For the second straight year, West Texas A&M’s Kilee Halbert headlined the Lone Star Conference Softball All-Academic team which was announced at the LSC Softball Championship banquet.

      A junior nursing major from Dalhart, Texas, Halbert is 20-3 in the circle for the Lady Buffs.  She boasts a 1.51 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 134 innings pitched. 

      Joining Halbert on the All-Academic Team are teammates Allie Smith and Shea Ibrahim; Texas Woman's Katy Stephens and Nicole Nordie; Angelo State’s Kenedy Urbany; Texas A&M-Commerce’s Ciera Nunez; Tarleton State’s Avery Mullendore; and Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Roxy Chapa.

      Stephens was recognized for the third time, while Halbert, Smith, and Nordie were repeat selections.

      To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.30 grade point average and have reached sophomore status both athletically and academically. The Academic Player of Year award and All-Academic Team are selected from the list of academically qualified players, with the league’s sports information directors voting on the basis of both academic and athletic achievement.
 
2017 LSC SOFTBALL ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS

Player	Team	Yr.	Pos.	Major	Hometown
Kilee Halbert	West Texas A&M	Jr.	P	Nursing	Dalhart, Texas
Allie Smith	West Texas A&M	Jr.	DP	Broadcast Journalism	Flower Mound, Texas
Katy Stephens	Texas Woman's	Sr.	INF	Mathematics	Gladewater, Texas
Kenedy Urbany	Angelo State	Sr.	P/DP	Interdisciplinary Studies	Helotes, Texas
Shea Ibrahim	West Texas A&M	Sr.	INF	Education	South Jordan, Utah
Nicole Nordie	Texas Woman's	Sr.	UT	Health Studies	Sanger, Texas
Ciera Nunez	Texas A&M-Commerce	So.	OF	Human Performance	Amarillo, Texas
Avery Mullendore	Tarleton State	Sr.	INF	Pre-Physical Therapy	Haltom City, Texas
Roxy Chapa	Texas A&M-Kingsville	So.	C	Comm. Sciences & Disorders	McAllen, Texas

LSC Softball Academic Player of the Year: Kilee Halbert, West Texas A&M