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Shippy Collects First-Team All-America Honors
May 30, 2018 | Cowgirl Softball
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma State softball standout Vanessa Shippy was named a first-team All-American for her outstanding play at third base this season, it was announced by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Wednesday at the Women's College World Series press conference.
It is the third time that Shippy, the 2016 and 2018 Big 12 Player of the Year, has been named an All-American in her career after earning third-team honors from the NFCA in both 2016 and 2017. She joins Jaime Foutch as the only three-time All-Americans in Oklahoma State softball history.
Shippy's 2018 campaign helped rewrite the OSU record books, as the senior posted a .471 batting average, an astronomical .613 on-base percentage, scored 73 runs and walked 57 times. All of those marks lead the Big 12 Conference in 2018 and rank Shippy among the top-five players nationally.
Her 73 runs scored and .613 on-base percentage both are OSU single-season records, surpassing the previous marks that Shippy set in her sophomore season. Shippy's .471 batting average, 57 walks and 81 hits were all the second-best single-season totals in school history.
Coupled with the single-season marks she set in 2018, Shippy concludes her historic career with no less than 12 Oklahoma State records to her credit, including most games played, most games started, highest career on-base percentage, most career walks, most career runs scored and a host of others.
Shippy became the fifth player in Big 12 history to record at least 225 hits, 150 walks, 150 runs scored and 125 RBI in 2018. She is the only Cowgirl to ever reach those numbers and the first Big 12 player to do so since Oklahoma's Lauren Chamberlain did in 2015.
The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, native was twice named national player of the week in 2018 and on three occasions was named the Big 12 Player of the Week. Shippy also became the first OSU player selected in the National Pro Fastpitch College Draft during Kenny Gajewski's tenure as head coach when she was picked 11th overall by the Cleveland Comets on April 23. She is also one of several elite competitors to be invited to join Scrap Yard Fast Pitch this summer in Conroe, Texas.
For more information on Shippy and the rest of the Cowgirls, follow the team on Twitter (@CowgirlSB), Facebook (Cowgirl Softball) and Instagram (osusoftball).
It is the third time that Shippy, the 2016 and 2018 Big 12 Player of the Year, has been named an All-American in her career after earning third-team honors from the NFCA in both 2016 and 2017. She joins Jaime Foutch as the only three-time All-Americans in Oklahoma State softball history.
Shippy's 2018 campaign helped rewrite the OSU record books, as the senior posted a .471 batting average, an astronomical .613 on-base percentage, scored 73 runs and walked 57 times. All of those marks lead the Big 12 Conference in 2018 and rank Shippy among the top-five players nationally.
Her 73 runs scored and .613 on-base percentage both are OSU single-season records, surpassing the previous marks that Shippy set in her sophomore season. Shippy's .471 batting average, 57 walks and 81 hits were all the second-best single-season totals in school history.
Coupled with the single-season marks she set in 2018, Shippy concludes her historic career with no less than 12 Oklahoma State records to her credit, including most games played, most games started, highest career on-base percentage, most career walks, most career runs scored and a host of others.
Shippy became the fifth player in Big 12 history to record at least 225 hits, 150 walks, 150 runs scored and 125 RBI in 2018. She is the only Cowgirl to ever reach those numbers and the first Big 12 player to do so since Oklahoma's Lauren Chamberlain did in 2015.
The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, native was twice named national player of the week in 2018 and on three occasions was named the Big 12 Player of the Week. Shippy also became the first OSU player selected in the National Pro Fastpitch College Draft during Kenny Gajewski's tenure as head coach when she was picked 11th overall by the Cleveland Comets on April 23. She is also one of several elite competitors to be invited to join Scrap Yard Fast Pitch this summer in Conroe, Texas.
For more information on Shippy and the rest of the Cowgirls, follow the team on Twitter (@CowgirlSB), Facebook (Cowgirl Softball) and Instagram (osusoftball).
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