CALDWELL, N.J. – Caldwell University senior
Alyssa Calderon (Fontana, CA/Etiwanda) was included on the Daktronics All-America team, receiving All-American honorable mention. This is the second All-American honor for Calderon, who was named to the Daktronics All-America second team as a sophomore in 2013.
A four-time all-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference honoree at catcher, Calderon also made the Daktronics and NFCA all-East Region teams three times in her career. This season she batted .405 with 62 hits, 14 doubles, seven homers and 38 RBIs, ranking third in the CACC in average, home runs and doubles, fourth in hits and fifth in RBIs. Calderon led the Cougars to the CACC Tournament championship with a pair of three-run home runs and was named the tournament's MVP. She also went 9-for-18 in five games at the NCAA Division II East Region Tournament May 8-10.
The 2013 CACC Player of the Year, Calderon holds the all-time records at Caldwell for RBIs (188), doubles (65) and total bases (406). She also ranks second at Caldwell in home runs (25), third in hits (248) and slugging percentage (.619), eighth in triples (nine) and ninth in batting average (.378). Also an excellent student, Calderon is a three-time Capital One Academic All-District 1 honoree who made the Academic All-America third team in 2014.
Calderon's inclusion on this year's All-American team marks the fourth consecutive year that Caldwell has had a player receive All-American honors. She is the third two-time All-American in the program's history, joining classmate
Kristen Knorr (Monroeville, NJ/Delsea) and
Kim Mahoney.
The Cougars, coached by
Dean Johnson, went 37-14-1 this season and won the CACC regular-season and tournament titles while advancing to their eighth consecutive NCAA Division II East Region Tournament.