GREENSBORO, N.C. – Brooke Goyings (Lake Villa, Ill.), Shiloh Gray (Lexington, N.C.), Kaci Johnson (Winterville, N.C.), and Dillon Northen (Kernersville, N.C.) represented the Guilford College Softball team on the Collegiate Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team, as announced by the organization on Tuesday.

In order to qualify for the honor in softball, student-athletes must be at least an academic and athletic sophomore, maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher in the classroom. Meanwhile on the field, a player must appear in 90 percent of the team's games or start in 66 percent of them, with the lone exception being for pitchers who must make 17 appearances in the circle, or throw 25.0 innings or more. No more than five student-athletes may be nominated per school.

With a breakout sophomore season, Goyings established herself as the Quakers everyday second baseman this spring with a productive season at the keystone position. She was steady this season for GC across 37 games and 32 starts, slashing .289/.337/.356 with four doubles and a triple. The sophomore came around to score on 15 occasions, tied for third-most on the team, while driving in seven runs and going 5-of-7 on steal attempts. A steady defender, the Illinois native finished as the team-leader in putouts, with 79, and second in assists, with 39, to post a .937 fielding percentage. In the classroom, Goyings is a member of the Guilford Forensic Biology program, in which she owns a 3.55 cumulative GPA.

A back-to-back Academic All-District honoree for the Quakers, Gray adds the honor to her second-straight All-ODAC Third Team selection this spring. While not to her previously set, lofty standards in the circle, Gray contributed a productive season pitching-wise, throwing a team-high 93.0 innings over 18 appearances with a 4.89 ERA and 1.60 WHIP and completing ten of her 16 starts. She went 6-9 when toeing the slab, finishing tied for the team-lead in wins and finished with a team-high 48 strikeouts on a 2.29 K-to-BB ratio. Meanwhile, the senior took a huge leap forward at the plate, pacing the team in batting average as a part of her robust .406/.468/.490 triple slash with eight doubles. Scoring a dozen times and driving in 15 runs, Gray had more than twice as many walks, 11, as she did strikeouts, five, while batting and was tied for the team-lead with 39 hits. Like Goyings, Gray is studying Forensic Biology at GC and finished her undergraduate degree with a 3.82 GPA.

Johnson emerged as arguably Guilford's most prolific run-producer and power hitter this spring before her season ended early to study abroad, making the most of her 33 games and 32 starts beforehand. Slashing .315/.373/.551, the bashing right fielder was second on the team in slugging percentage and led the squad in home runs, with four, and triples, with three, despite the abbreviated campaign. The left-handed swinging Johnson was second on the Quakers driving in 17 runs while also scoring 11 times. Now a CSC Academic All-District honoree in two separate sports, earning the distinction in volleyball last fall, Johnson checks in with a 3.57 GPA while studying Exercise & Sports Sciences.

Performing as the most reliable arm in the Quakers' pitching staff this spring, Northen had a breakthrough third season in the cardinal and grey. In 18 outings including six starts, the right-hander tossed 56.1 innings, earning a team-best 6-3 win-loss mark in the process. Pacing GC in ERA, at 3.23, and WHIP, at 1.56, Northen fanned 29 batters with a 2.07 K-to-BB ratio. She finished with a complete game in three of her six starts and had one of the two complete game shutouts by a Quaker pitcher this spring while tossing in a save as well. A second-time Academic All-District honoree, Northen's GPA stands at 3.87 in the Guilford Biology program.

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