TYLER, Texas – Kylie French headlines Cameron softball in the Lone Star Conference end of year awards, announced at the postseason banquet on Wednesday night.
Prior to the LSC Championship Tournament hosted by the No. 1 seed UT Tyler, the conference hosted the annual awards banquet, announcing special honors as well as the league's All-LSC teams, All-Academic team, All-Freshman team, and the Golden Glove Awards.
French, a senior from Harrah, Okla., was named to the All-Academic team, as she is majoring in Psychology and recorded a 4.0. French was also selected to the LSC Golden Glove team for her play at the hot corner. She recorded 51 putouts and 81 assists for a fielding percentage of .978.
Joining French with All-Conference awards, Kaiden Boren was named to the first team, joining the second team All-LSC was Josie Swafford, and on the third team were Khmari Edwards and Taylor Rowley.
Boren, the Freshman of the Year a year ago, was selected to the first team All-Conference after recording a .340 batting average, 13 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs, 30 RBI, and scoring 39 runs.
Swafford was named to the All-LSC second team as the designated player after leading the Aggies in the circle with 120.2 innings pitched and collecting 119 strikeouts during her 10-win campaign. At the plate, she led the team with a .341 average with nine doubles, a triple, two home runs, 24 RBI, and 25 runs.
Edwards continues to rack up conference awards in her career, adding to her LSC Freshman of the Year in 2019; this is the second time she was selected to her third All-Conference team while being a first-team selection in 2019 and 2021. The Del City, Okla., native closed out her career, hitting .236 this season while collecting 23 runs, four doubles, two triples, three homers, and 12 RBI. She was 12-14 in stolen base attempts this year, to total 94-103 for her career.
Rowley hit .296 with eight doubles, two triples, seven home runs, 32 RBI, and 33 runs batting at the heart of the order for the Black-and-Gold in 50 of the 52 games this season.
Additionally, Ruby Salzman of West Texas A&M was voted the LSC Player of the Year, UT Tyler's, Tatum Goff was named the Pitcher of the Year, WT's Emilee Boyer picked up Freshman of the Year honors, Shea O'Leary of UT Tyler was tabbed as the Newcomer of the Year and her coach Mike Reed was named the LSC Coach of the Year. Tiarra Delrosario of Lubbock Christian was voted the Academic Player of the Year by the league's sports information directors.
Cameron's All-LSC honorees, first-year Head Coach Emma Johansen, and the rest of the squad begin postseason play against the 4-seed Lubbock Christian at 1:30 p.m. in Tyler, Texas, on Friday. The winner will advance to face the winner of the host Patriots or the winner of Angelo State/St. Edward's at 6:30 p.m.
