Falcon softball player, Mindy Rudiger (Sr., Menomonie, Wis.), has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) second District V All-Academic team.
Rudiger had an outstanding career both on the field and in the classroom at UWRF. She was named a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete in 2007 and 2008. She has been named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor Rolls in all three years of her collegiate career. She has been on the UWRF Dean's List for five semesters. Rudiger has also been actively involved in several on and off campus organizations. She was a member of the UWRF Student Athlete Advisory Committee for three years and was the University's representative at the WIAC SAAC meeting in the fall of 2008. She chaired SAAC's Soles for Souls committee and was a member of the Trick or Treat for Canned Goods the past two years. Since 2006 she has been a volunteer with the River Falls Big Brother, Big Sister program, and a YMCA volunteer and youth basketball coach. Rudiger has been a tutor in the River Falls school district and a teacher's assistant at the UWRF CHILD care center.
Rudiger is an elementary education major with a 3.601 grade point average. She is working on a coaching minor.
Rudiger was named to the first All-WIAC softball teams in each of the last three seasons and earned honorable mention in 2006. She was named to the second NFCA All-Great Lakes Region team in 2009 and to the organization's third team in 2008. She holds several Falcon career records. This year she hit 12 home runs which ties her for the UWRF single season mark. She has hit 38 career homers and that ties her for the WIAC career mark. Rudiger has scored 171 career runs and has 142 RBI and those marks are second and third respectively in the WIAC career records book. She hit .410 this year and led the Falcons in hits (59), doubles (11), slugging percentage (.736) and RBI (56). She is the Falcon career leader in at bats (562), runs (171), hits (208) home runs (38), RBI (142) and walks (96). She is second in career hitting with a .370 average. Rudiger started and played in every game in her UWRF career (171). The Falcons finished the 2009 season with a 27-16 overall record.
Rudiger is a two-sport student-athlete at UWRF. She has earned four letters in both tennis and softball. In tennis she was a team co-captain this year and placed second at No. 6 singles at the WIAC Meet in October. She earned All-WIAC second team honors. In 2006 she won the team's Most Valuable Player award after earning All-WIAC second team honors in doubles. In 2005 she was named the team's Most Improved Player. Rudiger finished her career with a 34-25 singles record.
Recently Rudiger earned the UW-River Falls Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
The district V team is comprised of all NCAA Division II, Division III and NAIA student-athletes from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota and is voted on by CoSIDA members.
The Academic All-America program honors male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
To be eligible for the CoSIDA Academic All-American team, a student-athletes must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
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