- May
- ASA announces 2008 USA Softball Men’s National Team roster
- Angela Tincher Named 2008 Player of the Year
- ASA Hall of Fame Stadium hosts WCWS
- Monica Abbott Returns to Salinas; USA Wins 10-0
- Prescott All-Stars downed by USA Softball 15-0
- USA Softball ‘PINK OUT’ scheduled for June 7 against Canada
- USA Softball Blanks Nor Cal Heat, 10-0
- Top three finalists announced for 2008 Player of the Year
- Introducing Liberty Mutual’s Responsible Sports
- Bustos hits two homeruns to pace USA Softball to 18-0 Win
- No-hitter by Osterman leads team to 13-0 win over Visalia All-Stars
- Team uses long ball to shut out Team Sacramento 22-0
- USA Softball Back At It !!
- Athletes invited to Men’s National team May selection camp
- USA vs. Tennessee, ESPN2, 7:00 p.m.
- Florida Unanimous at No. 1
- Northwestern’s Delaney named Final Player of the Week
- USA vs. Michigan, ESPN2, 7:00 p.m.
- Record crowd of 8,724 watches U.S. sneak by Glory 2-0
- USA Softball blasts by Longstreth with 15-0 shutout
- Top Ten Finalists Announced for 2008 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year
- Balschmiter and Kamekona share Player of the Week honors
- Gators take over at No. 1 in ESPN.com/USA Softball Poll
- Jung leads U.S. to 5-1 victory over No. 5 Michigan
- USA vs. Virginia Tech, ESPN2, 7:00 p.m./ET
- U.S. routes Robert Morris 16-0 in front of 4,132 fans
- USA Softball eBay Auction!!!!
- USA Softball Storms Into Florida with a 12-0 Win
Angela Tincher Named 2008 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. --- The Amateur Softball Association, the National Governing Body of Softball in the United States, announced today the selection of Virginia Tech’s Angela Tincher (Eagle Rock, Va.) as the recipient of the 7th Annual USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year Award. After being a top 10 finalist in 2007, Tincher has dominated the competition in 2008 with aNation-best 0.62 ERA.
The USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year Award, in its seventh year, is designed to recognize outstanding athletic achievement by NCAA Division I collegiate softball players across the country.
The 2008 ACC Pitcher of the Year, Tincher has put her mark in the NCAA record books this season. At No. 3 for most NCAA career strikeouts (2,121), the senior hurler is currently leading the nation in ERA at 0.62 behind former Player of the Year’s Monica Abbott and Cat Osterman. With 651 strikeouts this season in 329.0 innings pitched, she also leads the nation with 14.0 strikeouts per seven innings.
With a 38-8 record, Tincher has led the Hokies to its first-ever Women’s College World Series appearance. She has 37 double-digit strikeout performances this season and four no-hitters. She picked up her 100th career win at NC State on March 22 and became the ACC’s all-time leader in victories on April 16. On March 26, 2008, she made softball history with a no-hit 1-0 shutout against the USA Softball Women’s National team. Tincher has not only excelled on the field but off as she had made the Dean’s List every semester of College. She recently graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in finance, insurance and business law with a 3.84 GPA.
The three finalists for the 2008 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Awardincluding Tincher wereUniversity of Tennessee senior Tonya Callahanand Texas A&M Senior Megan Gibson.
A replica of the award will be placed in a permanent display in the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, along with photos of the winner. An additional replica of the award will be presented to the player’s academic institution at a designated event in the fall.
Abbott won the 2007 award days before she led the Tennessee Lady Vols to its first-ever WCWS best-of-three Championship series.Osterman of the University of Texas became the first three-time winner of the USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year Award in 2006 after leading her Longhorns to the Big 12 regular season title and a berth into the NCAA Women’s College World Series. Past winners of the award include Stacey Nuveman (UCLA-2002), Osterman (Texas-2003, 2005, 2006) and Jessica Van der Linden (Florida State-2004).
About ASA
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.
About USA Softball
USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of the only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.
