Griffin Joiner Called Into USA Softball National Team Camp
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Former University of
Kentucky softball player, and current graduate assistant, Griffin
Joiner, has received an invitation to the 2017 USA Softball Women’s National
Team Selection Camp, it was announced by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA)
and USA Softball on Wednesday.
Slated to be held at Eddie C. Moore Softball
Complex in Clearwater, Florida, the Women’s National Team (WNT) Selection Camp
will be held January 1-5, 2017. Additional athletes may be invited to the
USA Softball WNT and JWNT Selection Camps at a later date.
During the selection process, athletes will
participate in position drills as well as simulated games and be evaluated by
the USA Softball Women’s National Team Selection Committee (WNTSC). For
the WNT, athletes who make the 2017 USA Softball WNT roster will be competing
at a Pan American Games/World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) World
Championship Qualifier in Florida, where the U.S. will look to qualify for the
2018 WBSC Women’s World Championship to be held in Chiba, Japan and the 2019
Pan American Games to be held in Lima, Peru.
Joiner, a former All-Southeastern Conference
performer and Senior CLASS Award finalist at UK, was a career .303 hitter in
the Blue and White, starting in 249 games behind the plate for Kentucky in her
four years. She scored 103 runs, had 143 RBI and 35 home runs during her
career, which also saw her play on college softball’s biggest state, the Women’s
College World Series, in her junior season.
Joiner’s Career Accomplishments at Kentucky:
- All-SEC Freshman Team by league coaches (2012)
- SEC Freshman of the Week (2012)
- Second-Team All-SEC by league coaches (2013)
- SEC All-Defensive Team by league coaches (2013)
- Preseason All-SEC by league coaches (2014)
- SEC Player of the Week (2014)
- Louisville Slugger/NFCA Player of the Week (2014)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District (2014)
- SEC All-Defensive Team by league coaches (2014)
- Third-Team NFCA All-Southeast Region (2014)
- Preseason All-SEC by league coaches (2015)
- SEC Academic Honor Roll (2012, 2013, 2014)
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