Three Mason Alums coaching in the District Finals tonight. Linda Young, Corey Stokes and Lesley Hassen coach Fairfax HS who is taking on Centreville for the District title tonight!

Twitter

Ok, so I guess the new thing these days is to twitter. So for any of you out there that do this check out Mason Softball updates as well as what I am up to from time to time at www.twitter.com/masonsoftball.

The Future

It's crazy to think that the season is over already. It flies by every year but this one is a little different. I want to fast forward the summer and get back on the field tomorrow. We have a great core group of young players that really progressed throughout the year and although we struggled to win games this year, they are eager to learn, working hard and know that they can win at this level.

Congratulations are in order for a handful of players. The CAA awards were announced today and we had 4 players recognized. Becky Anderson was named 1st team all-CAA as a pitcher/designated player and Miranda Cranford was named 2nd team in the same position. Morgan Davis and Alyssa See were both named to the CAA All-Rookie team!

Mason Softball Earns Academic Recognition

The Mason Softball team was included in the 767 teams publicly recognized this year for high achievement that represent 11.9 percent of the approximately 6,484 Division I teams. The list includes 448 women's teams and 319 men's or mixed squads.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete. The APR includes eligibility, retention, and graduation in the calculation and provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport.

Great job in the classroom ladies!!!!

The sun is shining today and hopefully there will be no more rain for the rest of the season! There are a couple of exciting events coming up the next two weekends. We have a home series agains UNCW this weekend. Following the game on Sunday we are doing a free clinic for Girl Scouts in the area! We usually do this once a year and it's a lot of fun! Saturday, April 25 we host Delaware and all of our softball Alumni. I can't wait to catch up with everyone, it's been too long! Sunday, April 26 we will honor our two seniors at our last home game of the year. 4 years goes by so fast!

Weekend Recap

Well the results in the W/L column were not what we wanted but we progressed throughout the weekend and believe that we can not only compete but win against the best teams in our league. Defense continues to be our biggest struggle. The best thing about this group is that they continue to work very hard at getting better and we can see it happening pretty fast.
We had a day off yesterday and the kids hit the weight room pretty hard this morning. No mid-week games leading up to the weekend so we will have time to address some mistakes that have been happening as well as heal up some wounds before we head up to Baltimore for a series against Towson.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! First conference series coming up against Hofstra this weekend. I'll be cheering on our Men's basketball team in the NIT tonight.

CAA Pitcher of the Week!

Congrats to Becky for being named CAA Pitcher of the Week! Also, congrats to Miranda Cranford for being named CAA Rookie of the Week last week! Keep it up Patriots!!

It is suppose to be a beautiful 60 degree weekend. There will be games all weekend as we host the Mason Invitational!

Well, we got a little snow last night. Our game tomorrow against UVA has been postponed. Hopefully this stuff will be gone before the weekend.

Game Day Pic!