Yellowjackets Earn Academic Honors

BILLINGS, Mont. -  Montana State Billings can win on and off the softball field.  The Yellowjackets had five players named to the Academic All-GNAC team.  To be eligible, players had to have at least a 3.20 GPA and be of sophomore or higher eligibility.

MSUB and Northwest Nazarene had the most players with five each.  Central Washington had four, Western Washington had two and Western Oregon had one.  Liz Wallace of Central Washington had the highest GPA at 3.94.

Steph Gosselin, Terina Stacks and Bekah Tsatsa were named to the team for the second time each.  Tsatsa had the highest GPA for the Jackets with a 3.50 in Health and Human Performance.  Stacks had a 3.48 in Math Education and Gosselin has a 3.45 in Health and Human Performance.

Making all-academic for the first time was Leslie Davis and Kelly Parsons.  Davis has a 3.36  in Health and Human Performance while Parsons has a 3.20 in Management.

2009 GNAC SOFTBALL ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE

**Liz Wallace, CWU (Elementary Education, Sr., 3.94, Florence, MT)
Holly Rossman, CWU (Law & Justice, Sr., 3.35, Olympia, WA)
*Katriina Reime, CWU (Elementary Education, Jr., 3.28, Hoquiam,WA)
Jackie Hawkins, CWU (Business/Elementary Education, Sr., 3.22, Olympia, WA)
*Rebekah Tsatsa, MSUB (Human Performance, Sr., 3.50, Eagle, ID)
*Terina Stacks, MSUB (Math Education, Sr., 3.48, Washougal, WA)
*Stephanie Gosselin, MSUB (Health &  Human Performance, Sr., 3.45, Victoria, BC)
Leslie Davis, MSUB (Human Performance, Sr., 3.36, Federal Way, WA)
Kelly Parsons, MSUB (Management, So., 3.20, Seattle, WA)
Cortnee Crane, NNU (Business Administration, So. 3.85. Puyallup, WA)
**Jael Henthorn, NNU (Secondary Education, Sr., 3.76, Meridian, WA)
Brooke Hesselgesser, NNU (Elementary Education, So. 3.76, Nine Mile Falls, WA)
**Vanessa Shaw, NNU (Accounting, Sr., 3.65, Helena, MT)
Haley Hevern, NNU (Psychology, So., 3.20, Central Point, OR)
Jessica Wood, WOU (Education, So., 3.79, The Dalles, OR)
Kelsey Anderson, WWU (Pre-Medicine, So., 3.46, Mount Vernon, WA)
*Morgan Parkerson, WWU (Physical Education, Sr., 3.27, RAF Lakenheath, England)

*Repeater  **Two-time repeater