Chinazo Cunningham CNN

WATCH: Softball Hall of Famer Chinazo Cunningham CNN Interview

4/2/2020 10:58:00 AM | Softball

NEW YORK – Yesterday, Dr. Chinazo Opia Cunningham (Class of '90) appeared on CNN to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic. Cunningham is a faculty member at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and currently working on the front lines fighting the global pandemic.

At Northwestern, Cunningham was a four-time All-Big Ten honoree that helped lead the Wildcats to their fourth-consecutive Big Ten championship in 1987 as the conference's Freshman of the Year. She led the team that season with a 0.38 ERA in the circle, a number that still ranks as the second-best total in NU single-season history and the third-best mark in Big Ten history. She was a first-team All-Big Ten and a second-team NFCA All-Region pick in 1987. In 1990, she was the Big Ten batting champion with an average of .348.

In the classroom, Cunningham excelled as a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America selection. She was named a first-team Academic All-American in 1990.

Watch Cunningham's full interview with CNN's Brook Baldwin below:

 

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