Stevenson Named NFCA Third Team All-American

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Marshall softball graduate Mya Stevenson was named a National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Third Team All-American, the organization announced on Wednesday during its annual press conference at the Women's College World Series.

Stevenson receives her first All-American nod and becomes just the fourth All-American in program history. She joins Rachel Folden (2005-08) who was a four-time honoree, and Morgan Zerkle and Jordan Dixon who were both selected in 2017.

The high honor comes on the same day of Aly Harrell being named the Senior CLASS Award winner. Both players thrived under the tutelage of head coach Megan Smith Lyon who just finished her fourth season at the helm.

Fifty-four student-athletes from 34 different teams were named to the three 2022 NFCA Division I All-America teams. Stevenson is the fourth overall All-American selection as well by a Marshall student-athlete this calendar year. Vitor Dias and Pedro Dolabella from men's soccer were named United Soccer Coaches All-Americans in December and Rasheen Ali from football was honored as a Football Writer's Association of America Freshman All-American in January.

Stevenson graduated from Marshall in the spring of 2022 after playing four, record-breaking years for the Herd. She began her journey smashing the team single-season home run record by hitting 20 bombs as a freshman in 2019. Stevenson drove in 58 runs that season, second-most in a year by a Herd player and was named First Team All-Conference USA, C-USA All-Freshman Team, a member of the C-USA All-Tournament Team and was selected Third Team All-Mideast Region. Stevenson led all Division I freshmen in home runs that season.

The Mesquite, Texas, native continued her slugging through the shortened 2020 season as she was tied for the NCAA lead in total home runs with 12 before the season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stevenson added eight more homers in 2021 to enter this season with 40 in her career. She was tied with Harrell for third overall on the Marshall charts. The two players went back-and-forth early before Stevenson exploded in the month of March with eight homers. She hit the 50th of her career at home in game one of the series against Middle Tennessee on March 25. The two-run shot in the third inning gave the Herd a 4-0 lead on the way to the win.

The right-handed slugger belted a solo shot in the sixth inning of a comeback versus the Charlotte 49ers at Dot Hicks Field on April 2. The homer pulled Marshall within one run, 9-8, in what eventually became an 11-10 win in the eighth inning.

Stevenson smacked two bombs in another comeback victory at Florida Atlantic on April 8. The first was the second of back-to-back homers as Saige Pye smashed the first. Stevenson's solo home run tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the seventh. She came up again in the top of eighth with two runners on base and cranked a pitch deep into the parking lot in left giving Marshall a 7-2 lead on the way to another win.

Stevenson hit her 57th on April 23 at WKU and entered the final two weeks of the regular season needing just one more home run to tie Folden for the Herd's all-time home run mark, and two away from claiming the record. Finally on May 8, in the regular season finale at North Texas, Stevenson blasted a shot to left-center that gave Marshall a 2-0 lead and put her into a tie with the 58th of her career.

The following week while still in Denton, Texas, just about 45 minutes away from her hometown, the Herd was in an elimination game against Charlotte in the Conference USA Tournament. Trailing 9-8 going into the bottom of the seventh, Stevenson stepped to the plate and attacked the first pitch she saw from Lindsey Walljasper. Stevenson belted the pitch deep into the night and over the scoreboard. The leadoff, solo homer not only tied the game at 9-9 sparking more life into the Herd but gave Stevenson the all-time Marshall home run record. The 59th of her career came in her 171st career game, accomplishing the record-breaking mark in 51 fewer games than Folden set the record back in 2008. It was the 53rd game that Stevenson hit a home run in her Herd career, and the 18th time that she hit one on the first pitch of the at bat.

Stevenson finished the 2022 season batting .361 with 56 hits, 12 doubles, 19 home runs, 55 RBI, slugged .806 and had an on base percentage of .440. Her 19 home runs were the second-most in a season in team history. She was named Second Team All-C-USA, selected to the C-USA All-Tournament Team, and honored as a NFCA First Team All-Mideast Region selection.

Along with re-writing the home run side of the Herd record book, Stevenson capped her Marshall career with a .341 batting average, good for ninth in team history, and a .771 slugging percentage, second-best at Marshall. She placed in the top 10 in RBI (169 – fourth), total bases (387 – fourth), on base percentage (.430 – tied for eighth), runs scored (133 – tied for eighth), and games with at least one RBI (78 – eighth).

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Aly Harrell

Saige Pye

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