Introduction :)

Hi Hillcat fans!

My name is Ashlie Fauchier and I'm this year’s blogger for the Hillcats Softball team. I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know a little about me and the softball program.

I am from Choctaw, OK. I have been here at RSU since my freshman year as the starting shortstop. I am a junior on and off the field and majoring in Elementary Education through the Cameron program here on campus. I am one of eight returners from last year and I couldn't imagine playing anywhere else. I chose Rogers State for multiple reasons. For one, the beautiful campus. When my mom and I came on my visit we were coming up the hill towards campus and my mom turned to me and said," uh oh!" I asked why she said that and she replied, "This is it!" I guess she was right. But, the campus was not the only reason. I highly admire Coach Dicus and the program he has built at RSU. After meeting with him and touring the campus RSU was most definitely the place for me. Going on my third year, I still love it here!

But enough about me. Let’s get to the good stuff, my team! This year we have a lot of new faces. We have five freshman, one new sophomore, and eight new juniors. But, I couldn't be more excited. Between the 22 of us we have a great amount of talent. I can't wait for season to start in February! Until then it's grind time all the time. We started 6ams yesterday with Coach Renault. They can be killer, but we know all the pain and soreness will all be worth it when we get that National Championship! After Fall Break we will start workouts in the afternoons as well. Which includes hitting, throwing, running, and of course the pool. Yes, I said the pool. While in the pool we tread water, swim, run, and swing under water. It seems a little weird I know, but it helps a lot with soreness from 6 ams and builds strength.

Well, that's a little look inside a Hillcat softball player’s life and me and who I am. I'm excited to start blogging and updating everyone on what’s going on with the team. If you ever have any questions don't be afraid to ask. :)

Ashlie Fauchier #3

2011 Blizzard

Well, as most of you know, we here in Claremore got quite a bit of snow. I think the final tally was 25+ but I could be wrong. Not entirely sure to be honest. With all the snow we recieved, the campus was closed for 6 days total. 4 one week and 2 the next. And of course with the time off, some of us softball players took full advantage of the snow :) Our first game is scheduled for tomorrow at Bacone but I believe we are trying to get a new location to play Wednesday but again I am not entirely sure. Anyhow, thought some of you followers would enjoy some snow pictures of us softballers :) Two pictures are of our field after the snow and the other 3 are of us having fun.

Long time no see

Hello everyone. I know it has be SO long since my last blog and I apologize for that. Guess seniorits kicked in early this year :) This season might be the most exciting yet. Besides the fact that it is my senior season, the team has returned twelve girls from last season and has brought in five new faces rounding out one heck of a team. Our five new faces include two new pitchers, Ashley Wailand from Iowa and Amanda Edwards from Canada and both have good arms. Alongside them are our three new freshman, Taran Threet, Kristen Blasingame, and Kirsten Leppla whom all bring new and exciting talent to the team. Our small fall season went well. Out of maybe twelve games we only dropped two of them. And in less than twenty days, our spring season starts off at Bacone College on Feb 15th. Our full schedule is online and we have posters and wallet sized schedules available at the college. Featured on the poster are fellow seniors Sarah Harvey and Brittany White and on the wallet schedule is fellow senior Dina Ortiz. Remaining seniors include Angelina Vines, Logan Zamora, and Tanya Koch. Seven familiar faces that want to go out with a bang. Softball aside, school has been pretty much the same as it was in previous years; fun at times and then stressful at other times but we all know that overall education is the most important thing. We seven seniors are so close to being finished, we can taste it. Especially with almost all of us finishing either this spring or next fall and that in itself is very exciting. We are all very excited for this upcoming season to start and we hope to see all of our fans, past and present, out on game days showing their support. I will try my best to keep everyone informed and up to date on this blog. Till next time! :)

Katie Bointy #13

End of the Year

Well, the 2009-2010 year is over. For both softball and school. Has been for over a week now. Finals were the first week of May and I had one every day. It was alright though. Wasn't till the last test did I start feeling tired. On top of finals, we had to play 3 games on that Tuesday. Final in the morning, travel and play in the afternoon, then get back late. It was an adventure. Then after our last finals on Thursday we left for the conference tournament in OKC. Then it was game time Friday. We played SNU first and although we hit, we hit the ball right to people. Whereas they would get gap shots or little bloops. We lost to SNU making us play against the fence in our evening game against NWOSU. Unfortanently we had the same thing happen to us in that game as well. We keep hitting the ball right to people. In one inning we had 3 well hit balls caught right at the fence by the NWOSU's left fielder. Losing to NWOSU ended our season. Our final record was 35-26 which is a winning season. And the best part I think is that we have no seniors graduating :) On top of a winning season, we had four Hillcats earn honors. Brittany "B" White earned first-team all conference. Freshman Linsey Curtis and Ashlie Fauchier earned second-team all conference. Fauchier also represents RSU on the SAC Golden Glove team. And Taryn Herndandez earned honorable mention all conference. Im proud of my teammates and look forward to my senior year. And it was requested that I post some pictures of us in action so here are some...

Thanks for the support and hope to give some summer updates. Right now Im doing intersession classes which are full classes in just two weeks. Its brutal but very much worth it I believe. Oh and for the spring semester I got A's and B's :) yay me!! Hope the summer will be just as productive. Talk to everyone soon.

kb#13

Crazy Crazy April

Hey everyone. I know its been SOOOO long since I last wrote. It was one crazy April. Softball games every other day, school winding down mean lots of last minute late nights :), and the weather not knowing what it wanted to do, be sunny or rain. Softball wise we've been struggling alil but still hanging in there. The big SAC conference tournament is this weekend and if we play like we can we're in. Things have be challenging. We've had some significant injuries that have pushed people and had some people play out of position but we kept fighting. On April 21st we had our 2nd annual athletic banquet which was so much fun. All the girls got all dressed up and looked so pretty. I promise you, without numbers on our backs, its hard to know who we are lol Everyone looked amazing that night and alot of well deserving people were honored. Of the softball team, Miss Linsey Curtis received the Offensive Player of the Year, Miss Ashlie Fauchier received the Defensive Player of the Year, while I received the Hillcat Award. All of us were greatly honored and happy.

Here are the girls :)

School has been challenging for me this past month. Deadlines for papers, continued online work, quizzes, tests, some lack of sleep...it was all there in April. It was times like that I greatly appreciate professors working with athletes. Them understanding that we sometimes need an extra day or so to understand something a little better before we take a test or that we need extra time with them understanding something. For professors like that, I greatly appreciate the time and effort you put in to work with us athletes. And this week is finals week. The semester boils down to this week. I've got a final everyday but due to softball that might change but it won't be a giant hurt to me. Still gotta take the tests. I'll let everyone know how the remainder of softball turns out.

kb#13

Give My Girl Props!!!

Ok!! So don't know if ya'll know but my teammate, Lindsey Curtis, (who's one of the sweetest people on this earth) was chosen as the Conference Player of the Week for March 8th-14th. I know I'm a little late but I didn't find out till yesterday. Lindsey is a freshman but she has already made her mark on Hillcat history and the amazing part is that there's still season left :) (not to mention 3 more years) There is an entire article about Lindsey's softball accomplishments on the RSU athletic website. On top of being a great softball player, she's also a tremendous and beautiful person and I just wanted to wish her the biggest congratulations and wanted everyone to know. Great job girl!! Much love!!

kb#13

p.s. It's spring break this week so I'll have a post about all the fun the team had on "vaca" :) ttyl!

Bear of a Weekend

This past weekend was really productive for the softball team. We faced Grand View University and Evangel University this past weekend and came out with four wins. We started both days alil rough around the edges with mistakes but something about the RSU softball team is that we never quit. We never stop till its over and that's exactly what we did. We got behind in one game both on Saturday and Sunday but even if it was down by two or by five, we never stopped. We came from behind and performed overall really well. Coach Dicus has given us a team quote this weekend (whether he knows it or not) and we'll prolly now play the entire season by it: "Have you ever been to Yellowstone? Be the bear that breaks the window of the minivan for the picnic inside!! Oh it was so funny being all huddled up and him saying that but we did just that. We had bears and we all had a very nice picnic. :) We're playing our first conference games today against Oklahoma Baptist University so it should be a good show. (hope it warms up outside). Wish us luck!! Kb#13