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Simone Facey made the most out of her two-year (2007-08) Texas A&M track and field career earning 11 All-America citations for head coach Pat Henry. She helped the program win the school’s first Big 12 women’s indoor track and field championship in 2007 and followed with a repeat performance in 2008. The women’s track and field program also pulled off the outdoor Big 12 championship titles in back-to-back years as well, the first such crowns in school history. With her accomplishments, Facey helped the women’s team to a four-place outdoor finish at the 2007 NCAA Championships and followed with a third-place finish at the 2008 NCAA Championships. Facey claimed the NCAA individual championship in the 200 meters during the 2008 season and was twice a silver medalist in the NCAA 100 (2008) and 200 (2007) meters. She also ran on a pair of Texas A&M’s NCAA winning 4x100 relays in 2007 and 2008. She earned her 11 All-America honors in five different events—the 60 meters, 100 meters (twice), 200 meters (four times), 4x100 (twice) and 4x400 (twice). Facey set Texas A&M school records in the 100 and 200 meters with times of 10.95 and 22.25 seconds. As a member of the first Aggie women’s team to win team championships at the indoor and outdoor Big 12 conference meets, Facey accumulated six conference titles as A&M won four league titles in 2007 and 2008. Facey won three events during the 2007 Big 12 Outdoor meet in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay.

Megan Gibson was a four-year (2005-08) letterman for Coach Jo Evans and the Aggie softball team. Gibson is a rare three-time National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association (NFCA) All-American and one of the most decorated players in Texas A&M softball history. Now an assistant coach at Penn State, in charge of Nittany Lion pitchers, Gibson graduated from A&M with a bachelor’s degree in sport management and a minor in business in 2008. Despite sharing the circle with fellow standout hurler Amanda Scarborough, Gibson had a banner career for the Aggies that culminated in a national runner-up finish for A&M in 2008. With Gibson in the lineup, the Aggies reached the Women’s College World Series (WCWS) for the first time in over 20 years when the 2007 squad went two-and-out in Oklahoma City. To this day, Gibson owns the A&M career records for doubles (48), total bases (447) and walks (172). She also ranks in the program’s top 10 in nine other categories. After her career at A&M, Gibson spent four years in the National Professional Fastpitch League (NPF) and one season in the Japanese Softball Association before taking an assistant position at UTSA as the Roadrunners’ pitching coach. While in the NPF, she also served as a graduate assistant at Texas A&M in the fall of 2008 and a volunteer pitching coach in 2011.

Regarded as one of the top players in school history, four-year letterman (2004-07) Ashlee Pistorius-Slayback was a dominant player in the Big 12 during her time in College Station and still holds the league’s career records for points (194) and goals (81). She earned All-Big 12 honors all four seasons, including First Team in 2005 and 2007 and Second Team in 2004 and 2006. Pistorius-Slayback was recognized as Big 12 Rookie of the Year in 2004 and Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year in 2007. Nationally, the Decatur, Illinois-native earned NSCAA All-America honors in in 2006 (Second Team) and 2007 (Third Team) and garnered the prestigious Honda Sports Award for Soccer for the 2007-08 year and she was one of three finalists in 2007 for the M.A.C Hermann Trophy — the Heisman Trophy of college soccer. A winner, she helped guide the Aggies to four Big 12 regular-season crowns and two league tournament titles. She was named to the Big 12 Championship All-Tournament Team on four occasions and was tabbed the MVP in 2005. She was six-time Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week during her career and three-time Big 12 Newcomer of the Week in 2004. In the classroom, Pistorius-Slayback earned Academic All-Big 12 status (2005-07). Pistorius-Slayback started 92 consecutive games and owns the Texas A&M career records in points (194) and goals (81) and ranks second all-time in game-winning goals (26) and sixth in assists (32).

Amanda Scarborough, a four-year Aggie letterman (2005-08), was a two-time NFCA All-American and is a household name in Division I softball. The right-handed pitcher was immediately a leader on the field for the Aggies, earning First Team All-America honors as a freshman in 2005. On the conference front, the standout impressed her peers and was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and Big 12 Player of the Year, becoming the first in history to accomplish the feat. Scarborough helped the Aggies back to the NCAA Super Regional level as a junior in 2007 and pushed them even farther, to their first Women’s College World Series (WCWS) appearance in over 20 years. Scarborough’s second first-team All-America honor came the same year, and she was named the Big 12 Co-Pitcher of the Year and was a USA Softball National Player of the Year Finalist. The Aggies returned to Oklahoma City in 2008 and fought to the team’s best finish since winning the national title in 1987. Scarborough took a different role with the national runner-up team, leading from the dugout after a career-ending injury forced her to have multiple foot surgeries. After graduating from A&M with a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in sport management, she is currently both a successfully self-employed pitching coach and an analyst for the ESPN Networks. Scarborough also recently started Bellalete, an athletics apparel company, with former teammate Savana Lloyd.

Amber Woolsey Spencer, a four-year (1996-99) Aggie letterman, became the first player in Texas A&M volleyball history to receive All-America first-team honors from the American Volleyball Coaches Association after captaining the 1999 Aggies to what still remains the best season in program history. A three-year starting middle blocker for the Aggies, Woolsey Spencer capped her stellar collegiate career by propelling Texas A&M to its first-ever NCAA Elite Eight appearance, an all-time high No. 9 final ranking and a 28-6 record, marking the program’s most wins since 1984. From Chaska, Minn., Woolsey Spencer set what remains the school record for total blocks in a four-set match, posting 13 in A&M’s momentous victory over heavily favored No. 3 Hawaii in the 1999 NCAA Mountain Regional semifinals in Honolulu. Woolsey Spencer also set back-to-back A&M season records for blocks assists in a season, tallying 154 as a senior to break the previous record of 145 which she set as a junior. Woolsey Spencer still holds a combined five A&M career, season and single match records, in addition to the 12 school conference records set while competing in the Big 12 Conference. She also played in the United States Professional Volleyball League as well as playing professionally in Portugal.