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Softball America Tabs 5 From Ole Miss Softball to All-America Teams
By Adam Brown
Sports Editor
adam.brown@hottytoddy.com
Kylan Becker slaps a base hit up the middle. Photo by Josh McCoy / Ole Miss Athletics.
Softball America tabbed Ole Miss outfielder Kylan Becker, along with four members of the coaching staff, to All-America teams on Wednesday. This is the team’s first-ever nomination by Softball America.
Becker is among a group of four elite outfielders to be selected First Team All-American. She joins Florida’s Amanda Lorenz, UCLA’s Bubba Nickles and Arizona’s Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza. The Rebel center fielder leads the group with a .428 batting average.
Becker isn’t the only Rebel to appear on the First Team. Ole Miss assistant coach Ashley Chastain garnered the pitching coach slot after building a relatively inexperienced group of pitchers into one of the top staffs in the SEC.
Having taken a team picked to finish 12th in the conference to the program’s highest-ever SEC finish and just the second NCAA Super Regional in school-history, the entire Ole Miss coaching staff received All-American laurels. Landing on the Third Team were head coach Mike Smith, associate head coach Ruben Felix and volunteer assistant coach Caty Reeves.
To see a complete list of Softball America All-American Teams click here.
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | W, 28-10 |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | 11:00 AM ABC or ESPN |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | 2:30 PM ESPN or ABC |
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