Holmes Earns CSC Academic All-America® Honors

AUSTIN, Texas – For the eighth time in program history, a St. Cloud State Softball student-athlete has been named to a College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America® Softball Team. Sophomore infielder Brooke Holmes (Savage, Minn.) was named to the 2025 Academic All-America® Second Team for Softball, as announced by the organization on Tuesday, in recognition of her superior success in the classroom and on the diamond.

It is the first Academic All-America® honor of Holmes' career and she was one of just one of two student-athletes from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) to be recognized.

The Savage, Minnesota native is the sixth student-athlete in program history to earn Academic All-America® honors and is the first to earn the nation's top academic honor since Haley McFarlane in 2022. Holmes has a 3.94 GPA as a Business Economics & Finance double major and earned CSC Academic All-District® honors for the first time in her career last month.

📚 𝐂𝐒𝐂 𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐀𝐋𝐋-𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 🥎

Congrats to 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐬, who was named to the @CollSportsComm Academic All-America® Second Team 🏆

She is just the 6️⃣th player in program history to earn this honor 👏#PackMentality 🐾 | #HuskiesSoftball 🥎 pic.twitter.com/yOAQd2yoMu
— St. Cloud State Softball (@SCSUHUSKIES_SB) June 17, 2025

After her breakout sophomore season, Holmes earned the first all-America, all-region and all-conference honors of her career. She was named a National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Second Team All-American on May 21, a Second Team All-Central Region member by the NFCA on May 8 and a Second Team All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) selection on April 29.

Holmes became the sixth Husky (first since Jenny Gensch in 2008) and first second baseman to be named an NFCA All-American. She was also the first Husky to garner NFCA All-Region honors since Raven Vanden Langenberg in 2022 and the first SCSU second baseman since Maya Keating in 2019.

Additionally, Holmes was twice named NSIC Player of the Week by the league office (Feb. 24 | April 28). They were her first two weekly conference honors of her career, and she was the only Husky to earn weekly honors throughout the season. After an incredible non-conference season, she was named to the 2025 NFCA Division II Player of the Year watchlist on March 27.

The sophomore led SCSU in in batting average (.414), slugging percentage (.688), runs (52), home runs (12), RBI (51), total bases (128) and times hit by pitch (four). She also ranked second in on-base percentage (.471), hits (77) and third in doubles (13).

During the final weekend of regular season play, the Huskies reached the 40-win mark for the eighth time in program history and the first time since 2019.

The Division II Academic All-America® program is financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structure to assist the College Sports Communicators with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Division II Academic All-America® program. For more information about CSC Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com.

CSC Release (web) | CSC Release (pdf)

2025 CSC Academic All-America®
Second Team:
Brooke Holmes

All-time SCSU Softball CSC (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-America Honorees
2025 - Brooke Holmes - Second Team
2022 - Haley McFarlane - Second Team
2009 - Rachel Haines - First Team
2008 - Rachel Haines - Second Team
2002 - Amy Anderson - Second Team
1999 - Michelle Lechner - Second Team
1998 - Michelle Lechner - Second Team
1992 - Shelly Jensen - First Team

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