2023 CSC Academic All-District Softball Teams

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) softball team had five Spartans named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC), formerly CoSIDA, Academic All-District® team for softball, announced by the organization on Tuesday.
 
District 3 comprises all the Division I softball programs in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. To be eligible, nominated student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average in their second year at the current institution and must have played in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
 
Fifth year Delaney Cumbie earns her second recognition, while senior Blayke Batten, junior Anna White, and sophomores Grace Loftin and Jessie Shipley earn their first honors from the organization.
 
UNCG's five honorees brought the Southern Conference total to 20 awardees. Five were from from Chattanooga, one from ETSU, three from Furman, two from Mercer, and four from Western Carolina.
 
Delaney Cumbie
Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology
Minors: Chemistry, Biology, and Psychology
5th year | INF | Dunn, North Carolina

• CoSIDA Academic All-District® team (2022, 2023)
• All-SoCon first team catcher (2022, 2019)
• All-SoCon Tournament team (2023, 2022, 2019)
• All-SoCon freshman team (2019)
• Preseason All-SoCon first team (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020)
• SoCon Player of the Week (February 13 & March 6)
• All-SoCon Honor Roll, Dean's List, Chancellor's List
• UNCG Golden Chain Honor Society Inductee
• Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society Inductee
• 2021 SoCon Regular Season & Tournament Champions
• 2022 SoCon Regular Season Champions
• 2023 SoCon Regular Season & Tournament Champions
• Helped team earn automatic bids to 2021 & 2023 NCAA Tournaments
• 2023 UNCG Female Spartan of the Year
• Has 184 career hits
• Ranked third in the nation in walks per game (0.95)
• Leads the team with a 1.022 OPS, runs scored, doubles, walks, hit-by-pitch, and on-base percentage.
• Has career numbers this season in games played/started (57), at bats (152), runs scored (51), doubles (14), walks (54)

Blayke Batten
Human Development and Family Studies
Concentration: Child, Youth, and Family Development
Sr | OF/INF | Kenly, North Carolina

• CoSIDA Academic All-District® team (2023)
• All-SoCon Academic List
• Dean's List (2022, 2021)
• UNCG Golden Chain Honor Society Inductee
• 2021 SoCon Regular Season & Tournament Champions
• 2022 SoCon Regular Season Champions
• 2023 SoCon Regular Season & Tournament Champions
• Helped team earn automatic bids to 2021 & 2023 NCAA Tournaments
• Has career numbers this season in games played (45), RBI (27), doubles (8), walks (17)

Anna White
Kinesiology
Jr | INF | Dunwoody, Georgia

• CoSIDA Academic All-District® team (2023)
• All-SoCon Academic List
• Dean's List
• UNCG Golden Chain Honor Society Inductee
• 2021 SoCon Regular Season & Tournament Champions
• 2022 SoCon Regular Season Champions
• 2023 SoCon Regular Season & Tournament Champions
• Helped team earn automatic bids to 2021 & 2023 NCAA Tournaments
• Has career numbers this season in games played (33), games started (17), RBI (6), batting average (.184), slugging percentage (.237), at bats (38), runs (6), hits (7), doubles (2), total bases (9), walks (3).

Grace Loftin
Kinesiology
Soph | OF | Conover, North Carolina

• CoSIDA Academic All-District® team (2023)
• All-SoCon first team (2023)
• Preseason All-SoCon first team (2023)
• All-SoCon first team (2022)
• SoCon All-Freshman team (2022)
• NFCA All-Mideast second team (2022)
• 2022 Schutt Sports/NFCA DI National Freshman of the Year Top 25 Finalist
• Extra Innings All-Freshman Team (2022)
• Has eight multi-RBI games and multi-hit games
• In the SoCon, Loftin is second with 14 doubles and seventh with 23 walks
• Has started and played in 56 games this season, ties her career best with 14 doubles, has a career best 28 runs scored, and 25 walks

Jessie Shipley
Psychology
Soph | INF | Sugar Land, Texas

• CoSIDA Academic All-District® team (2023)
• 2023 SoCon All-Tournament Team
• Chancellor's List
• SoCon rankings: third in sacrifice flies, fourth in home runs and walks, fifth in RBI, sixth in double plays, eighth in sacrifice bunts and assists
• Has career-best numbers in games played/started (54), RBI (38), batting average (.234), on-base percentage (.358), slugging percentage (.510), at bats (145), runs scored (31), hits (34), doubles (7), home runs (11), total bases (74), walks (29).

The 2023 Academic All-District® Softball Team, announced by CSC, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom.
 
The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes softball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA. Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in early June.