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Angela Susan Tincher (born December 16, 1985) is an American, former collegiate All-American, right-handed softball pitcher originally from Eagle Rock, Virginia. She played for the Virginia Tech softball team from 2005–2008, and was the 2008 first-round draft selection for the NPF Akron Racers. She is a graduate of James River High School, and a 2008 graduate of Virginia Tech. In 2013, she was hired as Virginia Tech's softball pitching coach where she owns numerous school records. She also owns records for the NCAA Division I and is one of five pitchers to achieve 100 wins, 1,000 strikeouts, and an ERA below 1.00, and average double-digit strikeouts for her career. . ==Virginia Tech== Tincher began her career by breaking the school records for season strikeouts and strikeout ratio, in addition she also achieved the second best opponents batting average, which now rank 4th, 4th and 5th respectively all-time. On March 25, 2005, Tincher tossed her first career no-hitter over the Maryland Terrapins.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/stats/showstats.html?623〕 For her sophomore campaign, Tincher would be named an NFCA Second-Team All-American, All-ACC and ACC Pitcher of The Year.〔https://nfca.org/index.php/awards/awards-history/3478-2006-di-aa-teams〕 She broke her own records for strikeouts, strikeout ratio (both were top-10 for an NCAA season) and topped the opponents batting average list; her season ERA and innings pitched ranked second in the school books and now are top-5 all-time. She also threw 4 no-hitters that year. On February 19, 2006 she set her first school single game record by striking out 19 in 7-innings of work against the UNCG Spartans, Tincher and the Hokies won the game 3-0. The total tied her for third in single game strikeouts in regulation for the NCAA.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/stats/showstats.html?652〕 Later on March 3, Tincher struck out 26 batters in an 11-inning win over the Nevada Wolf Pack. The total was another school and career record for the sophomore as well as the NCAA Sophomore Class record for a single game. It also tied the second-most strikeouts ever in a NCAA collegiate game and Tincher was only the second player to match Michele Granger's 1993 record setter. Along with Jordan McPherson who struck out 14 Hokies, she and Tincher set an NCAA record for combined strikeouts at 40, which is now the second best single game total. Tincher was named to the First Team All-American list as a junior and again repeated all-conference honors.〔https://nfca.org/index.php/awards/awards-history/3463-2007-di-aa-teams〕 Tincher broke and set season records for wins, ERA, WHIP, shutouts, opponents batting average and strikeout ratio (13.8). Of these career highs excluding OBA, she led the Nation in ERA and her shutouts and strikeout ratio are still top-10 season records for the NCAA.〔http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/rankings〕 Tincher also managed to break the strikeouts (NCAA all-time Junior Class record) and innings pitched records and they still remain top-5 for a school season. Tincher would achieve an ACC Triple Crown for the best wins, ERA and strikeout totals. She also threw 5 no-hitters (an NCAA top-5 season record), two of them perfect games. Starting on February 11–24, Tincher pitched 45.2 consecutive scoreless innings for a career highlight. In a win over the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles, she allowed runs in the first but shutout the team the rest of the way before throwing 5 complete game shutouts back-to-back. The streak ended in a win over the Illinois State Redbirds when they scored in the 5th inning. During the streak, the Hokie went 7-0 with 102 strikeouts and only giving up 9 hits and 10 base on balls. In that first matchup with the Eagles, Tincher matched her career high of 19 strikeouts to tie the Junior Class record for a single 7-inning game, which she would match two more times that year. Her fourth shutout of the streak was also her career first perfect game vs. the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/stats/showstats.html?705〕 Tincher would also surpass 1,000 career strikeouts on February 28 in a shutout win vs. the Radford Highlanders.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/recaps/20070228aaa.html〕 For a final time, Tincher was named All-American, all-conference as well as earning the ACC Player of The Year award.〔https://nfca.org/index.php/awards/awards-history/3495-2008-di-aa-teams〕 She was also honored USA Collegiate Player of The Year and Honda Softball Player of The Year.〔http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/College-Corner/2008-College-Corner/Player-of-Year-Tincher〕〔http://www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com/archives/softball〕 Tincher broke her own and set school season records for strikeouts and innings, as well as tying her own wins mark. For the strikeouts, Tincher become one of the only pitchers to have three 500 and just the second with two 600 strikeout seasons. She also set school second best records in ERA, strikeout ratio and shutouts, while her opponents average ranks third all-time. She led the Nation in ERA and strikeout ratio while throwing 4 no-hitters and garnering her second conference Triple Crown.〔http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/rankings〕 Tincher also broke her own NCAA record for combined strikeouts in a loss to the Arizona Wildcats on March 1, 2008; shared with Taryne Mowatt who combined for 41 strikeouts.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/stats/showstats.html?9009〕 Beginning on March 9 against the Cal State Northridge Matadors, the Hokie posted a career best 13 consecutive game win streak ending on April 9 in a loss to the Longwood Lancers. During the streak, Tincher struck out 186, surrendering 8 earned runs in 83.1 innings pitched along with 25 hits and 23 walks. During the streak, Tincher won her 100th career game in shutout fashion against the NC State Wolfpack on March 22.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/recaps/20080322aaa.html〕 For one of her no-hitters, Tincher would be just the third pitcher to cross into the 2,000 career strikeouts club vs. the East Carolina Pirates on April 29.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/recaps/20080429aaa.html〕 On May 25, 2008, she led the Hokies in back-to-back victories over the Michigan Wolverines to advance to their first Women's College World Series. Virginia Tech ended up being eliminated, but not before Tincher came within one of the World Series record for single-game strikeouts with 19 against the No. 1 seeded Florida Gators. Despite the loss, Tincher would make the WCWS All-Tournament Team. She would also leave Virginia Tech holding the school career records for wins, shutouts, ERA, innings pitched, strikeout ratio, opponents average, game, season and career strikeouts.〔http://www.hokiesports.com/softball/records/〕 She would also hold or tied for the ACC crown for all except ERA. In the NCAA Tincher ranks third behind Monica Abbott and Cat Osterman on the NCAA Division I Softball career strikeouts list with 2,149.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2007 Tincher bio )〕 Finally she ranks second in career strikeout ratio (13.4) and is tied 6th for no-hitters (14).〔http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/SB_Records/2014/DivI.pdf〕 On March 26, 2008, Tincher pitched a no-hitter, striking out 10 batters in a 1-0 exhibition win over the United States Olympic softball team, ending their 185-game pre-Olympic exhibition game winning streak dating back to 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Va. Tech ends U.S. softball's 185-game non-Olympic win streak )〕 Tincher also has a goal of becoming an Olympic softball player.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Angela Tincher's Olympic dreams )〕 It was the first loss to a true college team in USA softball's history. She was one of four pitchers on the 2006 winning ISF World University Softball Championship team, and was invited to try out but was not selected for the 2008 Olympic Team.〔 〕 On September 13, 2008 the Virginia Tech Athletics Department ceremoniously retired Tincher's #1 jersey preceding a football home game. She is just the third female and 12th athlete to be honored. She will serve as an Assistant Coach for the 2008-2009 softball season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angela Tincher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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