CALDWELL, N.J. - Caldwell College senior softball player Kyrie Timbrook (Los Gatos, CA/Los Gatos) is one of six recipients of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Robbins Scholar-Athlete Awards, ECAC Commissioner Rudy Keeling announced today. Timbrook, an all-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and all-Region first baseman, was selected as the female Division II student-athlete to receive the award.

"This is such a great honor for Kyrie and I congratulate her," said Linda Cimino, Assistant Director of Athletics and the coordinator of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at Caldwell. "Kyrie represents everything a Division II student-athlete should be: an excellent student, a standout on the softball diamond and an active participant on campus and in our community engagement activities. She certainly deserves to be recognized with a prestigious honor such as the Robbins Scholar-Athlete Award."

The Robbins Scholar-Athlete Award honors the outstanding academic and athletic achievements of student-athletes representing ECAC schools in Divisions I, II and III. One male and one female student-athlete from each division are selected based on extraordinary achievements in academics, athletics and community service. Among the six Robbins Award recipients, Timbrook is the only Scholar-Athlete who received the award after her junior year, as the other five graduated this past spring.

A Communication Arts major at Caldwell, Timbrook is a two-time member of the CACC All-Academic Team, which requires a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. She also has received the Division II Athletics Directors Association Academic Achievement Award the past two years. An active member of Caldwell's SAAC, Timbrook has volunteered in the community for events such as Halloween on Bloomfield Avenue, Taste of the Caldwells and free softball clinics for area youth softball players.

Last season for the Cougars, Timbrook made the all-CACC first team and the Daktronics All-Region second team after a standout season at the plate and in the field. She led the Cougars in batting average (.364), hits (63), doubles (19), homers (four), total bases (94), and slugging percentage (.543). Also an excellent defensive player, Timbrook committed just two errors in 498 chances at first base and catcher for a .996 fielding percentage. Her performance helped the Cougars reach the NCAA Division II East Region Tournament for the fifth time in six years.

The ECAC's membership includes approximately 300 colleges and universities from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois. Caldwell student-athletes have received weekly and year-end honors from the ECAC since joining the organization in 2004, and the men's and women's soccer teams and men's and women's basketball teams have competed in ECAC championship tournaments.