ALEXANDRIA, LA – Julia Kwakernaak and Madi Baker of the Louisiana State University of Alexandria softball team earned NAIA First Team All-American selections the NAIA announced today.
 
Kwakernaak led LSUA with a batting average of .506, an OBP of .565, a SLG% of .929, 13 home runs, 62 runs batted in, 21 doubles, and six triples. She finished second in runs scored at 64 and swiped 25 bases in as many chances. She was named the RRAC Player of the Year and First Team All-RRAC.
 
Baker posted a .399 average and hit a pair of big flies. She drove in 50 runs and scored 49. Baker posted an on-base percentage of .424 and a slugging percentage of .546. She threw out seven would-be base stealers defensively and posted a fielding percentage of .991. Baker was an RRAC First Team selection and was named RRAC Defensive Player of the Year.

"Super proud of Madi and Julia," LSUA Head Coach Trent Partridge said."What an incredible honor, earning First Team All-American is not easy and for us to have two is beyond exciting. As I've said before, there is never a moment too big or too small for Madi. She has been clutch since the day she stepped on campus. The fact that she battled through injury this year and still put up the numbers she did speaks volumes about her toughness and grit. Julia came up big time after time this season. She was the name in the lineup that opposing teams were circling, trying to game plan around and she still found ways to deliver in the biggest moments. To have three All-Americans over the last two years is just further proof that we are building something special here."
 
The duo was also named NFCA NAIA Region I First Team selections last week.
 
To view the 2025 NAIA Softball All-American teams in their entirety, click HERE.