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Corrick and Beckford Named Bulls Student-Athletes of The Year

June 27, 2022

TAMPA, JUNE 24, 2022 – A pair of University of South Florida All-Americans are being recognized for their tremendous performances during the 2021-22 athletics season as they have been selected the USF Male and Female Student-Athletes of the Year in conjunction with the Sports Club of Tampa Bay honor that has been awarded since 2016.
 
Softball pitcher Georgina Corrick (Sanford, Fla.) was tabbed the Bulls' Female Student-Athlete of the Year, earning the honor for the second straight year, while track and field high jumper Romaine Beckford (Portland, Jamaica) was named Male Student-Athlete of the Year.
 
The Sports Club of Tampa Bay earlier honored head women's basketball coach Jose Fernandez and head sailing coach Allison Jolly when they were inducted into the club's Hall of Fame on June 8 at TPepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa.
 
"Romaine and Georgina both produced numerous memorable performances over the last year that made all Bulls fans proud and were recognized among the very best in the nation," USF Vice President of Athletics Michael Kelly said. "Georgina completed an incredible career that places her among the very best ever to don the green and gold, both in competition and the classroom, and we are so proud of everything she has done at USF. Romaine is just one year into his USF career and we are excited to see the achievements that lie ahead."
 
Corrick was named the NFCA Division I Pitcher of the Year and pushed her career to new heights in 2022. A top-three finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and a First-Team NFCA All-American, Corrick finished the 2022 season with a 37-5 record, a 0.51 ERA and 418 strikeouts, leading the NCAA Division I in all three categories.
 
The first pitcher to be named the American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year in each of her four seasons of eligibility, she threw two perfect games and a no-hitter during the 2022 campaign, bringing her career total to eight solo no-hitters and nine total. Corrick led the country in ERA, innings pitched, shutouts, strikeout-to-walk ratio, strikeouts and wins. She also earned herself a place in the NCAA record book by tossing the seventh-longest streak of scoreless innings in NCAA Division I history. She completed her collegiate career having broken at least 40 different USF or American Athletic Conference records, boasting 113 wins, 55 shutouts and 1,302 strikeouts.
 
Academically, Corrick is a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, earning third-team honors in 2020-21, first-team honors in 2019-20 and was named Academic Team Member of the Year in 2021-22.
 
Beckford earned two USTFCCCA All-American honors during the 2021-22 academic year, becoming a force in the high jump in his first year with the Bulls. Winning the event at eight different meets between the indoor and outdoor seasons, he also swept the indoor and outdoor American Athletic Conference high jump individual titles. At the AAC Indoor Championships, Beckford broke the USF indoor high jump record, setting a new mark of 2.20 meters (7-2.50) to win the event.
 
Beckford advanced to the NCAA National Championships in both the indoor and outdoor seasons, finishing in 15th and 13th, respectively. He also finished fifth at the NCAA East Preliminary Track and Field Championships during the outdoor season, and won the high jump with a personal-best mark of 2.23 meters (7-3.75) at the prestigious Penn Relays, a mark that currently stands second all-time in outdoor competition at USF.
 
USF STUDENT-ATHLETE of THE YEAR SPORTS CLUB HONOREES
2022 – Romaine Beckford (Men's Track & Field) & Georgina Corrick (Softball)
2021 – Albin Bergstrom (Men's Golf) & Georgina Corrick (Softball)
2019-20 – David Collins (Men's Basketball) & Evelyne Viens (Women's Soccer)
2018 – Claudio Correa (Men's Golf) & Kitija Laksa (Women's Basketball)
2017 – Quinton Flowers (Football) & Evelyne Viens (Women's Soccer)
2016 – Matthew O'Neal (Men's Track & Field) & Lee Ann Spivey (Softball)
 
USF ATHLETICS - SPORTS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
2022 – Jose Fernandez (Women's Basketball, head coach)
2022 – Allison Jolly (Sailing, head coach)
2021 – Ken Eriksen (Softball, head coach)
2017 – Lelo Prado (Baseball, head coach)
2017 – Jack Harris (Voice of Bulls Basketball)
2007 – Tino Martinez (Baseball, assistant coach)
1988 – Lee Roy Selmon (Athletic Director & administrator)
 
About USF Athletics
USF Athletics currently sponsors 19 varsity men's and women's teams that compete in 11 different sports, 18 at the NCAA Division I level in the American Athletic Conference, which will expand to 21 teams with the recently announced additions of women's lacrosse (2023-24) and women's beach volleyball (2024-25). The Bulls' athletic program began in 1965 and completed its 55th season in 2020-21. Nearly 450 student-athletes train and compete in the athletic district located on the east end of the campus in Tampa, Fla. The Bulls have claimed 26 American Athletic Conference team titles since joining the conference in 2013, including seven trophies in the 2021 calendar year, and own 136 conference titles in department history. The Bulls have posted a combined annual grade-point average over 3.0 for more than seven straight years and have posted a program-record 15 straight semesters with a combined GPA over 3.0 as of the spring of 2022. USF has had over 500 student-athletes earn their degree since 2016-17. USF has had over 500 student-athletes earn their degree since 2016-17.
 
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