{"id":338653,"date":"2026-06-16T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:57:09","slug":"softballs-stewart-martinez-garner-csc-academic-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338653\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball\u2019s Stewart, Martinez garner CSC Academic All-America honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Texas Softball juniors Katie Stewart<\/a> and Viviana Martinez<\/a> were named to the College Sports Communicators’ (CSC) Academic All-America teams. Stewart was tabbed to the first team while Martinez landed on the third team.<\/p>\n

Stewart is a repeat academic all-America honoree after earning a spot on the 2025 CSC Academic All-America Second Team. Martinez is a first-time academic all-America selection. Stewart is the second Longhorn in program history and the first since Nikki Cockrell in 1998 to receive first-team academic All-America praise. Stewart and Cockrell are the only players in program history to garner multiple academic all-America honors. Texas’ two academic All-America honorees this year match the program’s best, which was set in 2000.<\/p>\n

Stewart and Martinez were key pieces in Texas’ back-to-back Women’s College World Series Championships after the Horns took home the trophy again in 2026. Texas swept Texas Tech in two games in the WCWS Championship Series on June 3-4. It’s the program’s second overall national title. Texas has appeared in the WCWS Championship Series in four of the last five years. The Longhorns won the 2026 SEC Tournament title \u2013 the program’s’ first SEC Tournament crown and the fifth overall conference tournament championship.<\/p>\n

Stewart is a Corporate Communication major and boasts a 3.54 cumulative GPA during her three years on the Forty Acres. Martinez holds a 3.91 cumulative GPA across four years as a Applied Movement Science major at Texas.<\/p>\n

Stewart adds her CSC First-Team All-America selection to a long list of honors this season, including SEC Player of the Year, top-10 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, First-Team All-American praise from D1Softball and Softball America, WCWS All-Tournament Team recognition and First-Team All-SEC selection. Stewart finished the season with a single-season program record 31 home runs after slashing .429\/.989\/.555 with 78 hits and a team-high 79 RBI. Stewart recorded a .977 fielding percentage and helped turn 15 double plays at first base.<\/p>\n

Martinez slashed .379\/.525\/.438 with 67 hits, 47 RBI, three home runs and 31 runs scored. The Tolleson, Ariz., native posted the second-most doubles on the team with 15 and struck out just 11 times \u2013 the fewest of Texas’ starting lineup. Martinez tallied a .962 fielding percentage at shortstop and helped turn eight double plays. Martinez was a First-Team All-SEC and NFCA First-Team All-Central Region honoree. She landed on the SEC All-Tournament Team and collected SEC Player of the Week on April 21.<\/p>\n

Texas Softball Academic All-Americans<\/p>\n

2026 \u2013 Katie Stewart<\/a> (First Team)<\/p>\n

2026 \u2013 Viviana Martinez<\/a> (Third Team)<\/p>\n

2025 \u2013 Katie Stewart<\/a> (Second Team)<\/p>\n

2012 \u2013 Lexy Bennett (Third Team)<\/p>\n

2003 \u2013 Cat Osterman (Third Team)<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 Kathleen Richter (Second Team)<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 Keely Franks (Third Team)<\/p>\n

1999 \u2013 Nikki Cockrell (Third Team)<\/p>\n

1998 \u2013 Nikki Cockrell (First Team)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Texas Softball juniors Katie Stewart and Viviana Martinez were named to the College Sports Communicators’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-338653","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\/338653","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=338653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}