ROCKFORD, Ill. - The Rockford University softball team had a pair of players recognized on Monday morning when the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference released its 2022 postseason awards. Senior designated player Emily Cox and junior catcher Candace Kipp were both voted Second Team All-NACC by the conference's thirteen coaches. Both players have now received postseason recognition from the NACC multiple times.

Senior designated player Emily Cox earned the third postseason honor of her career from the conference, following a Second Team All-NACC selection this season. She was also named Second Team All-NACC in 2019 and NACC Honorable Mention in 2021. Cox had yet another outstanding year to conclude an amazing career in a Regent uniform. She hit .403 with a .507 on-base percentage and a .723 slugging percentage, to become one of just four players in the NACC to reach .400/.500/.700 at the plate this year. Cox finished in the top 20 in the conference in ten different categories, including five top ten rankings. She was second in the NACC in doubles (16) and walks (21), fourth in on-base percentage (.507), fifth in slugging percentage (.723), seventh in home runs (6), thirteenth in batting average (.403), fourteenth in hits (48), seventeenth in runs batted in (30) and triples (2) and eighteenth in runs scored (28). She also currently ranks 22nd in the country in doubles and 45th in doubles per game. Additionally, Cox broke or tied four school records this year. She became Rockford's all-time leader in home runs (18), tied the career doubles record (37), broke the school's single-season walks record (21) and tied the single-game doubles record (3). 

Junior catcher Candace Kipp was selected Second Team All-NACC for the 2022 season, one year after being named NACC Honorable Mention. This marks the second time this season that Kipp has received recognition from the conference, following her NACC Position Player of the Week award earlier in the year. Kipp burst onto the scene in 2022 for the Regents, finishing in the top 25 in the NACC in six different categories. She led the conference in doubles (17), was twelfth in slugging percentage (.619), fifteenth in home runs (4), twenty-first in hits (44), twenty-third in on-base percentage (.444) and twenty-fifth in runs batted in (26). She also currently ranks twelfth in the country in doubles and twenty-ninth in doubles per game. Additionally, Kipp tied a pair of Rockford University records this season. She tied the RU single-season doubles record (17) and tied the school's single-game home run record (2).