April 15, 2008
Ashli Breau, a sophomore softball player, and Justin Bour, a sophomore baseball player, each had superb months in March and in recognition of their performances, they were named George Mason Female and Male Athletes of the Month for March.
Breau batted .421 in March with 23 RBI and five home runs. She was named the CAA Player of the Week on March 12. Her five homers in the month tied her for second among single-season records and she went on to break the school's single-season mark this past Sunday. Mason played 24 games in March and she recorded a hit or an RBI in 18 of those games. On the season, Breau is batting .447 with nine homers and 38 RBI and she has an .809 slugging percentage.
Bour hit .447 in March with 10 homers, 36 RBI and an .871 slugging percentage. He was named the CAA co-Player of the Week on March 31. He hit .538 that week with three homers, six runs and 13 RBI. Bour reached safely in all 22 games in the month and he had a hit in 18 of those contests. He had 11 multi-hit games and nine multi-RBI games. Bour is currently batting .447 with 12 homers, 47 RBI and a .766 slugging percentage. He leads the CAA in homers and RBI and is second in batting.
Previous winners of this year's George Mason Athlete of the Month were Jaqueline Kohler (Sept., women's volleyball), Fro Adu (Sept., men's soccer), Kelly Keelan (Oct., women's soccer), Robert Krause (Oct., men's cross country), Sarah Bizer (Nov., women's swimming & diving), Will Thomas (Nov., men's basketball), Cayle Byers (Dec., wrestling), Lateisha Wade (Dec., women's basketball), Kyle Gramit (Jan., men's volleyball), Ryann Hendricks (Jan., women's track and field), Murielle Ahoure (Feb., women's track) and Eric Knight (Feb., men's swimming and diving).
