CSC Academic All-District Teams

GOLDEN, Colo. – The College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced the Academic All-District teams for the sport of softball Tuesday and five members of the Colorado School of Mines program were recognized for the accomplishments on the diamond and in the classroom, as Kendall Aragon, Kat Miller, Hannah Roberts, Sadriena Rodriguez and Sidney Wilson were among those named to the Division II team.
 
The 2023-24 Academic All-District® Softball Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. Changes to the program this year included immediate eligibility for undergraduate transfers, waiving a 12-month residency requirement and athletic eligibility criteria being changed so that student-athletes must participate in 90% of games played are start 66% of games played. Student-athletes who meet both athletic and academic standards laid out by the CSC Academic All-America Core Committee will be selected to advance to the Academic All-America ballot.
 
An RMAC Academic Honor Roll selection this season, Aragon made the move one spot over in the outfield this season, taking over as the everyday centerfielder for Mines in 2024 and settling in as the team's top run producer out the second spot in the lineup. The sophomore started all 52 games this season and earned Second Team All-RMAC honors after posting a .398/.441/.439 line with six extra-base hits including five doubles. Aragon drove in a career-high 32 runs this season and scored a further 28 times while going 7-9 on steal attempts and drawing 14 walks. During the season she cleared the 100-hit mark in her career and had four hitting streaks of at least six games, including two eight-game streaks and a team-best 11-game streak for most of the month of March. She currently sports a 3.89 GPA in Biological Engineering and will advance to the national ballot.
 
Miller earned First Team RMAC All-Academic honors this season after taking on a larger role in the circle in her sophomore season. The Coppell, Texas product went 4-5 with a save in 25 games with 15 starts with two complete games and a shutout over 76.2 innings of work and recorded 27 strikeouts along the way. She tossed her first career shutout on opening day against Palm Beach Atlantic and also recorded a win in the series opener against nationally-ranked Colorado Christian on March 9. Miller posted her first career save against Fort Lewis on March 23 and struck out a career-best seven against the Skyhawks the day prior. She currently carries a 3.97 GPA in Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering.
 
Roberts was named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll for the second time in as many seasons and emerged as the starter at second base in 2024, making 45 starts in 47 games played. She overcame a slow start to the season to finish with a .283 batting average and seven extra-base hits including six doubles with 10 RBI and 19 runs scored. Over the final 23 games of the season, she recorded two five-game hitting streaks and one six-game streak and hit .411 over that period spanning March 23-May 3 with three doubles, seven RBI and 13 runs scored. The junior carries a 3.87 GPA in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering.
 
Rodriguez earns her second Academic All-District honor in the last two seasons after she concluded her career with an epic 2024 season. A First Team All-RMAC selection in the circle and RMAC Honor Roll recipient, the lefty led the conference in wins during the regular season and finished the year 18-9 with a 2.69 ERA in 30 appearances with 26 starts. She spun 16 complete games and six shutouts and recorded 134 strikeouts in 161.1 innings of work and issued just 47 walks while limiting opponents to a .248 average. She passed 300 career strikeouts on March 23 against Fort Lewis and during the season became the sixth pitcher in program history to surpass 400 innings of work. Rodriguez also became the first Mines hurler in more than a decade to throw a no-hitter, doing so on the final weekend of the regular season against Adams State on April 25 and breaking the single-game strikeout record along the way, ringing up 14 Grizzlies. Over her career she went 41-19 with three saves and a 2.71 ERA across 102 outings and 61 starts for 418.1 innings with 34 complete games and 14 shutouts. During that time she struck out 376 batters while walking just 155 and posting a .239 BAA. Her 18 wins in 2024 are tied for fourth-most in a season while she ranks second in career shutouts, fourth in strikeouts, wins and ERA and fifth in innings pitched. Now a two-time graduate of Mines who will advance to the national ballot, Rodriguez earned a graduate degree in Engineering Technology & Management earlier this month with a GPA of 3.89 after completing an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering last May.
 
Wilson also earned her second Academic All-District nod in as many seasons to conclude her career as well. An Honorable Mention All-RMAC selection and RMAC First Team All-Academic in 2024, the Broomfield native posted a .335/.433/.406 line with five doubles, two home runs, 28 RBI and 19 runs scored and led the team with 21 walks and eight hit by pitches. She recorded 11 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI games and recorded four hitting streaks of at least four games including a season-best eight during the middle of the season. A fixture in the starting lineup from the day she arrived on campus, Wilson started all 184 games she played in out of a possible 187 and batted .345 with a .431 on-base percentage. She recorded 189 hits, 32 doubles, five home runs, 95 RBI and no runs scored while drawing 60 walks and 28 hit by pitches. One of the toughest batters in the country to strikeout in her career, Wilson was rung up just 23 times in 649 plate appearances and ranks 11th all-time at Mines in hits and eighth in walks. She completed a degree in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering earlier this month with a 3.93 GPA and will advance to the national ballot.
 
First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced June 18.
 
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