FLORENCE, S.C. – Ten members of this past spring’s Francis Marion University softball team – senior infielder Janine Allen, freshman outfielder Kat Beauvais, sophomore outfielder Lakyn Bendle, freshman catcher Jamie Holmes, senior pitcher Jessica Johnson, sophomore infielder Shawn Moore, sophomore outfielder Megan Pangburn, senior outfielder Jenna Sexton, freshman pitcher Michaela Wolf, and junior infielder Monica Wofford – were recently named 2007 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America Scholar-Athletes. 

To be eligible for the team, players must have compiled a 3.5 grade point average (or higher) for the past (2006-07) academic year. Sexton earns the award for the fourth consecutive year (2004-07), while Allen, Bendle, Johnson and Wofford were also named to the squad in 2006.

The entire Patriot squad was recently named an All-Academic Team by the NFCA.

Allen, a native of Lilburn, Ga., is majoring in accounting (management information systems), while Beauvais from Manassas, Va., is majoring in business. Bendle hails from Amsterdam, Ohio, and is majoring in psychology, while Holmes, a native of Monroe, Wash., is an education major. 

Johnson, a native of Palm City, Fla., is majoring in elementary education. Moore, who hails from Pamplico, is a psychology major, while Pangburn, from Covina, Calif., is majoring in business. Sexton, a native of Marietta, Ga., graduated this past May with a B.S. degree in physics (cum laude).

            Wolf, from Littleton, Colo., is an undecided major, while Wofford, a native of Myrtle Beach, is majoring in elementary education.

Francis Marion compiled a 34-16 record this past spring, finishing fifth during the Peach Belt Conference regular season. FMU spent five weeks in the Top 25 poll, and for the fourth straight year, narrowly missed earning a bid to the NCAA Division II national tournament.

Seventeen of the squad's 18 players were named to the PBC Presidential Honor Roll following the season.