DENVER - Six WAC softball players earned ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District honors Thursday. New Mexico State's Kandis Jones led the way as a first-team honoree and advances to the national ballot.
Haley Perkins of Fresno State, Julie Franklin and Clare Warwick of Hawai?i, Brittany Puzey of Nevada and Kim Watson of New Mexico State received second team accolades.
Jones, a sophomore from La Mirda, Calif., boasts a 4.00 grade-point average as a community health major. She was named to the 2008 Academic All-WAC Freshman Team. She has a .382 batting average with 41 runs, eight doubles, two homers and 24 RBI.
Perkins, a senior kinesiology major from Fresno, earned the honor for the third time in her career as she boasts a 3.59 GPA. She was a 2008 NFCA Scholar-Athlete, is a two-time WAC Scholar Athlete, a three-time Academic All-WAC honoree and a three-time Fresno State Scholar Athlete. She has been on the Dean's List four times.
Franklin, a senior psychology major from Temple City, Calif., has a 3.96 GPA and will graduate next week. She is three-time NFCA and UH Scholar-Athlete and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Warwick, a senior from Canberra, Australia, boasts a 3.89 GPA as a kinesiology and rehabilitation science major. She is a two-time Academic All-District first team honoree and three-time NFCA Scholar-Athlete.
A three-time Academic All-WAC honoree, Puzey has a 3.3 GPA as a psychology major. She is a senior from Carson City, Nev., and was one of 30 national candidates for Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.
A Spokane, Wash., native, Watson has a 3.89 GPA and graduates Saturday with a degree in marketing and a minor in Spanish. This is the third consecutive year that she has been named to an Academic All-District team. She is a three-time Academic All-WAC honoree and a two-time NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete selection.