Roberson Earns NFCA Third-team All-American Honors

CHICAGO – For the third time in as many years, DePaul University softball player Saskia Roberson was among the elite named to the Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All America list.  Roberson was named an All American after helping her team advance to the Women’s College World Series this week in Oklahoma City.

Roberson has a team best .353 batting average was named to the third team at first base.  A senior from San Leandro, California was also named as an All-American as a sophomore at the designated player position and last season was honored at first base.

This season the senior leads the Blue Demon offense with a .683 slugging percentage, 15 home runs and a .513 on base percentage.  She has collected 44 RBI during the 2005 season and holds the Conference USA record with 178 RBI and is one off the DePaul record of 179.  

Roberson also collected the DePaul putout record, adding 527 putouts to the 878 she started the season with for a record 1,405 putouts.

Roberson joins Sarah Martz (2001-2004) and current Blue Demon assistant Lindsay Chouinard (2000-2003) as the only DePaul players to earn All-American honors three times. 

Roberson is the 19th All-American the DePaul softball program has produced since 1994. 

The Blue Demons will face Alabama, Saturday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at

Roberson Earns NFCA Third-team All-American Honors

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