University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball player Michelle Fuzzard was named Southern Conference Female Athlete of the Year on Tuesday.
The fifth-year senior from Huntington Beach, Calif., is the first softball player in league history to win the award.
In 2012, Fuzzard led the SoCon in slugging percentage (.846), on-base percentage (.543) and runs scored, and she was second in the league in three other offensive categories.
Fuzzard is the seventh UTC athlete to be named SoCon female athlete of the year.
Jim Tanner has worked as assistant sports editor at the Times Free Press since late 2006. He started at the Times Free Press in 2001 and worked as a news copy/design editor from 2001 through 2006. In addition to working as a night and weekend editor producing local and national sports coverage for print and online readers, Jim occasionally writes local sports and outdoors stories. Jim grew up in Ringgold, Ga., and is a graduate ...
