MOUNT PLEASANT - Infielder Molly Coldren and pitcher Kara Dornbos have been named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference team for the 2012 season, the conference announced Monday.
The award is the second for both Coldren and Dornbos, who each earned the honor for the 2011 season.
The Academic All-MAC award is for student-athletes who compete in at least 50 percent of a season's competitions and carry at least a 3.20 cumulative grade-point average. First-year students and transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible. The Academic All-MAC teams are selected by a vote of the conference's Faculty Athletics Representatives.
The Chippewas were one of only five MAC teams who placed multiple student-athletes on the team. Twelve teams compete in the conference for softball.
Coldren, a language arts major who has earned a 3.57 GPA, is the all-time CMU career record holder for home runs (44) and runs batted in (137) following her final season of eligibility with the Chippewas. During this past season she set a new single-season home run record with 16, and broke the single-season runs batted in record with 47.
She started all 57 games and batted .348 with 12 multi-RBI games and 12 multi-hit games. She earned MAC All-Tournament honors after going 5-for-15 with two home runs and two RBI in leading the Chippewas to the MAC Championship game. She was also a second-team All-MAC selection.
Dornbos, a health fitness major who has earned a 3.98 GPA, set the single-season appearances record during her junior season in 2012 with 36 showings for the Chippewas. She pitched complete games in half of those 36 games, and posted seven shutouts. For a stretch of 33.2 innings, she did not allow a walk to an opposing batter.
She earned MAC All-Tournament honors after posting a 0.42 earned runs average mark in 33.1 innings and allowing only two earned runs on 24 hits. She was also named to the All-MAC second team.
Coldren’s and Donbos’ selections to the 2012 Academic All-MAC team mark the sixth consecutive year the Chippewas have placed two or more student-athletes on the team.
