BATON ROUGE — LSU softball head coach Yvette Girouard announced Monday afternoon that Cody Trahan and Jessica Mouse will serve as team captains for the upcoming 2009 season.
“Cody and Jessica could not be more deserving of serving as team captions for the 2009 season,” Girouard said. “Both of these student athletes are role model student athletes. Hard working on and off the field, they will lead this young group of Tigers in a positive, hard working atmosphere that will lead to success in all areas of this program.”
Trahan (Orange, Texas) earned All-SEC Second-Team honors after going 18-6 with a 2.24 ERA in the circle last season. She ranked inside the SEC’s Top 10 in wins, earned run average, opposing batting average and strikeouts during conference play. She fired six complete-game shutouts in 2008, including a one-hitter with eight strikeouts against No. 16 Georgia.
Mouse (Tampa, Fla.) stepped into the role of starting third basemen as a freshman and was solid defensively with a .963 fielding percentage in 54 starts. In her first collegiate at-bat, on her first career pitch, she hit a home run against St. John’s. She finished the season with four multi-hit games and 11 RBI hitting primarily out of the No. 8 hole.
LSU starts the 2009 season at the Paradise Classic in Hawai`i on Feb. 5-7 before opening the new Tiger Park on Feb. 11 against McNeese State.