Posted at 11:23 a.m., Monday, April 3, 2006
UH's Peiler WAC softball player of the week
Advertiser Staff
Brandi Peiler, a sophomore outfielder for the University of Hawai'i softball team, Monday was named the XBox Live Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week.Peiler, a 2004 Kamehameha Schools graduate, went 7 for 8 to lead the Rainbow Wahine to doubleheader sweeps of Grambling State and San Jose State.
UH coach Bob Coolen credited Peiler's recent success to improved "pitch selection. In the beginning (of the year), she was attacking anything and everything. She wasn't really in her zone. She was pressing too much. Now she's coming into the hitter we thought she was."
Coolen said he did not have any scholarship money to offer Peiler last year. She attended Hawai'i Pacific University, where she was named the conference's Freshman of the Year. Last July, she asked Coolen about the possibility of transferring.
After securing a release from her HPU scholarship and a one-time exemption, which allowed her to transfer without sitting out a season, Peiler enrolled at UH in August. She now starts in left field, batting third in the lineup.
