BATON ROUGE – Taylor Pleasants was named the Southeastern Conference Newcomer of the Year and Aliyah Andrews, Ciara Briggs and Shelbi Sunseri were honored with awards, the league office announced Tuesday.
Pleasants and Andrews were selected by the league coaches as All-SEC first team players in the infield and outfield respectively. Andrews leads the Tigers with a .368 average and Pleasants is behind her at .327.
Pleasants and Briggs were named to the All-SEC newcomer team, which is in place for 2021 only for student-athletes who were freshmen in 2020 and are now sophomores in 2021.