CHILDERS EARNS DAKTRONICS ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION ACCOLADES

May 16, 2012

CHILDERS EARNS DAKTRONICS ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION ACCOLADES

Orangeburg, NY (5/16/12) Dominican College softball player, Delaney Childers, has earned 2012 Daktronics All-America Honorable Mention accolades as was announced by Daktronics, Inc last evening. Previously, Childers was named the Daktronics East Region Pitcher of the Year and to the First Team.

Orangeburg, NY (5/16/12) Dominican College softball player, Delaney Childers, has earned 2012 Daktronics All-America Honorable Mention accolades as was announced by Daktronics, Inc last evening. Previously, Childers was named the Daktronics East Region Pitcher of the Year and to the First Team.

2012 Daktronics All-America Teams

Childers, a junior left-handed pitcher from Johnstown, OH, was voted the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Pitcher of the Year, led the CACC with a 1.08 earned run average and 10 shutouts this year. She pitched 214.1 innings this season and finished with 24‐8 record this season that included two wins against C.W. Post and Adelphi University at the NCAA East Regional. She was named the CACC Pitcher of the Week three times this year and earned a one‐time ECAC weekly selection. Childers was also second in the league in strikeouts with 180. She was named to the NFCA All-East Region First Team and he College Sports Information Directors of America released its Division II Academic All-District First Team.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.