SALISBURY, Md. – Following a conference-wide vote, Abby Mace and Meghan Reed of the Salisbury University softball team have earned two of the highest honors bestowed by the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C). Mace has been named the 2023-24 C2C Female Athlete of the Year, while Reed garnered the 2023-24 C2C Female Senior Scholar-Athlete Award.
 
Mace becomes the first Sea Gull to be named the conference's top all-sport athlete since 2016-17 when men's lacrosse's Nathan Blondino and softball's LeAnne Collins swept the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Male and Female awards. Reed, meanwhile, is SU's first top conference scholar-athlete since men's lacrosse's Corey Gwin in 2019.
 
Each of the C2C's member schools drew from their entire bodies of student-athletes and nominated one athlete for the league's Male and Female Athlete of the Year and Male and Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards. The conference's athletic directors then voted on the assembled ballots to determine the award winners.
 
Mace, a graduate student from Smyrna, Del., adds yet another major award to her collection from the 2024 campaign. She was previously named C2C Player of the Year, made the All-C2C and All-Region First Teams for the fourth time, earned her fourth National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) First-Team All-America nod, and became a three-time College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American by making the First Team last week.
 
Over her 46 starts in center field during the season, Mace slashed .486/.589/1.079 with 20 doubles, three triples, 19 home runs, 52 RBIs, 70 runs scored, 35 stolen bases, and a 1.688 OPS. She finished the year leading all of Division III in home runs, slugging average, and total bases (151) while slotting top-40 in a dozen other categories. Mace graduates as the Sea Gulls' all-time leader in home runs (65), doubles (58), and runs scored (246) while ranking second in hits (252), triples (15), and rib-eyes (194) over 199 career games.
 
Reed, a senior from Churchville, Md., earned the league's top honor for a senior scholar by virtue of her 3.94 grade-point average as a Biomedical Science major and a Chemistry and Cognitive Science minor. She was the C2C's Scholar-Athlete of the Year for softball and earned CSC Third-Team Academic All-America laurels last week.
 
An SU Dean's List laureate during every semester and the Sea Gulls' 2023 Elite 90 nominee, Reed carries membership in several academic outfits, including the Clark Honors College, Honors Student Association, Medical Careers Society, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Tri Beta, Chi Alpha Sigma, and Psi Chi. She has presented research at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research and has plans to pursue a doctorate in veterinary medicine beginning this fall in vet school.
 
Reed played her way into the SU starting lineup as its second baseman in 2024, slashing .389/.438/.472 with nine doubles, one home run, 30 RBIs, 30 runs scored, and a .910 OPS. She slotted top-five in the league in batting average and RBIs en route to making the All-C2C and All-Region First Teams.
 
Mace and Reed were instrumental in helping Salisbury finish the 2024 season with a 39-7 record and a third straight NCAA regional title.
 

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Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football and men's and women's swimming, and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference for men's lacrosse. With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 23 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 199 conference championships, and 47 Academic All-Americans.

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