Senior outfielder Stephanie Brown earned academic all-district honor for second consecutive season

Softball's Brown Named First Team Academic All-District

May 11, 2007

NOTRE DAME, Ind.- The Notre Dame softball team’s senior outfielder Stephanie Brown (Chandler, Ariz./Corona del Sol) has been selected to the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V University First Team, the College of Sports Information Directors (CoSIDA) announced today, May 10.

Brown, who has a 3.42 grade-point average in marketing, was a second-team Academic All-American in 2006. During the 2007 regular season, Brown led the conference in overall batting average (.445) and on-base percentage (.503), while placing second in runs scored (38) and third in hits (65). She was also tied for third in triples (6) and sixth in stolen bases (13). For the third time in her career she was an all-BIG EAST First Team selection on May 9. Brown’s batting average of .445 is the Notre Dame’s highest ever for a single season and places her 13th nationally.

Brown, a member of Notre Dame’s Academic Honors Program for Student-Athletes, is set to earn her marketing degree with a minor in peace studies from the Mendoza College of Business in May.

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American program is part of ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American program. The academic team is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in the Midwest. To be nominated, student-athletes must be a starter or an important reserve with a minimum grade-point average of 3.20. Team members are selected by a vote of members of College Sports Information Directors of American within the district. Brown, by virtue of her first team selection, will now move onto to nationally ballot in search of being an Academic All-American for the second consecutive season.