Lady Blues head coach invited to National Team tryout camp
April 19, 2006

TOPEKA - Lisa Carey, the Washburn Lady Blues softball head coach, has been invited to the USA Softball National Team Selection Camp, June 12 – 16, at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The USA Softball National Team Selection Camp will have between 30 to 40 athletes participating. Seventeen athletes will be named to the National Team that will compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Bejing, China.
"I'm just honored for the opportunity to be a part of the USA National Team," said Carey. "It's going to be tough, but I've been running and I will start facing live pitching today."
Currently, the Lady Blues are second in the MIAA with a 11-3 record and they are 29-13 overall. Carey is in her fourth season on the Lady Blues bench.
Carey was the starting first baseman on Oklahoma’s 2000 National Championship and Big 12 Championship teams as a junior. That same season she was selected as the Big 12 Player of the Year and First team All-America honors after leading the Sooners in batting (.405), hits (90), home runs (20), RBI (77), total bases (173) and slugging percentage (.779) in 74 games.
As a senior, Carey was named All-American for the third time after leading the Sooners to the College World Series after batting .400, scoring 50 runs with 76 hits in 59 games.
While at Oklahoma, Carey was a member of three Big 12 Championship teams. She also made her mark in the classroom making the Big 12 all-academic team following her freshman, junior and senior seasons and a member of the Dean’s Honor Roll as a sophomore.
Carey, whose bid to play for the USA in the 2000 Olympics ended with the final roster cuts, played first base for an all-star team in a June 20, 2004 exhibition game against the 2004 Olympic squad at Hummer Sports Park in Topeka.
Carey toured with the USA's Blue team in the summer of 1998, and in September of 1999 she mounted a strong bid to make the Olympic team, but came up just short.