FastPitch News is a website that obviously covers fast pitch softball. They announced their 2017 All-American Teams and their pitcher and offensive players of the Year on Friday. Minnesota senior Sara Groenewegen was named the 2017 Division 1 Pitcher of the Year, and both her and Kendyl Lindaman were named First Team All-Americans by FPN. Additionally Gopher first basemen Sidney Dwyer was named an Honorable Mention All-American.
Groenewegen finished her Gopher career by going 31-4 with a 0.63 ERA and 307 strikeouts. She is the Gophers all-time leader in strikeouts with 1,214 and averaged the most strikeouts per game with 10.