Curran, Bacik Named Academic All-District

BOSTON, Mass. – Two members of the Wentworth Institute of Technology softball team – junior shortstop Sam Curran (Quincy, Mass.) and senior first baseman Haylee Bacik (Lowell, Mass.) – have been named to the 2014 Capital One Academic All-District® Softball Team. With their selection they become the 21st and 22nd student-athletes in department history and third and fourth softball players to earn Academic All-District Honors.

The 2013 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 also named Academic All-District in volleyball this past year, had the finest season of her career to date as she batted .417 (35-for-84) with 11 doubles, three triples, and a pair of home runs to go along with six stolen bases, 30 runs scored, and 13 RBI. She had an on-base percentage of .519 and a slugging percentage of .690 and also made her first 14 collegiate appearances in the circle, en route to being named Second Team All-Commonwealth Coast Conference.

A mainstay at shortstop for three seasons and a two-sport student-athlete, Curran has started all 102 games in which she has appeared, batting .337 (90-for-267) with 24 doubles, six triples, four home runs, 21 stolen bases (on 21 attempts), 72 runs scored, and 36 RBI. She has a career on-base percentage of .431 and a slugging percentage of .517. Curran ranks third on the program's all-time list in doubles and fourth in slugging percentage, on-base percentage, runs scored, and triples.

Curran, a Biomedical Engineering major, was named Academic All-CCC in both women's volleyball and softball in each of the last two years and last month was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, the student-athlete honor society.

Bacik started all 33 games in which she played in this season and had the most productive offensive output of her career, batting .350 (28-for-80) with six doubles, five home runs, 20 runs scored, and 28 RBI. She also had a slugging percentage of .619 and an on-base percentage. Additionally, she made 20 appearances in the pitching circle.

A mainstay at first base for her career, Bacik started all 138 games in which she played, batting .238 (82-for-344) with 15 doubles, two triples, nine home runs, 55 runs scored, and 62 RBI. The program's all-time leader in career games played, she ranks second in program history in total chances (781), putouts (701), fourth in highest fielding percentage (.954), and fifth in RBI, doubles, and home runs. She also made 37 pitching appearances during her career.

Bacik, a Construction Management major, has been named Academic All-CCC in each of the last two seasons and was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, the student-athlete honor society, last year. At Wentworth's annual awards night last month, she received the President's Award for Construction Management and was one of 10 recipients of the Edward T. Kirkpatrick Co-operative Education Awards.

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.