GREENWOOD, Ind. – Five members of the Saint Joseph's softball team have been named 2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District as announced by the organization on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Sarah Cancila, Sierra Fretz, Hailey Malito, Meghan Sinkus and Taylor Trowbridge earned the honor. Malito was selected by CSC as a finalist for Academic All-America. She is one of seven Atlantic-10 players who will now be entered into a vote by organization members for AAA honors.
 
To be eligible, student-athletes must have achieved sophomore standing or higher and have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above. Position players must have played in 90 percent of team games or started 66 percent of team games. Pitchers must have appeared in 17 contests or pitched 35 innings.
 
Malito was First Team All-Atlantic 10 for a year where she ranked sixth in A-10 in slugging and OPS, seventh in walks and 11th in RBI. Overall, she hit .333 with three homers and 32 RBI. She collected her 100th career hit as her first career homerun in a hometown game at Loyola Chicago.
 
In the classroom Malito graduates with a 3.69 GPA in HR and people management and was on the Atlantic-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll three times.
 
Fretz was also First Team All-A-10, ranking fourth in the conference in homeruns, sixth in slugging, seventh in OPS and 10th in RBI. She led A-10 and was in the top-60 nationally in HBP (12). She hit .282 and her 10 homeruns are fourth in a season in team history. She had five consecutive hits that went over the fence from March 26-April 9 and only committed one error in 189 total chances combined between catcher and third base.
 
Fretz graduates with a 3.48 GPA in chemical biology. She was also CSC Academic All-District in 2023 at UAlbany.
 
Cancila became the 27th player in Saint Joseph's history with 150 career hits and finished 20th with 161. Her 37 walks are second all-time in a single season at SJU and her 41 runs scored are fifth. Overall, she hit .302 with three homers and 22 RBI, ranking eighth in the A-10 in OBP, fifth in runs scored, fourth in walks and ninth in SB.
 
A three-time member of the Atlantic-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, Cancila is a nominee for Allstate NACDA Good Works Team and graduates with a 3.57 GPA in health sciences.
 
Trowbridge was a two-time A-10 Pitcher of the Week and was on the Atlantic-10 All-Tournament Team. She finished sixth in A-10 in IP, 10th in ERA, seventh in strikeouts, seventh in wins and sixth in complete games.
 
On the Atlantic-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll twice in her career, she has a 3.83 GPA as a political science major.
 
Sinkus hit .280 and was fifth in A-10 triples, ninth in at-bats and sixth in A-10 sac flies. She collected her 100th career hit during the season and had six RBI against Saint Bonaventure, most in a game for SJU since 2021.
 
The junior has been on the Atlantic-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll twice and has a 3.57 GPA as an international business major.