2023 D1Softball All-Americans

Top Stories D1Softball Staff - May 30, 2023

The best of the best. The D1Softball staff picks its All-America teams with one guiding principle: to identify the best and most valuable college softball players for the 2023 season.

It’s no shock that Oklahoma leads all teams with seven selections, including five on the first team. Kinzie Hansen, Tiare Jennings, Alyssa Brito, Jayda Coleman and Jordy Bahl make the first team, with Grace Lyons and Haley Lee voted to the second team.

Tennessee is the lone team that also has two first-team All-Americans (Kiki Milloy and Ashley Rogers). The Lady Vols’ McKenna Gibson also made the second team. UCLA (Maya Brady and Megan Faraimo), Oklahoma State (Rachel Becker and Kelly Maxwell), Kentucky (Kayla Kowalik and Erin Coffel) and Louisville (Taylor Roby and Korbe Otis) all had two players earn All-America honors.

The SEC leads all conferences with 10 players. The Oklahoma influence means the Big 12 has nine nominees. The Pac-12 follows with five, the ACC with four and the Big Ten with two. The AAC (Wichita State’s Sydney McKinney), the MAC (Miami’s Karli Spaid), Sun Belt (Marshall’s Autumn Owen) and WCC (Santa Clara’s Ashley Trierweiler) each have one.

We also introduce our inaugural All-American Freshman team, headlined by Indiana’s Taryn Kern, who also a first-team All-American, and Stanford’s NiJaree Canady.

First Team

Position	Player	School
C	Kinzie Hansen	Oklahoma
1B	Baylee Klingler	Washington
2B	Tiare Jennings	Oklahoma
SS	Skylar Wallace	Florida
3B	Alyssa Brito	Oklahoma
OF	Kiki Milloy	Tennessee
OF	Jayda Coleman	Oklahoma
OF	Alex Honnold	Missouri
UT/P	Valerie Cagle	Clemson
UT	Sydney McKinney	Wichita State
UT	Maya Brady	UCLA
UT	Rachel Becker	Oklahoma State
UT	Taryn Kern	Indiana
P	Montana Fouts	Alabama
P	Kathryn Sandercock	Florida State
P	Ashley Rogers	Tennessee
P	Jordy Bahl	Oklahoma

Second Team

Position	Player	School
C	Kayla Kowalik	Kentucky
1B	Ellessa Bonstrom	Utah
2B	Allie Skaggs	Arizona
SS	Erin Coffel	Kentucky
3B	Karli Spaid	Miami
OF	Jayda Kearney	Georgia
OF	Korbe Otis	Louisville
OF	Ashley Trierweiler	Santa Clara
UT/P	Taylor Roby	Louisville
UT	Haley Lee	Oklahoma
UT	McKenna Gibson	Tennessee
UT	Autumn Owen	Marshall
UT	Grace Lyons	Oklahoma
P	Megan Faraimo	UCLA
P	Maddie Penta	Auburn
P	Kelly Maxwell	Oklahoma State
P	Autumn Pease	Minnesota

Freshman

Position	Player	School
C	Sarah Gordon	Louisville
1B	Jordan Woolery	UCLA
2B	Taryn Kern	Indiana
SS	Jackie Lis	Southern Illinois
3B	Megan Grant	UCLA
OF	Reagan Johnson	Arkansas
OF	Mihyia Davis	Louisiana
OF	D’Auna Jennings	Duke
UT	Alexis Pupillo	Northern Iowa
UT	Kailey Wyckoff	Texas Tech
UT	Tallen Edwards	Oklahoma State
UT	Leighann Goode	Texas
P	NiJaree Canady	Stanford
P	Karlyn Pickens	Tennessee
P	Ruby Meylan	Washington
P	Cassidy Curd	Duke
P	Makenna Reid	Florida State
P	Sydney Berzon	LSU