UT Arlington Volleyball Setter Raegan Daniels Named SLC Scholar-Athletes of the Year
Conference recognizes one male, one female scholar-athlete from each league school
ARLINGTON, Texas – Twenty-four student-athletes have been selected as 2009-2010 Southland Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year, the league office announced Thursday. The awards are presented by Capital One Bank.
UT Arlington senior right handed pitcher Jason Mitchell (Phoenix, Ariz.) and junior setter Raegan Daniel (Arlington, Texas) have been selected as the male and female Scholar-Athletes of the Year for UT Arlington.
The Southland Conference annually recognizes the outstanding male and female student-athletes from each of the league’s member institutions. Student-athletes must be a letterwinner with a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade-point average and have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the school from which he or she was nominated. The student-athletes were selected by their respective institution administrators.
Mitchell completed his second year with the Mavericks in 2010 where he earned second team all-conference and broke the UTA all-time single-season strikeout record with 113 on the season to rank second in the league. Mitchell also broke the school’s single-game strikeout record with 18 against Missouri State (2/26).
Mitchell finished the season with a 7-6 record, 4.66 ERA in a team-leading 112.0 innings pitched. He led the team with five complete games and with a pair of complete-game, three-hit shutouts. Recently, Mitchell was selected in the 15th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Kansas City Royals with the 449th overall pick.
Mitchell made headlines as a senior earning Southland Conference Pitcher of the Week honors four times, and he became the first Southland pitcher since 2005 to win the award in back-to-back weeks.
He also earned CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine second team academic all-district selection.
Daniel was one of just three UT Arlington players to play and start in all 102 sets and 29 matches on the season. She led the Mavs in hitting percentage (.250), assists (869) and assists per set (8.52) as a junior. She led UTA and ranked tied for sixth in the Southland Conference with 11 double-doubles. She ranked eighth in the conference averaging 8.52 assists per set.
Daniel was named to a pair of all-tournament teams receiving honors at the Colorado State Hilton Invitational (9/4-5) and at the UT Arlington Invitational (9/12). She posted seven 40-plus assists matches and led the team in assists in each match of the season.
In perhaps her best match of the season, Daniel tallied a season-high nine kills and 21 digs with 40 assists in five sets against Oklahoma (9/12).
The conference began selecting this award at the conclusion of the 1996-97 season.
2009-10 Southland Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year
Central Arkansas: Tye Throneberry, Baseball – Rebecca Sorensen, Women’s Golf
Lamar: Eric Harrington, Baseball – Mariaryeni Gutierrez, Women’s Tennis
McNeese State: Jordan Venable, Baseball – Lindsey Langer, Softball
Nicholls: Beau Faulk, Baseball – Leslie Bourgeois, Women’s Track and Field
Northwestern State: Justin Aldredge, Football – Chelsea Brozgold, Women’s Soccer
Sam Houston State: Jordan Bowersox, Football – Anna Ferguson, Volleyball
Southeastern Louisiana: Josh Cryer, Baseball – Katie Duhe, Softball
Stephen F. Austin: Max Holmes, Football – Briana Bishop, Softball
UT Arlington: Jason Mitchell, Baseball – Raegan Daniel, Volleyball
UTSA: Devin Gibson, Men’s Basketball – Dana Mecke, Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: Omar Garcia, Baseball – Courtney Peeler, Women’s Golf
Texas State: Travis Houston, Football – Leah Boatright, Softball
