{"id":309193,"date":"2026-05-26T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:44:08","slug":"perez-earns-d1-softball-all-america-second-team-honors-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309193\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez Earns D1 Softball All-America Second Team Honors &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M softball standout <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/mya-perez\/15041\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15041\" target=\"_blank\">Mya Perez<\/a> earned D1 Softball All-America Second Team recognition, the outlet announced Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPerez reached base safely in 55 of 57 contests this season and put together an NCAA-leading 55-game on-base streak. The junior ranked fourth nationally with a .602 on-base percentage and 25th in slugging percentage at .893. She paced the SEC in on-base percentage and finished fifth in the league in slugging percentage. Half of Perez&#8217;s 58 hits went for extra bases, highlighted by a career-best 19 home runs and 10 doubles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nShe totaled 54 walks on the year, the second-highest single-season mark in program history, while her 19 home runs and .414 batting average both rank seventh all-time at Texas A&amp;M. In conference play, Perez established a school record with 31 walks and drew at least one walk in 16 of 24 SEC games. She topped the conference in both on-base percentage (.611) and walks (31), while ranking second in hit-by-pitches (5) and sixth in OPS (1.296).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPerez was also named a Softball America Second Team All-American, marking her second consecutive season receiving All-America honors. She added NFCA All-Central Region First Team and All-SEC First Team honors to her resume this season and was selected as a Top 25 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE AGGIES<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/softball\" title=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/softball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12thman.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information on Texas A&amp;M softball. Fans can keep up to date with the A&amp;M softball team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiesoftball\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiesoftball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiesoftball\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiesoftball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AggieSoftball\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AggieSoftball\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter\/X\u00a0<\/a>by following @AggieSoftball.<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M softball standout Mya Perez earned D1 Softball All-America Second Team recognition, the outlet announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-309193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309193","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=309193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}