Fresno State Athletics
Amanda Scott Selected Fresno State Female Athlete of the Year
7/12/2000 12:00:00 AM | Softball
June 14, 2000
FRESNO, Calif. - Senior softball player Amanda Scott has been named the 1999-00 Fresno State Female Athlete of the Year by a vote of local media members.
Scott had a record-setting year in which she led the Bulldogs to a 54-14 (16-2 WAC) record and a berth in their 19th consecutive NCAA tournament. She went 33-5 on the year with a 0.41 ERA and 314 strikeouts. She posted a school-record when she went 129.2 innings without allowing an earned run at one point. The Clovis, Calif., native led the nation in ERA for the second straight year and led the WAC in wins (33), strikeouts (314), ERA (0.41), innings pitched (276), fewest earned runs (16) and saves (4). She is the program's first four-time First Team NCAA All-American.
Scott won 20 of her last 22 starts, including a school-record 19 in a row. She also became the first Bulldog ever to post back-to-back 200-strikeout seasons, the first to reach the 300 plateau and the first to tally 800 career strikeouts. Scott was named WAC Pitcher of the Week on nine different occasions and was the NFCA National Player of the Week once.
In addition to Scott's exploits as a softball player, she also achieved academically. She is a Stan Bates nominee, an award which goes to a WAC student-athlete who possesses outstanding qualities as a student, athlete and a person, in addition to being the school's Joe Kearney nominee (WAC's top female athlete) and is up for consideration for a NCAA Postgraduate scholarship and NCAA Top VIII Award.
Scott was also a first-team GTE Academic All-American, the second time she has earned the national award and finished her her career with three GTE Academic All-District VIII honors.
As the 15th softball player to garner female Athlete of the Year at Fresno State, Scott is receiving this award for the second time in her career, having also won in 1998. She is the third female athlete in school history to be a two-time selection, joining former Bulldogs softball standouts Wende Ward (1982, '83) and Robyn Yorke (1995, '97) in this category.
