{"id":78449,"date":"2025-12-06T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78449\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:44:09","slug":"macy-blackburn-tabbed-second-team-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78449\/","title":{"rendered":"Macy Blackburn tabbed Second Team All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">KANSAS CITY \u2013 A year after being named a First Team All-American by the United Soccer Coaches Association, defender <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/macy-blackburn\/13828\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13828\" target=\"_blank\">Macy Blackburn<\/a> has been named a Second Team All-American the United Soccer Coaches Association announced Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A native of Keller, Blackburn closed her Texas Tech career as the programs all-time leader in both career assists (46) and single-season assists (13). A veteran of 77 games and 76 starts, Blackburn earned her third career All-American honor joining 2025 Texas Tech Hall of Famer Janine Beckie as the only two players in program history to earn three-straight All-America honors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After a strong 2024 season in her return from a season-ending knee injury in the middle of the 2023 season, Blackburn put up a career year in 2025 recording a career-best five goals and the program-record 13 assists enroute to earning her second-consecutive Big 12 Defender of the Year honor. Blackburn became the fourth player in Big 12 history to repeat as the leagues Defender of the Year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With her five goals and 13 assists, Blackburn closed her Red Raider career with 66 total points, the most by a defender and sixth-most by a player in school history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Blackburn closed her career with 10 total goals and 46 assists. The 10th and final goal of her career was a second-half equalizer against UNC in the NCAA Round of 32 that propelled the Red Raiders into extra-time and eventually PKs against the Tar Heels. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Blackburn&#8217;s All-America honor comes after the defender was named a First Team All-Midwest region selection earlier this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY \u2013 A year after being named a First Team All-American by the United Soccer Coaches Association,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-78449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78449","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=78449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}