{"id":310128,"date":"2026-06-17T04:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310128\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:39:33","slug":"shumaker-and-cahalan-tabbed-csc-academic-all-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310128\/","title":{"rendered":"Shumaker and Cahalan Tabbed CSC Academic All-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Two members of the Florida softball team were recognized Tuesday for their excellence on the field and in the classroom, as the College Sports Communicators named <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/taylor-shumaker\/17779\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17779\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Shumaker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kenleigh-cahalan\/17772\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17772\" target=\"_blank\">Kenleigh Cahalan<\/a> to its 2026 Academic All-America teams.<\/p>\n<p>Shumaker earned First Team Academic All-America honors, while Cahalan was selected to the second team. Both received the distinction for the first time in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>A sophomore outfielder from Fullerton, Shumaker posted a 3.68 GPA in telecommunications while putting together one of the most dominant offensive seasons in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Starting all 64 games, she led the Gators in batting average (.445), hits (92), doubles (19), runs scored (92), walks (47) and on-base percentage (.544), while adding 18 home runs and 59 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Cahalan, a senior shortstop from Trussville, Ala., paired a 3.95 GPA in education sciences with a career-best season at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>She started all 64 games and hit .377 with 17 home runs, 17 doubles, 68 RBIs and 54 runs scored. Cahalan also posted a .711 slugging percentage and a .444 on-base percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The selections make Shumaker and Cahalan the sixth and seventh Florida student-athletes across all sports to earn CSC Academic All-America recognition during the 2025-26 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Florida softball has earned 28 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honors. Under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2094\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Walton<\/a>, 15 players have earned 25 CSC Academic All-America accolades.<\/p>\n<p><a data-uw-rm-kbnav=\"anohref\" name=\"_Hlk63067436\" tabindex=\"0\">FOLLOW THE GATORS<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"FloridaGators.com\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" href=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" open=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/$floridagators.com\">FloridaGators.com<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"Florida\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsSB\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsSB\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" on=\"\" open=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" softball=\"\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" twitter=\"\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gatorssb$floridasoftballontwitter\">Florida Softball on Twitter<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"Head\" coach=\"\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TimWalton\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TimWalton\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" on=\"\" open=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" tim=\"\" twitter=\"\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_timwalton$headcoachtimwaltonontwitter\" walton=\"\" walt>Head Coach\u00a0<\/a><a aria-label=\"Tim Walton - open in a new tab\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094\" noreferrer=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" rev=\"2094\" smarttag=\"\" target=\"_blank\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094$timwalton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/tim-walton\/2094\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2094\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Walton<\/a><\/a>\u00a0on Twitter<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a a=\"\" aria-label=\"Florida\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsSB\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"noreferrer=\" facebook=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsSB\" in=\"\" new=\"\" noreferrer=\"\" on=\"\" open=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" softball=\"\" tab=\"\" target=\"_blank\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatorssb$floridasoftballonfacebook\">Florida Softball on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Two members of the Florida softball team were recognized Tuesday for their excellence on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-310128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}