May 28, 2008

• Virginia Tech's Tincher Honored Nationally
  Senior named USA Softball National Player of the Year and earned Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Senior pitcher Angela Tincher of Virginia Tech heads the 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America University Division Softball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Tincher, the University Division Academic All-America® of the Year, makes her third consecutive appearance on the Academic All-America squad, including a pair of first-team selections. A native of Eagle Rock, Va., she posted a 3.84 cumulative grade point average in finance. One of three finalists for USA Softball National Player of the Year, Tincher was named Atlantic Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year for the third season in a row. She currently has a 36-7 record with a 0.61 earned run average. Tincher, a NFCA first-team All-American as a junior and 2008 ACC Tournament MVP, holds the ACC records for career wins (121) and ranks third on the NCAA's all-time strikeouts list with 2,089. Tincher, who has thrown 14 career no-hitters, is second in NCAA history with 13.9 K's per seven innings.

Joining Tincher on the University Division Academic All-America first team were infielders Jessica Chrabaszcz (Delaware State), Jessica Toocheck (Kent State), Colleen McGlaughlin (Iowa), Sara Dyer (Tulsa); pitcher Stacey Nelson of Florida; catcher Chelsea Bramlett of Mississippi State; outfielders Lisa Kingsmore (Winthrop), Lillian Hammond (Tennessee) and Amber Maisonet (Albany); and designated player Mary Beth Puccio of Fordham.

Tincher, Dyer and Hammond repeated as first-team selections, while Kingsmore was a member of the 2007 second team.

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Whitney Haller Named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American

ATLANTA - Georgia Tech junior first baseman Whitney Haller has been named a third-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American as selected by the College of Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Haller, a Marietta, Ga., native, earns this award for the second straight season as she was a second-team All-American in 2007 and is one of just two Yellow Jackets (Erin Voeltz-third team in 2004) to receive this prestigious distinction

Haller has a cumulative 3.91 GPA as an Industrial Engineering major and just compiled a 4.0 GPA for the spring semester. She was a second-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference pick this year after starting 62 games at first base and batting .260 with 20 runs scored, 46 hits, eight doubles, a .475 slugging percentage and a .348 on base percentage. Haller ranked first on the team and tied for fourth in the ACC with 39 RBI while her 10 home runs were tied for second and tied for fourth, respectively. She committed just one error all season for a .998 fielding percentage and batted .476 over the season's final 15 games to raise her average 80 points.

She is only the second Tech player (Laura Williams - 1994, 1995, 1996) to earn All-ACC honors in her first three seasons and holds the Georgia Tech career home run record (49). In addition, Haller will begin the 2009 season needing one more round-tripper for the ACC mark. She also ranks second in Tech and third in ACC history in RBI (178), fifth in school history in batting average (.346), first in slugging percentage (.652), fifth in on base percentage (.435), third in runs scored (150), third in total bases (397), second in fielding percentage (.989), first in fielding chances (1,293) and first in putouts (1,215).