DAVIS, Calif. — UC Davis sophomore Brooke Yanez continued to make history on Wednesday, picking up All-America second team honors from Softball America to cap off a stellar 2019 season.

Yanez becomes the program's first All-American at the Division I level, the 13th Aggie to earn All-America honors overall dating back to 1986, and the first UC Davis student-athlete to make an All-America list since Susan Churchwell and Amy Rosson earned All-America honors from numerous outlets in 2003.

Now a two-time NFCA all-region selection, earning second-team honors in 2018 and first-team laurels in 2019, Yanez followed up her Big West Conference Freshman Pitcher of the Year award in 2018 with the league's Pitcher of the Year trophy this past season, earning a spot on the All-Big West first team for the second straight year as well.

Yanez wrapped up one of the most successful seasons by an Aggie in the circle, finishing the regular season with a 25-7 overall record and a 1.03 ERA, going the distance in 25 of her 35 appearances and posting seven shutouts.

Thanks to a pair of double-digit strikeout performances in the final Big West series of the season at Hawai'i, Yanez established a new benchmark for single-season strikeouts in the program's Division I history with 273 — a total that also ranks third on the school's all-time list and eighth in Big West history — while her 18 strikeouts in the series opener against Hawai'i tied Jessica Hancock's Division I school single-game record (also against the Rainbow Wahine) in 2009.

Along the way, Yanez established new program Division single-season records for ERA, strikeouts per seven innings (9.38), and victories, while ending the regular season ranked among the top 30 in the NCAA in ERA (No. 6), strikeouts (No. 7), strikeouts per seven innings (No. 14), wins (No. 14), fewest hits allowed per seven innings (No. 26), and shutouts (No. 28).

Among the Big West leaders, Yanez led the league in ERA, strikeouts, complete games, shutouts, and wins, while standing second in batting average against (.179), innings pitched (203.2), strikeouts looking (45), fewest runs allowed (44), and fewest earned runs allowed (30).

While Yanez dominated in the circle, UC Davis also wrapped up its most successful Division I campaign to date, finishing the year with a 39-14 overall record and a 13-8 mark in Big West play to finish third. Among the numerous individual marks, this year's version of the Aggies set nine school Division I single-season records at the plate, new marks for both winning (.736) and fielding percentage (.970), and three more in the circle.

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