Curran Repeats on Academic All-District Team

BOSTON, Mass. – For the second straight season senior shortstop Sam Curran (Quincy, Mass.) of the Wentworth Institute of Technology softball team has been named to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-District® Softball Team. With her selection – her fourth in the last two seasons – it marks the 23rd time since 1995 a Wentworth student-athlete has earned Academic All-District honors.

The 2015 Capital One Academic All-District ® Softball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One has been the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs since 2011.

Curran, who was a Second Team Academic All-America in softball last season and a First Team Academic All-America for volleyball this past fall, wrapped up her career by being named First Team All-Commonwealth Coast Conference and the CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year as she batted .424 (36-for-85) with eight doubles, two triples, two home runs, 10 stolen bases, and 14 RBI while having an on-base percentage of .479 and a slugging percentage of .635. She had a career-high four hits twice this season, including three doubles in a 20-14 win over Bay Path on April 15. Curran also was the winning pitcher in two of the Leopards' four victories this season.

For her career Curran started 128 of 128 games and batted .358 (126-for-352) with 98 runs scored, 32 doubles, eight triples, six home runs, 31 stolen bases (in 31 attempts), and 50 RBI. She had a career on-base percentage of .442 and a career slugging percentage of .545. She is second in program history in runs scored, doubles, and triples, third in hits, total bases, walks, and stolen bases, and fourth in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and games played.

As impressive as Curran's numbers were on the diamond, her work in the classroom is equally as impressive. Sporting a near-perfect GPA in Biomedical Engineering, she is a member of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national student-athlete honor society, was Curran was the 2014-15 recipient of the Wentworth Bowl – the highest honor a student can receive in recognition of outstanding, overall participation in Wentworth activities – and was also the 2015 recipient of the President's Award for Biomedical Engineering.

First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.

The Academic All-District® teams include student-athletes divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the third year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division Academic All-America® Team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.