LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Augustana softball team led all of NCAA Division II with four NFCA All-America honorees the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced Wednesday.
 
The NSIC Champions and Central Region Finalists saw Mary Pardo and Torri Chute earn first-team honors while Ashley Mickschl and Gracey Brink were third-team honorees.
 
Pardo and Chute were both third-team honorees in 2021 and earn First Team All-America honors for the first time in their careers.
 
Pardo, a senior from Andover, Minnesota, led the nation with 26 home runs, setting a new single-season record for Augustana. The center fielder's 19 home runs in NSIC play set a new conference record as well. She recorded 67 RBI, a mark that is sixth in NCAA Division II while her 167 total bases are the best in the country. She was also an NFCA National Player of the Week after she batted .474 with nine hits, seven of which were home runs.
 
Chute, hailing from Woodbury, Minnesota, ranked second on the Vikings with a .400 batting average while belting 12 home runs and 16 doubles. The junior earned the All-America honor in the designated player/utility – non-pitcher category. When playing catcher for the Vikings, she tied a school record with the highest fielding percentage in a single season, not committing an error. In the batter's box, her on-base percentage of .516 ranked her 27^th in the country.
 
Mickschl concludes her storied career as a four-time All-America honoree. She is the 20^th-ever student-athlete at the DII level to have earned the All-America honor four times. The Woodbury, Minnesota, native finished the 2022 season with a 24-3 record with a 1.19 ERA. Her ERA is the 15^th best in NCAA DII while her walks allowed per seven innings, of less than one walk per, rank her ninth in the country. She owned a combined no-hitter in 2022 when she partnered with Makayla Williams to not allow a hit on April 9 against UMary. She concludes her career with 114 wins at Augustana, the most in program history, while also inducing the most groundouts in program history of 1,101.
 
Brink, a junior catcher from Rapid City, South Dakota, paced the nation's third-best team batting average with her .422 average. She owned an OPS of 1.227 while hitting a career-high nine home runs. Holding a .506 on-base percentage, she cracked Augustana's top-10 list for a single season as she totaled 62 hits and walked 19 times to reach base. The catcher also ended the season ranked second in the NSIC with four triples.
 
Augustana had four of the 54 total honorees and was one of two schools to have two first-team honorees. The Vikings concluded their season with a 50-10 record as the NSIC Regular Season and Tournament Champions.