Brady earns 2022 CoSIDA Academic All-District 6 Softball honors

OLIVET, Mich. – Olivet College junior Erin Brady has been named to the 2022 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District 6 Softball Team. She is now eligible to earn CoSIDA NCAA Division III Academic All-America® honors, where three teams will be announced in June.

The criteria for nomination includes a 3.30 or higher cumulative grade point average. A softball position player must have played in at least 50 percent of his team's total games played at the position shown on the nomination form. A pitcher must have thrown at least 10 innings to be nominated.

Brady was the starting catcher in 23-of-25 games for the Comets. Her other two starts were at second base and shortstop. Brady topped the team with a .422 batting average (27-of-64). She had four doubles and one home run for a .531 slugging percentage. Brady scored a team-best 13 runs. She finished the season with seven multi-hit games, including a 3-for-3 performance against Albion College on April 16.

An insurance and risk management major, Brady is a member of Sigma Beta sorority and Gamma Iota Sigma. She has been named to the Olivet Dean's List every semester and is a two-time Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Academic Honor Roll recipient. Brady earned Olivet President's List honors four times and Dean's List one time.

The Academic All-District teams include student-athletes divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. Olivet is in District 6, which includes schools in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the 10th year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA participants. A new college division featuring Canadian and two-year schools was introduced in 2020.