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Softball's Candy Button Earns University's Shapiro Prize
October 03, 2010 | Softball
PRINCETON -- Softball sophomore Candy Button has been selected as a winner of the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, an award given to freshmen and sophomores chosen by faculty and administrators.
Button will be honored at an Oct. 6 dinner with approximately three dozen other winners from the classes of 2012 and 2013 who were recognized for their academic achievement early in their Princeton careers. The award was endowed almost a decade ago by the former university president Harold Shapiro and his wife Vivian. Shapiro was the university's president from 1988-2001 and earned a Ph.D at Princeton in 1964.
On the softball field, Button, a Seattle-area native, made the team as a walk-on and immediately earned a starting role in the infield. Button played in 43 games, starting 40, and hit .239 with eight RBIs. She homered twice, posting her first collegiate round-tripper against Santa Clara before leaving the yard again at Columbia.