{"id":300587,"date":"2026-05-20T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:06:13","slug":"texas-ams-perez-named-to-all-america-second-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300587\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M\u2019s Perez named to All-America second team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(KBTX) &#8211; Texas A&amp;M slugger Mya Perez was named to the All-America second team by Softball America, the outlet announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is her second season in a row earning All-American honors from the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Perez was the only player in Division I to reach base safely in every game of the regular season. She had an on-base streak of 55 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She ranks fourth nationally in on-base percentage (.602) and 25th in slugging percentage (.893), leading the SEC in on-base percentage and ranking fifth in slugging percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The junior had a career-high 19 home runs and added 10 doubles. She finished with 54 walks, the second-most by an Aggie in a single season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Perez also earned NFCA All-Region Central first team and All-SEC first team honors this season, while being named a top 25 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KBTX) &#8211; Texas A&amp;M slugger Mya Perez was named to the All-America second team by Softball America, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,2055,2060,2058,2057,2059,2061,27,29,28,2056],"class_list":["post-300587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587","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=300587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}