Junior Mandi Roemmich (West Des Moines, Iowa) of the Drake University softball team was selected to the 2019 Division I Softball Google Cloud Academic All-American First Team. Roemmich is just the third Drake softball student-athlete and first since 2004 to be named a first team academic All-American.
 
Roemmich, who is from nearby West Des Moines and was a standout at West Des Moines Valley High School, has a 4.00 cumulative grade point average in Biology at Drake. She was the 2018 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year and is a three-time All-MVC honoree who has been named the MVC Elite 17 award winner at each of the last two MVC Tournaments. The MVC Elite 17 is awarded to the student-athlete with the highest GPA in the championship game. Roemmich has also been selected to the 2018 and 2019 MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team.
 
Roemmich started all 59 games at shortstop this past season and batted a team-high .380 behind a team-best 73 hits, including a league-leading 15 doubles along with a career-high 32 runs batted in and she has scored 54 runs, which is the most in single-season history at Drake.
 
Laurie Bowden (1992) and Katie Shimon (2004) are the other two Drake student-athletes to earn first team academic All-American honors.
 
The 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Baseball and Softball Teams, selected by CoSIDA, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The Google Cloud Academic All-America® program separately recognizes baseball and softball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
 
The 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division I Softball Teams feature 21 members with a 4.0 GPA and 31 members with at least a 3.90 GPA as either undergraduate or graduate student-athletes. The 12 members on the first team have an average GPA of 3.99.