Official Release |
Daubman's ProfileOVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Thirty of the top NCAA
® softball student-athletes who excel both on and off the field were selected as candidates today for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award
® in collegiate softball. Fordham senior
Michele Daubman is one of the 30 senior student-athletes.
To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. The complete list of candidates follows this release.
An acronym for
Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School ®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
The 30 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists later in the season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one candidate who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.
The Senior CLASS Award winner will be announced during the 2015 Women's College World Series.
Softball Candidates| Callie Alford, Georgia State | Griffin Joiner, Kentucky |
| Jackie Bates, Rutgers | Stephany LaRosa, UCLA |
| Emily Bausher, Lehigh | Sammy Marshall, Western Illinois |
| Farish Beard, South Alabama | Kathlyn Medina, Florida |
| Sara Borders, Jacksonville State | Krista Menke, North Dakota State |
| Erin Burner, St. John's | Hayley Miles, San Diego State |
| Ally Carda, UCLA | Kahley Novak, Central Florida |
| Cheyenne Cordes, California | Sarah Onorato, Yale |
| Allison Cukrov, Stony Brook University | Shelby Pendley, Oklahoma |
Michele Daubman, Fordham Sara Driesenga, Michigan Larissa Franklin, Western Kentucky Amber Freeman, Arizona State Lindsay Friedman, Saint Louis University Chandler Howard, Rutgers | Kaitlyn Richardson, Minnesota Cydnee Sanders, Bucknell Farrah Sullivan, Central Florida Kaitlyn Thumann, Baylor Lacey Waldrop, Florida State Emily Weiman, NC State |
For more information on all the candidates, visit
seniorCLASSaward.com.