Softball's Brittany Boeshore & Bridget Holloway Earn Capital One Academic All-District Honors

Emory University senior outfielder Brittany Boeshore (Suwanee, GA) and junior pitcher Bridget Holloway (Sparta, IL), two key members of the nation’s No. 2-ranked softball squad with a 40-2-1 record, have earned Capital One Academic All-District honors.  Boeshore landed a first-team berth while Holloway was selected to the second team. The pair were District 3 selections from the College Division which consists of institutions from NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.

The honor is awarded annually to student athletes who have excelled both academically and athletically.  To be eligible, a nominee must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at his/her current institution, carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.3 or higher (on a 4.0 scale) and be a starter or key reserve.

Boeshore majors in Medical Imaging and maintains a 3.94 grade-point average.  She has played in 31 games, 26 in a starting capacity, and is hitting at a .326 clip with 28 hits in 86 plate appearances.  She has recorded six multi-hit contests including four outings of three safeties, the most recent coming against LaGrange College (Apr. 26) in helping the Eagles to a 5-4 win in the first game of a doubleheader.  She helped Emory clinch the University Athletic Association Championship earlier this season when she went 2-for-3 at the plate with a career-best four RBIs, including a three-run homer, in an 8-0 victory over Washington Univ. She slammed a walk-off homer in the bottom of the seventh that gave Emory a 4-3 decision over regionally ranked Piedmont (Mar. 23) and delivered the game-winning RBI in a 5-4 verdict over Rhodes (Apr. 9).  By virtue of her first-team selection, Boeshore will be placed on the national ballot for the Captial One Academic All-America Team that will be announced on May 26.

Holloway, a Women’s Studies and History major, claims a 3.59 GPA.  Despite missing almost a month of action with an injury, Holloway, who was named Second Team All-University Athletic Association earlier in the week, has returned to the lineup and will head into the postseason with a won-lost record of 17-1 with her victory total pacing all conference hurlers.  Her ERA of 1.25 is second in the UAA, No. 19 nationally, and in NCAA statistics from May 1 she ranked second among D-III pitchers in fewest walks allowed per seven innings (0.40). She picked up two victories over regionally ranked Piedmont on Mar. 23, the first coming in a scoreless 1 2/3 innings relief stint, and the second a complete-game, three-hit shutout in a 3-0 triumph.  She was named the UAA Tournament Co-MVP after posting a 4-0 record with an ERA of 0.70 over 20 innings of action.

Voting for the Academic All-District team is conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America.  District 3 is composed of NCAA institutions in the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.