Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Softball Squad Named All-Academic Team
January 02, 2000 | Softball
Oct. 1, 1999
The Bowling Green State University softball team has been recognized for its collective efforts in the classroom, as the National Fastpitch Coaches Association has included the Falcons on its list of All-Academic Teams. BGSU ranked seventh among all NCAA Division I teams, with a 3.33 team grade-point average for the 1998-99 academic year.
The Falcons of head coach Leigh Ross-Shaw were the highest-ranked Mid-American Conference team on the list, which was released by the NFCA late Thursday (Sept. 30). Belmont (Tenn.) University topped the Division I list with a 3.523 GPA.
Of the 15 returning players on the 1999-2000 Falcon softball squad, a total of eight boast a cumulative GPA of at least 3.00. That group is led by sophomore Holly Frantz (Grand Rapids, Ohio/Otsego), who has a perfect 4.00 GPA entering the fall, 1999, semester. No fewer than 11 of those 15 student-athletes have a GPA of 2.70 or higher.
Additionally, of the six players not returning to this year's squad, five had a cumulative GPA of better than 3.00.
The complete list of NFCA All-Academic Teams follows:
NCAA DIVISION I____________________________GPA___Head Coach 1. Belmont (Tenn.) University____________3.523__Charlie Gunter 2. Louisiana Tech University_____________3.460__Bill Galloway 3. University of Detroit Mercy___________3.430__Bob Wilkerson 4. Manhattan (N.Y.) College______________3.381__Susan Hannon 5. University of Evansville______________3.368__Gwen Lewis 6. Southwest Missouri State University___3.360__Holly Hesse 7. BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY________3.330__LEIGH ROSS-SHAW 8. Morehead State (Ky.) University_______3.320__Jennifer VanSickle 9. Ohio University_______________________3.310__Roanna Brazier 10. Southeast Missouri State University___3.299__Lana Richmond
