Article: Female finalists.(Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars of the Year 2009)(Shardea Croes, Lamarra Currie, Marcia Newby, and Ashley Paris)

Shardea Croes is a heavy hitter on and off the softball field. An outfielder, Croes helped lead her team to its first NCAA postseason tournament appearance this year and scored second-team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) honors in 2008. Croes, a rising junior at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, is expected to earn her second PSAC "Scholar-Athlete" citation in 2008-2009. No stranger to community service, Croes served as an ambassador of Aruba in the Global Young Leaders conference in 2008 and as a coach for this year's selection of Aruba's Kingdom Games team. She played in 35 of her 44 games, batted .350 with three doubles, four triples, one home ...

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