998 Jamie Smith ..................................101999 Tiffany Esters ................................152000 Selena Collins ................................. 8 Angie Shetler .................................. 82001 Kelly Ferguson .............................162002 Selena Collins ...............................122003 Jana James ....................................212004 Kristin Gunter ...............................122005 Jana James ....................................182006 Amanda Scarborough...............132007 Amanda Scarborough...............11 Macie Morrow ..............................112008 Megan Gibson .............................17

triples

1981 Melody Pritchard ......................... 9 1982 Iva Jackson ..................................... 91983 Pattie Holthaus ............................. 51984 Gay McNutt .................................... 41985 Liz Mizera ........................................ 31986 Cindy Cooper ................................ 2 Cindy Foster ................................... 2 Mary Schwind ............................... 21987 Julie Smith ...................................... 31988 Carrie Heightley ........................... 3 Erin Newkirk .................................. 31989 Stephanie Schulte ....................... 31990 Stephanie Schulte ........................ 71991 Jennifer McFalls ............................. 41992 Jennifer McFalls ............................. 71993 Jennifer McFalls ............................. 8 Dawn Wuthrich .............................. 81994 Barbi Tuck ........................................ 51995 Machelle Weldon .......................... 3 Mya Truelove .................................. 31996 Gina Perez ........................................ 21997 Gina Perez ........................................ 51998 Tanya Klecker ................................. 3 Trina Solesbee ................................ 31999 Tiffany Esters .................................. 32000 Angie Shetler .................................. 22001 Hollee Hayden ............................... 1 Crystal Martin ................................. 12002 Lisa Klam .......................................... 42003 Adrian Gregory .............................. 42004 Rocky Spencer ............................... 42005 Sharonda McDonald .................... 3 Jana James ...................................... 3 Jamie Hinshaw ............................... 32006 Jamie Hinshaw ............................... 22007 Amanda Scarborough................. 62008 natalie villarreal ................... 4

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1981 Melody Pritchard .......................... 61982 Josie Carter ..................................... 51983 Iva Jackson ...................................... 3 Josie Carter ..................................... 31984 Josie Carter ..................................... 31985 Liz Mizera .......................................181986 Liz Mizera ......................................... 71987 Liz Mizera ......................................... 71988 Erin Newkirk ................................... 51989 Erin Newkirk ................................... 51990 Sharla Cannon ............................... 2 Stephanie Schulte ........................ 2 Chris Wilfong .................................. 21991 Sharla Cannon ............................... 21992 Jennifer McFalls ............................. 21993 Jennifer McFalls ............................. 5 Jenifer Wells .................................... 51994 Beth Gerken .................................... 4 Mya Truelove .................................. 41995 Kendall Richards............................ 71996 Kendall Richards..........................101997 Trina Solesbee ................................ 81998 Tiffany Esters .................................. 51999 Lisa Klam ........................................152000 Selena Collins ................................. 72001 Kelly Ferguson ............................... 6 Lisa Klam .......................................... 62002 Selena Collins ...............................162003 Lindsay Wilhelmson ...................12 Selena Collins ...............................122004 Adrian Gregory .............................. 72005 Megan Gibson ............................182006 Megan Gibson .............................122007 Megan Gibson .............................132008 Megan Gibson .............................13

total Bases

1981 Melody Pritchard ..................... 1241982 Josie Carter ................................ 1381983 Carrie Austgen .............................591984 Cindy Cooper ...............................851985 Liz Mizera .................................... 1191986 Liz Mizera .......................................681987 Julie Smith .....................................991988 Carrie Heightley ..........................801989 Erin Newkirk .................................801990 Renee Blaha ............................... 731991 Jennifer McFalls ...........................871992 Jennifer McFalls ...........................991993 Jennifer McFalls ........................ 1081994 Jennifer McFalls ........................ 1141995 Kendall Richards....................... 1051996 Kendall Richards....................... 1341997 Jamie Smith ..................................921998 Ashley Lewis .................................711999 Lisa Klam ..................................... 1262000 Selena Collins ...............................842001 Kelly Ferguson .............................862002 Selena Collins ............................ 1162003 Adrian Gregory ......................... 1042004 Adrian Gregory ............................782005 Megan Gibson .......................... 1302006 Megan Gibson .............................882007 Megan Gibson .......................... 1092008 Megan Gibson .......................... 120

slugging pct.

1981 Melody Pritchard .................... .4611982 Josie Carter ............................... .469 1983 Iva Jackson ................................ .3611984 Josie Carter ............................... .3991985 Liz Mizera ................................... .8321986 Liz Mizera ................................... .447

1987 Liz Mizera ................................... .5421988 Liz Mizera ................................... .4541989 Erin Newkirk ............................. .4101990 Sharla Cannon ......................... .3811991 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .4781992 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .5561993 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .7201994 Jennifer McFalls ....................... .5041995 Kendall Richards...................... .6361996 Kendall Richards...................... .7321997 Trina Solesbee .......................... .4761998 Tiffany Esters ............................ .4561999 Lisa Klam .................................... .6272000 Selena Collins ........................... .5322001 Kelly Ferguson ......................... .5852002 Selena Collins ........................... .7122003 Selena Collins ........................... .5782004 Rocky Spencer ......................... .4592005 Megan Gibson ......................... .8232006 Megan Gibson ......................... .6522007 Megan Gibson ......................... .7412008 Megan Gibson ......................... .656

stolen Bases1981 Carrie Austgen .............................241982 Iva Jackson ....................................171983 Cindy Cooper ................................. 81984 Judy Trussell..................................201985 Judy Trussell.................................... 3 Ann Hadley ..................................... 31986 Judy Trussell..................................141987 Julie Smith .....................................121988 Zina Ochoa ...................................... 61989 Renee Blaha ..................................101990 Renee Blaha ..................................10 Michelle Mayfield .......................10 Dawn Wuthrich ............................101991 Dawn Wuthrich ............................111992 K.K. Kalhoefer ................................. 9 Stephanie Schulte ........................ 91993 Jennifer McFalls ...........................111994 Jennifer McFalls ...........................171995 Merry Mapp .................................... 81996 Heather Hayden ............................ 81997 Tanya Klecker ...............................191998 Tanya Klecker ...............................171999 Lisa Klam ........................................232000 Lisa Klam ........................................152001 Hollee Hayden .............................292002 Lisa Klam ........................................192003 Crystal Martin ...............................192004 Sharonda McDonald ..................472005 Sharonda McDonald ..................482006 Sharonda McDonald ..................212007 Sharonda McDonald ..................372008 Jamie Hinshaw .............................18

earned run average1981 Lori Stoll ..................................... 0.351982 Lori Stoll ..................................... 0.271983 Lori Stoll ..................................... 0.331984 Shawn Andaya ......................... 0.601985 Shawn Andaya ......................... 0.261986 Shawn Andaya ......................... 0.39

1987 Shawn Andaya ......................... 0.441988 Julie Carpenter ........................ 1.121989 Dana Mitchell ........................... 1.591990 Missi Young ............................... 0.611991 Missi Young ............................... 0.621992 Dana Mitchell ........................... 0.611993 Kim Gonzalez ........................... 1.131994 Kim Gonzalez ........................... 0.901995 Christy Bunting ........................ 1.161996 Trina Solesbee .......................... 1.361997 Lori Gioco .................................. 1.441998 Amy Vining ................................ 1.971999 Amy Vining ................................ 1.262000 Amy Vining ................................ 1.892001 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............... 1.492002 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............... 1.442003 Lindsay Wilhelmson ............... 1.922004 Jessica Kapchinski .................. 0.862005 Amanda Scarborough........... 0.732006 Amanda Scarborough........... 2.472007 Amanda Scarborugh ............. 1.172008 Megan Gibson ......................... 1.20

innings pitched

1981 Lori Stoll ...................................342.01982 Lori Stoll ...................................283.0 1983 Lori Stoll ...................................297.11984 Shawn Andaya .......................327.21985 Shawn Andaya .......................298.01986 Shawn Andaya .......................213.0 1987 Shawn Andaya .......................302.21988 Julie Carpenter ......................425.01989 Dana Mitchell .........................393.01990 Missi Young .............................254.01991 Missi Young .............................280.21992 Jennifer Mortensen ..............241.01993 Kim Gonzalez .........................302.11994 Kim Gonzalez .........................272.11995 Erin Field ..................................227.01996 Erin Field ..................................236.11997 Lori Gioco ................................242.11998 Ashley Lewis ...........................138.21999 Amy Vining ..............................254.22000 Amy Vining ..............................210.22001 Jessica Kapchinski ................121.02002 Jessica Kapchinski ................190.12003 Jessica Kapchinski ................185.22004 Jessica Kapchinski ................178.22005 Amanda Scarborough.........182.12006 Amanda Scarborough.........158.22007 Amanda Scarborough.........221.22008 Megan Gibson .......................303.2

wins

1981 Lori Stoll .........................................461982 Shan McDonald ...........................351983 Lori Stoll .........................................301984 Shawn Andaya .............................331985 Shawn Andaya .............................211986 Shawn Andaya .............................241987 Shawn Andaya .............................361988 Julie Carpenter ............................401989 Dana Mitchell ...............................301990 Missi Young ...................................261991 Missi Young ...................................361992 Jennifer Mortensen ....................241993 Kim Gonzalez ...............................331994 Kim Gonzalez ...............................321995 Erin Field ........................................151996 Erin Field ........................................231997 Lori Gioco ......................................221998 Ashley Lewis .................................121999 Amy Vining ....................................222000 Amy Vining ....................................182001 Amy Vining ....................................11

2002 Jessica Kapchinski ......................202003 Lindsay Wilhelmson ...................182004 Jessica Kapchinski ......................182005 Amanda Scarborough...............262006 Megan Gibson .............................172007 Amanda Scarborough...............262008 Megan Gibson .............................41

strikeouts1981 Lori Stoll ...................................... 3711982 Lori Stoll ...................................... 3251983 Lori Stoll ...................................... 3401984 Shawn Andaya .......................... 3951985 Shawn Andaya .......................... 2671986 Shawn Andaya .......................... 2461987 Shawn Andaya .......................... 3261988 Julie Carpenter ......................... 1411989 Dana Mitchell ...............................971990 Missi Young ................................ 2721991 Missi Young ................................ 2681992 Jennifer Mortensen ................. 1241993 Kim Gonzalez ............................ 1531994 Christy Bunting ......................... 1931995 Christy Bunting ............................801996 Erin Field ........................................921997 Lori Gioco ................................... 1341998 Ashley Lewis .............................. 1301999 Amy Vining ................................. 2292000 Amy Vining ................................. 1582001 Jessica Kapchinski ................... 1492002 Jessica Kapchinski ................... 2272003 Jessica Kapchinski ................... 1872004 Jessica Kapchinski ................... 1842005 Amanda Scarborough............ 1342006 Amanda Scarborough............ 1362007 Amanda Scarborough............ 2332008 Megan Gibson .......................... 344

Bold highlighted entries indicate members of 2009 squad* 1981 and 1982 seasons were combined fall/spring seasons. Spring-only seasons began in 1983.

cindy cooper

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naTIOnal STaTISTIcS leadeRS1983

e a r n e d r u n av e r ag e

7th, Lori Stoll (0.33)15th, Shan McDonald (0.49)

m o s t v i c to r i e s

1st, Lori Stoll (30)

tota l s t r i k e o u ts

1st, Lori Stoll (340)

s t r i k e o u ts / g a m e

5th, Lori Stoll (8.0)

t e a m p i tc h i n g

3rd, 0.37 ERA

t e a m F i e l d i n g

9th, .962

1984


1st (tie), Shawn Andaya (33)


4th, Shawn Andaya (8.4)

1985

B at t i n g

14th, Josie Carter (.383)21st, Liz Mizera (.371)



h o m e r u n s / g a m e

1st, Liz Mizera (0.35)

t e a m B at t i n g

2nd, .316


7th, 0.49 ERA


1st, .984

t e a m h o m e r u n s

1st (29)

1986


8th, Shawn Andaya (0.39)17th, Julie Carpenter (0.46)


9th (tie), Shawn Andaya (24)




3rd, 0.42 ERA


3rd, .974

1987

r u n s B at t e d i n

3rd (tie), Liz Mizera (43)




1st, Shawn Andaya (36)

m o s t s t r i k e o u ts

1st, Shawn Andaya (326)




10th, 0.69 ERA


2nd, .971

1988


2nd, Julie Carpenter (40)

1989


5th, Dana Mitchell (30)

h o m e r u n s

11th, (tie), Erin Newkirk (5)

1990

to u g h e s t tos t r i k e o u t

13th, Renee Blaha


18th, Missi Young (0.61)


9th, Missi Young (26)


3rd, Missi Young (7.5)

1991


1st, Missi Young (36)





1992

m o s t s av e s

2nd, Jennifer Mortensen (5)


14th, Dana Mitchell (0.61)


15th, 0.85 ERA


7th, .969

1993


1st (tie), Kim Gonzalez (33)

r u n s s co r e d / g a m e

8th, Jennifer McFalls (0.98)

s lu g g i n g p c t.

10th, Jennifer McFalls (.720)

t r i p l e s / g a m e

19th (tie), Jennifer McFalls (0.15)Dawn Wuthrich (0.15)

B at t i n g

22nd, Jennifer McFalls (.427)


6th, .969

t e a m s lu g g i n g p c t.

7th, .431

t e a m d o u B l e s

11th, 1.40

t e a m h o m e r u n s

12th, 0.40

t e a m w i n / lo s s p c t.

17th, .731

t e a m B at t i n g

17th, .308

t e a m s co r i n g

18th, 4.05

1994

m o s t s av e s

3rd, Christy Bunting (6)


4th (tie), Kim Gonzalez (32)


17th, Kim Gonzalez (17)


13th, 1.24 ERA


20th, .725 (56-20)

1995

d o u B l e s/ g a m e

8th, Kendall Richards (0.36)

t e a m d o u B l e s / g a m e

23rd, 1.29

t e a m h o m e r u n s /g a m e

28th, 0.34

1996

m o s t s av e s

2nd, Trina Solesbee (5)

B at t i n g

8th, Kendall Richards (.454)


15th, Kendall Richards (.732)

r u n s B at t e di n / g a m e

18th, Kendall Richards (0.97)

wa l k s / g a m e

22nd, Erin Field (0.53)

t e a m d o u B l ep l aYs / g a m e

8th, 0.45

t e a m h o m e r u n s / g a m e

16th, 0.48


23rd, 1.33

1999


18th, Lisa Klam (0.24)


22nd, 1.45 ERA

t e a m s to l e nB a s e s / g a m e

26th, 1.78

2001

d o u B l e s / g a m e

17th, Kelly Ferguson (0.31)


18th, Jessica Slataper (8.6)


11th, 2.10

t e a m B at t i n gav e r ag e

33rd, .282

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T-8th, Selena Collins (.28)


T-15th, Selena Collins (.712)


T-22nd, Jessica Slataper (8.3)

t e a mF i e l d i n g p c t.

T-14th (.970)

t e a m h o m e r u n s / g a m e

28th (0.66)

2003


5th, Jana James (0.36)

wa l k s / g a m e

7th, Selena Collins (0.7)

2004

s to l e n B a s e s

2nd, Sharonda McDonald (47)


39th, Jessica Kapchinski (1.18)

2005

s to l e n B a s e s

1st, Sharonda McDonald (48)


5th, Amanda Scarborough (0.73)

B at t i n g av e r ag e

27th, Amanda Scarborough (.405)29th, Megan Gibson (.405)


19th, Jana James (0.32)

2007

t r i p l e s / g a m e

12th, Amanda Scarborough (.10)


11th, Amanda Scarborough (1.17)40th, Megan Gibson (1.54)

s to l e n B a s e s / g a m e

16th, Sharonda McDonald (.62)

v i c to r i e s

16th, Amanda Scarborough (26)

wa l k s / g a m e

5th, Megan Gibson (.85)



r u n s / g a m e

21st, Sharonda McDonald (1.00)


6th, 1.34

t e a m t r i p l e s /g a m e

35th, .22

t e a m F i e l d i n g p c t.

25th, .971


40th, 5.10


10th, .767


9th, 1.92

2008


22nd, Megan Gibson (1.2)36th, Rhiannon Kliesing (1.4)

s t r i k e o u t s / g a m e

47th, Megan Gibson (7.9)

w i n s

3rd, Megan Gibson (41)

wa l k s


h i ts a l lo w e d / g a m e


t r i p l e s

41st, Natalie Villarreal (4)

o n B a s e p c t.


s ac r i F i c e F l i e s

20th, Natalie Villarreal (4)

t e a m B at t i n g av e r ag e

41st, 0.29

t e a m e a r n e d r u n av e r ag e

13th, 1.33

t e a m F i e l d i n g p c t.

1st, 0.983


37th, 4.96


5th, 0.851


30th, 1.4


37th, 0.441

All statistics from final NCAA season statistcs

Jana James

h i t BY a p i tc h / g a m e

24st, Adrian Gregory (.18)



r u n s B at t e d i n /g a m e


r u n s / g a m e

3rd, Sharonda McDonald (1.04)18th, Megan Gibson (.93)



w i n s

22nd, Amanda Scarborough (26)

t e a m B at t i n g av e r ag e

1st, .336

t e a md o u B l e s / g a m e

16th, 1.47

t e a mh o m e r u n s / g a m e

23rd, 0.91


4th, 348 runs


5th, .509


1st, 2.65

t e a mw i n / lo s s p c t.

3rd, .825

2006

wa l k s / g a m e


s av e s

T-12th, Lisa Gorzycki (4)

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Overall Record Big 12 Conference RecordYear W L T Pct. W L T Pct. Finish Postseason

d r. m i l d r e d l i t t l e 1972-73 --- ---------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------

k aY d o n / to BY c r o w 1973-74 --- ---------------------- ------------------------- 1st District, 7th State

k aY d o n 1974-75 --- ---------------------- ------------------------- 2nd Zone, 2nd State1975-76 15 14 – .517 ------------------------- 2nd State

d i a n e Q u i t ta 1976-77 31 9 – .775 ------------------------- 2nd State, 5th Regionals

d i a n e J u s t i c e / d o n s m i t h 1977-78 33 20 – .623 ------------------------- 5th State

B i l l g a l lo waY 1978-79 58 20 – .744 ------------------------- 2nd State, 2nd Regionals, 5th AIAW1979-80 72 16 – .818 ------------------------- 2nd State, 1st Regionals, 3rd AIAW1980-81 78 12 – .867 ------------------------- 1st State, 1st Regionals, 4th AIAW

B o B B r o c k 1981-82 84 9 – .903 ------------------------- 1st State, 1st Regionals, 1st AIAW1983 41 11 – .788 ------------------------- 1st NCAA1984 51 18 – .739 ------------------------- 2nd NCAA1985 45 12 – .789 ------------------------- Regionals1986 41 13 – .759 ------------------------- 2nd NCAA1987 56 8 – .875 ------------------------- 1st NCAA1988 43 21 – .672 ------------------------- 5th NCAA1989 31 27 – .534 ------------------------- ------------------------- 1990 47 20 – .701 ------------------------- Regionals1991 46 15 – .754 ------------------------- Regionals1992 41 19 – .683 ------------------------- -------------------------1993 38 14 – .731 ------------------------- -------------------------1994 56 20 – .737 ------------------------- Regionals1995 29 27 – .518 ------------------------- -------------------------1996 39 21 – .650 11 11 – .500 5th Regionals

J o e va n s 1997 37 29 – .561 7 9 – .438 6th -------------------------1998 32 25 2 .542 6 10 1 .382 7th -------------------------1999 41 22 - .651 7 11 - .389 7th Regionals2000 32 23 - .582 8 10 - .444 4th (T) Regionals2001 32 19 - .627 7 11 - .389 7th2002 40 18 - .690 9 9 - .500 5th Regionals2003 38 22 - .633 10 8 - .556 5th Regionals 2004 33 22 - .600 13 3 - .812 2nd Regionals2005 47 10 - .825 14 4 - .778 1st Super Regionals2006 34 19 - .642 11 6 - .647 4th Regionals2007 46 14 - .767 12 6 - .667 4th WCWS2008 57 10 - .850 17 1 - .944 2nd WCWS

1980-81Coach: Bill Galloway

record ............................ 78-12

Fall09 - 10 A Baylor ...................................W 12 009 - 10 A Baylor ...................................W 4 009 - 12 N % San Angelo .........................W 2 009 - 12 N % Sam Houston State ........W 5 009 - 12 N % Texas Wesleyan .................W 5 009 - 13 N % Texas-Arlington ................W 3 009 - 13 N % Oklahoma ...........................W 4 309 - 13 N % Oklahoma State ..............W 4 109 - 19 N ^ Baylor ...................................W 5 009 - 19 N ^ Sam Houston State ........W 7 009 - 19 N ^ Oklahoma ...........................W 2 109 - 20 N ^ Texas-Arlington ................W 5 009 - 21 A ^ Stephen F. Austin .............W 5 309 - 21 N ^ Texas-Arlington ................W 3 009 - 26 N ! West Texas State ..............W 5 009 - 26 N ! Baylor ...................................W 2 109 - 26 N ! Oklahoma ...........................W 13 310 - 03 N $ Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 210 - 03 N $ Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 010 - 03 N $ Texas Woman’s ..................W 2 010 - 04 N $ West Texas State ..............W 7 110 - 04 N $ Sam Houston State ........W 4 010 - 10 A St. Mary’s .............................W 4 210 - 10 A St. Mary’s .............................W 5 010 - 16 N * Stephen F. Austin .............W 4 010 - 16 N * Texas-Arlington ................W 2 010 - 17 N * Sam Houston State ........W 2 0

26-1 % San Antonio Invitational, San Antonio, Texas^ SFA Invitational, Nacogdoches, Texas! Denton Tournament, Denton, Texas$ Sam Houston Invitational, Killeen, Texas* St Championships, Amarillo, Texas

spring02 - 27 H Texas Woman’s ..................W 3 002 - 27 H Texas Woman’s ..................W 1 002 - 28 H Texas-Arlington ................W 2 102 - 28 H Texas-Arlington ................W 13 003 - 06 A Texas Woman’s ..................W 8 203 - 06 A Texas Woman’s ..................W 2 103 - 07 A Texas-Arlington ................W 3 103 - 07 A Texas-Arlington ................W 1 003 - 12 A Sam Houston State ........ L 2 403 - 18 A Kansas ..................................W 5 003 - 18 A Kansas ..................................W 7 003 - 19 N % Northern Colorado ..........W 8 003 - 19 N % Kansas State ......................W 1 003 - 19 N % Nebraska-Omaha .............W 3 003 - 19 N % Illinois ...................................W 7 103 - 20 N % New Mexico .......................W 2 003 - 20 N % Oklahoma State ...............W 2 103 - 21 A % Oklahoma ........................... L 0 103 - 21 N % Western Illinois ................. L 1 203 - 25 H Indiana .................................W 4 003 - 25 H Indiana .................................W 4 103 - 27 N ^ Iowa State ..........................W 3 003 - 27 N ^ West Texas State ..............W 3 203 - 28 N ^ California .............................W 1 003 - 28 N ^ Western Michigan............W 5 103 - 28 N ^ Missouri ...............................W 2 003 - 28 N ^ Michigan State .................W 4 204 - 03 H LSU .......................................W 4 004 - 03 H LSU .......................................W 8 204 - 07 H Sam Houston State ........ L 1 204 - 07 H Sam Houston State ........W 9 004 - 10 H ! UCLA ..................................... L 1 204 - 11 H ! Cal State Fullerton ..........W 1 004 - 11 H ! Texas Woman’s .................W 3 204 - 12 H ! Kansas ..................................W 2 004 - 12 H ! Arizona State .................... L 2 504 - 14 H Cal State Fullerton ..........W 3 204 - 14 H Cal State Fullerton ..........W 5 0

04 - 18 N $ LSU .......................................W 1 004 - 18 N $ Central Oklahoma State ...W 6 104 - 18 N $ San Angelo .........................W 7 004 - 19 N $ Baylor ...................................W 1 004 - 19 N $ Sam Houston State ........W 2 104 - 19 N $ West Texas State ..............W 3 204 - 23 A Indiana ................................. L 0 104 - 24 N = Indiana State ....................W 5 004 - 24 N = Western Michigan............ L 0 104 - 24 N = Ball State ............................W 5 004 - 25 N = Northern Illinois ...............W 1 004 - 25 N = Western Michigan............ L 0 404 - 25 A = Indiana .................................W 2 105 - 02 H Baylor ...................................W 10 005 - 02 H Baylor ...................................W 9 105 - 08 N < McNeese State .................W 7 005 - 09 N < Texas Woman’s ..................W 7 1

05 - 10 N < Texas-Arlington ................W 4 005 - 10 N < Texas-Arlington ................W 1 005 - 21 N * Utah State .......................... L 1 205 - 22 N * South Carolina ..................W 4 005 - 22 N * Western Michigan............W 1 005 - 23 N * Michigan State .................W 3 205 - 23 N * Missouri ...............................W 1 005 - 23 N * UCLA ..................................... L 0 1

52-11 % Oklahoma Invitational, Norman, Okla.^ TWU Invitational, Denton, Texas! Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas$ UTA Invitational, Arlington, Texas= Indiana Invitational, Bloomington, Ind.< SWAIAW Regional, Shawnee, Okla.* AIAW Championships, Norman, Okla.

1981-82Coach: Bob Brock

record ............................... 84-9

a i aw n at i o n a lc h a m p i o n s

Fall09 - 08 A Baylor ...................................W 11 009 - 08 A Baylor ...................................W 2 109 - 11 H % Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 209 - 11 H % Baylor ...................................W 7 309 - 12 H % St. Mary’s .............................W 4 009 - 12 H % Texas Tech ...........................W 1 009 - 12 H % Texas Wesleyan .................W 8 009 - 12 H % Sam Houston State .......W 1 009 - 18 N ^ Oklahoma State ............... L 0 309 - 18 A ^ Texas-Arlington ................W 7 009 - 18 N ^ Texas Wesleyan .................W 4 009 - 18 N ^ West Texas State ..............W 6 009 - 19 N ^ San Angelo .........................W 8 009 - 19 N ^ Louisiana Tech ...................W 1 009 - 19 N ^ Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 009 - 19 N ^ Midwestern ........................W 10 009 - 25 N ! Louisiana Tech ...................W 7 009 - 25 N ! Nicholls State ...................W 10 009 - 25 N ! Sam Houston State ........W 2 009 - 26 N ! Texas-Pan American ........W 15 009 - 26 A ! Stephen F. Austin .............W 6 009 - 26 N ! Texas-Arlington ................W 4 110 - 02 N $ Baylor ...................................W 1 010 - 02 N $ Texas-Pan American ........W 15 010 - 02 N $ Stephen F. Austin .............W 5 010 - 03 N $ St. Mary’s .............................W 10 010 - 03 N $ San Angelo .........................W 8 010 - 03 N $ Sam Houston State ........W 2 010 - 08 A Oklahoma City Univ. .......W 7 010 - 09 N = Oklahoma City Univ. .......W Forfeit10 - 09 N = Wichita State ....................W 10 010 - 09 N = West Texas State ..............W 1 010 - 10 N = SW Missouri State ............W 1 010 - 10 A = Oklahoma State ................W 2 010 - 16 N # West Texas State ...............W 8 110 - 16 N # Sam Houston State.......... L 0 110 - 18 N # Texas-Arlington ................W 1 010 - 18 N # Sam Houston State..........W 4 010 - 18 N # Sam Houston State..........W 3 0

36-3 % Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas^ UTA Invitational, Arlington, Texas! SFA Invitational, Nacogdoches, Texas$ Sam Houston Tournament, Killeen, Texas= Oklahoma State Tournament, Stillwater, Okla.# TAIAW Tournament, Conroe, Texas

spring03 - 02 H Baylor ...................................W 3 003 - 02 H Baylor ...................................W 1 003 - 09 H Oklahoma ...........................W 3 003 - 09 H Oklahoma ...........................W 1 003 - 11 A Texas-Arlington ................W 3 003 - 11 A Texas-Arlington ................W 3 103 - 16 N Kansas ..................................W 6 003 - 16 N Kansas ..................................W 1 003 - 17 N Missouri ............................... L 0 103 - 18 N % Southern Illinois ...............W 8 003 - 18 N % Wyoming ............................W 4 103 - 19 N % Kansas ..................................W 10 103 - 19 N % Arizona State .....................W 3 003 - 20 N % Western Illinois .................W 1 003 - 20 N % Missouri ...............................W 1 003 - 20 N % Kansas ..................................W 4 103 - 25 N ^ New Mexico .......................W 1 003 - 25 N ^ Indiana .................................W 4 003 - 26 N ^ Indiana .................................W 7 103 - 26 A ^ Texas-Arlington ................W 2 103 - 31 A Arizona State .....................W 4 104 - 02 N ! U.S. International ............. L 0 104 - 02 N ! Fresno State .......................W 3 1

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04 - 03 N ! Utah State ...........................W 4 004 - 03 N ! California .............................W 1 004 - 03 N ! U.S. International .............W 1 004 - 03 N ! Arizona State .....................W 2 004 - 04 A ! Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 104 - 11 H Minnesota...........................W 14 004 - 11 H Minnesota...........................W 3 004 - 13 H Texas-Arlington ................W 1 004 - 13 H Texas-Arlington ................W 6 004 - 14 A Sam Houston State..........W 2 104 - 14 A Sam Houston State.......... L 4 504 - 17 A St. Mary’s .............................W 5 004 - 17 A St. Mary’s .............................W 9 304 - 27 H Sam Houston State..........W 5 004 - 27 H Sam Houston State.......... L 0 304 - 30 N Idaho State .........................W 2 104 - 30 N Idaho State .........................W 1 004 - 30 N Utah ......................................W 5 205 - 01 A Utah State ...........................W 11 305 - 01 A Utah State ...........................W 2 005 - 07 N < Stephen F. Austin .............W 11 005 - 07 N < Oklahoma State ................W 1 005 - 08 N < Oklahoma State ................W 8 105 - 20 N * U.S. International ............. L 0 105 - 21 N * SW Missouri State ............W 2 005 - 21 N * Western Illinois .................W 1 005 - 22 N * California .............................W 5 005 - 22 N * Central Michigan ..............W 2 005 - 23 N * Michigan .............................W 5 005 - 25 N * Oklahoma State ................W 4 105 - 25 N * Oklahoma State ................W 5 3

48-6 % Oklahoma Invitational, Norman, Okla.^ UTA Invitational, Arlington, Texas! Pony Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.< SWAIAW Regional, Edmond, Okla.* AIAW Championships, Norman, Okla.

1983Coach: Bob Brock

record ............................ 41-11

n c a a c h a m p i o n s

03 - 01 H Evansville ............................W 11 003 - 01 H Evansville ............................W 5 003 - 08 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 103 - 08 A Texas-Arlington ................W 5 003 - 09 H Louisiana Tech ..........(10) W 2 103 - 09 H Louisiana Tech ...................W 4 003 - 17 N % Ohio State ...........................W 5 003 - 18 N % Illinois State ......................W 2 003 - 18 N % Missouri ...............................W 4 003 - 18 N % Oklahoma State ................ L 0 203 - 20 A Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 103 - 20 A Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 303 - 23 A Cal Poly Pomona ..............W 1 003 - 23 A Cal Poly Pomona ....... (9) W 1 003 - 25 N ^ Utah ......................................W 2 003 - 25 N ^ Arizona .......................(12) W 1 003 - 26 N ^ Cal Poly Pomona ..............W 1 003 - 26 A ^ Cal State Fullerton ...........W 2 003 - 27 N ^ Cal Poly Pomona .....(10) L 2 303 - 27 N ^ Cal Poly Pomona .............. L 0 303 - 29 H Texas-Arlington ................W 1 003 - 29 H Texas-Arlington ................W 7 404 - 08 H ! Baylor ...................................W 2 004 - 08 H ! Weber State .......................W 6 004 - 08 H ! New Mexico .......................W 3 004 - 09 H ! McNeese State ..................W 7 004 - 09 H ! Sam Houston State..........W 3 104 - 10 H ! Utah State ...........................W 2 004 - 13 A Sam Houston State..........W 2 004 - 13 A Sam Houston State..........W 2 004 - 14 A West Texas State ...............W 6 304 - 14 A West Texas State ...............W 7 604 - 15 N $ Cal State Fullerton .............W 1 004 - 15 N $ Cal State Fullerton ....(19) L 1 204 - 16 A $ New Mexico .......................W 4 004 - 16 A $ New Mexico ....................... L 0 204 - 17 N $ Oklahoma State ................W 3 104 - 17 N $ Oklahoma State ................W 2 004 - 22 N = Creighton ............................ L 0 104 - 23 N = California .............................W 5 0

04 - 23 A = Nebraska .............................W 5 004 - 24 N = Creighton ............................W 1 004 - 29 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 104 - 29 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 105 - 13 H < Kansas ..................................W 5 005 - 14 H < Kansas ..................................W 1 005 - 25 N * South Carolina .................. L 0 205 - 27 N * Indiana .................................W 1 005 - 28 N * Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 005 - 29 N * Cal State Fullerton ...........W 1 005 - 30 N * UCLA ............................(14) W 1 005 - 30 N * Cal State Fullerton ..(12) W 2 0

41-11 % Sooner Invitational, Norman, Okla.^ Pony Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.! Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas$ Diamond Invitational, Albuquerque, N.M.= Nebraska Invitational, Lincoln, Neb.< First Round, NCAA Tournament, College Station, Texas* NCAA College World Series, Omaha, Neb.


record ............................ 51-1802 - 27 H Evansville ............................W 8 003 - 01 N % Ball State .............................W 1 003 - 01 N % Florida A&M .......................W 14 003 - 01 A % Nicholls State.....................W 6 003 - 02 N % Florida State .......................W 6 203 - 02 N % Louisiana Tech ...................W 1 003 - 02 N % Northwestern ....................W 2 003 - 06 A Texas-Arlington ................W 5 003 - 06 A Texas-Arlington ................W 12 003 - 08 H Baylor ................................... L 0 303 - 08 H Baylor ...................................W 2 103 - 11 H Missouri ...............................W 2 003 - 11 H Missouri ............................... L 0 103 - 16 N ^ New Mexico .......................W 2 003 - 16 N ^ Southern Illinois ...............W 1 003 - 16 N ^ Iowa State ...........................W 4 003 - 17 N ^ Baylor ...................................W 8 003 - 17 A ^ Oklahoma ...........................W 1 003 - 17 N ^ Oklahoma State .......(13) W 1 003 - 20 H Texas-Arlington ................W 3 203 - 20 H Texas-Arlington ................W 4 103 - 23 N ! Minnesota...........................W 1 003 - 23 N ! Cal Poly Pomona .............. L 0 403 - 24 N ! Utah ............................... (8) L 1 203 - 28 H Michigan .............................W 2 003 - 28 H Michigan ............................. L 4 503 - 29 H Nebraska .............................W 5 003 - 29 H Nebraska .............................W 1 003 - 30 N $ Nebraska .............................W 3 203 - 30 N $ Stephen F. Austin.... (13) L 1 303 - 30 N $ Sam Houston State..........W 7 203 - 31 N $ Stephen F. Austin....... (8) W 1 003 - 31 N $ Nebraska .............................W 3 103 - 31 A $ Baylor ...................................W 4 204 - 05 H Cal State Fullerton ........... L 1 304 - 06 H = Baylor ...................................W 4 204 - 06 H = Sam Houston State.......... L 0 304 - 07 H = McNeese State ..................W 5 004 - 07 H = Texas Tech ........................... L 0 104 - 08 H = Louisiana Tech ............ (8) W 3 104 - 08 H = Cal State Fullerton ...........W 4 004 - 10 A Baylor ...................................W 6 104 - 10 A Baylor ................................... L 1 404 - 13 N + Utah ......................................W 1 004 - 13 N + South Carolina ..................W 9 004 - 14 N + Nicholls State..................... L 0 104 - 14 A + Louisiana Tech ..........(12) L 0 104 - 16 H McNeese State ..................W 9 004 - 16 H McNeese State ..................W 2 004 - 19 A McNeese State ........... (9) L 0 104 - 19 A McNeese State ..................W 5 204 - 27 N # U.S. International .............W 3 104 - 27 N # Nevada-Reno .....................W 10 204 - 27 N # Brigham Young .................W 5 404 - 28 A # Utah ...................................... L 2 404 - 28 N # Utah State ...........................W 8 105 - 02 A Sam Houston State..........W 5 005 - 02 A Sam Houston State.......... L 2 305 - 12 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 1 005 - 12 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 1 0

05 - 17 A < Cal State Fullerton ............. L 0 505 - 18 A < Cal State Fullerton ....(15) W 2 105 - 18 A < Cal State Fullerton .............W 5 205 - 24 N * Cal Poly Pomona .....(25) W 1 005 - 26 N * Nebraska .............................W 5 205 - 28 N * UCLA .....................................W 2 005 - 28 N * Northwestern ...........(14) W 1 005 - 29 N * UCLA ..................................... L 0 105 - 29 N * UCLA ..................................... L 0 1

51-18 % Nicholls State Tournament, Thibodaux, La.^ Oklahoma Invitational, Norman, Okla.! Pony Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.$ Baylor Invitational, Waco, Texas= Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas+ Louisiana Tech Invitational, Ruston, La.# Utah Tournament, Salt Lake City, Utah< NCAA Regionals* College World Series, Omaha, Neb.


record ............................ 45-12 SW Texas State ..................W 2 0 Lamar ...................................W 5 0 Sam Houston State..........W 1 003 - 02 N % Sam Houston State..........W 5 003 - 02 N % SW Louisiana .....................W 1 003 - 02 N % Evansville ............................W 14 003 - 03 N % St. Louis ...............................W 5 003 - 03 N % Missouri ...............................W 7 003 - 03 N % Baylor ...................................W 1 003 - 03 N % Louisiana Tech ...................W 5 003 - 09 N Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 403 - 09 A Fresno State .......................W 1 003 - 10 N Cal State Fullerton ........... L 1 203 - 10 A Fresno State .......................W 5 103 - 11 A California .............................W 6 003 - 11 A California ............................. L 0 103 - 12 N Pacific ................................... L 0 103 - 12 N Pacific ...................................W 3 2 Oklahoma City Univ. .......W 7 303 - 15 H ^ Western Michigan............W 2 003 - 15 N ^ Missouri ............................... L 0 103 - 15 N ^ Creighton ............................W 6 003 - 16 A ^ Oklahoma ........................... L 0 103 - 19 H Missouri ...............................W 2 103 - 19 H Missouri ...............................W 9 003 - 26 H Sam Houston State..........W 2 003 - 26 H Sam Houston State..........W 1 003 - 29 H ! Northeast Louisiana ........W 12 003 - 29 H ! South Florida .....................W 3 003 - 29 H ! SW Missouri State ............ L 3 503 - 30 H ! New Mexico .......................W 5 003 - 30 H ! Stanford ...............................W 6 103 - 30 H ! LouisianaTech ...................W 9 003 - 31 H ! Baylor ...................................W 8 003 - 31 H ! Florida State .......................W 2 103 - 31 H ! Utah State ...........................W 1 004 - 03 A Baylor ...................................W 2 004 - 03 A Baylor ...................................W 2 004 - 13 A New Mexico ....................... L 2 304 - 13 A New Mexico .......................W 5 204 - 14 A New Mexico .......................W 5 404 - 14 A New Mexico .......................W 5 004 - 23 H Baylor ...................................W 3 004 - 23 H Baylor ...................................W 5 104 - 26 N $ Kansas ..................................W 1 004 - 26 N $ Illinois State........................W 5 204 - 26 N $ Oklahoma City ..................W 1 004 - 27 N $ Creighton ............................W 3 004 - 28 N $ Illinois State........................W 7 004 - 28 A $ Missouri ...............................W 1 005 - 11 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 105 - 11 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 205 - 12 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 7 005 - 12 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 7 005 - 16 H < Louisiana Tech ...................W 3 005 - 17 H < Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 505 - 17 H < Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 1

45-12 % Mardi Gras Tourney, Houma, La.^ Oklahoma Tournament, Norman, Okla.! Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas$ Missouri Invitational, Columbia, Mo.< NCAA Regional, College Station, Texas


record ............................ 41-1302 - 28 N % Mississippi State ...............W 6 002 - 28 N % Toledo ..................................W 2 002 - 28 N % SW Texas State ..................W 10 003 - 01 N % SW Louisiana .....................W 2 103 - 01 A % Nicholls State.....................W 1 003 - 01 N % Louisiana Tech ...................W 6 003 - 08 N ^ SW Texas State ..................W 5 003 - 08 A ^ Baylor ...................................W 7 003 - 09 N ^ Texas-Arlington ................W 6 003 - 09 N ^ Creighton ............................ L 1 303 - 15 A UCLA .....................................W 1 003 - 16 A Cal State Fullerton .... (12) L 0 103 - 16 A Cal State Fullerton .....(12) W 1 003 - 19 N California ............................. L 0 103 - 20 N ! UNLV .....................................W 5 303 - 20 N ! California .............................W 1 003 - 21 N ! Long Beach State ............W 1 003 - 22 N ! Arizona ................................W 6 003 - 23 N ! Fresno State ....................... L 1 203 - 26 H Minnesota...........................W 4 003 - 27 N $ Utah ......................................W 2 003 - 27 N $ Oklahoma State ................W 5 203 - 28 N $ Florida State ....................... L 0 103 - 28 N $ Adelphi ................................W 4 103 - 28 N $ Arizona State ..................... L 0 203 - 22 H SW Louisiana ..................... L 2 303 - 22 H Utah ......................................W 3 004 - 03 H Baylor ...................................W 3 004 - 03 H Baylor ...................................W 3 004 - 08 A Southwest Texas ...............W 5 104 - 08 A Southwest Texas ...............W 6 004 - 12 A South Carolina .................. L 0 204 - 12 A South Carolina ..................W 3 104 - 13 A South Carolina ..................W 7 304 - 13 A South Carolina ..................W 1 004 - 15 A Texas-Arlington ................W 2 104 - 15 A Texas-Arlington ................W 1 004 - 20 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 004 - 20 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 1 004 - 22 H Texas-Arlington ................W 2 104 - 22 H Texas-Arlington ................W 1 004 - 24 N = Oklahoma ........................... L 1 304 - 24 N = Brigham Young .................W 4 005 - 03 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 105 - 03 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 105 - 04 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 4 005 - 04 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 8 005 - 16 H < Kansas ..................................W 1 005 - 16 H < Kansas ..................................W 1 005 - 22 N * Creighton ............................W 1 005 - 23 N * Indiana .................................W 6 005 - 24 N * Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 305 - 24 N * California .............................W 1 005 - 25 N * Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 3

41-13 % Bayou Classic, Houma, La.^ Baylor Invitational, Waco, Texas! Pony Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.$ Houston Classic, Houston, Texas= Coca-Cola Classic, Logan, Utah< NCAA Regional, College Station, Texas* NCAA Softball Championship, Omaha, Neb.


record ............................... 56-8

n c a a c h a m p i o n s

03 - 01 N % Texas-Arlington ................W 2 003 - 01 A % SW Louisiana .....................W 4 003 - 06 H ^ Baylor ...................................W 9 203 - 06 H ^ Oklahoma State ................W 3 003 - 06 H ^ South Carolina ..................W 2 103 - 07 H ^ Sam Houston State..........W 1 003 - 07 H ^ Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 403 - 07 H ^ Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 503 - 11 N Creighton ............................W 1 003 - 11 N Creighton ............................W 6 2

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03 - 12 N ! Northern Illinois ...............W 2 003 - 12 N ! Baylor ...................................W 15 103 - 12 N ! Oklahoma State ................W 3 003 - 13 N ! Central Michigan ..............W 4 203 - 13 N ! Northeast Louisiana ........W 8 003 - 14 N ! New Mexico .......................W 5 003 - 14 N ! Central Michigan ..............W 6 103 - 14 N ! Illinois State........................W 2 003 - 17 N Kansas ..................................W 5 003 - 17 N Kansas .........................(11) W 10 303 - 18 N Indiana .................................W 2 103 - 19 N $ Colorado State ..................W 6 403 - 19 N $ Baylor ...................................W 6 003 - 19 N $ Kansas ..................................W 7 103 - 20 N $ Texas-Arlington ................W 4 003 - 20 N $ Oklahoma City U. .............W 7 003 - 21 N $ Nebraska ...................... (9) W 1 003 - 21 N $ Arizona State .....................W 9 103 - 23 H Nebraska ............................. L 2 303 - 23 H Nebraska ...................... (8) W 2 103 - 26 N = Cal Poly Pomona ..............W 3 003 - 27 N = San Diego State ................W 7 203 - 27 N = Michigan .............................W 5 103 - 28 N = Arizona .......................(10) L 0 103 - 31 H Texas-Arlington .............. W 2 003 - 31 H Texas-Arlington ......... (8) W 1 004 - 02 H Utah State ........................... L 0 104 - 04 H Utah State ...........................W 2 004 - 04 H Utah State ........................... L 1 204 - 07 H SW Texas State ..................W 2 004 - 07 H SW Texas State ..................W 5 004 - 16 A Sam Houston State..........W 6 004 - 16 A Sam Houston State..........W 7 004 - 18 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 3 004 - 18 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 4 004 - 19 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 7 104 - 19 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 4 604 - 24 N < Arizona State .....................W 5 404 - 24 N < Arizona ................................W 9 304 - 25 A < New Mexico .......................W 3 004 - 25 A < New Mexico .......................W 9 404 - 26 N < South Florida .....................W 7 204 - 26 N < New Mexico State ............W 1 004 - 29 A Baylor ...................................W 8 004 - 29 A Baylor ...................................W 4 105 - 05 H Sam Houston State..........W 2 005 - 15 H + Louisiana Tech ...................W 4 005 - 16 H + Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 105 - 21 N * Central Michigan ..............W 3 005 - 22 N * Cal State Fullerton ....(13) W 2 105 - 23 N * UCLA ..................................... L 0 105 - 23 N * Nebraska .............................W 4 005 - 24 N * UCLA .....................................W 1 005 - 24 N * UCLA .....................................W 4 1

56-8 % Louisiana Classics Tournament, Lafayette, La.^ Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas! Sooner Invitational, Norman, Okla.$ Houston Classic, Houston, Texas= PONY Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.< Diamond Invitational, Albuquerque, N.M.+ NCAA Regionals, College Station, Texas* NCAA College World Series, Omaha, Neb.


record ............................ 43-2102 - 27 N % Nicholls State.....................W 8 002 - 27 A % SW Louisiana ..................... L 0 102 - 27 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 7 202 - 28 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 3 002 - 28 A % SW Louisiana .....................W 3 103 - 04 H ^ McNeese State ..................W 9 103 - 04 H ^ Oklahoma State ................W 3 203 - 05 H ^ Sam Houston State .... (8) L 2 303 - 05 H ^ South Carolina ..................W 3 003 - 06 H ^ Illinois State........................ L 1 203 - 06 H ^ Louisiana Tech ........... (8) L 0 203 - 08 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 103 - 08 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 1 203 - 14 N Kansas ........................ (11) L 1 203 - 15 N Indiana .................................W 3 103 - 15 N Indiana ................................. L 1 203 - 18 N ! Colorado State ..................W 8 3

03 - 18 N ! Nicholls State.....................W 3 103 - 18 N ! Iowa State ...........................W 4 303 - 18 N ! Texas-Arlington ................W 4 203 - 19 N ! Bowling Green .................. L 3 903 - 19 N ! Kansas ..................................W 7 003 - 19 N ! Indiana .................................W 4 103 - 20 N Nebraska .............................W 4 103 - 22 H Bowling Green ..................W 5 003 - 22 H Bowling Green ..................W 1 003 - 24 N $ Minnesota...........................W 3 203 - 24 N $ Oregon State .....................W 3 103 - 25 N $ U.S. International ............. L 4 503 - 25 A $ Cal State Fullerton ...........W 3 003 - 26 N $ San Francisco .....................W 11 003 - 26 N $ Minnesota...........................W 5 303 - 27 N $ Long Beach State ..... (8) L 0 104 - 06 H Stephen F. Austin ....(12) W 5 404 - 06 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 8 104 - 08 A Baylor ...................................W 2 004 - 08 A Baylor ...................................W 2 104 - 09 A St. Mary’s .............................W 5 104 - 09 A St. Mary’s ............................. L 0 304 - 12 A SW Texas State ..................W 4 104 - 12 A SW Texas State ..................W 4 004 - 13 H Sam Houston State..........W 10 204 - 13 H Sam Houston State..........W 5 104 - 19 H Texas-Arlington ................W 1 004 - 19 H Texas-Arlington ................W 4 104 - 20 A Sam Houston State.......... L 3 404 - 20 A Sam Houston State..........W 5 304 - 23 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 404 - 23 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 204 - 26 H SW Texas State ..................W 7 604 - 26 H SW Texas State ..................W 6 104 - 28 N = Arizona ........................ (8) L 0 104 - 28 N = Southern Utah ..................W 8 004 - 29 N = Utah ......................................W 5 304 - 29 A = Utah State ........................... L 1 404 - 30 N = Utah ......................................W 2 004 - 30 N = Arizona ......................... (9) L 0 105 - 20 N < Florida State .......................W 1 005 - 20 A < Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 005 - 22 A < Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 405 - 22 A < Louisiana Tech ............ (8) W 1 005 - 25 N * Fresno State ....................... L 0 305 - 27 N * Northern Illinois ...............W 3 005 - 28 N * Cal Poly Pomona .............. L 0 1

43-21 % Louisiana Classics Tournament, Lafayette, La.^ Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas! Houston Classic, Houston, Texas$ PONY Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.= Utah State Coca-Cola Classic, Logan, Utah< NCAA South Regional, Ruston, La.* NCAA Softball Championship, Sunnyvale, Calif.


record ............................ 31-2702 - 21 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 3 502 - 21 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 202 - 25 N % Northwestern State .........W 6 002 - 25 A % SW Louisiana .....................W 2 102 - 25 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 3 002 - 26 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 7 002 - 26 N % Northwestern State .........W 5 003 - 01 H SW Texas State ..................W 2 003 - 01 H SW Texas State ..................W 2 103 - 03 H ^ McNeese State ..................W 6 003 - 04 H ^ South Carolina .................. L 1 1103 - 09 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 303 - 10 H ! Ball State .............................W 7 203 - 10 H ! Utah State ...........................W 6 103 - 11 H ! Stephen F. Austin .............W 5 403 - 11 H ! SW Louisiana .....................W 2 003 - 12 H ! Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 1103 - 12 H ! SW Texas State ..................W 4 003 - 14 N Indiana ................................. L 5 603 - 14 N Indiana ................................. L 3 603 - 17 N $ Oklahoma ...........................W 5 303 - 17 N $ Utah State ........................... L 2 303 - 17 N $ Michigan ............................. L 1 403 - 18 N $ Arizona State ..................... L 3 4

03 - 18 A $ San Jose State ...................W 5 203 - 21 A Long Beach State ............ L 1 303 - 21 A Long Beach State ............ L 1 203 - 22 A = Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 203 - 23 N = Akron ....................................W 7 603 - 23 N = Utah ...................................... L 0 803 - 24 N = California .............................W 1 003 - 26 N = Fresno State ....................... L 1 304 - 04 H Texas-Arlington ................W 1 004 - 04 H Texas-Arlington ................W 2 104 - 05 A SW Texas State ..................W 5 304 - 05 A SW Texas State ..................W 5 204 - 11 A Stephen F. Austin ............. L 0 204 - 11 A Stephen F. Austin ............ L 0 304 - 14 N < Western Illinois .................W 6 104 - 14 N < Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 304 - 14 N < Oklahoma State ................ L 1 404 - 15 N < Illinois State........................W 5 304 - 15 N < Iowa State ........................... L 5 604 - 15 N < Oklahoma ........................... L 4 704 - 19 H Sam Houston State..........W 3 204 - 19 H Sam Houston State..........W 6 004 - 21 A Northwestern State .........W 2 104 - 21 A Northwestern State .........W 7 104 - 23 A Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 104 - 23 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 4 804 - 25 A Sam Houston State.......... L 1 204 - 25 A Sam Houston State..........W 4 204 - 28 A Creighton ............................ L 0 204 - 28 A Creighton ............................ L 1 404 - 29 N Kansas ..................................W 2 104 - 30 N Kansas .................................. L 0 704 - 29 A Nebraska .............................W 3 204 - 30 A Nebraska ............................. L 2 4

31-27 % Louisiana Classics Tournament, Lafayette, La.^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas (cancelled

after two game due to rain)! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas$ National Invitational Softball Tournament, San Jose, Calif.= PONY Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.< Oklahoma State Cowgirl Hall of Fame Classic,

Oklahoma City, Okla.


record ............................ 47-2002 - 24 N % Northeast Louisiana ........W 2 102 - 24 A % SW Louisiana ..................... L 0 202 - 24 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 2 002 - 25 N % Northeast Louisiana ........W 1 002 - 25 N % SW Louisiana .............. (9) L 0 102 - 27 A Texas-Arlington ................W 3 102 - 27 A Texas-Arlington ................W 7 003 - 02 H ^ McNeese State ..................W 6 003 - 03 H ^ Stephen F. Austin .............W 8 403 - 03 H ^ Oklahoma State ......... (8) L 1 203 - 03 H ^ Long Beach State ............ L 0 503 - 04 H ^ Nebraska ............................. L 0 103 - 06 N Western Michigan............W 7 103 - 06 N Western Michigan............W 6 003 - 09 H ! SW Missouri State ............W 2 003 - 09 H ! Nicholls State.....................W 6 003 - 09 H ! Illinois State........................W 3 003 - 10 H ! Sam Houston State..........W 6 003 - 10 H ! Oklahoma City ..................W 2 0 University03 - 10 H ! SW Texas State ..................W 2 103 - 11 H ! Kansas ..................................W 2 103 - 11 H ! South Carolina .................. L 0 103 - 12 H Illinois State........................W 7 003 - 13 N Temple ......................... (8) W 2 103 - 13 N Creighton ............................W 3 003 - 15 N $ Temple ................................. L 0 703 - 15 N $ Kansas ..................................W 4 103 - 16 N $ Northern Illinois ...............W 8 003 - 16 N $ Southeastern La. ..............W 2 103 - 17 N $ Colorado State ..................W 9 003 - 17 N $ Ohio State ...........................W 4 303 - 17 N $ South Carolina ..................W 5 103 - 21 N = Cal Poly Pomona ..............W 3 003 - 22 N = U.S. International .............W 2 103 - 23 N = Oregon State .....................W 2 103 - 24 N = Bowling Green ..................W 3 0

03 - 24 N = Oklahoma State ...... (10) L 0 104 - 07 N < Nicholls State.....................W 1 004 - 07 A < South Carolina .................. L 4 1004 - 07 N < Furman ................................W 11 004 - 08 N < Nicholls State..................... L 1 404 - 08 N < Furman ................................W 4 004 - 10 A SW Texas State ..................W 4 104 - 10 A SW Texas State ..................W 1 004 - 13 N + Northeast Louisiana ........W 6 204 - 13 N + Arizona State ..................... L 0 104 - 14 N + Texas-Arlington ......... (8) W 1 004 - 14 N + Florida State ....................... L 1 304 - 14 A + Oklahoma State ................W 4 204 - 14 N + Sam Houston State (8) L 2 304 - 17 H Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 104 - 17 H Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 104 - 18 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 1 004 - 18 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 004 - 19 H SW Texas State ..................W 1 004 - 19 H SW Texas State ..................W 4 204 - 21 A Louisiana Tech ..........(11) W 1 004 - 21 A Louisiana Tech ................... L 1 304 - 22 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 4 104 - 22 A Northeast Louisiana ........W 3 104 - 27 N Indiana State .....................W 5 004 - 27 A Illinois State........................ L 2 604 - 28 N Indiana State ............. (8) L 1 204 - 28 A Illinois State........................W 1 004 - 29 A Illinois State........................W 2 005 - 18 N * Florida State ....................... L 0 505 - 18 A * SW Louisiana ..................... L 0 1

47-20 % Louisiana Classics Tournament, Lafayette, La.^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas$ Houston Classic, Houston, Texas= PONY Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.< South Carolina Round Robin, Columbia, S.C.+ Oklahoma State Cowgirl Hall of Fame Classic,

Oklahoma City, Okla.* NCAA Regional, Lafayette, La.


record ............................ 46-1502 - 15 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 8 002 - 15 N % Louisiana Tech ...................W 1 002 - 16 A % Northeast Louisiana ........W 3 102 - 16 N % McNeese State ..................W 3 002 - 16 N % Northwestern La. .............W 5 102 - 26 A Texas-Arlington ................W 5 102 - 26 A Texas-Arlington ................W 5 203 - 01 H ^ Northeast Louisisana ......W 7 103 - 01 H ^ Penn State ..........................W 17 003 - 01 H ^ Sam Houston State..........W 3 003 - 03 N ^ Missouri ...............................W 2 103 - 03 N ^ Cal State Fullerton ........... L 3 603 - 05 H Illinois State........................W 2 003 - 05 H Penn State ..........................W 4 203 - 06 H Central Michigan ..............W 2 003 - 06 H Central Michigan ..............W 2 003 - 08 H ! Northern Illinois ............... L 7 803 - 08 H ! Central Michigan .............. L 0 403 - 08 H ! Indiana State .....................W 2 003 - 09 H ! SW Missouri State ....(10) W 1 003 - 09 H ! Oklahoma City Univ. ....... L 1 603 - 09 H ! Sam Houston State..........W 12 003 - 09 H ! Penn State ..........................W 3 003 - 10 H ! SW Texas State..............W 4 003 - 10 H ! Kansas ..................................W 1 003 - 12 N Arizona ................................W 2 103 - 13 N Arizona ......................... (8) L 2 503 - 13 N Kansas .................................. L 0 203 - 13 N Kansas .................................. L 0 103 - 14 N $ Colorado State ..................W 2 003 - 14 N $ Southeast Louisiana........W 4 203 - 15 N $ Iowa State ...........................W 4 103 - 21 N = Oregon State .....................W 9 003 - 21 N = Fresno State ....................... L 0 203 - 22 N = Cal State Northridge .......W 2 103 - 22 N = Akron ....................................W 8 103 - 23 N = Minnesota...........................W 4 003 - 23 A = Cal State Fullerton ........... L 0 103 - 28 A SW Texas State ..................W 6 0

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03 - 28 A SW Texas State .................. L 1 304 - 02 A Sam Houston State..........W 6 104 - 02 A Sam Houston State..........W 11 104 - 05 N < Sam Houston State..........W 2 004 - 05 N < Nebraska .............................W 4 104 - 05 N < Creighton ............................ L 0 204 - 06 N < SW Missouri State ............W 1 004 - 06 A < Oklahoma State ................W 1 004 - 06 N < Texas-Arlington ........ (9) L 3 504 - 10 H Texas-Arlington ................W 4 004 - 10 H Texas-Arlington ................W 3 004 - 18 H SW Texas State ........... (9) W 1 004 - 18 H SW Texas State ..................W 8 004 - 26 A + New Mexico .......................W 1 004 - 26 A + New Mexico ....................... L 0 404 - 27 N + Nicholls State.....................W 15 204 - 27 N + Nicholls State.....................W 8 004 - 28 N + Iowa State ...........................W 4 104 - 28 N + South Carolina ..................W 2 105 - 17 H * Minnesota........................... L 0 305 - 17 H * Utah ......................................W 1 005 - 18 H * Utah ...................................... L 0 3

46-15 % Northeast Louisiana Classic, Monroe, La.^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas$ H.I.T. Tournament, Houston, Texas= PONY Tournament, Fullerton, Calif.< OSU Cowgirl Classic, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ New Mexico Tournament, Albuquerque, N.M.* NCAA Regional, College Station, Texas


record ............................ 41-1902 - 14 N California, #4 ...................... L 0 302 - 14 N Ohio State ...........................W 2 102 - 14 N UCLA, #1 .............................. L 3 502 - 15 N Cal-St Northridge .............W 4 302 - 15 A Arizona, #3.......................... L 1 402 - 16 N Arizona State, #14 ............ L 3 402 - 22 N % St. Louis ...............................W 8 002 - 22 N % Northwestern State .........W 8 002 - 22 A % Northeast Louisiana ........W 1 002 - 23 N % Southern Mississippi.......W 11 102 - 23 A % Northeast Louisiana ........W 3 002 - 23 N % Northwestern State .........W 2 003 - 06 H ^ Northeast Louisiana ........W 2 103 - 06 H ^ Ohio State ...........................W 4 303 - 06 H ^ Minnesota, #17 ................. L 0 203 - 07 H ^ Missouri, #6 ................. (9) L 0 103 - 07 H ^ Illinois State........................ L 0 203 - 07 H ^ South Carolina ..................W 1 003 - 08 H ^ Nebraska ...................... (9) L 0 103 - 08 H ^ Louisiana Tech ................... L 0 303 - 08 H ^ Northern Illinois ............... L 1 203 - 11 H Illinois State........................W 8 003 - 12 H Kansas ..................................W 8 103 - 13 H ! Sam Houston State..........W 3 003 - 13 H ! Southern Illinois ...............W 4 003 - 13 H ! Indiana ................................. L 2 303 - 14 H ! Texas-Arlington ................W 8 003 - 14 H ! Illinois State........................W 1 003 - 14 H ! Northern Illinois ...............W 8 303 - 15 H ! Colorado State ........... (8) W 2 103 - 15 H ! Louisiana Tech ............ (8) W 1 003 - 15 H ! Kansas .................................. L 3 503 - 24 N Western Illinois .................W 4 003 - 24 N Oregon ......................... (9) W 2 103 - 25 N Utah ......................................W 4 003 - 26 N $ Northwestern .................... L 0 203 - 27 N $ Fresno State, #4 ................ L 0 203 - 27 N $ Illinois State........................W 8 003 - 28 N $ Utah ...................................... L 2 303 - 28 N $ Oklahoma State, #6 ......... L 0 304 - 01 A SW Texas State ..................W 2 004 - 01 A SW Texas State ..................W 3 104 - 03 A Texas-San Antonio ...........W 5 004 - 03 A Texas-San Antonio ...........W 9 104 - 11 N = SE Missouri State ..............W 10 304 - 11 N = St. Louis ...............................W 13 004 - 12 N = St. Louis ...............................W 1 004 - 12 A = Missouri, #14...................... L 0 804 - 14 H SW Texas State ..................W 1 0

04 - 14 H SW Texas State ..................W 4 004 - 17 N < Nebraska .............................W 4 304 - 17 N < Wichita State......................W 2 004 - 17 N < Oklahoma State, #11... (8) L 1 204 - 17 N < SW Missouri State ............W 8 004 - 18 N < Wichita State......................W 1 004 - 18 N < Nebraska .............................W 5 104 - 22 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 104 - 22 A Texas-Arlington ................W 1 004 - 24 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 6 204 - 24 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 3 0

41-19 % Northeast Louisiana Classic, Monroe, La.^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas$ PONY Tournament, Fullerton, Calif.= Mizzou Invitational, Columbia, Mo.< OSU Cowgirl Classic, Oklahoma City, Okla.


record ............................ 38-1402 - 23 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 302 - 23 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 10 202 - 27 N % SW Texas State ..................W 13 002 - 27 A % Texas-San Antonio ...........W 10 002 - 28 N % Stephen F. Austin .............W 13 003 - 05 H ^ SW Louisiana, #10 ............ L 2 503 - 05 H ^ Illinois State........................W 2 003 - 06 H ^ Centenary ...........................W 7 303 - 06 H ^ Kansas, #13 ......................... L 0 303 - 06 H ^ Northeast Louisiana ........W 7 003 - 06 H ^ SW Louisiana, #10 ............W 7 203 - 07 H ^ Illinois State........................ L 0 203 - 11 H ! Tulsa ......................................W 9 003 - 11 H ! Tulsa ......................................W 6 203 - 13 H ! Creighton ............................ L 0 503 - 13 H ! Oklahoma City Univ.. ...... L 1 203 - 13 H ! Washington ........................ L 2 703 - 14 H ! Tulsa ......................................W 8 003 - 14 H ! Indiana .................................W 6 303 - 14 H ! SW Missouri State ............W 3 103 - 19 N $ New Mexico, #19 ..............W 6 103 - 19 N $ Illinois State........................W 1 003 - 19 N $ Hawaii ..................................W 4 303 - 20 N $ Long Beach State, #11 ........ L 3 403 - 20 N $ Arizona State ............(11) L 4 503 - 21 N $ Hawaii ..................................W 9 403 - 21 N $ Long Beach State, #11 ........ L 1 503 - 25 N = Arizona, #1.......................... L 1 203 - 25 N = CS-Northridge, #7 ............ L 0 103 - 27 N = Ohio State ...........................W 4 103 - 27 N = Kansas, #13 .........................W 3 103 - 27 N = Fresno State, #5 ................ L 0 104 - 01 H SW Texas State ..................W 3 004 - 01 H SW Texas State ..................W 8 0

04 - 09 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 1 204 - 09 A Texas-Arlington .......(10) W 3 104 - 16 N < George Mason ..................W 6 004 - 16 N < South Florida .....................W 10 504 - 16 N < Furman ................................W 7 004 - 17 N < McNeese State ..................W 6 004 - 17 N < Centenary ...........................W 8 004 - 18 N < Texas-Arlington ................W 8 004 - 18 N < East Carolina ......................W 5 104 - 18 N < Louisiana Tech ...................W 4 004 - 20 H Sam Houston .....................W 4 104 - 20 H Sam Houston .............. (9) W 1 004 - 21 H Texas-Arlington ................W 4 004 - 21 H Texas-Arlington ................W 3 004 - 23 A Sam Houston ..................... L 2 304 - 23 A Sam Houston .....................W 7 104 - 24 H Texas Lutheran ..................W 5 004 - 24 H Texas Lutheran ..................W 8 0

38-14 % UTSA Lady Roadrunner Classic, San Antonio, Texas^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas$ Hawaii Invitational, Honolulu, Hawaii= PONY Tournament, Fullerton, Calif.< Frost Cutlery Collegiate Tournament, Chattanooga, Tenn.


record ............................ 56-20 02 - 11 A Arizona, #1.......................... L 0 1402 - 12 N New Mexico State ............W 5 102 - 12 A Arizona, #1.................. (9) L 1 202 - 13 N New Mexico State ............W 1 002 - 13 A Arizona, #1.......................... L 0 802 - 15 H Louisiana Tech ...................W 5 402 - 15 H Louisiana Tech ..........(11) W 5 402 - 18 N % Kansas, #11 ......................... L 0 102 - 18 N % Oklahoma State, #3 .........W 7 602 - 19 N % Northwestern .................... L 0 202 - 19 N % Stephen F. Austin ............. L 3 602 - 19 N % Nebraska .............................W 9 002 - 20 N % Stephen F. Austin .............W 13 002 - 20 N % Oklahoma ...........................W 9 402 - 23 H Texas-Arlington ................ L 1 202 - 23 H Texas-Arlington ................W 9 103 - 02 A Sam Houston State..........W 4 103 - 02 A Sam Houston State..........W 2 103 - 04 H ^ McNeese State .........(15) W 3 203 - 04 H ^ Illinois State........................ L 3 503 - 05 H ^ Minnesota...........................W 2 103 - 05 H ^ Long Beach State, #5 ..... L 1 303 - 06 H ^ Notre Dame, #17 ..............W 8 003 - 06 H ^ Minnesota...........................W 1 003 - 06 H ^ Long Beach State, #5 .....W 3 203 - 11 N $ Western Illinois .................W 11 2

03 - 11 N $ Winthrop .............................W 8 003 - 11 N $ Central Michigan ..............W 4 103 - 12 N $ Iowa, #8 ............................... L 0 203 - 12 N $ North Carolina ..................W 8 603 - 12 N $ South Carolina .......... (8) L 1 203 - 16 N Virginia, #18 .......................W 2 003 - 16 A Florida State, #9 ................W 7 303 - 18 N = Drake ....................................W 10 203 - 18 N = South Florida .....................W 2 003 - 18 N = Northern Illinois ...............W 4 103 - 19 N = Furman ................................W 11 103 - 19 N = Princeton ............................W 7 203 - 19 N = Georgia State .....................W 2 103 - 20 N = SW Missouri State ............W 5 003 - 20 N = Illinois State........................W 4 003 - 24 N ! Oklahoma ........................... L 1 303 - 24 N ! Pacific ...................................W 3 003 - 25 N ! Bowling Green ..................W 3 103 - 25 N ! Iowa, #8 ...............................W 2 103 - 26 N ! Toledo ..................................W 2 003 - 26 N ! Hawaii .................................. L 0 503 - 30 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 3 203 - 30 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 3 204 - 01 N < Oklahoma, #10 .................. L 0 104 - 01 A < Tulsa ...................................... L 2 404 - 01 N < Northeast Louisiana ........W 7 004 - 02 N < Oklahoma City Univ. ....... L 0 104 - 02 N < Kent State ...........................W 3 004 - 08 H Sam Houston State..........W 5 304 - 08 H Sam Houston State..........W 6 204 - 09 H St. Edward’s ........................W 4 004 - 09 H St. Edward’s ........................W 9 104 - 12 H SW Texas State ..................W 2 004 - 12 H SW Texas State ..................W 7 204 - 13 A Texas-Arlington ................W 5 004 - 13 A Texas-Arlington ................ L 0 404 - 15 N + Samford ...............................W 4 104 - 15 N + Nicholls State.....................W 7 104 - 16 N + North Carolina, #25 ..... (10) W 4 304 - 16 N + Coastal Carolina................W 10 004 - 17 A + UT-Chattanooga ...............W 4 004 - 17 N + Louisiana Tech ...................W 2 104 - 17 N + Georgia State .....................W 2 004 - 17 N + SW Louisiana, #2 .....(10) L 1 204 - 26 A SW Texas State ..................W 1 004 - 26 A SW Texas State ..................W 7 305 - 20 N > Rutgers ................................W 6 205 - 21 N > Arizona, #1.......................... L 0 505 - 21 N > Canisius ...............................W 9 005 - 22 N > Arizona, #1.......................... L 0 6

56-20 % UTA Inter-Collegiate Tournament, Grand Prairie, Texas^ Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas$ University of South Florida Classic, Tampa, Fla.= Lady Seminole Invitational, Tallahassee, Fla.! Cellular One Capital Classic, Sacramento, Calif.< Tulsa Festival, Tulsa, Okla.+ Frost Cutlery Collegiate Tournament, Chatanooga, Tenn.> NCAA Regional, Tucson, Ariz.

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record ............................ 29-2702 - 12 H McNeese State ..................W 3 102 - 12 H McNeese State ..................W 4 202 - 14 A Sam Houston State..........W 7 002 - 14 A Sam Houston State.......... L 1 702 - 17 N % Wisconsin-Green Bay ......W 9 002 - 17 N % Stephen F. Austin .............W 5 002 - 18 N % Oklahoma ........................... L 0 202 - 18 N % Minnesota........................... L 1 302 - 19 N % Tulsa ......................................W 4 002 - 19 N % Texas-Arlington ................W 3 002 - 22 H Sam Houston State..........W 7 002 - 22 H Sam Houston State..........W 4 002 - 24 H ^ SW Louisiana .....................W 3 102 - 24 H ^ Arizona ................................ L 0 602 - 25 H ^ Oklahoma ........................... L 1 502 - 25 H ^ SW Louisiana .....................W 6 402 - 26 H ^ Arizona ................................ L 0 802 - 28 A Texas-San Antonio .... (8) L 0 102 - 28 A Texas-San Antonio ...........W 6 403 - 03 H ! Illinois State........................ L 3 603 - 03 H ! Centenary ...........................W 8 103 - 18 A UNLV, #4 ..............................W 1 003 - 18 A UNLV, #4 .............................. L 0 1103 - 19 A Fresno State, #3 ................ L 0 403 - 20 A Fresno State, #3 ................ L 0 303 - 22 N $ Cal State Northridge, #7..... L 3 703 - 24 N $ UC Santa Barbara ...... (9) L 1 203 - 24 N $ Arizona, #1.......................... L 0 203 - 25 N $ Washington, #20 .............. L 6 803 - 25 N $ Minnesota...........................W 4 304 - 07 N = Oklahoma City Univ. ....... L 10 1104 - 07 N = Texas-Arlington ................W 11 404 - 08 N = St. Edward’s ........................W 10 104 - 08 A = Tulsa ......................................W 6 404 - 11 H SW Texas State ..................W 6 104 - 11 H SW Texas State ..................W 3 204 - 14 N < Tennessee Tech .................W 10 004 - 14 N < Centenary ...........................W 13 104 - 14 N < Virginia .................................W 5 204 - 15 A < UT-Chattanooga ....... (8) L 2 304 - 15 N < Winthrop .............................W 4 004 - 15 N < South Carolina, #11 ........... L 0 204 - 22 A South Carolina, #13 ........... L 0 204 - 22 A South Carolina, #13 ...........W 7 304 - 23 A South Carolina, #13 ........... L 2 404 - 23 A South Carolina, #13 .... (8) W 6 504 - 26 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 004 - 26 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 6 104 - 28 A McNeese State ........... (9) L 4 604 - 28 A McNeese State .................. L 2 504 - 29 A SW Louisiana, #6 ....... (8) L 0 104 - 29 A SW Louisiana, #6 .............. L 0 1104 - 30 A Louisiana Tech, #24 ......... L 1 304 - 30 A Louisiana Tech, #24 ......... L 0 305 - 02 A SW Texas State .................. L 0 205 - 02 A SW Texas State ........... (9) W 5 2

29-27 % Texas-Arlington Tournament, Grand Prairie, Texas^ Aggie Mini Tournament, College Station, Texas! Aggie Invitational, College Station, Texas$ Pony Invitational, Fullerton, Calif.= Tulsa Festival, Tulsa, Okla.< Chattanooga Tournament, Chattanooga, Tenn.


record ............................ 39-21Big 12 .......... 5th .......... 11-11

02 - 13 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 5 102 - 13 H Texas-San Antonio ........... L 6 702 - 16 N % Northwestern ....................W 3 102 - 16 N % SW Missouri State ..........W 5 102 - 17 N % Kansas ..................................W 2 102 - 18 N % Oklahoma State ......... (8) W 8 702 - 18 N % Texas-San Antonio ........... L 2 302 - 20 A Texas-San Antonio ...........W 7 1

02 - 20 A Texas-San Antonio ...........W 2 002 - 23 H ^ Long Beach State ......... (8) W 7 602 - 23 H ^ Wichita State......................W 2 002 - 24 H ^ Louisiana Tech ..........(13) W 5 102 - 24 H ^ Long Beach State ............W 6 302 - 25 H ^ Louisiana Tech ...................W 8 302 - 25 H ^ Wichita State......................W 3 003 - 01 N $ Illinois-Chicago, #20 ...... (8) W 4 303 - 01 N $ Connecticut .......................W 14 203 - 02 N $ UNLV, #7 .............................. L 3 503 - 02 N $ South Carolina, #14 ......... L 0 103 - 03 N $ Notre Dame ....................... L 1 303 - 08 H ! Illinois State........................ L 1 303 - 08 H ! Centenary ...........................W 11 103 - 09 H ! Sam Houston State..........W 6 103 - 09 H ! Illinois State........................W 8 103 - 10 H ! Centenary ...........................W 5 003 - 10 H ! Sam Houston State..........W 8 003 - 20 A Baylor ...................................W 4 003 - 20 A Baylor ...................................W 9 203 - 31 A * Kansas .................................. L 1 403 - 31 A * Kansas ..................................W 8 204 - 03 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 11 004 - 03 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 9 504 - 06 A * Oklahoma, #13 .................. L 2 604 - 06 A * Oklahoma, #13 .................. L 2 404 - 07 A * Oklahoma, #13 .........(11) L 1 204 - 10 H SW Texas State ..................W 6 004 - 10 H SW Texas State .........(11) W 5 404 - 13 H * Nebraska, #18 ....................W 3 004 - 13 H * Nebraska, #18 .................... L 1 404 - 14 H * Nebraska, #18 ...........(10) L 1 404 - 17 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 4 004 - 17 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 4 304 - 20 A * Iowa State ...........................W 4 104 - 20 A * Iowa State ...........................W 1 004 - 21 A * Iowa State ...........................W 8 204 - 25 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 6 004 - 25 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 18 104 - 27 H * Oklahoma State, #22 ...... L 5 1004 - 27 H * Oklahoma State, #22 ...... L 2 304 - 28 H * Oklahoma State, #22 ...... L 3 1105 - 01 A SW Texas State ..................W 2 105 - 01 A SW Texas State .................. L 2 305 - 04 H * Missouri ............................... L 0 505 - 04 H * Missouri ............................... L 3 605 - 05 H * Missouri ...............................W 10 105 - 05 H * Missouri ...............................W 9 005 - 10 N < Kansas ..................................W 3 105 - 10 N < Missouri ............................... L 1 505 - 17 N > Fresno State, #3 ................ L 2 505 - 18 N > Long Beach State, #19 ... L 1 4

39-21 * Big 12 Conference Game% UTA/Pepsi-Cola Intercollegiate Classic, Grand Prairie, Texas^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas$ NSCA Leadoff Classic, Columbus, Ga.! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas< Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma City, Okla.> NCAA Regional, Fresno, Calif.

1997Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 37-29Big 12 .......... 6th .................7-9

02 - 11 A SW Texas State ..................W 10 0 02 - 11 A SW Texas State .................. L 0 202 - 15 N % Centenary ...........................W 11 302 - 15 N % Minnesota, #20 .......... (8) L 3 402 - 15 N % Northeast Louisiana ........ L 0 202 - 16 N % Tennessee ........................... L 0 502 - 21 H ^ Sam Houston State..........W 3 202 - 21 H ^ Creighton ............................ L 2 602 - 22 H ^ Colorado State .................. L 2 1002 - 22 H ^ Creighton ............................ L 3 802 - 23 H ^ Colorado State .................. L 2 302 - 23 H ^ Sam Houston State..........W 13 002 - 28 N $ Illinois State........................W 4 103 - 01 N $ Notre Dame .......................W 1 003 - 01 N $ Massachusetts................... L 0 303 - 02 N $ South Carolina, #6 ........... L 1 403 - 02 N $ SW Louisiana, #13 ......... (8) L 5 6

03 - 06 H Texas-Arlington ......... (9) W 1 003 - 06 H Texas-Arlington ................W 4 103 - 07 H ! Louisiana Tech, #20 ......... L 2 703 - 07 H ! Ohio State ...........................W 2 003 - 08 H ! Northern Illinois ...............W 10 503 - 08 H ! Ohio State .................... (8) W 4 003 - 09 H ! Northern Illinois ............... L 4 703 - 09 H ! Louisiana Tech, #20 ......... L 0 103 - 13 N = Oklahoma City Univ. ....... L 0 303 - 13 N = Rutgers ................................W 2 103 - 14 N = McNeese State ..................W 4 003 - 14 N = Texas Lutheran ..................W 7 303 - 15 N = Rutgers ................................W 7 203 - 15 N = Oklahoma City Univ. ....... L 4 603 - 15 N = Northwood University ...W 5 103 - 15 N = Oklahoma, #13 .................. L 0 503 - 20 H UT-San Antonio ................W 4 003 - 20 H UT-San Antonio ................W 3 203 - 26 A UT-San Antonio ................W 6 303 - 26 A UT-San Antonio ................W 6 303 - 29 H * Iowa State ...........................W 4 203 - 29 H * Iowa State ........................... L 4 503 - 30 H * Nebraska ............................. L 2 803 - 30 H * Nebraska .............................W 2 104 - 05 A * Kansas, #25 ......................... L 2 404 - 05 A * Kansas, #25 ......................... L 4 704 - 06 A * Missouri, #12...................... L 1 204 - 06 A * Missouri, #12...................... L 2 1104 - 10 A Sam Houston State..........W 6 304 - 10 A Sam Houston State..........W 5 404 - 12 H * Texas .....................................W 2 004 - 13 A * Texas .....................................W 9 004 - 15 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 4 004 - 15 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 004 - 17 H Sam Houston State ....... (9) W 1 004 - 17 H Sam Houston State ........ (9) W 5 404 - 19 H * Oklahoma State ................ L 3 404 - 19 H * Oklahoma State ........(11) W 3 204 - 20 H * Oklahoma, #7 ....................W 8 204 - 20 H * Oklahoma, #7 .................... L 7 804 - 23 A Texas-Arlington ................W 3 104 - 23 A Texas-Arlington ................W 3 004 - 27 A * Baylor ...................................W 8 004 - 27 A * Baylor ................................... L 0 304 - 30 H Southwest Texas ............... L 2 304 - 30 H Southwest Texas ...............W 2 105 - 02 N < Kansas, #25 ......................... L 0 805 - 03 N < Texas .....................................W 6 105 - 03 N < Oklahoma State, #20 ...... L 2 4

37-29 * Big 12 Conference Game% UTA/Pepsi-Cola Intercollegiate Classic, Grand Prairie, Texas^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas$ NFCA Leadoff Classic, Columbus, Ga.! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas= Houston College Classic, Houston, Texas< Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma City, Okla.

1998Coach: Jo Evans

record ........................ 32-25-2Big 12 .......... 7th .........6-10-1

02 - 10 A SW Texas State ..................W 4 0 02 - 10 A SW Texas State ..................W 7 402 - 13 N % Tulsa ......................................W 5 302 - 13 N % Texas-Arlington ................W 3 102 - 14 N % Mississippi ..........................W 3 202 - 14 N % Stephen F. Austin .............W 2 102 - 15 N % Baylor ...................................W 3 102 - 15 N % Oklahoma State .............. L 3 702 - 20 H ~ Texas-San Antonio ...........W 4 002 - 20 H ~ New Mexico State ............ L 0 302 - 21 H ~ Penn State ..........................W 3 202 - 21 H ~ New Mexico State ............W 3 202 - 22 H ~ Penn State ................... (8) T 4 402 - 22 H ~ Texas-San Antonio ......... (9) L 2 302 - 27 N + Michigan, #3 ...................... L 4 702 - 27 N + Arizona State, #7 .............. L 0 802 - 28 N + Nicholls State..................... L 0 202 - 28 N + Canisius ........................ (8) L 3 403 - 01 N + Auburn ................................. L 0 103 - 01 N + Boston University.............W 7 1

03 - 04 H Texas-Arlington ................W 3 203 - 04 H Texas-Arlington ................W 5 003 - 06 H ! Minnesota, #21 ................. L 1 303 - 06 H ! Bowling Green ..................W 8 603 - 07 H ! Illinois State........................W 11 603 - 07 H ! Bowling Green ..................W 3 203 - 08 H ! Minnesota, #21 ................. L 1 703 - 09 H ! Illinois State........................W 4 303 - 13 H North Carolina .................. L 0 103 - 13 H North Carolina ..................W 6 503 - 19 N = Oregon, #19 .......................W 6 403 - 20 N = Pacific ...................................W 2 003 - 20 N = Iowa, #16 ............................. L 1 203 - 20 N = California, #21 ................... L 0 903 - 21 N = San Jose State ................... L 0 703 - 25 H Sam Houston State..........W 4 203 - 25 H Sam Houston State..........W 7 103 - 28 N * Iowa State ..................(10) W 9 203 - 28 N * Iowa State ........................... L 0 203 - 29 A * Nebraska, #12 .................... L 2 1003 - 29 A * Nebraska, #12 .................... L 0 504 - 01 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 8 104 - 01 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 8 104 - 04 H * Kansas .................................. L 1 504 - 04 H * Kansas ..................................W 3 204 - 05 H * Missouri, #11......................W 4 004 - 05 H * Missouri, #11......................W 4 104 - 10 A * Texas, #9 .............................. L 0 404 - 11 H * Texas, #9 .............................. L 2 804 - 14 A Sam Houston State..........W 9 104 - 14 A Sam Houston State..........W 7 404 - 18 A * Oklahoma State, #10 ......W 3 104 - 18 A * Oklahoma State, #10 ...... L 1 204 - 19 A * Oklahoma, #5 ............. (9) L 0 104 - 19 A * Oklahoma, #5 ....................W 3 104 - 25 H * Texas Tech, #17 ................. L 1 304 - 25 H * Texas Tech, #17 .......... (8) L 1 204 - 26 H * Baylor ............................ (9) T 2 204 - 30 N < Baylor ................................... L 2 6

32-25-2 * Big 12 Conference Game% UTA/Pepsi Cola Classic, Grand Prairie, Texas~ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas+ NFCA Leadoff Classic, Columbus, Ga.! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas= Sacramento State Capital Classic, Sacramento, Calif.< Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma City, Okla.

1999Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 41-22Big 12 .......... 7th ............. 7-11

02 - 09 A Texas-Arlington ................W 1 0 02 - 09 A Texas-Arlington ................W 4 002 - 12 N % Tulsa ......................................W 6 102 - 12 N % Texas-Arlington ................W 8 002 - 13 N % Arkansas ..............................W 2 002 - 13 N % Stephen F. Austin .............W 4 202 - 14 N % SW Texas State ..................W 1 002 - 14 N % Tulsa ......................................W 6 302 - 14 N % Illinois-Chicago, #24 ........ L 1 302 - 19 H ^ Auburn .................................W 3 002 - 19 H ^ New Mexico ....................... L 1 602 - 20 H ^ Penn State .......................... L 6 702 - 21 H ^ Auburn ................................. L 0 402 - 21 H ^ Penn State ..........................W 4 102 - 26 N $ Virginia ................................W 9 302 - 26 N $ Cal Poly ................................W 2 102 - 27 A $ UC Santa Barbara .............W 5 102 - 27 N $ Cal Poly ................................W 3 202 - 28 N $ Cal Poly ................................W 2 102 - 28 N $ Virginia ................................ L 0 103 - 05 H ! Dayton .................................W 8 203 - 05 H ! Minnesota, #21 ................. L 0 203 - 06 H ! Dayton .................................W 4 103 - 06 H ! Minnesota, #21 .................W 2 003 - 07 H ! Butler ....................................W 9 303 - 07 H ! Butler ....................................W 12 103 - 11 A UT-San Antonio ................ L 2 303 - 11 A UT-San Antonio ................W 7 603 - 16 A BYU-Hawaii.........................W 8 003 - 16 A BYU-Hawaii.........................W 2 0

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03 - 18 N = Connecticut .......................W 5 003 - 19 N = Wisconsin ............................W 3 203 - 19 N = Eastern Illinois ...................W 4 303 - 24 A Sam Houston State..........W 5 003 - 24 A Sam Houston State..........W 12 103 - 27 H * Nebraska ............................W 1 003 - 27 H * Nebraska ............................ L 3 403 - 28 H * Iowa State ...........................W 1 003 - 28 H * Iowa State ...........................W 3 204 - 02 H * Texas, #15............................ L 0 104 - 07 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 5 404 - 07 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 2 104 - 10 A * Texas, #15............................ L 0 104 - 14 H SW Texas State ..................W 10 004 - 17 H * Oklahoma, #8 .................... L 0 304 - 17 H * Oklahoma, #8 .................... L 4 604 - 18 H * Oklahoma State ................ L 2 404 - 18 H * Oklahoma State ................W 2 104 - 21 H Sam Houston State..........W 11 204 - 24 A * Missouri ............................... L 1 304 - 24 A * Missouri ............................... L 3 404 - 25 A * Kansas .................................. L 0 104 - 25 A * Kansas ..................................W 7 405 - 01 A * Baylor ................................... L 0 105 - 01 A * Baylor ...................................W 6 205 - 02 A * Texas Tech ..........................W 5 105 - 02 A * Texas Tech .......................... L 2 305 - 12 N < Baylor ...................................W 9 305 - 13 N < Texas, #11............................ L 0 605 - 13 N < Texas Tech .......................... L 0 405 - 20 N > Hawaii ..................................W 4 305 - 21 N > Cal State Fullerton ........... L 1 205 - 22 N > Hawaii .................................. L 3 8

41-22 * Big 12 Conference Game% UTA Classic, Grand Prairie, Texas^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas$ UCSB/Easton Invitational, Santa Barbara, Calif.! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas= Bank of Hawaii Invitational, Honolulu, Hawaii< Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma City, Okla.> NCAA Regional, Seattle, Wash.

2000Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 32-23Big 12 ........ t-4th ........... 8-10

02 - 08 H Sam Houston State..........W 3 102 - 11 N % South Carolina, #18 .........W 4 302 - 11 N % Mississippi State ............... L 2 302 - 12 N % Arizona, #4.......................... L 0 902 - 12 N % Oregon State, #11 ............ L 6 902 - 13 N % Georgia ................................ L 1 302 - 18 H ^ Colorado State ..................W 6 002 - 18 H ^ New Mexico State ............W 6 502 - 19 H ^ Centenary ...........................W 9 002 - 19 H ^ New Mexico State ............W 3 202 - 20 H ^ Colorado State ..................W 14 002 - 20 H ^ Centenary ...........................W 10 002 - 26 A $ Nevada-Las Vegas ............W 9 202 - 26 N $ Pacific ................................... L 2 402 - 27 N $ Pacific ................................... L 1 202 - 27 A $ Nevada-Las Vegas ............W 7 603 - 01 H Texas-Arlington ................W 8 003 - 03 H ! Misssippi .............................W 5 003 - 03 H ! Minnesota...........................W 3 103 - 04 H ! New Mexico ....................... L 1 403 - 04 H ! Minnesota...........................W 4 003 - 05 H ! Mississippi ..........................W 2 003 - 05 H ! New Mexico .......................W 3 103 - 08 A SW Texas State ..................W 2 103 - 16 N = Oregon, #23 .......................W 5 203 - 17 N = San Jose State ...................W 13 603 - 17 N = Utah State ........................... L 0 403 - 17 N = Middle Tennessee State ... L 3 403 - 18 N = Nebraska .............................W 1 003 - 18 A = Sacramento State ............ L 2 603 - 25 H * Oklahoma, #6 .................... L 2 403 - 26 H * Oklahoma, #6 .................... L 1 403 - 29 H * Texas ..................................... L 0 804 - 01 A * Kansas .................................. L 1 2

04 - 02 A * Kansas ..................................W 2 004 - 08 A * Iowa State ...........................W 8 404 - 09 A * Iowa State ...........................W 9 104 - 15 H * Missouri ...............................W 4 104 - 16 H * Missouri ...............................W 4 204 - 20 A Sam Houston State..........W 10 104 - 22 H * Nebraska ...................... (8) L 0 204 - 22 H * Nebraska ............................. L 0 204 - 25 A * Baylor ................................... L 0 404 - 25 A * Baylor ................................... L 1 204 - 26 A * Texas .....................................W 5 304 - 29 A * Oklahoma State, #23 ...... L 0 304 - 30 A * Oklahoma State, #23 ......W 7 005 - 03 H * Texas Tech .................... (8) W 2 105 - 03 H * Texas Tech ........................... L 1 805 - 11 N < Oklahoma State ......... (9) W 3 205 - 11 N < Oklahoma, #4 ....................W 9 605 - 12 N < Missouri ...............................W 6 505 - 13 N < Nebraska, #18 .................... L 1 205 - 18 N > Penn State .......................... L 2 305 - 19 A > Arizona State, #5 .............. L 2 4

32-23 * Big 12 Conference Game% Arizona State Fiesta Bowl Classic, Tempe, Ariz.^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas$ UNLV Tri-Tourney, Las Vegas, Nev.! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas= Capital Classic Softball Tournament, Sacramento, Calif.< Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma City, Okla.> NCAA Regional, Tempe, Ariz.

2001Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 32-19Big 12 .......... 7th ............. 7-11

02 - 03 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 8 002 - 03 H Texas-San Antonio ............L 2 302 - 06 H Sam Houston State..........W 7 402 - 09 N % Northwestern State .........W 13 402 - 09 N % Tulsa .............................(10) W 4 3

02 - 09 N % So. Mississippi, #21 ..........W 5 102 - 10 N % Louisiana Tech ...................W 8 002 - 10 N % Northwestern State .........W 6 002 - 14 H SW Texas State ........... (8) L 1 302 - 16 H ^ Alabama, #5 ........................L 1 202 - 16 H ^ Penn St ..................................L 3 402 - 17 H ^ Texas A&M- .........................W 10 1 Corpus Christi02 - 17 H ^ Penn St ........................(10) W 4 102 - 18 H ^ Texas A&M- .........................W 5 1 Corpus Christi02 - 21 H Houston...............................W 5 002 - 23 N $ Auburn .................................W 4 302 - 23 N $ Cal Poly ................................W 5 303 - 04 H ! Iowa, #13 ..............................L 1 203 - 04 H ! Syracuse .....................(10) W 4 103 - 06 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 2 003 - 06 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 2 003 - 15 N = Fordham ..............................W 11 103 - 15 N = Colgate ................................W 6 103 - 16 N = Northern Illinois ...............W 9 103 - 16 N = Alabama-...................... (9) W 9 8 Birmingham03 - 17 N = Canisius ................................L 3 503 - 18 N = Akron ....................................W 2 103 - 18 N = Fordham ..............................W 7 003 - 21 A Sam Houston State..........W 7 103 - 23 A. * Oklahoma, #6 .....................L 1 503 - 24 A * Oklahoma, #6 .....................L 0 803 - 29 A * Texas Tech ..................(10) L 0 103 - 29 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 8 603 - 31 H * Kansas ...................................L 2 504 - 01 H * Kansas ...................................L 4 604 - 04 A * Texas .....................................W 1 004 - 07 H * Iowa St .................................W 11 204 - 08 H * Iowa St .................................W 3 204 - 14 A * Missouri ................................L 1 204 - 15 A * Missouri ...............................W 3 104 - 18 H * Baylor ....................................L 1 304 - 18 H * Baylor ...................................W 2 004 - 21 A * Nebraska, #12 .....................L 2 304 - 21 A * Nebraska, #12 .....................L 0 104 - 25 H * Texas .....................................W 3 104 - 28 H * Oklahoma State .................L 0 104 - 29 H * Oklahoma State .................L 1 203 - 09 N < Iowa State ...........................W 4 003 - 09 N < Oklahoma, #5 .....................L 0 703 - 10 N < Missouri ...............................W 4 003 - 11 N < Texas Tech ............................L 0 1

32-19 * Big 12 Conference game% UTA/Isuzu InterCollegiate Classic, Grand Prairie, Texas.^ Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas.$ UC Santa Barbara Invitational, Santa Barbara, Calif.! Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas.= South Florida Tournament, Clearwater, Fla.< Big 12 Championship, Oklahoma City, Okla.

2002Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 40-18Big 12 .......... 5th ................9-9

02 - 03 A UT-San Antonio ................W 8 002 - 03 A UT-San Antonio ................W 2 002 - 08 A $ UCLA, #2 ...............................L 1 902 - 08 A $ Arizona State, #8 ...............L 1 202 - 09 A $ New Mexico State .............L 0 602 - 09 A $ Cal State Fullerton, #10 ....... W 3 202 - 10 A $ UNLV .....................................W 6 202 - 15 H # Arkansas ..............................W 2 002 - 15 H # Boston College .................W 8 002 - 16 H # Utah ......................................W 2 102 - 16 H # Boston College .................W 8 002 - 17 H # Arkansas ..............................W 2 002 - 17 H # Utah ......................................W 8 002 - 22 A % Southern Miss ...................W 8 002 - 22 A % Oregon State, #11 ........... W 7 602 - 23 A % Notre Dame, #19 ..............W 2 102 - 23 A % Cal State Fullerton, #14 .......W 2 102 - 24 A % Nebraska, #9 .......................L 0 503 - 01 H ! Illinois State........................W 2 103 - 01 H ! UL-Lafayette, #19 .............W 3 203 - 06 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 8 003 - 06 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 6 1

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03 - 08 H Southern Miss ...................W 3 103 - 08 H Southern Miss ...................W 6 003 - 12 A * Baylor ....................................L 0 403 - 15 A ~ San Diego ...........................W 6 303 - 15 A ~ San Diego State ................W 1 003 - 16 A ~ San Diego State .................L 1 303 - 16 A ~ San Diego ...........................W 2 003 - 20 A Houston...............................W 6 003 - 23 H * Oklahoma, #9 .....................L 1 603 - 24 H * Oklahoma, #9 .....................L 1 203 - 26 H Northwestern State .........W 4 003 - 26 H Northwestern State .........W 5 003 - 30 A * at Iowa State ....................W 9 103 - 31 A * at Iowa State ....................W 3 004 - 03 H * Texas, #20.............................L 0 204 - 04 H SW Texas State ..................W 1 004 - 06 H * Kansas ...................................L 4 604 - 06 H * Kansas ..................................W 3 004 - 10 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 3 004 - 10 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 7 004 - 14 A * Oklahoma State .................L 2 304 - 14 A * Oklahoma State ................W 2 104 - 17 H * Baylor, #23 ...........................L 0 304 - 21 A * Nebraska, #4 ......................W 2 004 - 21 A * Nebraska, #4 .......................L 0 604 - 24 A * Texas, #14.............................L 0 104 - 27 H * Missouri ...............................W 7 004 - 28 H * Missouri ...............................W 6 105 - 03 A & Baylor, #22 ..........................W 5 105 - 03 A & Texas, #13.............................L 1 205 - 04 A & Baylor, #23 ..........................W 1 005 - 04 A & Nebraska, #7 .......................L 2 605 - 16 A + Arkansas ..............................W 6 205 - 17 A + Oklahoma, #13 ...................L 0 705 - 18 N + Texas, #10............................W 2 105 - 19 N + Oklahoma, #13 .................. L 1 8

40-18 * Big 12 Conference game$ at Fiesta Bowl Tournament, Tempe, Ariz.# Verizon Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas.% at NFCA Lead-Off Classic, Columbus, Ga.! Verizon Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas.~ at San Diego State Tournament, San Diego, Calif.& at Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ NCAA Region 5 Tournament, Norman, Okla.

2003Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 38-22Big 12 .......... 5th .............. 10-8

02 - 04 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 1 002 - 04 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 4 302 - 05 A Texas-San Antonio ...........W 9 102 - 07 A $ Cal State Fullerton, #10 ........L 3 402 - 07 A $ Arizona, #2 ..........................L 0 602 - 08 A $ Fresno State .......................W 2 102 - 08 A $ Utah ......................................W 11 402 - 09 A # Mississippi State ................L 2 502 - 14 H # Brigham Young .................W 9 102 - 14 H # McNeese State ..................W 5 202 - 15 H # Brigham Young ..................L 0 202 - 15 H # McNeese State ..................W 1 002 - 19 A SW Texas ...............................L 0 202 - 19 A SW Texas ...............................L 2 302 - 22 H % Wichita State..................... W 7 002 - 22 H % SE Louisiana .......................W 4 302 - 23 H % Prairie View A&M ..............W 10 202 - 23 H % Prairie View A&M ..............W 15 002 - 28 A ! Long Beach State .............W 2 002 - 28 A ! Georgia, #12........................L 1 203 - 01 A ! Stanford, #11 .....................W 7 303 - 01 A ! Long Beach State .............W 2 103 - 02 A ! Georgia, #12.......................W 3 103 - 07 A - Georgia State .....................W 5 003 - 08 A - Iowa .......................................L 0 303 - 08 A - Florida A&M .......................W 9 103 - 14 A & UMass, #24 ..........................L 2 403 - 14 A & Florida International ........L 2 303 - 15 A & Florida Atlantic ................W 10 203 - 16 A & Syracuse ..............................W 9 503 - 19 A * at Texas Tech .......................L 1 403 - 19 A * at Texas Tech ......................W 10 103 - 22 H * Nebraska, #5 ......................W 3 2

03 - 23 H * Nebraska, #5 ......................W 6 503 - 26 H Sam Houston State..........W 5 303 - 26 H Sam Houston State..........W 11 003 - 29 A * at Missouri. .......................W 4 203 - 30 A * at Missouri .........................L 5 604 - 02 A * at Baylor ...............................L 1 204 - 05 H * Oklahoma State, #17 ......W 7 504 - 06 H * Oklahoma State, #17 ......W 3 004 - 09 A * Texas, #5 ...............................L 0 104 - 12 A * Kansas ..................................W 6 104 - 13 A * Kansas ..................................W 5 004 - 16 H Texas A&M- .........................W 7 0 Corpus Christi 04 - 16 H Texas A&M- .........................W 6 1 Corpus Christi 04 - 19 H * Iowa State ...........................W 8 504 - 19 H * Iowa State ............................L 5 604 - 22 H * Texas, #3 ...............................L 1 404 - 24 H * Baylor ...................................W 2 004 - 26 N * Oklahoma, #5 .....................L 2 404 - 27 N * Oklahoma, #5 .....................L 5 1205 - 02 N > Oklahoma, #4 .....................L 4 005 - 02 N > Texas Tech ...........................W 2 005 - 03 N > Nebraska ..............................L 4 605 - 15 N + Boston College .................W 8 405 - 16 N + South Carolina, #19 .........W 5 005 - 17 N + Arizona, #1...........................L 3 005 - 17 N + South Carolina, #19 ........ W 6 305 - 18 A + Arizona, #1...........................L 10 5

38-22 * Big 12 Conference game$ at Fiesta Bowl Tournament, Tempe, Ariz.# St. Joseph’s Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas% St. Joseph’s Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas! at Stanford Classic, Palo Alto, Calif.~ at Democrat Invitational, Tallahassee, Fla.& at Blue & Gold Classic, Miami, Fla.> at Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ NCAA Region 1 Tournament, Tucson, Ariz.

2004Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 33-22Big 12 ..........2nd ............ 13-3

02 - 04 H North Texas ........................W 6 102 - 08 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 2 002 - 08 A Stephen F. Austin .............W 5 002 - 13 N $ Oregon, #20 .......................W 8 302 - 13 N $ Arizona, #2...........................L 1 802 - 14 N $ Washington, #5 ..................L 2 402 - 14 N $ New Mexico, .....................W 6 002 - 15 N $ Fresno State, #23 ...............L 0 202 - 18 H Houston................................L 5 602 - 18 H Houston................................L 0 302 - 20 H # Boston University.............W 4 002 - 20 H # Illinois ....................................L 0 502 - 21 H # Illinois ....................................L 3 402 - 22 H # Boston Univeristy.............W 1 002 - 27 H % Texas A&M- .........................W 4 0 Corpus Christi 02 - 27 H % Southern Mississippi.......W 10 302 - 28 H % Penn State ..........................W 4 202 - 28 H % Penn State ..........................W 8 003 - 02 H Texas State ...........................L 6 903 - 09 A McNeese .............................W 11 003 - 09 A McNeese ..............................L 0 103 - 12 N ~ Central Michigan ..............W 7 003 - 12 N ~ Florida State, #4 .................L 0 803 - 13 N ~ St. Joseph ............................W 2 003 - 13 N ~ Robert Morris ....................W 6 103 - 13 N ~ Notre Dame .......................W 2 103 - 14 N ~ Nebraska, #19 ............. (8) W 3 203 - 18 N ^ Princeton ............................W 6 003 - 18 N ^ Washington, #9 ..................L 0 503 - 19 N ^ Pacific, #18 ...........................L 0 103 - 19 N ^ DePaul ...................................L 5 1003 - 20 N ^ Arizona State, #23 .............L 3 503 - 27 H * Oklahoma, #9 ....................W 1 003 - 28 H * Oklahoma, #9 ....................W 5 403 - 31 A * Baylor, #19 ...........................L 0 104 - 03 A * Iowa State ...........................W 3 004 - 04 A * Iowa State ...........................W 3 004 - 07 A * Texas .....................................W 6 004 - 10 H * Kansas ..................................W 8 0

04 - 10 H * Kansas ..................................W 7 304 - 14 H * Baylor, #20 ..........................W 2 004 - 17 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 11 104 - 18 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 12 504 - 21 A * Oklahoma State ................W 3 204 - 24 H * Missouri ...............................W 2 004 - 28 H * Texas .....................................W 11 105 - 01 A * Nebraska, #13 ............. (8) L 4 505 - 02 A * Nebraska, #13 ...........(10) L 3 405 - 12 N > Kansas ..................................W 1 005 - 14 N > Missouri ................................L 0 105 - 14 N > Baylor, #21 ...........................L 2 105 - 20 N + Michigan State ...................L 5 105 - 21 N + UT-Chattanooga ...............W 6 005 - 21 A + Georgia, #10........................L 1 5

33-22 * Big 12 Conference game$ at Fiesta Bowl Tournament, Tempe, Ariz.# St. Joseph’s Aggie Invitational I, College Station, Texas.% St. Joseph’s Aggie Invitational II, College Station, Texas~ at Democrat Invitational, Tallahassee, Fla.^ at Kia Classic, Fullerton, Calif.> at Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ NCAA Region 1 Tournament, Tucson, Ariz.

2005Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 47-10Big 12 ...........1st ............. 14-4

B i g 12 c h a m p i o n s

02 - 04 H North Texas ........................W 8 002 - 09 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 6 502 - 09 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 1 002 - 13 N $ Massachusetts...................W 8 002 - 13 N $ Chattanooga......................W 4 002 - 16 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 11 102 - 16 H Stephen F. Austin ............W 11 002 - 18 H # Utah State ...........................W 15 102 - 18 H # Ole Miss ...............................W 2 102 - 19 H # Ole Miss ................................L 0 202 - 19 H # Utah State ...........................W 11 102 - 20 H # Northwestern State .........W 9 302 - 23 H Sam Houston .....................W 4 302 - 25 N % Loyola Marymount ..........W 8 002 - 25 N % Washington, #12 ..............W 10 002 - 26 N % California, #1 ......................W 5 202 - 26 N % UNLV .....................................W 4 0

02 - 27 N % Long Beach State, #23.........L 1 903 - 04 H ~ Miami University ..............W 3 003 - 04 H ~ Utah ......................................W 3 003 - 05 H ~ Utah ......................................W 9 103 - 05 H ~ Miami University ..............W 11 203 - 06 H ~ McNeese State ..................W 5 003 - 10 A Houston...............................W 10 203 - 10 A Houston...............................W 10 603 - 18 N ^ Michigan State ..................W 7 003 - 18 A ^ Florida Atlantic ................W 6 203 - 19 N ^ Florida International .......W 5 103 - 19 N ^ Wisconsin ............................W 13 503 - 20 N ^ Michigan State ..................W 1 003 - 23 A * Baylor, #7 .............................W 7 103 - 25 H * Nebraska, #18 ....................W 4 203 - 26 H * Nebraska, #18 ....................W 6 003 - 30 A Texas State ..........................W 10 504 - 02 A * Kansas ..................................W 13 104 - 03 A * Kansas ..................................W 7 104 - 06 A * Texas, #4 ...............................L 0 304 - 09 H * Iowa State ...........................W 3 004 - 10 H * Iowa State ...........................W 4 204 - 13 H * Oklahoma State ................W 2 104 - 13 H * Oklahoma State ................W 7 204 - 16 A * Oklahoma ............................L 7 1504 - 17 A * Oklahoma ...........................W 4 104 - 23 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 7 204 - 24 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 8 004 - 27 H * Texas, #6 ..............................W 5 304 - 30 A * Missouri, #19.......................L 5 605 - 01 A * Missouri, #19 ......................L 4 505 - 04 H * Baylor, #7 .............................W 7 105 - 11 N > Oklahoma State ................W 7 505 - 12 N > Baylor, #7 ..............................L 4 1105 - 13 N > Oklahoma, #10. ..................L 2 605 - 20 H + McNeese State ..................W 6 305 - 21 H + Penn State ..........................W 3 205 - 22 H + Penn State. .........................W 9 205 - 27 H < Alabama, #8 ........................L 1 405 - 28 H < Alabama, #8 ........................L 5 6

47-10 * Big 12 Conference game$ at Kajikawa Classic, Tempe, Ariz.# Aggie Classic, College Station, Texas.% at Palm Springs Classic, Cathedral City, Calif.~ Texas A&M Invitational, College Station, Texas^ at FAU Parent’s Weekend Touranment, Boca Raton Fla.> at Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ NCAA Region 1 Tournament, College Station, Texas++ NCAA Super Regional Tournament, College Station, Texas

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02 - 10 N $ Fresno State, #17 .............W 8 002 - 10 N $ Nevada ................................W 5 402 - 11 N $ Syracuse .............................W 2 002 - 11 N $ Arizona, #5...........................L 0 802 - 12 N $ Oregon State, #12 .............L 0 202 - 15 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 7 602 - 15 H Texas-San Antonio ...........W 4 202 - 17 H # Southeastern Louisiana ...W 9 102 - 19 H # Fordham ..............................W 7 002 - 22 H Houston...............................W 7 202 - 22 H Houston...............................W 4 102 - 24 N % Oregon, #22 ........................L 7 1302 - 24 N % Arizona, #1...........................L 0 1202 - 25 N % UNLV .....................................W 5 302 - 25 N % UCLA, #3 ...............................L 0 502 - 26 N % Cal State Fullerton ............L 5 603 - 01 A Sam Houston .....................W 2 003 - 02 H ~ BYU........................................W 3 203 - 03 H ~ BYU.........................................L 0 803 - 03 H ~ College of Charleston.........W 7 103 - 04 H ~ College of Charleston.........W 0 203 - 04 H ~ Texas Southern .................W 8 003 - 08 H Sam Houston .....................W 4 003 - 15 N ^ Cal State Northridge .......W 5 003 - 16 N ^ Arizona, #1..........................W 1 003 - 17 N ^ UNLV .....................................W 8 303 - 18 N ^ Oklahoma, #14 ..................W 7 603 - 19 N ^ Washington, #14 ..............W 4 103 - 19 N ^ Texas, #4 ...............................L 0 103 - 22 A * Baylor, #19 ..........................W 4 303 - 25 H * Kansas ..................................W 2 103 - 26 H * Kansas ..................................W 3 203 - 29 H Texas State ..........................W 2 104 - 01 A * Texas Tech ............................L 2 304 - 02 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 7 504 - 05 A * Texas, #1 ..............................W 4 204 - 08 H * Oklahoma, #21 ...................L 0 404 - 09 H * Oklahoma, #21 ..................W 5 104 - 12 A * Oklahoma State ................W 6 3 04 - 12 A * Oklahoma State ................W 16 804 - 15 A * Iowa State ............................L 6 14 04 - 15 A * Iowa State ...........................W 7 004 - 19 H * Baylor, #18 ...........................L 0 504 - 22 H * Missouri ...............................W 4 204 - 23 H * Missouri ...............................W 8 004 - 26 H * Texas, #2 ...............................L 0 104 - 29 A * Nebraska, #16 .....................L 2 305 - 11 N > Oklahoma, #20 ...................L 6 1305 - 11 N > Texas, #2 ..............................W 5 005 - 12 N > Missouri ................................L 3 505 - 19 N > Lehigh ...................................L 3 405 - 20 N > Albany ..................................W 6 505 - 20 N > Lehigh ...................................L 3 4

34-19 * Big 12 Conference game$ at Kajikawa Classic, Tempe, Ariz.# Aggie Classic, College Station, Texas.% at Palm Springs Classic, Cathedral City, Calif.~ Texas A&M Invitational, College Station, Texas.^ at Judy Garman Classic, Fullerton, Calif.> at Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ NCAA Region 1 Tournament, Amherst, Mass.

2007Coach: Jo Evans

record ............................ 46-14Big 12 .......... 4th ............. 12-6

02 - 09 N $ Northwestern, #4 ............W 4 302 - 09 N $ Fresno State, #21 .............W 10 202 - 10 N $ UCLA, #3 .............................W 5 402 - 10 N $ Utah ......................................W 10 302 - 11 N $ Arizona, #1..........................W 3 202 - 16 H # Arkansas ..............................W 4 102 - 16 H # Rutgers ................................W 9 102 - 17 H # Rutgers ................................W 7 402-17 H # Arkansas ..............................W 11 002 - 18 H # Texas-San Antonio ...........W 7 1

02 - 21 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 8 002 - 22 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 9 102 - 23 A Arizona, #4...........................L 0 502 - 24 A Arizona, #4..........................W 4 302-25 A Arizona, #4...........................L 2 602-28 A Sam Houston State..........W 9 003-02 H ~ Illinois ...................................W 6 2 03-02 H ~ Syracuse ..............................W 2 103-03 H ~ McNeese State ..................W 19 203-03 H ~ Illinois ...................................W 7 503-04 H ~ McNeese State ..................W 11 303-07 A Houston...............................W 3 0 03-07 A Houston...............................W 4 303-16 N ^ Rutgers ................................W 1 003-16 N ^ Michican State ..................W 3 003-17 N ^ Massachusetts...................W 3 203-17 A ^ Florida Atlantic ..................L 0 403-18 A ^ Florida Atlantic .................W 3 103-21 A Texas State ..........................W 5 003-24 H * Iowa State ...........................W 4 103-25 H * Iowa State ...........................W 8 003-28 A * Texas, #9 ...............................L 0 503-31 A * Oklahoma, #3 .....................L 2 404-01 A * Oklahoma, #3 ....................W 9 404-04 H * Baylor, #11 ...........................L 1 304-06 H * Nebraska .............................W 1 004-06 H * Nebraska .............................W 1 004-11 H Texas A&M- .........................W 9 0 Corpus Christi 04-14 A * Kansas ..................................W 7 004-15 A * Kansas ..................................W 13 0

04-18 H * Oklahoma State ................W 2 104-18 H * Oklahoma State ................W 4 004-21 A * Missouri ................................L 0 504-22 A * Missouri ...............................W 7 004-25 H * Texas, #18............................W 3 004-28 H * Texas Tech ...........................W 5 004-29 H * Texas Tech ............................L 2 605-04 A * Baylor, #7 ..............................L 4 505-11 N > Nebraska .............................W 3 105-12 N > Texas Tech ............................L 3 405-18 H + Sam Houston State..........W 9 505-19 H + Houston................................L 1 805-19 H + Sam Houston State..........W 11 005-20 H + Houston...............................W 13 205-20 H + Houston...............................W 5 005-25 H ++ Florida, #19 .........................W 2 005-26 H ++ Florida, #19 ..........................L 2 305-26 H ++ Florida, #19 .........................W 2 005-31 N @ Tennessee, #1 .....................L 0 206-02 N @ Baylor, #7 ..............................L 4 7

46-14 * Big 12 Conference game$ at Kajikawa Classic, Tempe, Ariz.# Aggie Classic, College Station, Texas% at Palm Springs Classic, Cathedral City, Calif.~ Texas A&M Invitational, College Station, Texas^ at FAU Parent’s Weekend Touranment, Boca Raton Fla.> at Big 12 Tournament, Oklahoma City, Okla.+ NCAA Region 1 Tournament, College Station, Texas++ NCAA Super Regional Tournament, College Station, Texas@ Women’s College World Series, Oklahoma City, Okla.

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02-08 N $ New Mexico State ............W 3 202-08 N $ Cal Poly .................................L 1 502-09 N $ Cal State Northridge .......W 3 002-09 N $ Oregon State, #18 ............W 9 102-10 N $ Utah State ...........................W 9 002-13 H Sam Houston State..........W 6 002-15 N # Nevada.................................W 5 002-16 N # Arizona, #1..........................W 3 202-16 N # Notre Dame .......................W 4 102-17 N # Northwestern, #6 ..............L 7 802-17 N # Washington, #15 ..............W 10 402-20 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 7 102-20 H Stephen F. Austin .............W 3 002-22 H % Temple .................................W 7 002-22 H % Sam Houston State..........W 2 002-23 H % North Texas ........................W 13 102-23 H % Temple .................................W 6 0 02-24 H % North Texas ........................W 9 1

02-27 H Houston, #14 .....................W 2 002-27 H Houston, #14 .....................W 8 702-29 N ^ DePaul, #19 ........................W 8 002-29 N ^ Georgia Tech ......................W 2 003-01 N ^ Florida State .......................W 7 003-01 N ^ UMass ...................................L 1 403-02 N ^ North Carolina State .......W 4 003-07 H ~ La.-Lafayette, #18 .............W 1 003-07 H ~ BYU........................................W 3 103-08 H ~ Illinois ...................................W 7 303-08 H ~ La.-Lafayatte, #19 ...... (8) L 1 203-14 N = Utah ......................................W 3 103-14 N = San Diego ...........................W 9 003-15 N = Cal State Fullerton ...........W 4 103-15 A = San Diego State .................L 0 303-16 N = Long Beach State ..............L 1 203-19 H * Baylor, #15 ..........................W 8 003-21 A * Texas Tech .................... (9) W 7 303-22 A * Texas Tech ...........................W 3 103-26 A * Baylor, #15 ..........................W 8 003-29 H * Missouri ..............................W 5 103-30 H * Missouri ...............................W 9 404-05 A * Iowa State ...........................W 11 104-05 A * Iowa State ...........................W 9 104-09 A * Texas .....................................W 3 104-12 H * Oklahoma ...........................W 4 204-13 H * Oklahoma ...........................W 1 004-16 A * Oklahoma State .................L 5 604-16 A * Oklahoma State ................W 4 304-19 H * Kansas ..................................W 14 004-20 H * Kansas ..................................W 8 004-23 H Texas State ..........................W 11 004-26 A * Nebraska .............................W 6 004-27 A * Nebraska .............................W 6 304-30 H * Texas .....................................W 2 105-10 N > Iowa State ...........................W 1 005-10 N > Texas .....................................W 3 105-11 N > Nebraska .............................W 5 005-16 H + Stephen F. Austin .............W 2 005-17 H + Louisiana Tech ...................W 4 005-18 H + Louisiana Tech ...................W 6 005-24 H ++ Stanford, #8 ........................W 6 105-25 H ++ Stanford, #8 ........................W 9 405-29 N @ Virginia Tech, #17 .............W 1 005-30 N @ La.-Lafayette, #16 .............W 2 106-01 N @ Florida, #1 ............................L 1 606-01 N @ Florida, #1 .................... (9) W 1 006-02 N @ Arizona State, #2 ...............L 0 306-03 N @ Arizona State, #2 ...............L 0 11

57-10 * Big 12 Conference game$ Cathedral City Kickoff, Cathedral City, Calif.# Kajikawa Classic, Tempe, Ariz.% Texas A&M Invitational, College Station, Texas^ NFCA Leadoff Classic, Columbus, Ga.~ Aggie Classic, College Station, Texas= San Diego Classic II, San Diego, Calif.+ NCAA Regional Tournament, College Station, Texas++ NCAA Super Regional Tournament, College Station, Texas@ Women’s College World Series, Oklahoma City, Okla.

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Texas A&M No. 1 In Smart Money ReportTuesday, January 06, 2009

Texas A&M University now ranks No. 1 in Smart Money magazine’s national ratings for “payback ratio”

— the earnings levels of an institution’s graduates compared to what they paid in tuition, fees and related costs for their undergraduate educations.

Smart Money editors advanced Texas A&M to the top spot — from runner-up honors — after they were informed by the initially top-ranked University of Georgia that it had inadvertently provided some incorrect infor-mation about its tuition.

Texas A&M is followed in the Smart Money updated list of 50 colleges and universities by the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Tech, with the University of Georgia now ranked fourth. All other previously announced rankings remain the same, the magazine’s editors note.

In the extensive article titled “Why The Ivies Aren’t Worth It,” the widely circulated personal-finance magazine published by The Wall Street Journal in its current edition (January 2009) says “an elite-college degree is nice, but once you factor in tuition and future salaries, public schools jump to the head of the class.”

Texas A&M President Elsa Murano is cited in the article, noting “how stringently it (Texas A&M) economizes on administrative costs.” She is quoted pointing out that Texas A&M “recently bucked the education-inflation trend by limiting this year’s tuition hike to its lowest percentage in 10 years.”

After seeing the published article, Dr. Murano said, “We are obviously pleased—but certainly not surprised — to have Texas A&M acknowledged as a national leader in the financial return on investment in a college education.

“We take special pride in providing our students a high-quality education at the most affordable cost within our means, in keeping with our high standards as one of the nation’s top research universities. We don’t necessarily strive to be the least expensive; our goal is to provide the best overall value for a university that offers a world-class educational experi-ence.”

Smart Money editors explained that the “payback” ratio was determined by using data from an online salary database and then looking at the median salary alumni are earn-ing within five years of graduation and after 10 years. The editors said they then divided each of those figures by the school’s historical degree costs and averaged them together.

Texas A&M is known internationally for excellence in academics and athletics, as well as the tremendous Aggie spirit and proud traditions that create a learning and living experience unlike any other.

From world-class research, residential and recreational facilities to a broad range of academic and extracurricular programs, Texas A&M offers a myriad of opportunities for intellectual and personal development in an environment that fosters achievement at the highest level.

And, rich traditions – from “Howdy,” the official campus greeting, to events and com-memorations such as The Big Event, Yell Practice and Aggie Muster – create a bond that unites Aggies across the generations.

This is Texas a&M ...

E S TA B l I S H E d I N 1876 Since its Oct. 4, 1876 opening as the state’s first public institute of higher learning, the Agricul-tural and Mechanical College of Texas, now known as Texas A&M University, has grown into a leader in teaching, research and service, with an interna-tional reputation for excellence in academics and athletics. Located in the heart of Texas, less than 160 miles from four of the nation’s 20 largest cities (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin) and home to the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Texas A&M is a popular and convenient destination for visitors from throughout the state.

I N T E R N AT I o N A l H I g H l I g H TS Texas A&M is a worldwide leader a with wide array of international programs, partnerships and exchanges. Faculty and research staff have partici-pated in more than 300 research projects in more than 50 countries and on all seven continents in re-cent years; the university enjoys formal cooperative agreements with about 100 institutions in more than 40 nations in Europe, Asia and throughout the Americas.

As of April 2008, Texas A&M enrolled ap-proximately 4,100 international students from 128 countries (ranked 13th) and sends more than 1,200 students on Study Abroad programs each year.Texas A&M University at Qatar was established in 2003 in Education City, a 2,400-acre campus that also houses branch campuses of Virginia Common-wealth University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgetown Uni-versity in the city of Doha. A comprehensive Study Abroad program of-fers students a range of opportunities to study overseas-independently, as part of faculty-led ex-cursions, through student exchanges or at Texas A&M centers such as The Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy; The James Earl Rud-der Scholar Program in Caen, Normandy, France; and The Texas A&M University Center in Mexico City, Mexico.

N AT I o N A l H I g H l I g H TS

ENdowMENT: Texas A&M is the na-tion’s sixth-largest university (46,542 students in fall 2007). Students represent every state and 133 other nations. 3,483 (55 percent) of the first-time-in-college students enrolled in fall 2007 graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The average SAT for freshmen is 1208 (nation-al average is 1017). The university received a record 21,000+ applications and a record 8,085 entering freshmen for fall 2007. Fall 2008 freshman enroll-ment is also expected to top 8,000. NATIoNAl MERIT ScHolARS: Texas A&M is ranked No. 10 in the nation in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars and had the second-largest increase among all schools accord-ing to the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Corp. annual report. VAlUE oF RESEARcH: With nearly $570 million invested in research, Texas A&M ranks among the top 20 research universities nation-wide. Texas A&M has been identified by Business Week magazine as one of the top 12 academically elite schools in the amount of research received from industry. ENdowMENT: $6.5 billion as of FY 2007; 10th in the nation and fourth among public univer-sities.

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AddITIoNAl PoINTS oF INTEREST: • Among 62 invited members of the prestigious

American Association of Universities. • One of a select few institutions to hold triple

federal designation: Land Grant, Sea Grant and Space Grant.

• Texas A&M receives high marks by publica-tions that focus on specific academic areas and for such programs as MBAs.

• Smart Money ranks Texas A&M No. 1 in its up-dated list this month of national rankings for “payback ratio”— the earning levels of an in-stitution’s graduates compared to what they paid in tuition, fees and related costs for their undergraduate educations.

• The Princeton Review/USA Today listed Texas A&M as one of the nation’s 50 “best values” among public institutions. Becoming the lat-est in a series of national publication rankings in which Texas A&M fares well on the basis of high-quality education at an affordable cost and good return on investment in a college education.

• Texas A&M is consistently ranked high by U.S. News & World Report in its listings of “best val-ues among public universities.”

• Texas A&M tied for ninth place among public institutions in a Forbes Magazine survey that ranks earnings of alumni from around the coun-try with 10 to 20 years of experience. Texas A&M was the only Texas institution ranked among the top 10 public schools in a list dominated by Uni-versity of California schools.

• The Washington Monthly rated Texas A&M the best in the nation “for tangible contribu-tions to the public interest.” The magazine’s editors say they rate individual schools on such factors as the degree to which they en-courage students to serve in ROTC programs, the Peace Corps and other service programs, along with their emphasis on research that drives economic growth.

• Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education ranked Texas A&M 25th in the country in 2006 in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students. The university ranked first in agriculture, fourth in biological and bio-medical sciences, fourth in engineering and seventh in interdisciplinary studies.

• Established a chapter of the academic honors society Phi Beta Kappa in spring 2004.

• TheMemorial StudentCenter is thenation’slargest student-union program. The univer-sity has more than 700 university-recognized clubs and organizations to satisfy a myriad of social, personal-development and recreation-al interests.

• Theuniversity’s5,200-acrephysicalplant,oneof the largest in the nation, is valued at more than $1 billion.

• TexasA&MUniversityatGalveston,thestate’smarine and maritime branch campus, has been in operation since 1962 and enrolls about 1,700 students in undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, engineering, business and transportation.

T H E S T U d E N T B o dY Texas A&M is as committed to developing stu-dents’ character as well as their intellect, through a wide array of extracurricular activities collectively referred to as “The Other Education.” More than 75 percent of Texas A&M students belong to at least one of the 700-plus recognized student organiza-tions, the nation’s largest student-union program. Membership in these organizations and participa-tion in their activities help build important teamwork and leadership skills, while encouraging stu-

dents to give of themselves in service to others. With about 1,800 members, Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets is the largest uniformed student body apart from the national service academies. Although membership carries no military obliga-tion, the Corps is responsible for commissioning more officers into the U.S. military than any school other than the academies. Approximately 200 stu-dents participate in a separate corps at the Galves-ton campus, producing more Merchant Marine and U.S. Coast Guard officers than any institution except those academies. The student body continues to become more diverse. While total enrollment has grown by about 15 percent since 1988, minority enrollment has in-creased at an even faster pace. Women now repre-sent approximately 48 percent of all students. More than 25 percent of the incoming freshman classes in recent years have been first-generation college students. More than 10,000 students have the opportu-nity to live on campus, placing Texas A&M among the top five universities in the nation in its capabil-ity for housing students.

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co U R S E S & d E g R E E S Through its 10 colleges, Texas A&M offers undergraduate degrees in more than 150 fields of study, plus concentrations within majors (such as engineering geology within geology), almost 250 master’s and doctoral degrees, and one profession-al degree, the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. A new University Studies degree program, available in fall 2007, gives students greater flexibility to tailor their degrees while still meeting all core curriculum stan-dards. Through the summer of 2007, Texas A&M had awarded more than 330,000 academic degrees, in-cluding more than 70,000 graduate and profession-al degrees. More than half of the advanced degrees have been awarded in the past 15 years.

FAc U lT Y Texas A&M has more than 2,600 faculty and is in the final year of a five-year effort— unprecedented in all of American higher educa-tion—to add nearly 450 new faculty members. The student-to-faculty ratio is less than 20:1. Included on the faculty are Nobel laureate, Dr. Norman Bor-laug (1970 Peace Prize); National Medal of Science winner Dr. George F. Bass (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Archaeology, 2001); a Pulitzer Prize Win-ner (Dr. Douglas Starr, Professor of Journalism); 21 members of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science (6), and many others who have received such high honors as the Wolf Prize, MacArthur Foundation “genius” Grants and the Welch Foundation Prize.

R E S E A R c H Texas A&M’s faculty conduct nearly $570 mil-lion in research each year. Researchers at Texas A&M and affiliated A&M System agencies disclosed 141 inventions and filed 106 patent applications in FY 2007. In 2004, Texas A&M was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the lead in-stitution for the National Center for Foreign Animal

and Zoonotic Disease De-fense, a multi-institutional, in-terdisciplinary research facil-ity that aims to enhance the security of our nation’s food and agricultural systems. The center is part of Texas A&M’s Integrative Center for Home-land Security, which was es-tablished in May 2002. Since 2003, Texas A&M has served as a major partici-pant in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), a large-scale, multinational earth science research proj-ect for which Texas A&M also serves as the operator of one of three scientific drilling ships. At $450 million over 10 years, IODP represents the largest research contract in Texas A&M’s 128-year history. Texas A&M previ-ously served as science operator for the Ocean Drilling Program, IODP’s predecessor, which ended in 2003 after 20 years. The 350-acre Texas A&M University Research Park opened in 1982. Tenants include the local headquarters of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Pro-gram, the headquarters and model basin for the Offshore Technology Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation, the Reta and Bill Haynes Coastal Engineering Laboratory and Cen-teq Research Plaza. The oilfield services company Schlumberger and Hewlett-Packard also have of-fices on site. Texas A&M Libraries are ranked first in schol-arly publishing among U.S. academic libraries.

B U d g E TS & F U N d I N g Texas A&M University’s FY 2007 operating budget was $1 billion. In the 2005 calendar year, the university and other components of the Texas A&M University System located in the Bryan-College Sta-tion area had an economic impact of more than $2.7 billion. That includes institutional spending, as well as spending by more than 21,700 employees, nearly 45,000 students and tens of thousands of visitors. Texas A&M’s endowment (including some parts of The Texas A&M University System) for FY 2007 was valued at about $6.5 billion, ranking 10th nationally and fourth among public universities.

T H E T E xA S A&M U N I V E R S I T Y S YS T E M

Texas A&M University is part of the Texas A&M University System, which includes nine other aca-demic institutions: Prairie View A&M (Prairie View), Tarleton State (Stephenville), Texas A&M Interna-tional (Laredo), Texas A&M-Commerce, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M Kingsville, Texas A&M-Texarkana, West Texas A&M (Canyon) and the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. The System also includes the following state agencies:

• Texas Agricultural Experiment Station• Texas Cooperative Extension• Texas Animal Damage Control Service• Texas Engineering Experiment Station• Texas Engineering Extension Service• Texas Forest Service• Texas Transportation Institute• Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

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co l l E g E o F g E o S c I E N c E S The College of Geosciences is home to one of the most comprehensive concentrations of geosci-ence students, faculty and research scientists in the country. Our unique blend of disciplines includes atmospheric sciences, geography, geology & geo-physics, and oceanography. The College is also home to three major research centers – the Inte-grated Ocean Drilling Program, the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, and the Texas Sea Grant College Program – making geosciences the largest college research program in the Texas A&M system. In addition to the degree programs in our four academic departments, we also offer interdisciplinary degrees in environmental stud-ies, environmental geosciences and spatial science, and a master of geoscience degree. With a total of approximately 755 students and about 110 fac-ulty, the College offers an educational atmosphere characterized by smaller classes with tenured or tenure-track faculty, interactive learning, research opportunities in the laboratory and the field, and state-of-the-art facilities.

co l l E g E o F l I B E R A l A R TS Offers curricula designed to develop critical reading and thinking skills, to broaden and enrich the quality of life, and to produce informed and responsible citizens. The College offers an array of majors in 12 departments focusing on social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and the perform-ing arts, as well as serving as a major source of in-ternational education.

M AYS B U S I N E S S S c H o o l Nationally recognized through annual rank-ings among the top 10 public business schools for its undergraduate and MBA programs, Mays pro-vides its students unique learning experiences that stress critical and innovative thinking, character de-velopment and ethical leadership. Visit mays.tamu.edu for more information.

d w I g H T lo o k co l l E g E o F E N g I N E E R I N g

The Dwight Look College of Engineering graduates about 2,000 engineers a year, third high-est in the nation. Its program consistently ranks in the top 10 public engineering programs and its stu-dents are the some of most highly recruited engi-neers in the United States. To learn more about the fascinating and rewarding field of engineering, visit http://thinkbig.tamu.edu

co l l E g E o F E d U c AT I o N &H U M A N d E V E lo PM E N T

Are you looking for a career that provides the opportunity to help others? If so, then there is a home for you in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. Besides offering one of the best teacher educa-

tion programs in the nation and being the leading producer of school teachers in high need areas, the college offers opportunities in human resource de-velopment, sport management, community health, technology management and exercise physiology. The 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranked its graduate school as 40th in the nation, and three new master’s degrees are offered in special educa-tion and Hispanic bilingual education. The college incorporates new technologies into all its programs and offers online and distance experiences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. For more information about the college, visit www.cehd.tamu.edu.

co l l E g E o F S c I E N c E As the scientific core of Texas A&M, the Col-lege of Science has a three-part mission: educating new generations of scientists, conducting cutting-edge research to produce tomorrow’s technologies and providing the required mathematics, statistics and science foundation for all Texas A&M students. The college boasts world-renowned distinguished faculty, including three National Academy of Sci-ences members and a Nobel laureate. Two of the college’s five departments are ranked nationally at or near the top 10. The college’s Cyclotron Institute operates one of the world’s only K500 supercon-ducting cyclotrons.

T H E B U S H S c H o o l The Bush School of Government and Public Service Administration was named after George Bush, 41st President of the United States, who once said “Public service is a noble calling.” Ranked 23nd among public universities for public affairs pro-grams, the school educates principled leaders in public service and international affairs, conducts research, and performs service. The Master of Pub-lic Service and Administration and the Master’s Program in International Affairs are the two aca-demic cornerstones of the college, with 195 gradu-ate students enrolled. The school also offers online or in-residence graduate certificate programs in Nonprofit Management, Advanced International Affairs, and Homeland Security. Distinguished, multidisciplinary faculty members are national and international leaders in their fields, and the college is home to the Institute for Science, Technology & Public Policy and the Scowcroft Institute of Interna-tional Affairs. To learn more, visit us online at http://bush.tamu.edu.

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B I o M E d I c A l S c I E N c E S The College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomed-ical Sciences, the only veterinary college in Texas, consistently ranks in the Top Five colleges of vet-erinary medicine in the nation and has produced approximately 10 percent of all the practicing vet-erinarians in the United States. The Texas Veterinary Medical Center, which includes the college, the

large and small animal hospitals, and several spe-cialized centers and institutes, offers patient care for all animal species through its’ community and referral practice. The undergraduate Biomedical Science (BIMS) Program at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sci-ences graduates the highest percentage of stu-dents admitted to professional schools in the State of Texas including veterinary, dental, medical, op-tometry, and nursing. In the Biomedical Science program, students rise to the expectation of the program’s rigorous curriculum. The average GPA of biomedical science students consistently exceeds the campus average.

g E N E R A l S T U d I E S P R o g R A M Allows students to explore several academic areas before declaring a major. This exploration helps students identify a major as well as clarify career goals. Students receive academic advising and career counseling while completing general courses that will apply to their degree programs.

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As one of the nation’s largest colleges of agri-culture and life sciences and ranks among the top producers of future leaders for the multibillion-dollar U.S. food and fiber industry. With 29 major undergraduate programs in 15 departments, the College offers world-class education and research programs in food systems, natural resources and the environment, and life sciences technology, in-corporating practical learning through internships in industry and government and study-abroad pro-grams in countries throughout the world. The Col-lege’s diverse and motivated graduates successfully pursue careers in such fields as marketing and sales, law, government, business management, wildlife and environmental management, biotechnology, veterinary and human medicine, and nutrition and food science. The College’s faculty members are internationally respected for their innovative im-provements in production technology, natural re-source management, genetics, human health, and disease prevention and for enhancing the quality of life in both rural and urban communities. They also place a high priority on teaching and working with students. For more information, visit coals.tamu.edu.

co l l E g E o F A R c H I T E c T U R E The College of Architecture is one of the larg-est of its kind in the United States. It offers a com-prehensive catalog of prominently ranked graduate and undergraduate programs in the design, visual-ization, planning, construction, and land develop-ment professions. The three departments in the college – architecture, construction science, and landscape architecture and urban planning – are each fully accredited at the highest possible level and together offer 12 degree programs including doctorates in architecture and urban and regional sciences. Additionally the college sustains six for-mally organized research centers and laboratories dedicated to improving the knowledge base of the professions it serves and supporting five gradu-ate certificate programs in sustainable urbanism, facility management, health systems and design, historic preservation, and environmental hazard management.

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T H E S To RY o F T H E 12T H M A N

One of the most well-known traditions at Texas A&M is the Twelfth Man...

The story of this colorful tradition has been told and retold to generations of Aggie students and is part of the cohesive substance that binds A&M students together forever. The Twelfth Man is the reason A&M students stand for each entire football game. When Aggie students stand dur-ing games, it is this spirit and loyalty they are re-membering. They stand in readiness in case they are needed to go into the game like the original Twelfth Man, E. King Gill. The late Dr. Gill of Corpus Christi related this story some years ago: “It was in January, 1922, following the 1921 football season. The Aggies were SWC champions and had been invited to play Centre College in what was then called the Dixie Classic in Dallas. I had played on the football team, but was on the basketball team at that time and those in charge felt I was more valuable to the basketball team (Gill was an All-SWC basketball player in 1923). I was in Dallas, however, and even rode to the stadium in the same taxi with Coach Dana X. Bible. I was in ci-

Tradition and history are important parts of life on any college campus but especially at Texas A&M University. The “Spirit of Aggieland” is unmatched by any other college or university in the United States. Most traditions at Texas A&M are filled with the rich background of its corps of cadets, which for many years made up the entire stu-dent body at the college Station campus.

Texas A&M opened in 1876 as a land grant college. At that point, the student body adopted a military structure, and the traditions of Aggieland took their roots. The school remained essentially the same until 1963 when the first women were admit-ted. But the school still has the corps of cadets — only one of a few universities in the country to maintain a strong commitment to military training.

Today participation in the corps is strictly voluntary, but about 2,000 students — men and women — choose to be part of the proud organization that helps personify the “Spirit of Aggieland.”

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vilian clothes and was not to be in uniform. Coach Bible asked me to assist in spotting players for the late Jinx Tucker (sports editor of the Waco News-Tribune) in the press box. So, I was up in the press box, helping Jinx Tucker when, near the end of the first half, I was called down to the Texas A&M bench. There had been a number of injuries but it was not until I arrived on the field that I learned that Coach Bible wanted me to put on a football uniform and be ready to play if he needed me. There were no dressing rooms at the stadium in those days. The team had dressed downtown at the hotel and trav-eled to the stadium in taxi cabs. Anyway, I put on the uniform of one of the injured players. We got under the stands, and he put on my clothes and I put on his uniform. I was ready to play but never was sent into the game.”

S I lV E R TA P S

One of the most emotional of all Aggie traditions…

The solemn ceremony is the final tribute and honor to an Aggie who has died. The cere mony is held in front of the Academic Building on the first Tuesday of every month at 10:30 p.m., if a student died during the preceding month. Students gather around the area, the campus lights are dimmed

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(cars included), chimes play from Albritton Tower, a detachment from the Ross Volunteers fires three volleys and buglers from the Aggie Band play Silver Taps three times. The ceremony is quite moving be-cause the only sense one witnesses it with is sound. The family members of the deceased Aggie are in-vited as special guests at the ceremony.

R E V E I l l E

The first lady of Aggieland…

Is the official mascot of Texas A&M University. She is the highest ranking member of the Corps of Cadets, and is a Five-Star General. A full-bred Amer-ican Collie, Reveille’s history dates back to 1931. At that time, some cadets accidentally ran over a black and white dog in their Model T on the way back to campus, so they gathered up the injured dog and took it back to the dormitory. In the morning, when the bugler sounded reveille, the dog started bark-ing and promptly received her nickname. Reveille was soon adopted by the Corps and especially the band. She followed them to all formations and led them when they marched. At the first football game, she took the field with the band and made her first appearance as the official mascot of Texas A&M. Reveille died in 1944 and was buried at the north entrance of Kyle Field facing the scoreboard so that she can always watch the Aggies outscore their opponent. Reveille II, Reveille III, Reveille IV, Reveille V and Reveille VI are now buried alongside Reveille I. Reveille VII was retired in Feb. 2008 and Reveille VIII was introduced in Fall of 2008.

M U S T E R

First held in 1883 when Aggies met June 26 to ‘live over their college days’...

The early meetings were parties and banquets held during the commencement exercises. Soon, a permanent date was set — April 21 — and it be-came a time to pay homage to students and former students who died during the past year. At today’s Muster, living comrades answer “here” to the roll call at the largest ceremony in the 12,500-seat Reed Arena, for their friends who have passed on. Dur-ing World War I, groups of Aggies held Muster in trenches in Europe. In 1923, former students began holding Muster throughout Texas, the nation and numerous other parts of the world — to let Aggies remember old days and meet old friends.

B o N F I R E & R E P l A N T

The Aggie Bonfire signals the annual football game between Texas A&M and University of Texas…

On the night before the game — or two nights before if it is played in Austin — the Corps of Ca-dets stands at attention to the music of “The Spirit of Aggieland” while the bonfire sends its flames and sparks spiraling into the sky. Bonfire is entirely financed and organized by the Corps of Cadets and traditionally belongs to the freshman class, but the entire student body helps build the world’s largest bonfire. The building and burning of Bonfire, which takes two weeks of nonstop work to complete after months of gathering wood, symbolizes the burn-ing desire to beat t.u. and the undying love Aggies everywhere carry for Texas A&M. Bonfire formerly took place on the intramural field south of Duncan Dining Hall on the southern edge of campus, but moved to the polo fields at the northeast corner of campus in the early ’90s. Bonfire has not burned since the stack col-lapsed in 1999 and 12 Aggies were killed. The Bon-fire will not burn for the foreseeable future. Exten-sive studies have been conducted concerning the future design and conducting of Bonfire. Replant is a one-day environmental service project which strives to improve the Bryan/Col-lege Station community, bring students together through tradition, provide an avenue for environ-mental service and action, through a yearly tree planting event. The Replant Committee is a group of Fightin’ Texas Aggie students which organizes and puts on the annual environmental service project. The di-verse bunch of students comes from varied fields of study, as well as from across the country. While the group does a lot of the behind-the-scenes or-ganizational work, it could not succeed without the elbow grease of the dedicated volunteers who attend Replant each year.

YE l l P R Ac T I c E

A favorite of Aggies is Yell Practice…

In 1932, two freshmen asked the senior yell leaders to hold a Midnight Yell Practice to motivate students for the upcoming football game. The seniors said they could not authorize a Yell Practice, but could manage to “be” at the YMCA Building at midnight. Flares were planted, the Corps woke up, even the band showed up,

and the first Midnight Yell Practice was held. Today, Midnight Yell Prac-tice is held at Kyle Field on Friday night before a home football game. The Aggie Band starts the pa-rade at the Quadrangle near the Corps dorms and marches to Kyle Field led by the Yell Leaders carrying torches. Then, as many as 20,000 students line the route and fall in behind the band. Yells are then practiced, the Aggie War Hymn and the Spirit of Aggieland are sung, and at “lights out” the after-touchdown kiss is practiced. After an Aggie victo-ry, the Yell Leaders are carried across campus and tossed into the Fish Pond, where a Yell Practice is held. Af-ter being “outscored,” students remain in the stands, and Yell Practice is held in preparation for the next game.

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Instead of cheerleaders leading cheers, there are yell leaders leading yells…

Today yell leaders are selected by a vote of the student body. There are five Yell Leaders (three seniors and two juniors) who are donned in white. These five motivated Aggies use hand signals to indicate what yell will occur next. They tell the “Twelfth Man” what yell is coming, and the students on the bottom row pick up the signal and repeat it, passing it upward until the entire student body knows what is coming. Once the “Twelfth Man” assumes the “humping it” position (bending over with the hands placed just above the knees, prop-erly aligning the back, mouth and throat for maxi-mum volume) the yell begins.

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The largest student-led service project in the nation…

In the spirit of giving, Aggies help serve the community every year in Big Event. Started in 1982, the Big Event promotes campus unity as stu-dents come together each spring to express their gratitude for the support from the surrounding communities of Bryan/College Station. More than 10,000 Aggies participate in more than 1,000 jobs such as painting houses, mowing lawns, and raking leaves. Dorms, Greek organizations, Corps outfits and individuals work together to help serve the community.

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Each university has its own set of traditions which help to distinguish it from other institutions. Texas A&M University is no exception. Perhaps nowhere else are traditions as interwoven into the very fabric of the university than they are at Texas A&M. As a result,

Aggies have a lingo that is all their own. The following list of terms helps to define what being an Aggie is all about.

FISH c AMPFreshman orientation camp held just before classes begin in the fall. Provides an overall introduction to Texas A&M.

gIg ’EMOne of many Aggie yells.

HowdY!Traditional Aggie greeting; a derivative of “hello.” Sometimes garbled to sound like “hahdy”. Aggies pride themselves on their friendliness and greet each other and visitors with a “Howdy” as they walk across campus.

HUll ABAloo,c ANE ck! c ANE ck!

First words to the “Aggie War Hymn,” A&M’s fight song, which was written by J.V. (Pinky) Wilson while standing guard on the Rhine during World War I.

HUMPINg ITPosition taken by Aggies when giving a yell. Bending forward from the waist

with the hands placed just above the knees properly aligns the back, mouth and throat for maximum volume.

JollIE RollIEG. Rollie White Coliseum—the place where the Aggies play volleyball and hold special events.

MScMemorial Student Center. No one steps on the grass surrounding the MSC, which was built in honor of Ag-gies who died in battle.

ol’ ARMYLike it “used to be” at A&M.

REdPoTST h e s t u d e n t s r e s p o n -sible for coordinating the build-i n g o f B o n f i re . Th e re a re 1 6 (8 seniors, 8 juniors), and they wear red hardhats or “pots.”

SUllYStatue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, former Governor of Texas and former

President of Texas A&M. It stands in front of the Academic Building.

T.U.That “other school” in Austin is not the “University of Texas.” To an Aggie, it’s “t.u.,” without capital letters.

TEA-SIPStudent at t.u.

T wo PERcENTERSStudents who do not display the true Aggie Spirit.

wHooP!Aggie expression of approval.

YEll PR Ac TIcESpirit session which builds enthusiasm for an upcoming athletic contest. Under the direction of the Yell Leaders, Aggies show their support for the team by shouting the yells with spirit and sing-ing the Aggie songs with pride. Held at midnight at Kyle Field before home football games.

A&MShortened form for Texas A&M Uni-versity. Originally, the letters stood for Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; now, the letters are retained merely as part of the University’s tradi-tion and history.

AggIEA student, former student or sup-porter of Texas A&M University. Term is derived from A&M’s agricultural heritage. Aggies are sometimes also referred to as farmers.

AggIE codE oF HoNoRFor many years, Aggies have followed a Code of Honor, which is stated in this very simple verse: “Aggies do not lie, cheat, or steal, nor do they tolerate those who do.”

AggIEl ANdHome of Texas A&M University.

All-U NIgHTAll-University Night—the first Yell Prac-tice of the semester. Event includes introductions of men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic teams, coach-ing staff and yell leaders.

ASSocIATIoN oF FoRMER STUdENTS

There is no such thing at A&M as an alumni association or an Ex- Aggie; there are only former students. The Association of Former Students serves the same purpose as an alumni as-sociation, but an individual doesn’t have to graduate from A&M to be a member. Once an Aggie, always an Aggie.

coRPS oF c AdE TSMilitary-oriented organization, which is the oldest student group on the A&M campus. Texas A&M annu-ally commissions more officers for the armed forces than any other ROTC source in the nation.

ElEPHANT wAlkAnnual ceremony held the week of the last football game in which seniors gather in front of the Academic Build-ing, form a single line and wander about the campus like old elephants seeking a secluded spot to end their days.

FISHA freshman.

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In 1985, Texas A&M opened the $36.4 mil-lion Student Recreation-al center, a premier fa-cility among university recreation and fitness complexes.

The building consists of 286,000 square feet, roughly the equivalent to the space of five football fields. Fea-tures include multi-purpose gyms with badminton, basketball and volleyball courts, indoor soccer courts with dasher boards, 14 racquetball / handball and two squash courts with glass back walls.

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The weight room includes machine weights, free weights, cardiovascular equipment, a cardio-theater, five activity rooms for aerobics, dance and martial arts and a quarter-mile four-lane walk-ing/jogging track.

It also features a 42-foot indoor rock climbing facility with interchangeable hand and footholds, an outdoor activity area with a six-lane lap and a free form pool with a cool water spa.

The impressive building also houses a natatorium that seats 2,500 with a 50-meter, eight-lane olympic-size pool, a five-lane instruction-al pool, a diving well with one and three meter springboards and competitive plat-forms and hot tubs.

Facility Ranks Among Best University

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The mission of the center for Stu-dent-Athlete Services is to help each student-athlete achieve his or her maximum potential through academic, personal, and career enhancement while upholding the standards of honor, integrity, and professionalism at Texas A&M University.

Through the combination of one of the nation’s premier facilities and a highly qualified staff, Texas A&M has strengthened its commitment to “Building champions” off the field, as well as on.

c H A M P S 101:w I N N I N g AT l I F E

CHAMPS 101 is a comprehensive course created to assist our student-athletes in coping with the many transitions and challenges of college, athletic life, and beyond. The course creates opportunities for student-athletes to explore and be involved in campus life, ser-vices, and programs while encouraging personal growth and responsible decision-making. All new freshman student-athletes are required to complete the course for academic credit within their first year. In addition, experienced student-athletes may participate as Teaching Assistants, providing guidance for new students while gaining valuable experience as a mentor and teacher. The CHAMPS 101 course serves to enhance Texas A&M’s commitment to the total develop-ment of our student-athletes by addressing the issues and topics to better prepare them academically, athleti-cally, and personally.

The Center for Student-Athlete Services is located on the second floor of the Bright Football Complex. The Center is a 24,550-square foot state-of-the-art facility equipped with the latest teaching technology and capable of accommodating over 600 students at any given time. The academic staff was highly involved in the design of the Center to ensure a convenient and user-friendly layout to meet the student-athletes’ needs. Designed with the student-athlete in mind, the academic center is one of the most comprehen-sive academic support facilities in college athletics.

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Each year a CHAMPS banquet is hosted in the spring to honor the student-athletes, trainers and managers who have excelled in academics, athlet-ics, leadership, and community service. Each year we have over 320 students that are recognized for their achievements. One of the primary goals is to have the stu-dent-athlete graduation rate equal or exceed the all university graduation rate at Texas A&M. This is a significant challenge because the university gradu-ation rate is consistently very high. However, the staff, coaches, and student-athletes are up to the challenge.

Ac A d E M I c S U P E R V I S I N g Ensuring that our student-athletes are on the correct path to success is important to Texas A&M University. The Center for Student-Athlete Services employs seven full-time Academic Supervisors and a Learning Specialist. They are assisted by graduate assistants and a front office staff. Together, the staff monitors the student-ath-letes’ academic performance to ensure the contin-ued fulfillment of progress toward degree require-ments. This process includes academic progress reports during the semester and individualized academic planning for each student. All student-athletes are also required to submit pre-registra-

tion forms prior to registering for classes to ensure a class schedule that meets degree requirements and meshes with practice times. Additionally, every student-athlete must meet with his or her academic advisor in the college in which they are enrolled. Each student-athlete meets reg-ularly with the athletic supervisor. The meetings help solve problems concern-ing class work and overall academic performance. The emphasis of the pro-gram centers on the idea of a “proac-tive” approach rather than a “reactive” approach. Coaches and athletic super-visors try to set the academic tone early and to be as thorough as possible in planning for each student-athlete’s aca-demic success.

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• 50-station Computer Center with all new Dell Pentium IV desktop computers

• 30 Dell laptop computers to check out

• access to all of the software avail-able in any open access computer lab on campus

• 11 Tutor Rooms for small group tutoring

• 10 Tutor Rooms for individual tutoring

• five tutor labs (agriculture, busi-ness, science, humanities, social science)

• writing center modeled after the University Writing Center in Evans Library

• math center – friendly staff to help with mathematics at all levels

• two study lounges for students to find a quiet, comfortable place to study independently or in small groups

• four large classrooms available for Champs 101, supplemental instruction or other classes that include student athletes

• student-athlete lounge with comfortable chairs, big screen TV and vending machines nearby

• office area for Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Aggie Athletes Involved

• career services staff and resource center

• full-time nutritionist

• a friendly staff including nine full-time academic supervisors, five graduate assistants, learning coordinators, learning assistants, receptionists and more than 50 tutors available

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Texas A&M men’s golfer Trey Todd (Abilene) and volleyball player Jen Moore (Allen) were named the Bill Erwin Scholar-Athletes of the Year at the 18th-annual cHAMPS Awards Banquet held at The Zone club in kyle Field.

Todd is a three-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 pick and received Academic All-America honors as a junior and senior. He played in 28 ca-reer tournaments and tied for eighth at the 2007 Morris Williams Intercollegiate in Aus-tin. His career-best round was a 67 at the 2006 PING/Arizona State Intercol-legiate. Todd has received his masters in accounting from Texas A&M and has accepted a job with Price Waterhouse in Dallas. Moore was a three-time member of the Academic All-Big 12 Volleyball Team during her four-year career, and as a senior, the libero was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI Women’s Volleyball Second Team by the College Sports Informa-tion Directors of America. In 2007, the team captain played in every game and ranked second on the squad in digs per game while leading the Aggies to a 21-10 record. An honor student, Moore graduated in May 2008 with a degree in communications and will pursue a master’s degree in sports management at A&M in the fall. A total of 401 student-athletes and student support staff were honored for posting a grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the 2007 cal-endar year. Of those, 89 earned Verizon Outstand-ing Athletics Scholar Awards for posting a 4.0 GPA for one or both semesters. Men’s swimmer Ozzie Gardner (Kearns, Utah) was named the male Distinguished Letterman Award winner. After red-shirting his true senior season due to injury, Gardner became only the second swimmer in school history to qualify for the NCAA Championship final in the 50-yard freestyle, breaking one of the most long-standing and most sought after marks in the A&M swimming record books. Gardner led the Aggies to a 13th-place fin-ish, A&M’s 13th top 25 finish in a row, at the NCAA Championships in Federal Way, Wash. Soccer player Ashlee Pistorius (Bloomington, Ill.) was named the female Distinguished Letter-man Award winner. Pistorius is the A&M school record holder for goals in a career and a four-time Big 12 All-Tournament selection in addition to be-ing named the 2007 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. She was named the Honda Sports Award win-

Sophomore volleyball player Mary Batis (San Antonio) was named the Outstanding Committee Chair for her work with Aggie Athletes Involved and The Big Event. Batis has started every match and played in all but one game during her two-year A&M career. This past season, the outside hitter from San Antonio earned MVP accolades at two of three tournaments and went on to be named the team’s co-MVP after leading the team in digs per game and ranking second in kills, points and aces per game. Student Athlete Advisory Com-mittee President, and men’s golfer, Matt Van Zandt (Houston) was hon-ored for his work as well. The Award of Excellence, given to an athletic supporter within the de-partment, was presented to Associate

Athletic Director for Academics Steve McDonnell. McDonnell has worked in the position for the Aggies since coming over from a similar role at Iowa State in 1999. He also oversaw the transition of the academic center from Cain Hall to the Bright Complex in 2003. The Cleo WhitlockAward, given to an athletic supporter outside the department, was presented to Rush Hannigan. Hannigan often shows up for volleyball games before warm-ups start and is often the first person in the stands. He attends many A&M sports, shows up early, stays late and was submitted for the honor by multiple A&M teams for his outstanding spirit. Athletes honored for being CHAMPS 101 Teaching Assistants were men’s swimmer Alejandro Jacobo (León, Gto., Mexico), softball player Megan Gibson (Spring), track & field athletes Ashley Mc-Carty (Sanger) and Chad Stoermer (San Antonio), women’s basketball player LaToya Gulley (Fayette-ville, Ark.) and women’s swimmer Sally Ranzau (Al-pharetta, Ga.). CHAMPS 101 is a required course for all first-year student-athletes. Ms. Gaye Zinn accepted an award posthu-mously for her recently deceased husband Bennie Zinn, who made significant contributions to the de-partment as a tutor in the Academic Center.

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Bill Erwin Scholar-Athletes of the Year•Jen Moore, volleyball•Trey Todd, men’s golf

Distinguished Letterwinners•Ashlee Pistorius, soccer•Ozzie Gardner, men’s swimming

Prentice Gautt Scholarship Recipients•Terry Dike, track and field•Jessica Winfield, track and field

Award of Excellence•Steve McDonnell

Cleo Whitlock Award •Rush Hannigan

Community Service MVP•Meghan Nebera, women’s swimming

Outstanding Committee Chair•Mary Batis, volleyball

Student Athlete Advisory Committee President

•Matt Van Zandt, men’s golf

ner in January 2007, an honor given to nation’s top collegiate soccer player following a ballot of 1,000 NCAA member schools as part of the Collegiate Women Sports Program. The men’s tennis and women’s golf teams earned the Highest Team GPA Award for the spring of 2007 while the women’s swimming & diving team won the Highest Team GPA Award for the 2007 fall semester. Other teams earning High Team GPA Awards (for having a team GPA over 3.0) were equestrian (Fall 2007), women’s swimming & diving (Spring 2007), and women’s tennis (Spring 2007). Track and field athletes Terry Dike (Hous-ton) and Jessica Wingfield (Richardson) earned a sweep of the Prentice Gautt Big 12 Postgraduate Scholarship Awards. A two-time NCAA All-American in the javelin, Wingfield placed 10th at the NCAA Championship

in 2005 and 2007. Her career best mark of 164 feet ranks No. 7 on the Texas A&M all-time list. She is a four-time Texas A&M / Verizon Scholar-Athlete Award Winner, having earned the 4.0 GPA award three times. She is also a three-time Big 12 All-Ac-ademic Team member and a McFadden Endowed Scholarship Recipient. Wingfield has been accept-ed into medical school at the University of Texas at Houston. Dike improved his career best mark in the tri-ple jump to 49-6 in 2008, placing third at the Texas Invitational and qualifying for the NCAA Midwest Regional. He is a Craig C. Brown Senior Engineer semifinalist, a three-time Verizon Scholar-Athlete Award winner, a two-time member of the Big 12 All-Academic Team and recipient of the Ernst H. & Eva C. Gras Memorial Endowment. Dike, a former student body president candidate, is planning to attend law school following graduation. In the community service award categories, the Community Service MVP went to women’s swimmer Meghan Nebera (Brentwood, Tenn.). Nebera, who completed her eligibility in 2007, ranks second in A&M history in the 200-yard but-terfly and is one of only three Aggies to ever score in the event at the NCAA Championships.

2008 Bill Erwin Scholar-Athletes of the YearTrey Todd and Jen Moore

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when established, it was one of the first programs of its kind in the nation and was recognized by the d-1A Athletic director’s Association in 2003 with the Program of Excellence Award.

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The program was created to assist student-athletes with all aspects of their professional devel-opment. Only two percent of college athletes will successfully compete at the professional level; the other 98 percent will enter the workforce. With this in mind, the Athletic Career Services Center pre-pares them for their transition out of college sports and into the workforce. Athletic Career Services is introduced dur-ing the student-athletes freshman year with the acknowledgement that with their hectic athletic schedules becoming involved with campus or-ganizations is challenging. Therefore during their winter, spring and summer break, internships and part-time positions related to their major are avail-able. This provides the student-athlete with the op-portunity to gain valuable work experience while also building their resume. Upon graduation our student-athletes are the most prepared and expe-rienced candidates one could hire.

M A NY U N I q U E P R o g R A M S In addition to the above services, Athletic Career Services also offers many unique programs such as “Backpack to Briefcase” the junior and senior seminar preparing student-athletes for graduate school, internships or full-time employ-ment. The Athletic Career Services staff advises student-athletes on career-related issues such as on-campus interviewing, employment trends and job search strategies and also provides workshops, mock interviews, and resume and career planning seminars. Along with the opportunity to attend various employer fairs the Athletic Career Services

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Center also brings in employers for our very own career fair. Student-athletes are also encouraged to utilize the extensive resources and services offered by the University Career Center.

co M P l E T I N g T H E c Yc l E Texas A&M strives to recruit quality student-athletes who excel academically and athletically, and the university hopes to complete the cycle by enhancing the future employment opportunities of these athletes. For more information about Ath-letic Career Services, please log on to AggieAthlet-ics.com/academics.

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Some of the world’s most influential people at-tended Texas A&M. They are the movers and shak-ers on and off the planet, and they are also Aggies.

MIcHAEl E. FoSSUM ’80 NASA Astronaut (Mission Specialist)crew Member, Space Shuttle dis-covery, STS-121, July 4-17, 2006 and STS-124, May 31- June 14, 2008

“The best thing about A&M a nd Br ya n- College Sta tion for me was the people. The community really accepted me and got behind me when I wa s a n o v i c e T V w e a t h -e r c a s t e r. T h e y m a d e m e think I could do anything!”

— oREloN SIdNEY ’92

Former CNN Weather Anchor

“As a graduate of the Univer-sity (along with a brother, ’91, and sister, ’93) I have always c h e r i s h e d m e e t i n g A g g i e s across the nation, regardless of race, creed, sex or religion. I am a living witness that the u n i ve r s i t y i s a n o p e n a n d inviting place for anyone.”

— RolANd S. MARTIN ’91Author; nationally syndicated columnist with Cre-

ators Syndicate; radio host, commentator for TV One Cable Network and host of the Roland S. Martin Show

“ I wa s b o r n a n d ra i s e d i n B r y a n - C o l l e g e S t a t i o n s o my blood was maroon from day one. That blood, along w i t h t h e b o n d i n g s p i r i t o f being an Aggie will be with me for the rest of my life. As a kid, student and an adult, t h e s o u n d s o f Ky l e F i e l d , G. Rollie, Olsen Field, or just simply walking across campus ... are memories that will last forever. If only the rest of the world could truly appreciate what it means to be an Aggie."

— ScoT cHASTAIN ’89Vice President, Affiliate Advertising &

Promotion Services, NBC

“I miss the atmosphere. Texas A & M t a u g h t m e s o m u c h and it was the best time of my life. I’m dreaming to get back there. Just being able to walk on campus and be-ing able to say hi to pretty much ever yone. Getting to know so many people from so many different walks of life and the camaraderie is hard to explain.”

— FERNANdo PAloMo ’96SportsCenter anchor, ESPN Deportes

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RIck PERRY ’72 Texas governor and former A&M track and field athlete

STEVEN R. SwANSoN ’98 NASA Astronaut (Mission Specialist)crew Member, Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-117, June 8-22, 2007

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“I was a member o f t h e F i g h t i n’ T e x a s A g g i e Band. My lasting memor y centers around football g a m e s a t Ky l e Field. Two things will go with me t o my g ra ve — the sound of the drums reverber-ating off the tun-nel walls as we entered Kyle Field — our chest pounded from the sound — our hearts raced, we stood taller, we marched with more pride. To this day I get goose bumps every time I think about it. The second thing is how 300 men became one unit, thinking as a single entity for 8 and half minutes every halftime. As everyone knows the Figthin’ Texas Aggie band never lost a half time.”

— RolANdo H. SANToS ’78Senior Vice President / International Relations

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“My education at Te x a s A & M wa s one of the most m e a n i n g f u l p e -riods of my life. I t r a v e l e d t h e countr y and the w o r l d t h r o u g h u n i v e r s i t y a c a -demic programs, I felt the camara-derie at celebra-t i o n s a n d t ra g -edies of being a part of the Aggie family and I built lasting relationships with outstanding individuals. Becoming an Aggie broadened my horizons, taught me sound values and gave me the skills necessary to succeed in business.”

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Tony Barone, Jr. ’94 - Director of Scouting, Memphis GrizzliesR.C. Buford ’80 - Senior Vice President/General Manager,

San Antonio SpursDonyale Canada ’97 - Associate Commissioner/Women’s Basketball Opera-

tions and Sports Programs, Mid-American ConferenceKel Devlin ’81- Global Marketing Director for Golf, Nike Inc.Dr. Red Duke ’50 - trauma surgeon, TV personalityDean Goldfine ’87 - professional tennis coachMarcus Heard ’97 - Director of Player Development, Houston TexansDavid Heath ’76 - Vice President U.S. Sales, Nike Inc.Robert Earl Keen ’78 - musicianKelly Krauskopf ’83 - Chief Operating Officer and

General Manager WNBA’s Indiana FeverKandace Krueger ’02 - Miss USA 2001Gary Kubiak ’83 - Head Coach, Houston TexansRita LeBlanc ’01 - Owner/Executive, New Orleans Saints and AFL New

Orleans VooDooLyle Lovett ’79 - four-time GRAMMY Award winning musicianRobert McBurnett ’78 - Vice President/Finance and CFO,

Tennessee TitansAshton Smith ’84 - Movie trailer/promo voice over specialistKimberly Tomes ’77- Miss USA 1977Chris Tomlin ’94, 2007 Gospel Music Association (GMA) Artist and Male

Vocalist of the YearAndrea Williams ’97 - Associate Commissioner,

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g o V E R N M E N TRep. Joe Barton ’72 - Member, U.S. House of RepresentativesHenry Cisneros ’68- Former US Secy. Housing & Urban Development, Former

Mayor of San Antonio, Former President of Univison Communications, Chairman American CityVista

Rep. Chet Edwards ’74 - Member, U.S. House of RepresentativesMichael E. Fossum ’80 - Nasa Astronaut (Mission Specialist)Ed Garza ’92- Former Mayor of San Antonio (2001-05)Rep. Louie Gohmert ’75 - Member, U.S. House of RepresentativesRep. Jeb Hensarling ’79 - Member, U.S. House of RepresentativesFred McClure ’76 - Lawyer; Legislative Affairs Asst.

for two U.S. Presidents; Former Chairman of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association; A&M student body president in 1976.

Jerry Patterson ’69 - Land Commissioner, State of TexasGov. Rick Perry ’72 - Governor of TexasPresident Jorge Quiroga Ramirez ’81 - Former President

of Bolivia: He was the first Aggie head of state.Steven R. Swanson ’98 - Nasa Astronaut (Mission Specialist)President Martin Torrijos ’87 - President of PanamaWill Wynn ’84 - Mayor of AustinAlberto Aleman Zubieta ’73 - CEO of the Panama Canal Authority

B U S I N E S S & M E d I AKurt S. Abraham ’80 - Managing/International Editor,

World Oil MagazineNeal Boortz ’67 - Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show HostJeff Brady ’86- News Anchor, WFAA-TVScot Chastain ’89 - Vice President, NBC Affiliate

Advertising & Promotion ServicesTom DeFrank ‘67, New York Daily News (Washington Bureau Chief)David Finfrock, ’75 - Chief Meteorologist, KXAS-TVJon Heidtke ’81 - Senior Vice President, Fox Sports NetDebby Krenek ’78 - Managing Editor, NewsdayBryan Lilley ’91 - Producer/Director, CBS SportsJohn Lopez ’84 - Houston Radio PersonalityPatricia Lowry ’87 - Coordinating Producer-Remote Production, ESPNRoland S. Martin ’91 - Author; Nationally Syndicated Columnist; Radio Host,

TV Commentator and HostL. Lowry Mays ’57 - Chairman/CEO of Clear Channel Communications;

Member Texas A&M Board of RegentsKathleen McElroy ’81 - Dining Editor, New York TimesRichard Oliver ’81 - Sports Columnist, San Antonio Express-NewsFernando Palomo ’96 - SportsCenter anchor, ESPNDeportesRod Richardson ’85 - Managing Editor, Shreveport TimesRolando H. Santos ’78 - Senior Vice President/

International Relations, CNN InternationalKristi Scales ’89 - Sideline Reporter, Dallas Cowboys

Radio NetworkOrelon Sidney ’92 - Former CNN Weather AnchorLoren Steffy ’86- Business Columnist, Houston ChronicleCharean Williams, ’86 - Columnist, Fort Worth Star-TelegramS. Shariq Yosufzai, ’74 - President, Chevron Global Marketing

NOTE: This list of influential Aggies is not complete and we welcome any additions that are similar in prominence.

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Building champions is the mis-sion of the Texas A&M athletic department, and with the over-whelming support from the administration, Aggie women’s sports are carrying out the game plan. Under the leader-ship of highly regarded coaches who continue to recruit supe-rior student-athletes, all 11 A&M women’s programs have proven to be perennial predom-inant forces on the conference, regional and national scales, and they continue to add to the school’s ever-expanding trophy display.

With 13 team national championship titles and numerous conference titles over the last 33 years, A&M women’s sports have been or are becoming consistent national contenders in all 11 sponsored sports — basket-ball, cross country, eques-trian, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, ten-nis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball. In 1993 the university expanded to 10 women’s sponsored sports with the addition of soccer as a schol-arship sport, and as a unit the Aggie athletic program ranked among the best in the nation. In 1997 A&M was ranked first in the Big 12 and fifth in the nation in the Gender Equity Report Card, published by the Women’s Sports Foundation. And in 1999, Texas A&M bolstered its commitment to women’s athletics with the addition of NCAA emerging sports archery and equestrian. Al-though the A&M archery team won six national team titles in six years, the sport did not grow as rapidly as expected at the collegiate level and was downgraded back to a club sport at A&M following the 2004-05 aca-demic year.

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Women have been admitted on a general basis as students to Texas A&M only since the fall of 1971. Once they gained admission, though, it didn’t take them long to begin organizing teams to represent A&M in intercollegiate athletic com-petition. And whether some Aggie women’s teams date their beginnings to 1973 or if they became a scholarship sport as recently as 1999, Texas A&M women’s athlet-ics has surpassed countless milestones and continues to foster its commendable na-tional reputation both in the competition arena and in the classroom. Most of A&M’s wom-en’s athletic teams date their beginnings as far back as 1973, with the Athletic Department’s Lettermen’s Association formally award-ing the first female letterwinners their A&M mono-grams at the conclusion of the 1975-76 academic year. From those origins, women’s athletics at the once all-male institution has grown signifi-cantly.

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Texas A&M women’s teams captured a league-leading six Big 12 conference championship trophies in six different sports, as well as a national championship trophy in equestrian in 2006-07.

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Aggie women’s teams captured a school-re-cord and league-leading six Big 12 Conference reg-ular season and tournament championships in six different sports in 2006-07. In 2007-08, they went one step further by capturing seven Big 12 crowns. A&M was so dominant in league play on the wom-en’s side that they captured exactly half the Big 12 titles available in the sports that the Aggies spon-sor. Baylor, which swept the women’s tennis regular season and tournament crowns, and Texas, which split the volleyball title with Nebraska and won the conference soccer tournament, were the only schools in the Big 12 to win more than a single title with A&M grabbing the lion’s share of the hard-ware. For the second straight year, nine of A&M’s 11 women’s sports advanced to postseason competi-tion. Eight teams ranked in the final Top 15 national rankings in 2007-08, with seven in the top 10 and four amongst the top five. The practically across-the-board success ex-perienced by the Aggie women’s teams helped catapult Texas A&M to a school-record 1,031 points in the prestigious 2007 United States Sports Acad-emy Directors’ Cup, presented annually by the Na-tional Association of Collegiate Directors of Athlet-ics (NACDA), up from the previous record of 881 set the year before. In addition, A&M finished in 12th place in the Cup standings, the best finish in school history and the second-most points tallied by a school in the Big 12.

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The list of accomplishments compiled by A&M teams and athletes is impressive. After establishing a solid foundation as a nationally elite club team, the equestrian team has spent the last nine years riding high as a varsity athletic sport. The Aggie rid-ers have won six national team titles with the most recent coming in western riding in 2007. This past season, the hunter seat, or English, half of the team stepped to the fore making it to the national championship match while the west-ern team finished fifth, allowing A&M to earn a sec-ond straight runner-up overall finish at the national championships.

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Another superlative season in Aggie track and field resulted in a program best finish on the NCAA level while Texas A&M successfully defended Big 12 titles during the indoor and outdoor seasons. In placing third outdoors at the NCAA Champion-ships, the Aggies defended their 4 x 100 national title by running a school-record and collegiate-leading time of 42.59 seconds while senior Simone Facey and sophomore Porscha Lucas achieved a rare 1-2 finish in the 200. A silver-medal effort in the 4 x 400, along with a bronze-medal finish from freshman Jessica Beard in the 400 led to a program best seventh-place team finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

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The women’s soccer team quickly developed into a perennial powerhouse once soccer became an intercollegiate scholarship sport at A&M 15 years ago. It only took two seasons before the surg-ing Aggies burst into the national limelight. The A&M soccer team finished ranked No. 13 in the nation in 2007. The Aggies won the Big 12 regular season title and made their 13th consecu-tive trip to the NCAA Tournament. A&M, which has captured a total of 10 Big 12 regular season and tournament championships since the league formed in 1996, has hosted NCAA first-and second-round matches each of the past

13 years, and in 2005 and 2007 A&M had the pres-tigious privilege of hosting the Women’s College Cup. The Aggies will also serve as hosts of the na-tional championship in 2009.

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The Aggie softball team has won three na-tional titles — an AIAW crown in 1982 and NCAA championships in 1983 and 1987. The team has played in seven NCAA Women’s College World Se-ries (WCWS), including back-to-back trips in 2007 and 2008, and has earned a berth in the NCAA play-offs 19 of the last 26 years. Under the direction of All-American pitcher Megan Gibson and fellow seniors Jamie Hinshaw and Jami Lobpries, A&M finished the 2008 season ranked No. 2 in the nation after reaching the WCWS championship series. The Aggies set a record for wins in a season after finishing the year at 57-10, while capturing their second Big 12 regular season title and first ever Big 12 Tourna-ment title.

The Texas A&M softball team captured both the 2008 Big 12 regular season and tournament titles while earning its second consecutive berth into the women's college world Series

and reaching the championship series for the first time since 1987.

The women's soccer team celebrates after capturing its fourth consecutive Big 12 regular season title.

Porscha lucas and Simone Facey team up to lead A&M to its second consecutive NcAA championship in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

The A&M hunter seat riders led the Aggies to their second consecutive second-place finish at the Varsity Equestrian National championships.

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S w I M M I N g & d I V I N g The A&M swimming and diving program earned a program-best fourth place finish at the 2008 NCAA Championships, improving four spots from a school-best eighth-place finish the year be-fore. The Aggies also won their second-ever and second straight Big 12 Championship title with a resounding defeat of eight-time champion Texas at their home pool in Austin. A&M, which served as host of the 2004 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, will host both the men’s and women’s NCAA Championships this coming March.

g o l F Women’s golf finished sixth at the NCAA Championships, its best finish since 1982. Fresh-man Sarah Zwartynski and sophomores Danielle McVeigh and Ashley Freeman earned All-America honors.

Individually, Aggie athletes have been recog-nized not only at the conference, regional and na-tional levels, but at the international level as well. In 2008, former Aggie volleyball standout Stacy Sykora became the first A&M athlete to be named to three straight United States Olympic Teams. Jen-nifer McFalls represented A&M at the 2000 Olym-pic Games in Sydney, Australia, as a member of the USA Softball team. An alternate on the 1996 Olympic team, McFalls scored the winning run in extra innings of the championship game in Sydney to secure the gold medal for the USA. Aggie trackster Anjanette Kirkland was the 2001 world champion in both the indoor 60-meter hurdles and the outdoor 100-meter hurdles. The Aggie women’s basketball team has had four players picked in the WNBA Draft in the past eight years, including two in 2008. Ag-gie Jaynetta Saunders was the first A&M woman

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drafted, in 2001 by the Cleveland Rockers. In 2004, Toccara Williams, one of three players in NCAA history to record more than 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 700 assists and 450 steals, was a third round pick by the San Antonio Silver Stars. This past season, Morenike Atunrase was drafted by the Atlanta Dream in the second round of the 2008 WNBA Draft (and traded to San Antonio shortly thereafter) while point guard A’Quonesia Franklin was selected in the third round by the Sacramento Monarchs. The A&M women’s swimming team placed four athletes into the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Christine Marshall became A&M’s first U.S. Olym-pian in swimming while Canadian Julia Wilkinson swam in more Olympic races than any athlete in Canadian history. Triin Aljand and Alia Atkinson both competed in their second straight Olympic Games as well.

B A S k E T B A l l The Aggie women’s basketball team turned in one of the most memorable runs in school history which included the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Elite Eight with a Sweet 16 victory over perennial power Duke and a close loss to eventual na-tional champion Tennessee in the Oklahoma City Regional Final during the 2007-08 sea-son. A&M earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after winning its first-ever postseason Big 12 Conference Championship in Kansas City to go next to the previous

year’s regular-season cham-p i o n s h i p . Led by head coach Gary Blair, the Ag-gies compiled the most vic-tories in school history with a 29-8 overall record that included a program-best 12-game winning streak. By year’s end, A&M finished a school-best No. 8 in the final As-sociated Press and USA TODAY/ESPN Coaches Top 25 Polls to put the Aggies among the nation’s elite in women’s college basketball for the second-straight season. Se-niors Morenike Atunrase and A’Quonesia Franklin closed out their storied four-year A&M careers by being selected in the 2008 WNBA Draft by the San Antonio Silver Stars and Sacramento Monarchs respectively.

Ashley Freeman tied for eighth at the 2008 NcAA championships.

Texas A&M’s first-ever Elite Eight women’s basketball team.

The Aggie seniors celebrate winning the 2008 Big 12 Tournament.

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T E N N I S Supported by a loyal and enthusiastic home crowd that bolstered Texas A&M to a No. 1 national ranking in the ITA Attendance Race, the Aggie wom-en’s tennis team made its ninth consecutive appear-ance in the NCAA team championship and advanced to the second round for the sixth straight year. In ad-dition, the Aggies, who play host to the 2009 NCAA Tennis Championships, earned three Big 12 individual titles en route to a third-place finish in the league.

V o l l E YB A l l The A&M volleyball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 13 of the last 15 years, advancing to at least the second round 12 times during that stretch including two Elite Eight appearances. The Aggies, who have never lost a home NCAA postseason match, have garnered eight All-American citations in the last 11 years.

c R o S S co U N T RY While the Texas A&M cross country team placed fourth in the NCAA South Central Region meet, Chris-tina Munoz became the third consecutive Aggie fe-male to qualify for the NCAA Championship field when she finished fifth at the regional to earn her place in the national race. An eighth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships by A&M earned a key point in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown as Munoz and Sarah Balfour earned All-Big 12 honors.

While Aggie athletes have distinguished themselves as athletic and academic All-Amer-icans and all-conference performers and have gone on to compete at the international level as well as the professional level, the Aggie coaching staff also has brought notoriety to the women's athletic program at Texas A&M. Women’s swimming coach Steve Bultman and women’s track & field coach Pat Henry each won their second consecutive Big 12 Coach of the Year awards in their respective sports af-ter leading their teams to back-to-back Big 12 Championships. Women’s basketball coach Gary Blair was tabbed as the Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2007 after leading the Aggies to their first-ever confer-ence championship in the sport. Softball coach Jo Evans earned Big 12 Coach of the year accolades three times, includ-ing this past year after sweeping both the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles. Evans and her staff were also honored as National Fastpitch Coaches Association Midwest Region Coaching Staff of the Year. Soccer coach G. Guerrieri was voted the 1997 and 2002 Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year and in 2005, diving coach Kevin Wright was named the Women's Big 12 Diving Coach of the Year for the fifth time in six years. Women’s tennis coach Bobby Kleinecke, who garnered Intercollegiate Tennis Association Region Coach of the Year honors in 2002, was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year for the sec-ond consecutive year in 2004.

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Two-time SWC Volleyball Coach of the Year Laurie Corbelli, a member of the 1984 USA sil-ver medal Olympic team, was named the District VI Coach of the Year in 1995, and in 2002 she re-ceived USA Volleyball's George L. Fisher “Leader in Volleyball”award. In addition to his collegiate coaching duties, Bultman has international coaching experience as well, having served as an assistant coach for the United States at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea and for Estonia in 2008. Gary Blair, a two-time national finalist for the prestigious Naismith Coach of the Year Award, brought instant respect to the Texas A&M women’s basketball program when he was first hired in 2003. One of the winningest active Division I coaches in the women’s game today, Blair previously led Ar-kansas to the 1998 NCAA Final Four and Stephen F. Austin to four NCAA Sweet 16 appearances. He followed that path of success by elevating A&M into one of the nation’s elite programs after just five seasons in Aggieland. The 2007 Big 12 Coach of the Year went on to lead the Aggies to a school-record 29-8 record and also claimed his 500th career vic-tory against Iowa State on Feb. 20, 2008, to become the 36th all-time D-I coach to reach the milestone in NCAA history. Blair also holds the distinction of being one of only five coaches in NCAA history to take three schools to the NCAA Tournament and is the winningest women’s basketball coach in school history by percentage (.623). The 2004 hiring of track and field coach Pat Henry, one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, continued to confirm A&M’s commitment to building champions. Henry came to Aggieland

after accumulating 27 NCAA team champion-ships in his 17 seasons as head coach of the LSU men’s and women’s teams, and in 2005 he was named the Outstanding Women’s Track and Field Coach on the Silver Anniversary Team by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches As-sociation (USTFCCCA). On the international level, Henry was the head coach for Team USA at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan. In 2006, Henry coached the United States team during the World Cup in Athens, Greece. In 2007, Henry was chosen as the Midwest Re-gion Women’s Coach of the Year by the USTFCCCA after leading A&M to a pair of Big 12 Champion-ships along with the Midwest Region title. He also was selected as the South Central Region Women’s Coach of the Year during the indoor season. In addition, A&M’s Vince Anderson earned the Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year honor for the Midwest Region in the sprints/hurdles category. For the 2006 season, Anderson claimed the same coaching honor and was chosen as the national winner in the women’s sprints/hurdles category. Most recently, A&M athletics director Bill Byrne hired accomplished player and coach Trelle McCombs to take over the women's head golf coaching duties after long-time coach Jeanne Sutherland announced her retirement following consecutive Big 12 championships in 2007. McCombs led the Aggies to a Big 12 runner-up finish and an eight-place finish at the NCAA Championships in her first season at the helm of the program.

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A&M women's athletics competed un-der the umbrella of the former Southwest Conference for 14 seasons (1982-96) and then became a charter member of the Big 12 Con-ference in 1996. The newly formed league im-mediately forged into the national limelight and continues to be one of the most highly competitive and prestigious leagues in the nation. The women's athletics program has made dramatic strides at Texas A&M during the last 33 years. And with A&M student-athletes continuing to compile team and in-dividual awards at the international, national, regional and conference levels, Aggie teams are proudly carrying on the A&M winning tradition and the "Spirit of Aggieland" while steadfastly following the mission of building champions.

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and Field Indoor Championships

• NCAA Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Indoor Championships

• NC AA Men’s and Women’s Tennis Cha mpionships

• NC AA Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Cha mpionships

• NCAA Women’s College Cup

2008• Big 12 Men’s a nd Women’s

Tennis Championships

2007• NC AA Women’s College Cup

• Big 12 Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

• NCAA Softball Regional and Super Regional

• NC AA Baseball Regional

2006

• NCAA Women’s Golf Central Regional

• NCAA Men’s Tennis First and S econd Rounds

2005• NCAA Women’s Volleyball Regional

• NCAA Women’s College Cup

• NCAA Men’s Tennis Championships

• NCAA Softball Regional and Super Regional

• Big 12 Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Cha mpionships

2004• NC AA Women’s Swimming

and Diving Championships

• NC AA Women’s Tennis First and S econd Rounds

• NCAA Midwest Regional Track a n d Fi e l d C h a m p i o n s h i p s

• U.S. Junior Track and Field Championships

2003• NC AA Women’s S occer First

and S econd Rounds

• NC AA Women’s Volleyball First a nd S econd Rounds

• NC AA Baseball Regional

• NCAA Men’s Tennis First and S econd Rounds

• NC AA Women’s Tennis First and S econd Rounds

• National Varsity Equestrian Championships

• National Indoor Ta rget Cha mpionships

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Aggie Athletes Involved began its 18th year of com-munity service in the fall of 2008. The organization has continued with the motto of “Building cham-pions through the community.” More than 400 Aggie

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• HoSTS – Help one Student to Succeed

• children’s Museum Fall Fest

• American Heart Association Heart walk

• Red Ribbon Milam Elementary

• Aggies cAN Food drive

• Family Reading Night – Johnson Elementary School

• Family Support Network Holiday Party

• coat drive

• Toys for Tots

• Jr. Aggie kids club

• Red Ribbon carnival - Sue Haswell Park

• Night of Nations

• worldfest - International Festival

• NcAA Habitat Build

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• Physics & chemistry open House

• TAkS - Navarro Elementary School

• Big Event

• Juvenile detention center / The Academy

• governor Rick Perry Texas Round-Up – Promotion of Healthy Family lifestyles

• Sports for kids

• carnival - St. Thomas Early learning center

• Youth Summit

• children Mean the world to Me

• Sports day - South knoll Elementary

• Still creek Boys & girls Ranch/School

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The wide range of activities is provided to allow the student-athlete the ability to choose the venue he or she feels most comfortable interacting with the community which supports them. Support and funding for these selfless volunteers and their orga-nization is provided by the athletic department. It has been and will continue to be the goal of AAI to create an opportunity for young people to spend time and interact on a personal level with student-athletes of different ethnicity and gender. Through this interaction, it is hoped that student-athletes will appreci-ate the importance of service and take this appreciation with them as they leave the university environment.

The athletic department is dedicated to the welfare and future of its student-athletes. This com-mitment is guided by the depart-ment’s sponsorship of life skills programming associated with its CHAMPS program. CHAMPS pro-vides a well-rounded programfor student-athletes to develop the individual skills necessary to lead successful and productive lives. Programming on campus relates to the following five commitments:

• Academic Excellence is promoted through a full range of services that include orientation, advising, tutoring, academic skills training and the celebration of academic excellence.

• Athletic Excellence is fostered by the department’s sponsorship of nine men’s and 11 women’s intercollegiate sports. This sponsorship is based on equity and compliance to all University, NCAA and Big 12 rules and regula-tions.

• career developmentTexas A&M Career Center and athletic department have developed the Athletic Services Program to prepare student-athletes for their transition out of sports and into the career development process. Career development components of the program include special workshops and programs for stu-dent-athletes, career shadowing, mock- interviews and a senior resume brochure.

• Personal development components are promoted through life skills and personal development seminars/classes and spon-sorship of Student Athlete Advisory and Advocate Committees.

• commitment to Service is promoted by the variety of efforts supported by Aggie Athletes Involved, a community outreach group composed of student-athletes.

“Our Red Ribbon Week was a great success thanks to your help! Your motivation and inspiration were greatly appreciated. We appreciate that you took time out of your busy schedule to come and spend time with us at Milam Elementary!

Thanks again for helping to make our Red Ribbon Week the wonderful success that it was!”

Milam Mustangs, Ben Milam Elementary School

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M U S E U M The museum collection contains approxi-mately 60,000 historical objects ranging from Head of State Gifts, gifts from the American people, and personally used items. The museum wing has 17,000 square feet of permanent exhibit space and 3,000 square feet of changing exhibit space. Permanent exhibits draw on the best of the museum collection to visually convey the essence of George Bush’s life and public service career and to illustrate historical events of this period in American history. Changing exhib-its will explore topics on the Bush Administration, American history, American Presidents, etc.

c l A S S R o o M Of special significance is a classroom, the first of its kind in the Presidential Libraries network. The classroom may be used by student groups as a computer learning lab or as a traditional class-room. Like the other Presidential Libraries, the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is also a research institution, totally integrated into the academic environment of Texas A&M University.

co l l E c T I o N S The Bush Library’s collections include 38,000,000 pages of official and personal papers, 1,000,000 photographs, 2,500 hours of video-tape, and 70,000 museum objects. These rich primary sources document George Bush’s distinguished public career as congressman, Ambassador to the United Nations, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in China, Chairman of the Republican National Com-mittee, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,

Vice President and President. Included in the Museum’s exhibits are items rang-ing from a 1925 film of George Bush’s first steps in Kennebunk-port, Maine, to records and memorabilia from his tenure as the 41st President of the United States. The Museum also contains a special section dedicated to former First Lady Barbara Bush and a classroom designed specifi-cally for students from kindergarten

through high school. Operated by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is the 10th Presidential Library in the United States.

g E o R g E B U S H The story of George Bush is a fascinating one of adventure, courage, dedication and service. Our museum exhibits reveal the unique influences and challenges which shaped George Bush’s life and presidency. On a larger scale, this museum encompasses much of U.S. history since 1941. Through original artifacts, film, photographs, documents, music, sound effects and interactive video and computerization, this special museum ex-perience is both educational and entertaining. Some of the larger museum features include a World War II Avenger Torpedo Bomber, a 1947 Stude-baker, a slab of the Berlin Wall, and precise replicas of President Bush’s Camp David and Air Force One offices. The presidential exhibits document George Bush’s ex-ceptional leadership during times of crisis — the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War. The impor-tance of family, friends and politics also are part of the museum’s colorful story. Yet, the overall theme of the mu-seum is the nobility of public service as exemplified by the lives of George and Barbara Bush.

located on a ninety-acre site on the west campus of Texas A&M University, the library and Museum is situated on a plaza adjoining the Presiden-

tial con-ference center and the Texas A&M Academic center. It operates under the admin-istration of the National Archives

and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential libraries Act of 1955.

T H E A R c H I V E S The archives contain over 38 million pages of personal papers and official documents from the Vice Presidency and Presidency as well as personal records from associates connected with President Bush’s public career. Records are housed in acid-free storage (Hollinger) boxes in a balanced humid-ity and temperature atmosphere. The archival stor-age area houses 13,000 cubic feet of records and the Library has a National Security vault holding 3,500 cubic feet of Presidential Records. In addition to memoranda, speeches, and reports found in the textual collection, there is an extensive audiovisual and photographic archive which includes approxi-mately one million photographs and thousands of hours of audio and video tape.

R E S E A R c H The Library maintains a manuscript and au-diovisual research room on the second floor. The archival collections are utilized by students, schol-ars, authors and journalists. Research facilities can host 20 researchers at one time.

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No school can match the athlet-ic traditions of Texas A&M Uni-versity. The superior athletes together with the famous Aggie Spirit combine to tell a story that is one of the most exciting and compelling in the nation.

T H E T R A d I T I o No F T H E 12T H M A N

The excitement of Kyle Field, the revelry of the historic Aggie Bonfire, and the resounding yells of the student body will come to life in a sports mu-seum unlike any other in the nation. It is fitting, too, that the museum is located in the Bernard C. Richardson Zone at Kyle Field. The story of A&M’s men’s and women’s varsity sports is presented using photos, film, artifacts and computer databases for interactive displays for all visitors to the campus to enjoy free of charge. The Texas A&M Sports Museum has the distinc-tion of being the nation’s only all-sports museum funded primarily by former athletes. “This is a wonderful opportunity for all Letter-men to honor their teammates who deserve special recognition in a space such as the Sports Museum of Texas A&M University,” said Jim Singleton, Museum Committee Chairman.

M U S E U M A R E A S When visitors enter the “Zone” they will step into a large lobby area, shared by both the muse-um and the 12th Man Foundation, that will feature rotating exhibits focusing on sports at Texas A&M University. From the lobby, visitors will enter the museum. First, they are greeted with the Spirit of Aggieland including a donor wall and introductory exhibits to the Sports Museum. Visitors will experience several different exhibits in the Museum including the Timewall, Legends Gal-lery, Sport-by-Sport Perimeter Displays, and Interac-tive Computers.

d o N o R wA l l The Sports Museum project was several years in the planning stages and is now a reality. The museum opened in August of 2001, in time for the first home football game in early September. The museum was built without the benefit of state or university money. The Lettermen’s Association in cooperation with the 12th Man Foundation raised those funds. Each sport has its own area, which is named in honor of a team or letterwinner. Those interested

in contributing to the sports museum sustaining fund are encouraged to contact the Lettermen’s Association office at 1-800-310-3272 or the 12th Man Foundation at 979-846-8892. Current tax laws make the gift of appreciated stock very attractive.

T I M E wA l l The timewall occupies a corridor at the north end of the museum space. Black and white pictures of the earliest days of the university remind visitors of the founders’ efforts, while bright forms of life and color celebrate a prosperous present and fore-tell an unbridled future. Large panel-size graphics are punctuated by significant artifacts and high-lighted by a sequence of programmed light and audio.

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The core of the exhibit is a gallery that celebrates and reinforces tradition and achieve-ment, which are also the core of the university itself. Concrete gray walls and columns create an arena for the display of the uni-versity’s most treasured symbols of sports success in photographs and mem-orabilia that recall those uniquely gifted individuals who came before.

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The perimeter displays exhibit the dif-

ferent sports, as well as the Aggie Band, Yell Leaders, and each of the traditions that instill Aggie Spirit. These displays capture the spirit of sport and present the vitality of the on-going programs, teams and traditions of A&M Athletics.

co M P U T E R I N T E R Ac T I V E S Database terminals and video interactives are positioned throughout the Museum. Visitors can peruse the photos of athletes or review famous films of great plays and memorable moments.

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Texas A&M University is located in

Bryan/College Station, which has

gained national acclaim as one of

the most livable metropolitan areas

in the United States.

lo c AT I o N Bryan/College Station is located in Brazos County in east central Texas, about 140 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. The nearest interstate is Inter-state Highway 45 (38 miles). Bryan serves as the county seat for Brazos County. Bordered by the Brazos and Navasota Rivers, it occupies 583 square feet at an average elevation of 367 feet above sea level. The community is just 95 miles north of Houston, 166 miles northeast of San Antonio, 104 miles east of Austin, 172 miles south of Fort Worth and 169 miles south of Dallas.

P o P U l AT I o N Bryan/College Station has a total population of 133,550. Bryan has a population of 65,660 and College Station, 67,890, with the total Brazos County population at 152,415.

E d U c AT I o N Public education is provided by the Bryan In-dependent School District and the College Station Independent School District. Several private schools also serve Bryan/College Station. Higher education is offered by Blinn College, a two-year institution, and Texas A&M University, a world-class university.

A R TS & c U lT U R E Through Texas A&M University’s Opera and Performing Arts Society (OPAS), the Arts Council of Brazos Valley and several other organizations, qual-ity entertainment is brought frequently to Bryan/College Station. Presentations include ballet and modern dance companies, symphonies, Broadway road shows, operas, and classical jazz and pop musi-cians. For further information contact: Arts Council of Brazos Valley at (979) 696-ARTS (2787). Cultural programs often feature world-renowned speakers and political figures. There are also local theater productions, exhibits of artists and craftsmen, and a season of quality music from the area’s own symphony orchestra and chorus. Texas A&M and several galleries regularly feature art and

exhibits. The Brazos Valley Museum offers exhibits, lectures and demonstrations for all ages. For more information, call (979) 776-2195.

AT T R Ac T I o N S In addition to Texas A&M University and the world-renowned George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Bryan/College Station takes pride in its numerous sights of interest, including the Brazos County Arboretum, Bryan’s Historical District, Carn-egie Library and Messina Hof Wine Cellars. For more information on these and other sights, call the Bryan/College Station Convention & Visitor Bureau at (979) 260-9898.

R E c R E AT I o N Bryan and College Station both have fine park systems providing basketball, swimming, soccer, softball, tennis, jogging, nature trails and bike paths. Many programs and special events are scheduled throughout the year. Texas A&M University also of-fers many sporting events including Aggie football,

basketball, baseball and a host of other collegiate sports. Bryan/College Station is conveniently located near many outdoor recreation areas making boating, sailing, swimming, fishing, camping and hunting easily accessible. Parks, golf courses and A&M’s facilities provide Bryan/College Station with a diversity of recreational opportunities.

H E A lT H With a wide range of available medical special-ists and facilities, Bryan/College Station is considered a regional medical center. This community is home to three medical-surgical hospitals. Together, these facilities provide more than 400 beds. In addition, there is a major medical clinic that is growing steadily. Also, 11 nursing-assisted living homes and retirement homes are located in Bryan/College Station. Texas A&M Uni-versity also contributes to the medical community with its fine medical school.

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P r ac t i c e S c h e d u l ePlayers reported January 19th for the first day of spring practice. Practices are scheduled to be held weekdays, 3:30-6:00 p.m., at the Aggie Softball Complex on the Texas A&M campus. Practices are open to the media and public. Time, location and days are subject to change without notice.

i n t e r v i e w P o l i c yPlayers and coaches are available for interviews throughout the week except on game days. All in-terview requests must be made through the SID Of-fice, preferably with a 24-hour advance notice. On game days, interviews will be conducted approxi-mately 10 minutes after the conclusion of the game (after the second game of doubleheaders).

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At home games, all postgame interviews are con-ducted in the team room following the team meet-ing approximately 10 minutes after the game. Those with interview requests are asked to meet in front of the Softball building after the game. Re-quests for player interviews will be taken in the final inning, and every effort will be made to ensure that requested players and coaches are available. Con-tact Assistant Sports Information Director Deanna Werner for postgame policy at away games.

c r e d e n t i a l S Media credentials for home games may be ob-tained by writing the Sports Information Office, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-1228, or by faxing a request on official letter head to 979-845-0564. Requests for press credentials should be made at least one day in advance. Ad-mittance to the media areas is limited to working media only. No children or other non-media mem-bers will be admitted to the working media areas. Seating space in the press box is limited and will be filled according to the order in which proper cre-dential requests are received. Radio crews should contact Assistant Media Relations Director Deanna Werner at least two weeks in advance to arrange for phone lines and broadcast space.

P h oto g r a P hy Photo credentials should be ordered as noted pre-viously. Photographers are not permitted in front of the dugouts, but are allowed to shoot from any-where along the fences that border the first and third base lines pending final approval by the head umpire. Texas A&M and its employees are not re-sponsible for injuries.

g a m e day m e d i a S e r v i c e S Media guides, game programs, team rosters, statis-tics and game notes will be available in the press box. Complete boxscores and scoring narratives will be provided at the conclusion of every home game. A fax machine and a telephone also are avail-able.

Pa r k i n g Parking is available on a first-come basis at Olsen Baseball Field, across the street from the main en-trance to softball complex unless directed other-wise by game-day officials.

B i g 12 i n f o r m at i o n Felicia Michael, Communications Assistant, will serve as the media contact for Big 12 softball. The Big 12 Conference address is 400 East John Car-penter Freeway, Irving, Texas 75062. The telephone number is 469-524-1040, and the fax number is 469-524-1045. Michael’s cell phone number is 806-252-0948 and her email address is [email protected].

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Office ...................................... 979-846-2346

cyndi mousnerPublication Designer

Email ........................................jackiet@athletics.tamu.edu

Office ...................................... 979-845-5725

Jackie thorntonSenior Office Assistant

Email [email protected]

Office ...................................... 979-845-0563Cell ........................................... 979-777-4200

alan cannonAssoc. AD / Media Relations


Office .......................................979-845-0096Cell ............................................979-229-8561

Brad marquardtAssociate Director


Office .......................................979-845-3218Cell ............................................979-777-2600

debbie darrahAssistant Director

Email ..................................... [email protected]

Shawn PriceAssistant Director

Email ......................................... [email protected]

colin killianAssociate Director

Office .......................................979-845-3289Cell ............................................979-229-4706

Email .......................................ckillian@athletics.tamu.edu

Office .......................................979-865-0199Cell ............................................979-777-3567

marlene navorAssistant Director

Email ...................................... [email protected]

Office .......................................... 979-862-2566Cell ............................................... 979-587-0486

chris harrellAssistant Director

Email ................................................charrell@athletics.tamu.edu

Office .......................................979-845-9534Cell ........................................... 979-661-0731

matt SimonAssistant Director

Email ......................................... [email protected]

Office ...........................................979-845-3239Cell ................................................979-255-0469

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Contact: Deanna WernerAssistant Media Relations DirectorSports Information OfficeJohn J. Koldus Bldg., Room 222Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX 77843-1228

office: .................................................................................. 979-458-3883

cell: .................................................................................. 231-288-3700

email address: [email protected]

fax: .................................................................................. 979-845-0564

internet address: .................................................AggieAthletics.com

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The new video production department will provide live-event big screen productions at Kyle Field, Reed Arena, Aggie Soccer Stadium, Olsen Field, Aggie Softball Complex, and the Mitchell Tennis Center. Throughout the academic year, they will produce the weekly sports magazine show, the aggie SPortS connection. From Sep-tember to December, head football coach Mark Sherman will review highlights of the previous weeks’ game on the ASC. For men’s basketball, “The Mark Turgeon Show” began airing last December in addition to the ASC and ran through March.

The 12th man ProductionS staff, which includes more than 35 current Texas A&M stu-dents, also produces a season highlight tape for every Aggie intercollegiate sport, facilitates satellite feeds for networks and their affiliates, produces tapes for the 12th Man Foundation video program, and provides live web streaming and all video content on aggieathleticS.com.

In 2006, the department was awarded a Golden Matrix Award from the IDEA organization for “Best Special Occasion Video” in a competition including every college, minor league, and profes-sional sports organization.

2008-09 marks the third year of the new video production group within the Texas A&M Athletic Department

t h e ag g i e S P o r t S co n n e c t i o nKeep up with the latest in Aggie Ath- letics every week on the aggie SPortS connection , a weekly sports magazine show highlighting the players, coaches, and teams of Texas A&M. The 30-minute show provides a unique, entertaining, and informa-tive behind-the-scenes look at Ag-gie sports Produced by 12th man ProductionS, the ASC can be seen across the state of Texas on Fox Sports Southwest, on several af-filiates statewide in Texas and Oklahoma, across most of the South on Cox Sports, and locally in Bryan/College Station on KBTX.

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G. Rollie White Coliseum .......................453Kyle Field.....................................................367Mitchell Tennis Center ........................ 1561Reed Arena ............................................. 1554Olsen Field .............................................. 1550Netum Steed Laboratory ......................360Student Rec Center .............................. 1560Bright Football Complex .................... 2000Anderson Track & Field ....................... 2001Little Complex ....................................... 2002aggie Softball complex ..................2003Aggie Soccer Stadium......................... 2004

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The Big 12 Conference became a reality on February 25, 1994, when former Big Eight Conference members joined with Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech of the Southwest Con-ference to pursue common academic and athletic endeavors. Although formal operations began July 1, 1996, softball competed for the first-ever Big 12 championship of any sport in the spring of 1996. All other sports began competition in the 1996-97 academic year. The creation of the Big 12 es-tablished one of the most formidable softball conferences in the nation. Four of the eight teams participating in the first season of Big 12 play ad-vanced to the NCAA tournament: Ne-braska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. The Big 12 softball membership expanded to its current number of 10 teams when Baylor and Texas joined the race in 1997 after choosing not to compete with their newly established programs in the conference’s inaugural season.

B i g 12 co n f e r e n c e

400 East John Carpenter FreewayIrving, Texas 75062

Ofc: 469-524-1040 • Fax: 469-524-1045

big12sports.com

Softball:the first Sport

of the Big 12 conference

B i g 12 S o f t B a l ln at i o n a l

c h a m P i o n SYear Team Coach

1982 Texas A&M Bob Brock



2000 Oklahoma Patty Gasso

B i g 12to u r n a m e n t

c h a m P i o nyear team runner-up

1996 Oklahoma Nebraska

1997 Missouri Oklahoma State

1998 Nebraska Oklahoma

1999 Texas Nebraska

2000 Nebraska texas a&m

2001 Oklahoma Oklahoma State

2002 Texas Oklahoma

2003 Texas Oklahoma State

2004 Nebraska Missouri

2005 Texas Missouri

2006 Kansas Oklahoma

2007 Oklahoma Texas Tech

2008 texas a&m Nebraska

B i g 12 Pa r t i c i Pat i o n i n t h e n c a a to u r n a m e n t No. of School Appearances W-L Pct. Years of Participation

Texas A&M 19 58-41 .586 1983*-84*-85-86*-87*-88*-90-91-94-96-99-00-02-03-04-05-06-07*-08* Nebraska 18 50-37 .575 1982*-84*-85*-87*-88*-95-96-97-98*-99-00-01-02-03-04-05-06-07

Oklahoma 15 48-23 .676 1994-95-96-97-98-99-00*-01*-02*-03*-04*-05-06-07-08

Oklahoma State 14 38-28 .576 1982*-84-88-89*-90*-91-92-93*-94*-95-96-97-98*-03-05

Missouri 12 19-20 .487 1982-83*-91*-94*-95-97-99-03-04-05-07

Kansas 10 14-20 .400 1983-85-86-92*-93-94-97-99-05-06

Texas 9 29-18 .617 1998*-99-00-02-03*-05*-06*-07-08

Baylor 4 14-9 .609 2004-05-06-07*

Texas Tech 2 5- 4 .556 1999-01

Iowa State 1 0-2 .000 1988

Totals 100 275-202 .577

* Indicates NCAA Women’s College World Series participant

B i g 12 S o f t B a l l c h a m P i o n S h i P The Big 12 Softball Championship returns to ASA Hall of Fame Sta-dium in Oklahoma City for the 14th consecutive year. The championship will be a three-day, single-elimination event with all 10 schools that sponsor softball participating (Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech) while the winner will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Softball Championship. As the first sport contested in league history, softball held the first postseason tournament in 1996. Oklahoma won the inaugural league ti-tle, which was the only crown handed out that season. From that year on, both a regular season and postseason champion have been awarded. Overall, Texas (1999, 2002-03, ‘05) has won the most tournament championships with four followed by Nebraska (1998, 2000, ‘04) and Oklahoma (1996, 2001, ’07), which have three each. Missouri (1997), Kan-sas (2006) and defending champion Texas A&M have claimed top honors once. In addition to the Big 12 Championships, Hall of Fame Stadium has hosted the Women’s College World Series 18 times, including the last 12. A Big 12 squad has advanced 15 times to the Women’s College World Se-ries in the last 13 years, including Oklahoma’s national championship in 2000.

Felicia Michael Communications Assistant

is the softball contact at the Big 12 office

B i g 12 S o f t B a l lP l aye r

o f t h e ye a ryear name School

1996 * kendall richards (SS) texas a&m

* Jill Most (P) Oklahoma

1997 Barb Wright (P) Missouri

1998 Ali Viola (SS) Nebraska

1999 Lynette Velazquez (1B) Oklahoma

2000 Lisa Carey (1B) Oklahoma

2001 Kelli Braitsch (SS) Oklahoma

2002 Selena collins (c) texas a&m

2003 Lauren Bay (P) Oklahoma St.

2004 Peaches James (P) Nebraska

2005 amanda Scarborough (P) texas a&m

2006 Serena Settlemier (UT) Kansas

2007 Norrelle Dickson (3B) Oklahoma

2008 megan gibson (P) texas a&m

* Co-Players of the year

thE bIg 12 cONFErENcE

No fewer than three Big 12 teams have advanced to NCAA postseason play every year since the league’s inception. In 1997, the second year of the conference, the Big 12 sent a record seven of 10 teams — Colorado and Kansas State do not sponsor softball — into postseason play. The league also has been well represented in the Women’s College World Series and has had at least one team advance to the prestigious eight-team event in 10 of the last 11 years. Oklahoma defeated UCLA in the 2000 cham-pionship game to win the league’s first softball national champion-ship, joining Texas A&M as the only other school in the Big 12 to win a national title in softball. Oklahoma also participated in the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Women’s College World Series, and in 1998 a record three Big 12 teams — Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Texas — were in the national championships. Big 12 teams have made 33 total appearances in the College World Series. Texas A&M, which has captured three national champion-ship titles, and Oklahoma are the only Big 12 teams to win a softball national championship. The Aggies won the AIAW title in 1982 and the NCAA national championship tro-phy in 1983 and 1987. In addition, A&M was the national champion

runner-up in 1984, 1986 and 2008. In all, A&M has been to the NCAA Women’s College World Series seven times and has participated in the NCAA tournament 19 times since the NCAA’s inception of women’s softball 27 years ago.

Teams are slated to play 18 league games, two against each team. The regular season conference winning percentage is used to seed all 10 teams for the Big 12 Tournament scheduled for May 8-10 at the Don Porter ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla., the same site of the 2009 Women’s College World Series. The winner of the tournament will be crowned the conference champion and will be granted an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

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Ball: A pitch outside the strike zone that the bat-ter does not try to hit.

BaSe: One of the three safe stations for the batter or baserunner.

BaSeline: The direct line between each base, along which the baserunner must generally run.

BaSerunner: A batter who has reached base safely.

BaSeS loaded: Bases are said to be loaded when there is a baserunner on each base.

Batter: The player trying to hit the pitch.

Batter’S Box: A rectangular area beside home plate where the batter must stand to hit the pitch.

Batting order: The official list giving the order in which members of the team must come to bat.

Bunt: An attempt by the batter to tap the ball in-stead of swinging at it.

catcher: The fielder positioned behind home plate who catches the pitches.

centerfielder: The fielder positioned in cen-tre field (near the middle of the outfield).

changeuP: A pitch thrown deceptively slowly to surprise the batter.

curveBall: A pitch thrown with a rotation that makes the ball curve.

defenSe: The fielding team.

deSignated hitter: A player who bats in place of a designated team-mate in the batting line-up.

douBle: A hit that allows a batter to reach sec-ond base.

douBle Play: A play in which two outs are made as the result of continuous action.

dugout: The semi-enclosed area beside the playing field where players sit when they are not actively involved in the game.

error: A mistake by a fielder that lets a batter or baserunner advance to a base.

fair Ball: A ball hit into the field of play.

faStBall: A pitcher’s fastest pitch.

firSt BaSeman: The fielder stationed near first base.

flyBall: A ball hit in the air.

forceout: An out made when a baserunner, forced to run because another team-mate must run to the base being occupied, cannot reach the next base safely

foul Ball: A ball hit outside the foul lines.

foul lineS: The two straight lines, extending from home plate past the outside edges of first and third bases to the outfield fence.

foul tiP: A ball that barely touches the bat be-fore continuing sharply to the catcher with little deviance.

grand Slam: A home run with a baserunner on each base, scoring four runs.

groundBall: A ball hit along the ground.

hit: A ball struck by a batter that enables the bat-ter to reach base safely.

home Plate: The five-sided piece of whitened rubber the batter stands beside to hit the pitch.

home run: A hit by a batter, which usually goes over the outfield fence, that enables the batter to run around all the bases safely.

infield: The diamond-shaped area formed by the three bases and home plate.

inning: A turn at batting and fielding for each team.

leftfielder: The outfielder stationed in left field (the left-hand side of the outfield from the batter’s perspective).

line drive: A ball hit sharply in a straight line roughly parallel to the ground.

live Ball: A ball in play.

on deck: Waiting to bat next.

outfield: The playing area inside the foul lines and beyond the infield.

outfielder: A fielder in any of the three out-field positions.

PaSSed Ball: A catcher’s failed attempt to catch a good pitch, allowing a baserunner to advance to the next base.

Pinch hitter: A player who bats in place of a teammate one time in a game.

Pinch runner: A player who runs the bases in place of a team-mate one time in a game.

Pitcher: The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

Pitcher’S Plate: The rubber slat on which the pitcher must stand, prior to delivering a pitch.

PoPfly: A ball hit in the air to the infield.

relief Pitcher: A pitcher coming into a game in progress.

rightfielder: The outfielder stationed in right field (the right side of the outfield from the bat-ter’s perspective).

run: The point scored when a batter or baserun-ner advances to home plate.

run Batted in: The credit a batter receives for a turn at bat that enables a team-mate to score a run.

Sacrifice fly: A flyball hit far enough to enable a baserunner on third base to score a run after the ball is caught.

Scoring PoSition: A good position for scor-ing a run on most hits, referring specifically to a baserunner standing on second base or third base.

Second BaSeman: The fielder stationed near second base.

ShortStoP: The fielder normally positioned be-tween the second and third basemen.

Single: A hit that allows a batter to reach first base safely.

Slide: A baserunning manoeuvre in which the player slides into a base to avoid overrunning it, or to make it difficult for the fielder to tag the runner with the ball.

Squeeze Play: An offensive play in which the batter bunts to try to let the baserunner on third base score a run.

Starting Pitcher: The pitcher for each team at the start of the game.

Steal: A baserunner’s successful advance from one base to the next during a pitch that is not hit.

Strike: 1. a pitch judged by the umpire to have passed over home plate between the batter’s armpits and the top of the knees. 2. a pitch that the batter swings at and misses. 3. a foul ball when the batter has fewer than two strikes.

Strike zone: The area over home plate between the batter’s armpits and the top of the knees, where a pitch is called a strike even if the batter does not swing the bat.

Strikeout: An out where the batter has three strikes.

tag: A base runner who is off base is touched with the ball by a fielder.

third BaSeman: The fielder stationed near third base.

triPle: A hit that allows a batter to reach third base.

triPle Play: A play in which three outs are made with one pitch ... continuous play.

walk: An automatic advance to first base for the batter after the pitcher delivers four balls.

wild Pitch: A pitch thrown so wildly that the catcher cannot easily handle it.

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2kelSea orSak

UT • L-R • 5-10 • Fr-HSPearland, texas

(Pearland)

3kara rau

INF • R-R • 5-5 • So-SQleague city, texas

(clear creek)

4Bailey Schroeder

OF • R-R • 5-4 • Jr-2Lcollege Station, texas

(a&m consolidated)

5alex reynoldS

INF • R-R • 5-8 • Jr-2Ltomball, texas

(tomball)

6eden morriS

UT • R-R • 5-10 • Fr-HScohutta, ga.

(dalton)

7erin glaSco

C • L-R • 5-7 • Sr-1LJohnston city, ill.

(Johnston city/notre dame)

8andrea tovar

OF • L-R • 5-5 • So-1LSeguin, texas

(Seguin)

10kelSey SPittlerOF • L-L • 5-6 • So-1L

caldwell, texas(caldwell)

11reBecca arBinoP • R-R • 6-0 • Fr-HS

clovis, calif.(clovis)

12Savana lloydP • L-L • 5-7 • Sr-TR

kirkland, wash.(Boston college)

13holly ridley

OF • R-R • 5-9 • Sr-3LSugar land, texas

(clements)

14macie morrowSS • L-R • 5-8 • Jr-2L

Sugar land, texas(clements)

16natalie villarreal

2B • L-L • 5-4 • So-1Lfrisco, texas

(frisco)

22rhiannon klieSingP/1B • L-R • 5-10 • So-1L

Pearland, texas(Pearland)

Jo evanS13th year

head coach

Joy JackSon13th year

associate head coach

mary Jo firnBach3rd year

associate head coach

StePhen grove5th year

director of Softball operations

thE 2009 AggIE sOFtbAll tEAM

9taryn BrouSSard

1B/OF • L-L • 5-11 • Fr-HSlake Jackson, texas

(Brazoswood)

2009 texas a&m softball media guide

Documents

texas tech big

aggie softball camps

aggie softball complex4

conference stats64

evans year

softball complex8

nonconference opponents

world series teams69