PEORIA, Ill. ? Senior second baseman Elizabeth Wilson (Kansas City, Mo./Notre Dame de Sion) has been voted to the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V second-team announced Thursday. Wilson is the fifth player in program history to earn Academic-All-District honors and first Bradley softball player to earn the award since Kristy Brod in 2004.
Wilson leads Bradley with a .279 batting average and also leads the squad in at bats (147), hits (41), doubles (11) and stolen bases (8). In addition, she ranks second on the team in runs (19), RBI (18) and slugging percentage (.415) and is tied for second on the team with three home runs.
The only player to start every game this season, she is one three Bradley players hitting over .300 with runners in scoring position and is tied for the team lead with nine multi-hit games this spring. Wilson ranks fifth in school history with 198 games played and has started all but one game in her career. She also ranks among Bradley's career top 10 in at bats (5th - 569), doubles (5th - 30), RBI (10th - 64) and assists (3rd - 368).
A psychology major with a 3.63 cumulative grade point average, Wilson has been named to the Bradley Athletic Director's Honor Roll in six of her seven semesters at Bradley and was an honorable mention Missouri Valley Conference scholar-athlete as a junior. She is the fifth different Bradley player to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, joining Julie Jehle (1995 Second-Team Academic All-American), Amy Pera (1995 Third-Team Academic All-American), Amy Fouts (2001 First-Team Academic All-District) and Kristy Brod (2004 First-Team Academic All-District).
To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve, maintain a 3.20 cumulative grade point average and reached sophomore athletic and academic standings in order to be nominated for the award.
Wilson and the Braves return to action Thursday afternoon in the first round of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Bradley, which is making its first appearance in the MVC Tournament since hosting the 2000 event, faces No. 6 seed Missouri State at 1:30 p.m. in Normal, Ill., in the single elimination tournament with the winner taking on No. 3 seed and 22nd-ranked Southern Illinois Thursday night at 6:30 p.m.
