All-GSC Release (PDF)
Birmingham, Alabama – The 2009 West Georgia softball season was just completed on Sunday, but the postseason accolades are already beginning to roll in, as the 2009 All-Gulf South Conference honors have been released and the Wolves have placed five between the First and Second teams.
Headlining the UWG recipients’ is senior
Kim Weaver as she was selected as the First teams shortstop. This is Weaver’s third time being selected to an All-GSC team, as she was a first teamer as a freshman and a second teamer as a sophomore. There is no doubt she would have been a four-time honoree had her junior campaign not been cut short due to her ankle injury.
Joining Weaver on the first team are junior
Candice Brown and freshman
Lindsay Ellenburg. Brown has improved on her postseason honors each season, as she was the GSC Freshman of the Year in 2007 and an All-GSC Second teamer last season. The center fielder hit a career high .341 this season and .458 as the leadoff hitter, marking her as one of the top leadoff hitters in the GSC. Ellenburg hit .279 with 29 RBI’s in her first collegiate season, and beat out a stout Kelli Hartley from West Alabama for the second baseman honors for the first team.
Kacie Crider was named to the All-GSC Second team for the second time in her career, the first coming as a freshman. Crider won 19 games, which ties her record from her first season; posted a career high and GSC leading 216 K’s, seven shutouts, and 53 walks.
Kara Pollock finds herself on a second consecutive All-GSC squad this time as a second teamer. The sophomore first baseman, battled the ever dangerous “sophomore slump”, but exploded in the second half of the season to finish with a .275 average a team high seven home runs and 43 RBI’s. She was still a defensive force with a .990 fielding percentage
This is the third time under head coach
Erika Swanson that West Georgia has posted five players on All-GSC teams, and the eighth year in a row that at least one player has been nominated and also to the first team.