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2008 All-MWC Softball Team Announced Colorado State's Lauren Cusick earned Player of the Year honors
May 12, 2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Mountain West All-Conference softball awards as selected by the league's six head coaches were announced today. Colorado State senior Lauren Cusick was named Player of the Year, while San Diego State senior Christina Ross captured the Pitcher of the Year award. BYU's Kristin Delahoussaye garnered Freshman of the Year acclaim and the Aztecs' Kathy Van Wyk collected her third MWC Coach of the Year honor. Cusick, a Salem, Ore., native, led the league in three offensive categories to help her team to a 29-22 season. During the conference season, she tallied a league-leading nine home runs, scored 26 runs and reached 53 total bases. She currently ranks fourth in the nation for home runs per game (0.38), seventh for slugging percentage (.862) and second in runs per game (1.23). Cusick also set a school record for home runs in a season (20) and career home runs (36). Defensively, she collected 113 assists from the third-base position. Ross, from Santa Clarita, Calif., earns her second MWC Pitcher of the Year award, after earning the honor as a sophomore in 2006. She is only the second pitcher in league history to win the award twice, as San Diego State's Celena Velasquez earned the honors in 2003 and 2004. This season, Ross went 13-4 in conference play, including 14 complete games. The lefthander led the Aztecs to a 15-5 conference record, including their fourth outright MWC regular-season title. Ross led the MWC in earned run average (1.01), strikeouts (108), wins (13) and innings pitched (110.2). She was also named the MWC Pitcher of the Week eight times this season to set a new league record. Delahoussaye, a Las Vegas, Nev., product, led BYU to a second-place finish in the MWC and an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. She ranks in the top five of six MWC offensive categories. She holds a spot in doubles (1st), runs scored (2nd), total bases (3rd), slugging percentage (3rd), on-base percentage (3rd) and home runs (4th). As a freshman, Delahoussaye started all 60 games for the Cougars. The 20-member all-conference team includes five players from BYU, four players each from regular-season champion San Diego State and Colorado State, three players from UNLV and Utah, and one from New Mexico.
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