BURNABY, BC – Simon Fraser University sophomore Stefanie Sheard has been named to the 2015 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Softball Academic all-conference team.
 
Sheard carries a 3.56 grade point average in Health Sciences. The native of Winnipeg, MB, is one of 23 SFU student-athletes who have been named to Academic All-Conference teams to date during the 2014-15 season.
 
Sheard has started 38 of 42 games for the Clan this season and is fifth on the team with a .291 batting average.  She is tied for first on the team with nine doubles and third with three home runs. 
 
SFU will play its final conference games this weekend with doubles headers against Western Washington on Saturday (noon) and against Central Washington on Sunday (1:00 PM).
 
For a look back at the Clan softball season click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZUz-DHnkY
 
Several freshmen on the Clan will be gunning for first-year records this weekend.
 
Second base Taylor Lundrigan of Abbotsford is within reach of the record for most hits in a season by a freshman. Lundrigan leads the Clan with 47 hits, three short of the record 50 set by Angela Lichty in 1999.
 
Earlier this year Lundrigan and freshman Taylor Gillis from Langley, BC, broke the freshmen record for At Bats in a season (134) held by both Lorissa Burns (1995) and Lindsay Chester (1996)). Currently, Gillis has 145 At Bats and Lundrigan 137 At Bats. Both should add to those totals this weekend.
 
Freshman pitcher Alia Stachoski is enjoying a solid first season with the Clan on the mound with eight wins, placing her fifth all-time for wins by a freshman.  Stachoski will have the opportunity to move past fourth place Kylee Ellis, who had nine victories her freshman year in 2009. She is also within reach of both Kathy Iggulden (1997) and Vicky LeBlanc (1992), who had 10 wins each their freshman seasons.
 
Erin Thomas holds the record of 17 wins set in 2001.
 
Stachoski has pitched 108 innings which is second all-time for a freshman behind only Thomas, who pitched 151 1/3 innings in 2001.
 
Simon Fraser, 17-26 overall, snapped an eight game losing streak with a 9-2 win over UBC in its last outing.