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MORRISTOWN, Tenn. --- The Walters State Community College softball team and golf coach Bill Gardner were recognized for outstanding achievement in the 2011-12 season recently.

The Lady Senators softball team was named a 2011-12 NJCAA All-Academic Team for maintaining a minimum of a combined 3.0 GPA as a team for the scholastic year. Walters State's softball team had the highest GPA of all institutions in the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association, and they were joined by
Chattanooga State and Cleveland State as All-Academic Teams.

The Lady Senators, coached by Larry Sauceman, finished the athletic season with a 46-7 record and a runner-up finish in the TCCAA tournament to eventual national champion Chattanooga State.

In golf news, veteran coach Bill Gardner was honored recently by being named the Eaton Golf Pride NJCAA Division II East Region Coach of the Year. Gardner took young team and led them to a ranking as high as fourth in the nation this season while winning one tournament against all four-year school competition.

The Senators also finished sixth in the NJCAA Division II National Tournament in late May in Plymouth, Ind., rounding out another successful season on the links.