Candace Kipp Named Second Team All-NACC

The Rockford University softball team had a pair of players recognized on Monday morning when the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference released its 2022 postseason awards. Senior designated player Emily Cox and junior catcher Candace Kipp were both voted Second Team All-NACC by the conference's thirteen coaches. Both players have now received postseason recognition from the NACC multiple times.

Junior catcher Candace Kipp was selected Second Team All-NACC for the 2022 season, one year after being named NACC Honorable Mention. This marks the second time this season that Kipp has received recognition from the conference, following her NACC Position Player of the Week award earlier in the year. Kipp burst onto the scene in 2022 for the Regents, finishing in the top 25 in the NACC in six different categories. She led the conference in doubles (17), was twelfth in slugging percentage (.619), fifteenth in home runs (4), twenty-first in hits (44), twenty-third in on-base percentage (.444) and twenty-fifth in runs batted in (26). She also currently ranks twelfth in the country in doubles and twenty-ninth in doubles per game. Additionally, Kipp tied a pair of Rockford University records this season. She tied the RU single-season doubles record (17) and tied the school's single-game home run record (2).