Kuizin Earns CoSIDA Academic All-America Honor
CoSIDA Release | TU Honors Page
AUSTIN, Texas – Cassie Kuizin of the Taylor University softball team was named a CoSIDA Google Cloud Second-Team Academic All-American recently, as voted on and announced by the College of Sports Information Directors of America.
The honor for Kuizin is the 71st CoSIDA Academic All-American award for a Taylor student-athlete in school history and is the sixth-such honor during the 2017-2018 year.
Kuizin posted a 3.93 grade-point average in psychology, while starting all 47 games for the Trojans and batting .346 with 52 runs, 15 doubles, 11 home runs, three triples and 32 runs batted in. The senior shortstop also scooped up a team-leading 104 assists in the field, and closed her senior campaign ranked No. 17 in the NAIA in runs per game (1.1), No. 28 in homers and No. 47 in slugging percentage (.699).
The TU softball program now has five Academic All-Americans in its history, with Kuizin joining Hannah Castor (2017), Hannah Klebesadel (2015), Sarah Heath (2012) and Alyssa Brodbeck (2012) on the prestigious list.
The CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-America award is voted on by members of CoSIDA, recognizing the finest student-athletes from around the nation at NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions. A student-athlete must be nominated by their Sports Information Director, must have reached sophomore status academically with a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average and must be a key contributor in order to be eligible for the honor.







