Mariners draft BCC pitcher Brad Reid
The Seattle Mariners selected BCC’s Brad Reid , a right-handed pitcher, with the 30th overall selection in Major League
Baseball’s new player draft over the last weekend.
Reid finished the 2008 season at BCC as a First Team All-Region and All-NWAACC performer, after putting together a 7-1 record and a 0.76 ERA over 59.0 innings of work. He has not yet
announced whether he will actually sign a contract with the M's.
According to Baseball America, the top 10 prospects in the state included, in addition to Reid, BCC left-handed pitcher Stephen
Foster, ranked seventh. BCC first
baseman Will Campbell was ranked 16th among the prospects from Washington. Having three players in the top ranks of professional prospects is rare, reports BCC Baseball Coach Mark
Yoshino.
UW President's Medal goes to BCC alum Royce Anderson
Royce Anderson, a 2006 BCC grad,, has been named to receive the University of Washington President’s
Medal, the U's highest academic award for graduating students, at their commencement ceremonies June 14..
Two President’s Medals – one designated specifically for a community college transfer student -- are conferred each year on the two UW graduates with the
most distinguished academic records.
Royce has earned a UW Bachelor of Science in Forest Resources, with distinction,.
This is the second time a BCC student has received this honor. In 2005, Imai Jen-La Plante received the award.
Six top-school acceptance letters for Business Transfer grad
Judith Paquette (Business Transfer-Accounting faculty) reported this news late last week:
“One of our International Students in the Business Transfer Program, Ji Eun Park, has been accepted at a phenomenal number of universities.
I am holding her acceptance letters in my hand: Columbia University – School of General Studies (same school our 2005 Alumni David Aaron Engle attended);
University of Washington – Foster School of Business;
Indiana University;
University of Michigan-College of Literature, Science, and the Arts;
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
and the University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business.
“I do believe this is a record for the BCC Business Division for one student!!”
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