Eimen Earns Second Team All Big 12 Selection
May 08, 2009 | Softball
May 8, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Senior first baseman Elizabeth Eimen earned second team All Big 12 honors and joined teammates Leah Legler, Danielle Matthews and Megan Shupp on the All-Academic Big 12 team. The players were introduced in a ceremony held at the Don. E. Porter/ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City after the conclusion of the first round games at the Big 12 Championship.
Eimen, who finished with a team-leading .346 average, belted 55 hits on the season for the Red Raiders, scored 22 runs and knocked in 17, in her first season as an every-day player.
All-Academic honors are awarded to players who have competed in 60 percent of their team's games and who achieve either a cumulative grade point average higher than 3.20 or whose have achieved higher than a 3.20 g.p.a. in their past two consecutive semesters. (Freshmen are not eligible for the award.)
There were 72 student-athletes from the Big 12's ten teams to be named to either the first or second team.
Of the four players noted during the festivities who earned perfect 4.0 grade point averages conference-wide, Texas Tech accounted for two, as both junior second baseman Leah Legler and Megan Shupp were perfect in the classroom over the past two semesters.
Shupp was honored in the spring at the first annual TECHspy awards as the team's high g.p.a. graduating senior and was a finalist for the Female Student-Athlete of the Year. The senior center fielder also was the softball recipient of the Jeannine McHaney Award for excellence in the the classroom, and was the first Tech softball player to be named a semi-finalist for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.
