Oklahoma State University Athletics
Five Cowgirls Named All-Big 12
May 14, 2010 | Cowgirl Softball
May 14, 2010
Oklahoma City, Okla. -- Five Oklahoma State Cowgirls have been named All-Big 12, the league office announced Friday afternoon. The total matches the most ever by a Cowgirl squad since the conference formed in 1996.
Junior second baseman Alysia Hamilton was named All-Big 12 First Team. She led the team in conference play with 14 hits and nine runs batted in. Hamilton was a second-team selection two years ago as a freshman.
Rookie pitcher Kat Espinosa was also named All-Big 12 First Team. The freshman hurler finished league play with a 7-2 record and a 1.63 earned run average. She is the first Cowgirl pitcher to be named first team since Lauren Bay in 2003 and is just the fifth OSU freshman to make the All-Big 12 First Team.
All-Big 12 Second Team honors went to senior pitcher Anna Whiddon along with sophomore first baseman Julie Ward and sophomore shortstop Chelsea Garcia. Ward was a second-team choice last season as a frosh, and it is the first conference honor for Whiddon and Garcia.
Fifty-two Cowgirls have been named All-Big 12 in the 15 years of the league's existence, including 28 first-team selections.
2010 All-Big 12
First Team
Kat Espinosa, Fr., RHP, Houston, Texas
Alysia Hamilton, Jr., 2B, Moore, Okla.
Second Team
Chelsea Garcia, So., SS, Moore, Okla.
Julie Ward, So., 1B, Altadena, Calif.
Anna Whiddon, Sr., RHP, Huntington, Texas
