Maya Johnson will doubtless have her decide of a number of prime packages to proceed her collegiate softball profession.
The left-handed junior pitcher from Belmont, who led the nation in strikeouts this season, entered the switch portal on Thursday.
Tabbed because the Pitcher of the 12 months within the Missouri Valley Convention and a second crew All-American choice by Softball America, Johnson simply turns into among the finest gamers accessible within the portal and somebody who can elevate the ceiling for a program subsequent season.
A 6-foot redshirt junior from Columbia Station, Ohio, Johnson led all Division I pitchers in a number of statistical classes this season, together with strikeouts (366), strikeout-to-walk ratio (16.64), shutouts (11), strikeouts per seven innings (12.4), and walks allowed per seven innings (.74). She was additionally seventh nationally in ERA (1.52), fifth in full video games (23), third in hits allowed per seven innings (3.82), and eleventh in victories with a 24-6 document. Johnson tallied wins over Energy 4 packages that made the NCAA Event like Arizona State and Georgia Tech.
Johnson was an enormous purpose why Belmont made the NCAA Event this season for the primary time ever. She was named MVP of the MVC Event, hanging out 35 batters and notching three wins in 18 innings of labor.
Belmont was eradicated by Virginia Tech within the Tuscaloosa Regional of the NCAA Event.
Throughout three seasons with the Bruins, Johnson posted a profession ERA of 1.63 and has piled up 757 strikeouts in 458 innings pitched.
Johnson ought to have a ton of curiosity from main packages. Out of highschool, she spent her freshman 12 months at Pitt however took a redshirt after not getting medically cleared to play due to her Lupus analysis. Johnson overcame that impediment and transferred to Belmont the place she blossomed right into a star. She is now a model ambassador for the Lupus Basis of America.
