University of Minnesota Athletics
Meyer Garners Academic All-America Honor
5/29/2015 12:00:00 AM | Softball
CoSIDA Release
AUSTIN, Texas -- Minnesota softball senior Erica Meyer was named a 2015 Capital One First Team Academic All-American, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Friday. The Academic All-America honor is the Gophers' first since 2013 when Kaitlyn Richardson was named to the third team. Kathy Casull earned the team's last first-team accolade in 1989.
Meyer is the University of Minnesota's second Academic All-American in the 2014-15 season. She joins football student-athlete Maxx Williams, who was also a first-team selection. Both Meyer and fellow senior Hannah Granger were named First Team Academic All-District 6 earlier in the month.
The Arden Hills, Minn. native has a 3.98 grade point average in supply chain and operations management in the Carlson School of Management and has accrued numerous scholastic accolades, including three Academic All-Big Ten honors and two University of Minnesota top-five awards for being one of the five female student-athletes with the highest cumulative GPA. She is also a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and was a 2014 NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete.
On the field, Meyer had a breakout season this year. She set career-highs in batting average at .315, slugging percentage at .550, on-base percentage at .432, runs with 50, hits with 47, RBI with 34 and doubles with 14. She also tied a career-best with seven home runs, led Minnesota with 16 steals and posted a 1.000 fielding percentage in 59 games played.
A 2014 NFCA All-Great Lakes Region Third Team member, Meyer earned the Big Ten Player of the Week in February and tied for fifth in program history with 151-career runs scored.
At 49-11, Minnesota finished the season with a program-best .817 win percentage and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the third straight season for the first time ever. The Maroon and Gold's 49 wins matched an all-time best.
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