Megan Good & Jailyn Ford Earn All America Honors
Megan Good
The headline pretty much says it all. Never in the history of JMU softball has a player been named to the National Fast Pitch Coaches All-America team. Now two have. Sophomore sensation Megan Ford and Jailyn Ford, the greatest player in program history, both made the first team. Both players had earned All America status before, but never first team. Good was second team last year, while Ford made second team in 2014, and third team last season.
Not only were Ford and Good deserving of All America recognition, their selection is further proof that JMU’s top 10 ranking and rise to national prominence was no fluke. Coach Mickey Dean is building a championship contender and he’s doing it with top tier talent. As a pitcher, Good lead the nation in wins with 32 and had an era of 0.94. Ford went 18-3 with a 1.03 ERA. And she wasn’t bad with a bat in her hand either, leading the team in homers, triples, total bases, and slugging.
The loss to LSU still stings, but it shouldn’t overshadow the fact that the JMU softball team as a whole had a season for the ages. And that was largely due to the outstanding duo of Megan Good and Jailyn Ford.
Well deserved honor for these 2 young ladies. Both Ford and Good are great players but more importantly first-class people just like everything about the JMU softball program (players, coaches, facilities, character, you name).
Yes! 🙂
Ugh. Tired of these posts
@Bhagavan: you must really hate teams that actually win more than 0 (FB and MBB) postseason games as opposed to teams that either can’t or, because they know they can’t, don’t even bother to have expectations….
Not sure in what world you live, but find something in life that makes you less pissed off than reading about successful JMU teams.
Don’t like them? Too bad.
Uh, did someone pee in his wheaties!? Anyway, enjoyed watching them play and look forward to next year. What a great bunch of athletes.
Haha. The blog writers can thank me for creating a little controversy and giving reason for there to actually be more than 4 replies to one of their posts.
Just ignore him guys. He consistently comments about how much he doesn’t like what we write, yet never seems to leave.