{"id":3607,"date":"2010-05-27T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2010-05-27T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:52:31","slug":"baylor-baseball-and-softball-lead-the-nation-in-academic-all-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/05\/baylor-baseball-and-softball-lead-the-nation-in-academic-all-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor baseball and softball lead the nation in Academic All-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"bb-sb-may10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/bb-sb-may10.jpg\" alt=\"Tiffany Wesley, Nicole Wesley, Chris Slater\" width=\"224\" height=\"285\" \/>Only one university in the nation has featured an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosida.com\/Awards\/allamerica.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Academic All-American<\/a> in both baseball and softball each of the past two years; if you guessed Baylor, you&#8217;re right. For the second year in a row, head coach Glenn Moore&#8217;s Lady Bears and Steve Smith&#8217;s Bears have combined for three ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans; no other university has totaled more than Baylor&#8217;s six honorees in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>The two Lady Bears so recognized aren&#8217;t only teammates; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/spec-rel\/052610aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re also twin sisters<\/a>. With a .360 batting average, 17 stolen bases and a 3.95 GPA in pre-med\/health sciences, Tiffany Wesley earned first-team honors after being named to the second team a year ago. Neuroscience major Nicole Wesley &#8212; like her sister, a senior outfielder &#8212; received second team recognition thanks to her .384 average, 22 steals and 3.92 GPA.<\/p>\n<p>On the baseball side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/spec-rel\/052510aac.html\" target=\"_blank\">junior Chris Slater was named second-team Academic All-America<\/a>. A business major, Slater has a perfect 4.0 GPA and, after making just four starts in his first two seasons, is hitting .351 in 36 games (21 starts) this season.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor baseball and softball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one university in the nation has featured an Academic All-American in both baseball and softball each of the past two years; if you guessed Baylor, you&#8217;re right. For the second year in a row, head coach Glenn Moore&#8217;s Lady Bears and Steve Smith&#8217;s Bears have combined for three ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans; no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}