Rowan Players Named to PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Softball Team
Friday, June 16, 2023
PHILADELPHIA – Rowan’s Korie Hague, Payton MacNair and Cat Thomas have all been named to the PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Softball Team, as the 20th-ranked Profs had the most honorees of any program on the squad.
The team is selected through voting by the sports information offices of 30 institutions in the Philadelphia metropolitan area who take athletic and academic accomplishments into consideration when voting. To be eligible for Academic All-Area honors, an athlete must be in at least her second year at her current institution and hold a cumulative grade-point average of 3.30 or better.
Hague (Vineland, NJ/Vineland) earned NFCA All-Region honors for the third time as she put together career-best numbers with a .331 batting average, 23 runs and 32 RBI. The Profs’ catcher also earned All-Conference honors for the third consecutive year as she was named to the All-NJAC Second Team.
The fifth-year player, who graduated with her degree in exercise science, was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team for the second time after earning Academic All-America honors last season.
The Profs’ shortstop, MacNair (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) was an All-NJAC First Team selection for the second year in a row. She ranked second on the team in batting with a .350 and topped the team with 62 hits, while scoring 33 runs and driving in another 33.
A health and physical education major, MacNair is a two-time NFCA Scholar-Athlete and was also named to the CSC Academic All-District Softball Team this year.
Thomas (Pompton Plains, NJ/Immaculate Heart Academy) was named to the All-Region Second Team this season, as well as to the All-NJAC First Team. The infielder/designated player batted .338 and drove in a career-high 47 RBI, while leading the conference with nine home runs.
A junior biology major, Thomas was also chosen to the CSC Academic All-District Team this season and is a two-time NFCA Scholar-Athlete.
The trio played key roles in Rowan’s run to the NCAA Division III World Series as it finished the year with a 43-9 record. The Profs, who captured the NJAC regular-season title, won the NCAA Ashland Regional and the NCAA Marietta Super Regional to make the program’s seventh trip to the World Series.