AUSTIN, Texas – HBU senior
Demi Janak has been named to the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America
® Division I softball third team for the second consecutive year announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
Janak led the Huskies with a .301 batting average while belting six home runs with 23 runs scored and 20 runs batted in during her senior campaign. In 133 at-bats on the year, the senior struck out just nine times. For her career, Janak totaled 25 home runs to stand alone in fourth place on the HBU all-time records list.
Janak maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average while majoring in accounting and was a third team Google Cloud Academic All-America selection last season. Janak is the second HBU softball player to earn back-to-back Academic All-America, joining Lori Denmark who was selected in 1994 and 1995. This also marks the third-straight year in which HBU has been represented on the team with
Cecilia Bauer earning a spot in 2017.
Janak is joined on the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America team by one other Southland Conference student-athlete, Sam Houston State's Lindsey McLeod. She is the third HBU student-athlete to earn Academic All-America honors this season in addition to volleyball's Kayla Davenport and women's basketball's Amanda Johnson.
