LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Addison Amaral, Karina Gaskins and Carlli Kloss each earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region honors for their performances this season. Amaral was a second team All-Mid Atlantic Region selection, with Gaskins and Kloss earning first team honors. It is the first NFCA honor for Amaral, fourth for Gaskins and second for Kloss. Each one started all 50 games this season, hitting in the top half of the Fighting Irish lineup.
Gaskins ends her Irish career with four NFCA first team All-Region honors, the sixth player in program history to be a first team selection in every year of their career. This season, Gaskins hit for a .311 average, totaling 34 RBI, 27 runs scored, three doubles and eight homers. All of that while seeing a limited amount of quality pitches as she set the program’s single season record for walks, drawing 55 in the 2024 campaign. She earned a .546 on-base percentage, good for second all-time in Irish history, just behind her own 2022 campaign where she earned a .555 on-base percentage.
Kloss earned her second consecutive first team All-Region selection in 2024. The senior catcher led the Irish with a .368 batting average, hitting nine doubles, three triples and a home run. The catcher also led the team with 45 runs scored and swiped 15 bases. The former ACC Defensive Player of the Year, Kloss continued her prowess behind the plate in her final season. She earned a .990 fielding percentage, committing just three errors in 309 chances. She threw out 13 base runners, second most in the ACC and allowed just one passed ball, in 332.0 innings behind the plate.
Amaral earned second team honors in her rookie season. The freshman led the team with 53 RBI and 10 home runs, while hitting for a .340 average. She is the first freshman to lead the team in homers since Gaskins’s first season in 2021, and the first freshman to lead the team in RBI since 2007 when Heather Johnson totaled 35. She finished just two off the freshman record for RBI in a season, and a home run away from the freshman RBI record, each set by Cait Brooks in 2016.