{"id":279258,"date":"2026-05-05T05:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:11:47","slug":"texas-techs-nijaree-canady-selected-no-2-overall-in-ausl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279258\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech\u2019s NiJaree Canady selected No. 2 overall in AUSL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady was officially selected in the AUSL Draft on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raider standout was selected No. 2 overall by the Texas Volts. She is the first Texas Tech player to be drafted in the AUSL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Canady was officially \u201cwelcomed\u201d into the AUSL after receiving a Golden Ticket earlier this year, meaning she was going to be drafted into the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last season, eight different student-athletes were given the prestigious honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This season, Canady has posted a 1.30 ERA, to go along with 194 strike outs in the 135 innings through the conclusion of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders are now preparing for the Big 12 Tournament as they are set to take on Baylor this Thursday in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Volts, who will be playing their second season in the AUSL, start this upcoming year on June 9 with a three-game series on the road against the Oklahoma City Spark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Volts play their home games in Austin at Dell Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady was officially selected in the AUSL Draft on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56518,11852,53533,66,168,170,169,223,56531,56530,56528,102974,154,1769,56529,53535,299],"class_list":["post-279258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-ausl","tag-brandon-soliz","tag-dell-diamond","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-nija-canady","tag-nijaree-canady","tag-red-raider-softball","tag-softball-news","tag-sports","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-softball","tag-texas-volts","tag-ttu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}