Fort Lewis College Athletics

Shanks earns Gold Glove, Stone named Second-Team All-RMAC

5/1/2024 2:00:00 PM

By: Hayden Mangan, Assistant AD-Communications & Fan Engagement

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced its 2024 Softball All-Conference awards Wednesday afternoon with junior pitcher Amiee Shanks being named to the league's Gold Glove team while senior second basemen Kayla Stone picked up Second-Team All-RMAC honors.

Shanks, a native of Tucson, Ariz., and a graduate of Canyon Del Oro High School nabs her first Gold Glove award to pair with her All-RMAC Honorable Mention and RMAC First-Team All-Academic accolades from last season.

Standing at five-foot-seven, Shanks boasted a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage for the year with 78 catches, 73 attempts, five putouts, and four double-plays. Shanks led the Skyhawks pitching staff with a 4.12 earned run average on 166.1 innings pitch, the second most in the RMAC, with 70 strikeouts.

In addition, Shanks closed out the regular season tied for the second-most complete games in all of NCAA Division II with 24 while also tying for the 64^th-most pitching appearances with 31.

Stone picked up her second-straight all-conference award and improved to a Second-Team All-RMAC selection after earning an honorable mention nod last season in her first year at Fort Lewis. A product of Salinas High School in Salinas, Calif., and a transfer from Monterey Peninsula College, Stone was one of the best hitters in the league all season.

Starting in all 46 of her games played for the Skyhawks, Stone posted the conference's fourth-best on-base percentage (.519), fifth-best batting average (.442), fifth-best on-base plus slugging percentage (1.316), eighth-best slugging percentage (.797), and racked up the seventh-most doubles with 16. Stone's marks are also good for the 33^rd-best slugging percentage, 36^th-best on-base percentage, and 37^th-best batting average in NCAA DII.

Colorado Mesa, crowned the regular season conference champions, took home three of the four yearly awards including RMAC Player of the Year Myah Arrieta, RMAC Pitcher of the Year Preslee Christensen, and RMAC Coach of the Year Mercedes Bohte. Colorado Christian's Elyse McMullin was named the RMAC Freshmen of the Year.

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