Katie Goetzinger of Wayne State College has been voted to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Softball Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Goetzinger, a junior pitcher from Harlan, Iowa, received Second Team All-American Academic honors with a 3.77 grade point average majoring in applied human and sport physiology. She is just the second softball player in WSC history to earn Academic All-American honors, joining Heather Conley who was a Second Team Academic All-American selection in 2002.
On the field, Goetzinger finished with a 32-10 record and a 1.11 earned run average. She broke her own single season school record with 358 strikeouts in 264.1 innings pitched, needing 30 less innings this year to top last year's mark of 347 strikeouts. Goetzinger had 11 shutouts and 25 complete games in 34 starts this season as opponents hit just .161 off Goetzinger this season. She ranks second in NCAA Division II in strikeouts, fifth in hits allowed per seven innings (3.95), sixth in wins (32), eighth in strikeouts per seven innings (8) and eighth in shutouts (11) while ranking 11th nationally in ERA (1.11). She was named the NFCA National Pitcher of the Week on April 21 and was voted the 2010 NSIC Pitcher of the Year.
Goetzinger is a three-time All Northern Sun Conference selection and has received Daktronics and NFCA All-Central Region First Team honors the last two seasons. She was named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII Second Team last year as a sophomore and is a two-time NSIC All-Academic selection.
Wayne State finished the 2010 season with a record of 43-14, a new school record for wins in a season. The 17th- ranked Wildcats won the 2010 NSIC Softball Tournament and captured the NCAA Division II Central Region #2 title before falling at #4 Metro State in the NCAA Division II Super Regionals last weekend in Denver.
