| NCCU's Turner Earns Academic All-America Softball Honors
Only HBCU representativeJune 7, 2001 (STAMFORD, CONN.) North Carolina Central Universityjunior shortstop Lanelle Turner has been selected to the 2001 VerizonAcademic All-America Softball Second Team, College Division, as chosenby CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America). A native of Chester, Virginia, Turner has earned an overall gradepoint average of 3.744 with a major of Business Administration, whilealso being recognized as a University Scholar in 2001. Turner, an All-CIAA Second Team member in each of the past threeseasons as the team's starting shortstop, led this year's Lady Eagleswith 48 hits, 49 runs scored and 74 infield assists. She posted abatting average of .457 with seven doubles, five triples and 29 runsbatted in. She turned in one of her best performances of the season in thesemifinals of the CIAA Championships (April 27, 2001) againstFayetteville State by hitting 3-for-5 with a double, and four runsscored. Turner is the lone representative (out of 33 All-America selectionsto the First, Second and Third Teams) from a Historically Black Collegeand University (HBCU), and is the only student-athlete on the first orsecond team from a North Carolina institution. |
