Texas Tech University Athletics
Athletes Earn Academic Honors
June 21, 1999 | General
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech University Athletic Department honored 177 student-athletes Friday at the Academic Awards Banquet in the Knippling Center at Methodist Hospital. Highlighting the event was the naming of golfer Tom Baldwin as Male Student-Athlete of the Year and softball player Danielle Brady as Female Student-Athlete of the Year.
Baldwin, a senior marketing major from Russell, Kansas, has competed in five of six tournaments with the men's golf team this spring, posting a stroke average of 77.6. He fired a low round 72 at the International Intercollegiate, and will head to the Big 12 Championships April 27-28 in Hutchinson, Kansas. During this past fall, Baldwin finished with the lowest stroke average on the team, and was named to the Dean's List.
Last year, Baldwin participated in 10 events, finishing on top of the team at both the Dr. Pepper Intercollegiate and the Louisiana Classics tournament. He was named to the 1997 Academic All-Big 12 Men's Golf Team after earning a perfect 4.0 GPA in his first year at Texas Tech. Previously, he attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kan. where he competed with the men's golf team in the national championships and earned Academic All-America honors.
Brady, a pitcher from Placerville, California, heads into her final two series Saturday and Sunday at Texas A&M and Texas. She is one of four seniors who have been with the program since it was reinstated. After coming to Texas Tech from Sacramento City College in Calif., she has compiled an overall record of 24-28. She has pitched 267.2 innings and struck out 114 batters.
Brady will always have the distinct honor of being the first Texas Tech athlete to claim a win in Big 12 play. In addition, she has made the Dean's List twice and was selected to the first ever Academic All-Big 12 team. Last year, she was named a Phillips 66 classroom champion and was listed on the commissioner's honor roll. As she concludes her final season, she has helped the team to a No. 17 national ranking and will be graduating in May of 1999 with a degree in Finance and International Business.
The awards were presented to the student-athletes based on academic and athletic achievement. To attend the banquet each individual had to compile a cumulative grade point average equal to or greater than 3.00, the same GPA for the spring and fall 1997 semesters or just during the fall for first-year freshmen and transfer students. Returning student-athletes also must have passed a minimum of 24 hours in 1997, or 12 hours for freshmen and transfers.
