2025 EASTON/NFCA ALL-AMERICAN SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
Ottumwa, IA – The Indian Hills Softball team racked up multiple academic honors on Thursday as the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) released its year-end academic awards.
As a team, the Warriors posted the fourth-highest team GPA in the nation to earn a spot on the NFCA Top-10 Academic team award list for junior colleges. The Warriors' cumulative team GPA of 3.80 trailed only Paris Junior College's (TX) 3.95, Bryant & Stratton College's (WI) 3.85, and Colby Community College's (KS) 3.82.
Individually, the Warriors saw 18 student-athletes named to the Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete team for maintaining a cumulative 3.5 GPA throughout the academic year.
EASTON/NFCA ALL-AMERICAN SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
- Jordyn Beck | Sophomore | Marion, IA
- Shanna Buford | Freshman | Donnellson, IA
- Hannah Carter | Freshman | Bethany, MO
- Trinity Darst | Freshman | Truro, IA
- Addi Downe | Freshman | Norwalk, IA
- Chandler Houselog | Freshman | Dubuque, IA
- Avery Kies | Freshman | Iowa City, IA
- Courtney Locke | Sophomore | Bow, WA
- Mary Monosmith | Freshman | Ankeny, IA
- Peyton Raley | Sophomore | Arvada, CO
- Alivia Ruble | Sophomore | Lacona, IA
- Emma Scully | Freshman | West Des Moines, IA
- Ashlynn Sheets | Sophomore | Ottumwa, IA
- Ava Smith | Sophomore | Waukee, IA
- Mirthe Weis |Freshman | The Hague, Netherlands
- Mackenzie Wesson | Freshman | Colfax, IL
- Mary-Paige Withers | Freshman | Le Claire, IA
- Yarah Zuiver | Sophomore | Zaanstad, Netherlands
More than 9,100 student-athletes from across all levels of collegiate softball were honored by the NFCA, including nearly 900 junior college student-athletes.
In total, the Warriors have accumulated a number of academic honors throughout the 2024-25 campaign:
- 2024-25 NFCA Top-10 Academic Team GPA
- 2024-25 NJCAA Academic Team of the Year
- 18 Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athletes
- 17 NJCAA All-Academic selections
- 1 College Sports Communicators Academic All-American®
- 3 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District®
- 39 ICCAC Academic All-Region selections
- IHCC Academic Achievement Award recipeint
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