2013 Signing Class
Eleven new signees inked scholarships to play softball and continue their academic studies at Wallace State on Sunday 15 January 2012. The class sees players from all parts of Alabama and southern Tennessee. This years class includes:
- Allie Duke - P/1B Geraldine High School
- Annie Holcolm - C/UTL Fairview High School
- Madeline Lee - SS/2B Kingwood Academy
- Lakin Hancock - SS South Lamar High School
- Biranda Lauderdale - 2B West Limestone HIgh School
- Maria Mitchell - C/SS Opelika High School
- Kelsey King - P/SS Oneona High School
- Caemin Acker - P/1B North Ridge High School
- Kori Benson - C Oak Grove High School
- Ashleigh McClure - 3B/1B Oxford
- Madison McGill - OF Richland High School TN
Academic All-American Team and Players
STARKVILLE, Miss. -Wallace State softball has once again been named an NFCA
Top-10 Academic Team, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced
recently. The Lady Lions was ranked second in GPA among all NJCAA division I
schools for the 2010-11 academic year.
"This is a tremendous achievement for our 2011 softball team," head coach
Jayne Clem said. "The players are true student-athletes in every meaning.
Players receiving Academic All-American individual honors include:
Graduated Sophomores.
Courtney Bailey - Shorter College
Summer Wilkerson - University of North Alabama
Jessica Bowman - Shorter College
Whitney Hood - Shorter College
Katie Pierce - Tennessee Tech University
Returning Sophomores:
Megan Christensen
Kirsten Gipson
Morgan Martin
The team award comes on the heels of Megan Christensen being named First
Team NFCA All-American. Christensen was joined by Heather Parker and Cortney
McNett on the second Team NFCA All-American and Katie Pierce being selected
to the third team.
The NFCA Academic Awards program honors both collegiate and high school
teams for their submitted GPAs for the 2010-11 academic year. As a second
component of the program, all submitted student-athletes who achieved a 3.50
GPA during last academic year are named as a NFCA All-America Scholar
Athlete.






