Bahl Garners First-Team Academic All-America Honors
Jun 17, 2025 / NU Athletics
Nebraska softball pitcher and utility player Jordyn Bahl was named a CSC first-team Academic All-American, the organization announced on Tuesday. The honor marks Bahl’s second Academic All-America award, as she grabbed second-team recognition at Oklahoma in 2023.
Bahl is the 24th Husker to earn Academic All-America honors and the fifth Husker to be named an NFCA All-American and a CSC Academic All-American in the same season. She is only the third NU softball player and first since 1986 (Lori Richins) to earn first-team honors both athletically and academically in the same year.
Bahl brought the Big Red’s Academic All-America award total to 32, which ranks first in the Big Ten and third nationally.
The Academic All-America first-team recognition adds to a long list of accolades for Bahl’s junior season. She was named the NFCA National Player of the Year, along with the Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Pitcher of the year. The Papillion, Neb., native was a first-team NFCA All-American, a first-team All-Big Ten team member and an NFCA All-Mountain Region first-team honoree. She was one of three finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award and the Honda Award for Softball.
In the classroom, Bahl has maintained a 3.64 cumulative grade-point average while studying human development and family sciences. She was an Academic All-Big Ten team member and has been on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete honor roll every semester she has been at NU.
In the circle, Bahl amassed a record of 26-8 with a 1.56 ERA. She allowed only 46 earned runs and 114 hits across 206.1 innings, while striking out 286 batters. Bahl started 34 games and grabbed eight shutouts and two saves. Her opponents averaged .156 at the plate.
At the plate, Bahl posted a program-record .462 batting average and logged 72 runs, 78 hits and 66 RBIs. She added 23 home runs, the most in Nebraska history, along with 16 doubles and two triples to total a school-record .988 slugging percentage. She drew 27 walks and 11 hit-by-pitches and struck out only 17 times for a .555 on-base percentage.