SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco State center fielder
Brylynn Vallejos has been named to the 2022 Softball Academic All-District
® Team, presented by CoSIDA. This marks Vallejos' second time earning the award in as many chances.
The 2022 Academic All‐District
® Softball Team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student‐athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All‐America
® program separately recognizes softball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. First‐team Academic All‐District
® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All‐America
® ballot. First‐, second‐ and third‐team Academic All‐America
® honorees will be announced in June.
Vallejos is a Kinesiology major and sports a 3.79 ERA.
It's been a busy week for Vallejos, who on Wednesday was named to both the 2022 NFCA Division II All-West Region First Team and to the 2022 D2 CCAA All-West Region First Team.
On Monday, she was named to the 2022 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division II National Player and Pitcher of the Year awards Top 25 watch list. Vallejos, who was named 2022 CCAA Softball Most Valuable Player and to the All-CCAA First Team, was an offensive juggernaut at the top of the order all season for the Gators. The sophomore started all 53 games in center field and led the CCAA in hits (75), doubles (18), home runs (10), and runs scored (64). She ranked fourth in batting average (.408), third in on-base percentage (.464), and second in both slugging percentage (.717) and stolen bases (37). Vallejos also ranked fifth in the conference with five triples.
Her stolen bases rank 11th among NCAA Division II players, her 75 hits rank 13th in the nation, and her 132 total bases rank 16th in the nation. Her 1.21 runs per game also rank tenth. The Reno native posted multi-hit games in 23-of-53 contests, including two different 4-for-4 performances.
In 2020, Vallejos was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team and a CCAA All-Star in the pandemic-shortened season. As a freshman in 2019, she was named a finalist for National Player of the Year and National Freshman of the Year and earned NFCA All-American Second Team and All-West Region First Team honors, D2CCA All-West Region First Team honors, and was the CCAA Freshman of the Year and an All-CCAA First Team selection. She has twice been named to the NFCA Top 50 Watch List, in 2020 and again this season.
At .426, Vallejos is the first Gator to post a career batting average over .400. Vallejos is also the program leader in stolen bases (97), and is among the Top 10 career leader in nearly every offensive category, and holds several single-season records.
The Division II CoSIDA Academic All‐America
® program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structure to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2021‐22 Division II Academic All‐America
® program.
For more information about CoSIDA's Academic All‐District
® and Academic All‐America
® Teams program, visit
AcademicAllAmerica.com on
CoSIDA.com.
