07-10-2002, 09:09 AM
Great news on the academic front...a LadyBack softball player wins the SEC academic award, and 2 LadyBacks make the Verizon Academic All-America team. Very impressive for the ladies.
Here are the articles..courtesy <a href="http://www.ladybacks.com" target="_blank">www.ladybacks.com</a>
Woolley earns SEC's highest honor
FAYETTEVILLE---Senior softball player Tiffany Woolley became the second University of Arkansas student-athlete to earn the Southeastern Conference's H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award Thursday.
Woolley, a perfect 4.0 accounting major, joins Jessica (Field) Phelan as the only Arkansas athletes, male or female, to earned the SEC's highest honor.
"We are extremely proud of Tiffany and everything she stands for here at the University of Arkansas," Women's Athletics Director Bev Lewis said. "She has been a leader for both her team and our Women's Athletic Department during her four years as a Lady Razorback."
Woolley is a four-year letterwinner for the Lady Razorback softball team and was named team MVP last season. As a junior at the SEC Tournament, Woolley hit .308 and was perfect in the field at third base to earn all-tournament honors. Entering her senior season, Woolley was a career .263 hitter and ranked top ten in 12 of 19 career statistical categories at Arkansas including the career leader in sacrifice bunts with 36.
"This is a tremendous honor for Tiffany, for the Arkansas softball program and for the University as a whole," said head coach Carie Dever-Boaz. "She is the epitome of what a student-athlete should be both on and off the field. She continues to be a wonderful representation of what we would like all of our players to be."
Woolley was a two-time Morning News Invitational all-tournament team selection (2000 and 2001) and a 1999 Hampton Inn Invitational all-tournament team pick. She was voted Most Inspirational and earned the team Golden Glove Award in 2000.
The daughter of Rodney and Judy Woolley of Tulsa, Okla., Woolley has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll three years and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society. Woolley became the first Lady Razorback named first-team academic all-American since 1994, when she was voted the honor last year. She is the first softball player to earn the honor and the first Lady Razorback named first-team on a team ballot.
Woolley has earned several honors from the Walton College of Business including being one of six students to receive the Walton College's 2001-02 First Ranked Senior Scholar Award honoring graduates with the highest grade-point-average in the college.
In addition to academics and athletics, Woolley is active in several community projects as well including working at youth clinics, visiting hospitals, nursing homes, elementary schools and participating in holiday programs. Woolley has served on the Arkansas Women's Athletics Student-Advisory Committee in each of her four years and assisted with skills clinics for kids at NCAA and SEC softball and volleyball championships. She has also been involved with Arkansas' Athletes Outreach programs and participated in a fundraiser for the American Red Cross 9/11 Victims and Families Fund
Here are the articles..courtesy <a href="http://www.ladybacks.com" target="_blank">www.ladybacks.com</a>
Woolley earns SEC's highest honor
FAYETTEVILLE---Senior softball player Tiffany Woolley became the second University of Arkansas student-athlete to earn the Southeastern Conference's H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award Thursday.
Woolley, a perfect 4.0 accounting major, joins Jessica (Field) Phelan as the only Arkansas athletes, male or female, to earned the SEC's highest honor.
"We are extremely proud of Tiffany and everything she stands for here at the University of Arkansas," Women's Athletics Director Bev Lewis said. "She has been a leader for both her team and our Women's Athletic Department during her four years as a Lady Razorback."
Woolley is a four-year letterwinner for the Lady Razorback softball team and was named team MVP last season. As a junior at the SEC Tournament, Woolley hit .308 and was perfect in the field at third base to earn all-tournament honors. Entering her senior season, Woolley was a career .263 hitter and ranked top ten in 12 of 19 career statistical categories at Arkansas including the career leader in sacrifice bunts with 36.
"This is a tremendous honor for Tiffany, for the Arkansas softball program and for the University as a whole," said head coach Carie Dever-Boaz. "She is the epitome of what a student-athlete should be both on and off the field. She continues to be a wonderful representation of what we would like all of our players to be."
Woolley was a two-time Morning News Invitational all-tournament team selection (2000 and 2001) and a 1999 Hampton Inn Invitational all-tournament team pick. She was voted Most Inspirational and earned the team Golden Glove Award in 2000.
The daughter of Rodney and Judy Woolley of Tulsa, Okla., Woolley has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll three years and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society. Woolley became the first Lady Razorback named first-team academic all-American since 1994, when she was voted the honor last year. She is the first softball player to earn the honor and the first Lady Razorback named first-team on a team ballot.
Woolley has earned several honors from the Walton College of Business including being one of six students to receive the Walton College's 2001-02 First Ranked Senior Scholar Award honoring graduates with the highest grade-point-average in the college.
In addition to academics and athletics, Woolley is active in several community projects as well including working at youth clinics, visiting hospitals, nursing homes, elementary schools and participating in holiday programs. Woolley has served on the Arkansas Women's Athletics Student-Advisory Committee in each of her four years and assisted with skills clinics for kids at NCAA and SEC softball and volleyball championships. She has also been involved with Arkansas' Athletes Outreach programs and participated in a fundraiser for the American Red Cross 9/11 Victims and Families Fund