ASHLEY JACOBSEN OF TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, a junior second baseman from Marion, Texas, led the SCAC during the regular season with a .489 batting average and also leads the league in on-base percentage (.496), slugging percentage (.664), hits (64), runs scored (39), triples (3) and stolen bases (17). She is third in the league with 11 doubles. Her 64 hits are already the fourth-most in a SCAC single season and her current batting average puts her on pace for the fifth-best season in that category in league history. An ASC All-West Division First Team selection last season, Jacobsen stole 42 bases and scored 59 runs – both school records – as a sophomore.

Jacobsen received six votes in the SCAC Player-of-the-Year balloting, while junior catcher Caitlynn Dykes, the 2012 SCAC Player-of-the-Year, received the remaining first-place vote.