USA Softball

USA Softball Player of the Week:

 Week of February 6 - February 12   

                          

 

Alicia Hallowell

University of Arizona

 

 

Hallowell Named USA Softball Player of the Week 

2/14/2006

 

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The University of Arizona's Alicia Hollowell pitched her way to the first USA Softball Player of the Week honor for the 2006 season for the week of Feb. 6-12, announced today by the Amateur Softball Association and USA Softball.  Hollowell (Suisun, Calif.) became the Wildcat all-time leader in innings pitched with 887.2, surpassing former Wildcat Jennie Finch's 876.2.

 

She was almost perfect this weekend, not once but three times, leading the team to a 6-0 record at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz.   In three games, the senior tossed 18.0 shutout innings.  In 57 batters faced, she combined to give up one hit, one walk and one hit-by-pitch.  Of those 57 batters, she logged 36 strikeouts and her batters combined to hit .018 against her, with a .053 on-base percentage.  During the weekend she also became the Wildcat all-time strikeout leader with 1,384, also passing Finch.

 

"It's an honor to get this award.  It was a good weekend for the team in general.  I had the team and some good defensive plays behind me," said Hallowell.  "It's easy to pitch against good teams such as Texas A&M when you have a good lead and good defensive plays.  It was nice to get off to a good start."

 

Hollowell's opponents were some of the best as she tossed no-hitters against No. 15 Northwestern and came back the next day to no-hit No. 6 Texas A&M.  The aforementioned performances were her 14th and 15th career no-hitters.  She was five outs away from being the first pitcher in the program's illustrious history to toss three consecutive no-hitters but came up just shy; tossing a one-hitter against a "receiving votes" Fullerton team. 

 

About ASA 

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 87 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 230,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com. 

About USA Softball 

USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of the only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won seven World Championship titles including the last five consecutive. For more information about USA Softball, please visit www.usasoftball.com