COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Softball sophomore UTIL Kara Decker was named to the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America Division I Softball team, announced Thursday by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Decker garnered Third Team Academic All-America honors Thursday. Overall, she's one of 35 total recipients on this year's CoSIDA First, Second and Third Team Academic All-America lists. With a perfect 4.00 grade point average in the classroom, Decker is one of 21 members on this year's CoSIDA Academic All-America teams with a flawless GPA.
Incredible honor for sophomore @kararaedecker, as she becomes the program's 18th all-time Academic All-American!
— Mizzou Softball (@MizzouSoftball) June 6, 2019
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Historically, Decker becomes Mizzou's 18th all-time recipient of a CoSIDA Academic All-America award. Academic accolades is nothing new for the Leitchfield, Kentucky, native, as she received 2019 CoSIDA Academic First Team All-District honors earlier this season. Decker also tallied 2017-18 First-Year Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll recognition after her opening campaign in Mid-Missouri.
On the field this past season, Decker was a valuable contributor to the Tigers' lineup. She recorded new single-season career-highs in average (.272), hits (22), doubles (six), RBI (14), games played (45) and games started (27).
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