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Three Softball Players Earn Academic All-District Honors

May 10, 2001

Notre Dame, Ind. – Notre Dame softball players Danielle Klayman, Jarrah Myers and Jennifer Sharron were named to the 2001 Verizon Academic All-District V softball team announced today. All three now advance to the national ballot for the opportunity to earn Verizon Academic All-America honors.

It is the second consecutive year Klayman and Myers have won the award and the first such honor for Sharron. Myers earned third-team Verizon Academic All-America accolades in 2000.

A senior co-captain from San Diego, Calif., Klayman has a .308 batting average with 49 hits, 10 doubles and 17 RBI in 54 games played in 2001. The centerfielder was named a first-team all-BIG EAST selection in 1998 and 2000. She also was a member of the BIG EAST All-Rookie Team in 1998.

A Knute Rockne Scholar-Athlete Award winner in 1998, Klayman has a 3.49 grade-point average and will graduate May 20 with a degree in management information systems. She is a four-time member of the Dean’s List while at Notre Dame.

Myers has been the offensive leader for the Irish this season, helping the team to a 51-3 record and a No. 8 national ranking heading into the BIG EAST Tournament which starts today. The junior from Carbondale, Kan., is leading the team with a .388 batting average, 59 hits, seven homeruns and 41 RBI. She also has scored 40 runs and stolen 11 bases, while boasting robust .661 slugging and .991 fielding percentages at the catcher position.

Myers was the 1999 BIG EAST Rookie of the Year and earned first-team all-BIG EAST honors in 2000. She also won the Knute Rockne Scholar-Athlete Award in 2000. Myers has a 3.671 grade-point average in earth science and had been on the Dean’s List all five semesters she has enrolled in at Notre Dame.

Sharron, a senior co-captain from Agoura Hills, Calif., has posted a 26-2 record and a 1.01 earned-run average in 29 appearances this season. The three-time BIG EAST Pitcher of the Year (she is looking to receive her fourth consecutive honor tonight), was named a second-team American Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American in 2000, after finishing the year with a 26-7 record and a 0.88 ERA. Sharron also earned first-team all-region honors in 2000, and has been named a first-team all-BIG EAST selection from 1998-2000. She is first in the Notre Dame career record books in wins (87) and starts (110) and second in complete games (78), shutouts (37) and strikeouts (715).

The 2001 BIG EAST Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year from Notre Dame, Sharron has a 3.272 grade-point average in film, television and theater. She has been on the Dean’s List three semesters at Notre Dame and will graduate on May 20.

The threesome joins Purdue’s Leighann Burke and Lynn Tortorelli, Bradley’s Amy Fouts, Ball State’s Carrie Lively and Katie Shea, Illinois State’s April Schermann and Melissa Baker and Evansville’s Bridget Broerman on the District V team.