Texas’ Miranda Elish was named the 2020 Softball America Player of the Year, while nine Big 12 players earned All-America honors as the organization announced its shortened-season awards.

Elish led the Big 12 and ranked sixth nationally in wins (11), boasting a 1.25 ERA, 11 complete games, four shutouts and 96 strikeouts over 84.0 innings of work, while holding opponents to a mere .158 batting average. She was just as effective at the plate, hitting .370 over 23 games with seven doubles, four home runs and 19 RBIs to go along with a 1.200 OPS. Her season also included earning National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Player of the Week honors on Feb. 11, as well as throwing her second career perfect game in a win over New Mexico on March 8.

Elish joined Oklahoma State’s Alysen Febrey on Softball America’s All-America First Team. The Cowgirls led the Big 12 with a trio of All-Americans, while Texas and Oklahoma boasted two and Kansas and Texas Tech had one representative each.

Softball America All-Americans
First Team
1B – Aylsen Febrey, Oklahoma State, Sr.
UT or P – Miranda Elish, Texas, Sr.

Second Team
P – Carrie Eberle, Oklahoma State, Sr.
P – Erin Edmoundson, Texas Tech, Jr.
C – Shelby Gayre, Kansas, So.
2B – Janae Jefferson, Texas, Jr.
3B – Sydney Pennington, Oklahoma State, Jr.

Third Team
1B – Kinzie Hanson, Oklahoma, Fr.
DP – Jocelyn Alo, Oklahoma, Jr.