Guess Named To First Team CoSIDA Academic All-District VI Squad
May 25, 2016 | Softball
With the award, Guess will join seven other Southeastern Conference softball players on the national ballot for CoSIDA academic all-American honors. The CoSIDA academic all-American softball squad is set to be announced on May 31.
One of just four players to start all 61 games for the Bulldogs this season, the Moss Point, Miss., native turned in a .322 batting average with 17 extra-base hits, 21 RBI and a team-best 39 runs scored. Included in her numbers was 14 multiple-hit games and five multiple-RBI games, as well as a team-best 12-game hitting streak that she put together towards the beginning of the campaign. Guess also paced the team in the stolen base column having proved successful on 23 of 25 attempts (.920).
In the classroom, Guess is equally as impressive, maintaining a 3.43 overall grade point average as a clinical exercise physiology major at MSU. She is also a two-time academic all-SEC selection.
To be eligible for Academic All-District consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale) with sophomore or higher standing both athletically and academically. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has presented Academic All-America honors to more than 14,000 student-athletes at the Division I, II, III and NAIA levels.
The Maroon and White have a long tradition of academic success, sending a league-best 90 athletes to academic all-SEC distinction since 1997, while having 41 of its players earn NFCA all-America scholar athlete laurels in that same time frame. Nine players have been decorated with academic all-district awards by CoSIDA, with four earning a spot on the academic all-American squads. In 2004, former MSU infielder Kate Jaspers was named CoSIDA Academic all-American of the Year.
Having closed out regular season play with a three-game sweep of the Kentucky Wildcats last weekend in Lexington, Ky., Mississippi State (33-28) will now wait to learn of its postseason fate. The NCAA Division I Softball Championship Selection Show will air Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. CDT on ESPNews.
