May 21, 2010

NFCA Release

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . Four Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) softball players were named to the 2010 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America Teams announced by the Association on Thursday. The IIAC honorees include two First Team selections and two Third Team selections.

Luther College senior battery mates Kim Lambert (pitcher, Coal Valley, Ill./Moline) and Tiffany Kruse (catcher, Greeley, Iowa/Edgewood-Colesburg) were named to the First Team and Luther College senior second baseman Anna Simonson (Galesville, Wis./Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau) and Central College junior first baseman Katie Tenboer (Morrison, Ill./Morrison) were named to the Third Team. Lambert, Kruse, and Simonson were chosen at their positions, while Tenboer was an at-large selection.

Simonson is a repeat NFCA All-America selection, having been named to the Second Team in 2009. She is Luther's third two-time All-American. Lambert and Kruse become the Norse's 12th and 13th softball All-Americans, respectively. It is the fourth consecutive season the Norse have had an All-American and the second time in that span that Luther has had three All-Americans (2007).

Tenboer becomes the 20th Central softball All-American with 2010 marking the third consecutive season the Dutch have had a softball All-American.

The entire Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-America Team can be found here.

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