PEORIA, Ill. -- For the first time in nearly a decade Bradley Softball has produced a CoSIDA Academic All-American, with senior first baseman Allison Apke (Teutopolis, Ill./ Teutopolis) earning third-team Academic All-America honors according to an announcement by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Thursday.
Apke is the first Academic All-America selection from Bradley Softball since Brittany Fairbairn was a second-team honoree in 2011 and is just the fourth individual in program history to earn the distinction. Julie Jehle and Amy Pera were both Academic All-America performers in 1995. Apke was one of two Missouri Valley Conference softball players named Academic All-American in 2020, joining Drake's Mandi Roemmich.