BURNSVILLE, Minn. - Concordia-St. Paul senior
Amanda Parsons was named All-NSIC First Team and earned the Gold Glove award for catcher as the 2022 All-NSIC Softball Teams were announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Parsons becomes the fourth NSIC Gold Glove selection for the program, and joins Missie Feuerbach (2013) as the only two catchers to earn the honor in CSP history. She's competed for five consecutive winning teams as CSP has a 132-85 cumulative record in her career including three 30-win seasons. The Golden Bears' 35 wins (35-12-1) in 2022 is the most since the 2010 team finished 35-17, reaching the NCAA Tournament.
Parsons and the Golden Bears head to the NSIC Tournament as the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 Winona State on Thursday at noon in Rochester, Minnesota.
#8 Amanda Parsons (C, 5-10, Sr., R/R, Grafton, Wis. / HS)
- 2022 All-NSIC First Team catcher
- 2022 NSIC Gold Glove catcher
- 2021 All-NSIC Second Team catcher
- 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
- Will be four-time NSIC All-Academic Team (3x NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence)
- Ranks 17th in Division II & 4th NSIC in hitting (.459)
- Ranks 28th in Division II & 4th NSIC in doubles (16)
- Ranks 32nd in Division II & 5th NSIC in on base percentage (.518)
- Currently leading single season CSP record with average and on base percentage (.459/.518)
- Holds single season (9) and career (26) records for most times hit by pitch
- Ranks 3rd in CSP history with 16 doubles in a season, four shy of single season record
- Has thrown out 15 attempted base stealers, matching her former career-high (2019), 5th-most in a season in team history
- Ranks 8th in single season slugging percentage at CSP (.642)
- Ranks 3rd in program history in fielding percentage (.993), runners picked off (14) and runners caught stealing (53)
- Ranks 5th in CSP history with 43 career 2B, 10th with 187 career hits, 11th with a .395 obp, 11th with 17 HR, 12th with a .503 slg, 13th with 101 RBIs and 14th with a .326 avg
- 5th-year starter at catcher, playing in 200 career games with 199 career starts with 1,212 fielding changes and only eight career errors
