Bowling Green State University Athletics
Madi McCoy Earns Academic All-District Honors
May 14, 2020 | Softball
Senior slugger named to Academic All-District Team, selected by CoSIDA
Bowling Green State University softball standout Madi McCoy has been named to the 2020 Academic All-District® Team, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The teams were announced on Thursday afternoon (May 14).
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2020 ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® TEAM: PDF | Word
McCoy earns the honor in her first season of eligibility for the award. She will now see her name placed on the Academic All-America® Team ballot.
McCoy is the second Falcon in as many years to be named to the team, as Nikki Sorgi earned the honor in 2019.
McCoy, a native of Washington, Ill., joined the Falcons after two stellar seasons at Illinois Central College. In 2019, her first season with the Orange and Brown, she was named BGSU's Offensive Player of the Year after leading the team in multiple offensive categories. Despite battling injuries and playing in just 34 of BG's 51 games last spring, McCoy hit a team-high .324 on the season, and paced the club with nine home runs and 31 runs batted in. She had an on-base percentage of .372 and a team-high .610 slugging pct. in that 2019 campaign.
Among McCoy's 2019 highlights was a weekend in mid-March where she hit .588 with a slugging pct. of .824 as BGSU won four games at the Morehead State Classic. McCoy, who had nine RBI that weekend, was named the conference's player of the week by the College Sports Madness web site, and also was mentioned as a Louisville Slugger/NFCA weekly top performer.
She capped her first season with the Falcons by homering twice and driving in five runs in BG's final home game of the year, an 8-3 win over Cleveland State. McCoy hit a two-run blast in the third inning and a three-run shot in the sixth.
In 2020, McCoy was one of five Falcons to start all 17 games. She hit .302 to rank second on the team in the shortened season, and led the Falcons with 16 runs scored. McCoy had 16 hits to tie for second on the club, and she finished third on the Falcons in both walks (seven) and total bases (21 - tied for third). McCoy ranked second in the Mid-American Conference in runs scored per game, at 0.94.
McCoy was one of three finalists for the Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year award at last week's Ziggys, the athletic department's year-end awards banquet. That award is given to just one male and one female athlete, across all sports, in the senior class. McCoy also was a finalist for Female Newcomer of the Year (for her performance during the 2019 season) during that same virtual banquet, and she was inducted into Chi Eta Sigma, the national college athlete honor society.
In the classroom, McCoy is an intervention specialist major with a perfect 4.000 cumulative grade-point average at BGSU at the time of nomination.
The 2020 Academic All-District® Softball Team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes softball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
The NCAA Division I teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada, with District 5 comprising all student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. To be nominated, a student-athlete must hold at least sophomore status, be a starter or key reserve, and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher. Team members are selected by a vote of CoSIDA members within the district.
As mentioned, McCoy and the other honorees who earned first-team Academic All-District® accolades will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. Academic All-America® honorees will be announced from June 8-11.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into geographic districts across the United States and Canada.
For more information about CoSIDA's Academic All-District® and Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com on CoSIDA.com.
2020 ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® TEAM, selected by CoSIDA
NCAA DIVISION I – DISTRICT 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH)
FIRST TEAM
Pos. Name        School       GPA  Yr.  Major
P  Abby Carlin     Western Illinois  4.00 Jr.  Chemistry
P  Claire Miller    Southern Illinois 3.90 Sr.  Sports Administration
C  Stacy Payton    Ball State     3.83 Jr.  Biology
IF  Allison Apke    Bradley      3.33 Sr.  Mechanical Engineering
IF  Maranda Gutierrez  DePaul       3.98 Jr.  Elementary Education
IF  Katie Keller    Northern Illinois 4.00 So.  Biology
IF  Madi McCoy     Bowling Green   4.00 Sr.  Intervention Specialist
IF  Katie Yun      Ohio        3.79 Jr.  Early Childhood Education
OF  Maria Cegledy    Kent State     4.00 Sr.  Exercise Science
OF  Haley Dominique   Ball State     3.73 Sr.  Business Administration
OF  Jenny Jansen    Southern Illinois 3.93 Jr.  Elementary Education
DP  Kyleigh Decker   Southern Illinois 3.74 Sr.  Exercise Science
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2020 ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® TEAM: PDF | Word
McCoy earns the honor in her first season of eligibility for the award. She will now see her name placed on the Academic All-America® Team ballot.
McCoy is the second Falcon in as many years to be named to the team, as Nikki Sorgi earned the honor in 2019.
McCoy, a native of Washington, Ill., joined the Falcons after two stellar seasons at Illinois Central College. In 2019, her first season with the Orange and Brown, she was named BGSU's Offensive Player of the Year after leading the team in multiple offensive categories. Despite battling injuries and playing in just 34 of BG's 51 games last spring, McCoy hit a team-high .324 on the season, and paced the club with nine home runs and 31 runs batted in. She had an on-base percentage of .372 and a team-high .610 slugging pct. in that 2019 campaign.
Among McCoy's 2019 highlights was a weekend in mid-March where she hit .588 with a slugging pct. of .824 as BGSU won four games at the Morehead State Classic. McCoy, who had nine RBI that weekend, was named the conference's player of the week by the College Sports Madness web site, and also was mentioned as a Louisville Slugger/NFCA weekly top performer.
She capped her first season with the Falcons by homering twice and driving in five runs in BG's final home game of the year, an 8-3 win over Cleveland State. McCoy hit a two-run blast in the third inning and a three-run shot in the sixth.
In 2020, McCoy was one of five Falcons to start all 17 games. She hit .302 to rank second on the team in the shortened season, and led the Falcons with 16 runs scored. McCoy had 16 hits to tie for second on the club, and she finished third on the Falcons in both walks (seven) and total bases (21 - tied for third). McCoy ranked second in the Mid-American Conference in runs scored per game, at 0.94.
McCoy was one of three finalists for the Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year award at last week's Ziggys, the athletic department's year-end awards banquet. That award is given to just one male and one female athlete, across all sports, in the senior class. McCoy also was a finalist for Female Newcomer of the Year (for her performance during the 2019 season) during that same virtual banquet, and she was inducted into Chi Eta Sigma, the national college athlete honor society.
In the classroom, McCoy is an intervention specialist major with a perfect 4.000 cumulative grade-point average at BGSU at the time of nomination.
The 2020 Academic All-District® Softball Team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes softball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
The NCAA Division I teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada, with District 5 comprising all student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. To be nominated, a student-athlete must hold at least sophomore status, be a starter or key reserve, and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher. Team members are selected by a vote of CoSIDA members within the district.
As mentioned, McCoy and the other honorees who earned first-team Academic All-District® accolades will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. Academic All-America® honorees will be announced from June 8-11.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into geographic districts across the United States and Canada.
For more information about CoSIDA's Academic All-District® and Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com on CoSIDA.com.
2020 ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® TEAM, selected by CoSIDA
NCAA DIVISION I – DISTRICT 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH)
FIRST TEAM
Pos. Name        School       GPA  Yr.  Major
P  Abby Carlin     Western Illinois  4.00 Jr.  Chemistry
P  Claire Miller    Southern Illinois 3.90 Sr.  Sports Administration
C  Stacy Payton    Ball State     3.83 Jr.  Biology
IF  Allison Apke    Bradley      3.33 Sr.  Mechanical Engineering
IF  Maranda Gutierrez  DePaul       3.98 Jr.  Elementary Education
IF  Katie Keller    Northern Illinois 4.00 So.  Biology
IF  Madi McCoy     Bowling Green   4.00 Sr.  Intervention Specialist
IF  Katie Yun      Ohio        3.79 Jr.  Early Childhood Education
OF  Maria Cegledy    Kent State     4.00 Sr.  Exercise Science
OF  Haley Dominique   Ball State     3.73 Sr.  Business Administration
OF  Jenny Jansen    Southern Illinois 3.93 Jr.  Elementary Education
DP  Kyleigh Decker   Southern Illinois 3.74 Sr.  Exercise Science
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