ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – Lenoir-Rhyne junior Talon LaClair was honored as the 2020 Elite 20 Award winner for softball presented by the South Atlantic Conference on Saturday (April 25).
 
This award honors the student-athlete with the top cumulative grade-point average (based on a minimum of 48 credit hours) in each of the league's 20 team championship sports.
 
LaClair, a shortstop from Statesville, N.C., has a 4.0 GPA while majoring in mathematics and completing 133 credit hours.
 
LaClair closed out the 2020 season batting .474 with seven home runs, seven doubles, 23 RBIs, and 28 runs scored. She finished the year ranked third in the SAC in batting average and fourth in home runs.