AUSTIN, Texas – Senior pitcher Anna Koeppl of the Trine University softball team has been selected as a member of the 2023 College Sport Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America First Team. She becomes the first Trine softball student-athlete to be named Academic All-American since 2020.
In the classroom, Koeppl holds a career 3.98 grade point average and graduated in the spring of 2023 with a degree in English Education. Along with her Academic All-American status, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) tabbed Koeppl as a Second Team All-American pitcher for the Thunder for the 2023 season.
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Pitcher of the Year has helped her team reach the NCAA Division III Championship Finals for the second consecutive season thanks to a stellar year in the circle. Trine will face Salisbury University in a best-of-three series to determine the 2023 NCAA Division III National Champion for the sport of softball on June 6-7.
Koeppl entered the NCAA Division III Softball Championship tournament with the nation's best ERA at 0.38 while also sitting top-ten in WHIP (0.69) and hits allowed per game (3.78). She is a spotless 15-0 with four complete games, three shutouts and struck out 65 batters prior to flying to Marshall, Texas.
Koeppl posted zero's in all three of her postseason starts in the MIAA Tournament, NCAA Regional and NCAA Super Regional. She threw 5.0 shutout innings in a 1-0 victory over Calvin University on May 11, and followed that up with wins over Wartburg College (5.0 innings) and Concordia University Wisconsin (5.1 innings) in the NCAA Tournament without allowing a run.
The Thunder and Seagulls will square off in game one on Tuesday, June 6 beginning at 12 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. CDT).