Boston College Athletics
Blumfield Garners Another Honor
May 15, 2002 | Softball
May 15, 2002
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Boston College junior shortstop Cara Blumfield (West Hills, Calif.) added to an already impressive awards resume on Wednesday when the National Fastpitch Coaches Association named its NFCA Division I All-Northeast Regional team. Blumfield was voted to the first team and was the only Eagle honored this year. She now advances to the national NFCA All-America ballot.
After setting nearly every Boston College offensive record in 2001, Blumfield came back bigger in 2002 to re-establish three new marks and set another. She now holds 10 school records.
At the plate this year, Blumfield batted .445 (57-for-128) and had a .776 slugging percentage and a .535 on-base average, all major improvements over her 2001 record marks. Her .445 batting average currently ranks her eighth in the nation. Blumfield's 13 doubles tied the school record and she also scored 26 runs and drove in 37 more. The team's infield leader, she made only four errors for a .981 fielding percentage at short.
A team captain, Blumfield earned All-BIG EAST second team honors, as well as Verizon Academic All-District 1 accolades this year. She is now a nominee on the national Academic All-America ballot. She earned Boston College's Outstanding Junior Scholar-Athlete Award and also nabbed her third Athletic Director's Award for Academic Achievement. Blumfield was a two-time BIG EAST Player of the Week. Additionally, she was one of 62 players nationally - both collegiate and Olympian - who were selected to participate in the 2002 U.S. National Team Try-Out Camp.
Boston College finished the season with a 26-26 overall record and an 11-9 mark in BIG EAST games. The Eagles were fifth in the league and narrowly missed the conference's tournament.
