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 </figure><div>Hutchinson CC Sports Information
Hutchinson Community College freshman softball center fielder&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bluedragonsports.com/sports/sball/2024-25/bios/kruger_kaibryn_wwcp">Kaibryn Kruger</a>&nbsp;was a second-team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association on Monday.
The freshman from Silver Lake was one of the leaders of the 2025 Blue Dragon Softball team that went 37-11 this past season and won its second Jayhawk Conference championship in the past three seasons.
Last week, Kruger was named to the NFCA All-West Region team. She was also named to the second team of the 2025 All-Jayhawk Conference teams earlier this season.
Kruger becomes the fifth Blue Dragon to earn NFCA All-America honors. Joining Jaeleigh Darnell (Outfield) and Dakota Lake (Pitcher) from last season, this is the first time in program history that Blue Dragon Softball has had NFCA All-Americans in consecutive seasons.
The freshman from Silver Lake was second on the team in batting this season with a .456 average. Kruger was 73 for 160 with 13 doubles, six triples and seven home runs. She drove in 51 runs and scored 76, which is third-most in Blue Dragon single-season history.
Kruger's .456 batting average was eighth-best in Blue Dragon single-season history. Her 73 hits were ninth most on the Blue Dragon single-season hits list.
Kruger was 40 of 42 in stolen-base attempts this season, which is No. 3 on the Blue Dragon single-season list.
Kruger matched&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bluedragonsports.com/sports/sball/2024-25/bios/backhaus_bailey_44zk">Bailey Backhaus</a>&nbsp;for the longest hitting streak this season at 16 and she will carry a 43-game streak of reach base into next season.
Kruger had 24 multi-hit games, including a season-high four hits against Seward County on March 12.
Kruger had two games with four steals &ndash; Fort Hays Tech Northwest on March on and Labette on March 9 &ndash; to establish a new Blue Dragon single-game record for steals.
BLUE DRAGON/NFCA ALL-AMERICANS 2025 &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bluedragonsports.com/sports/sball/2024-25/bios/kruger_kaibryn_wwcp">Kaibryn Kruger</a>, outfielder: 2nd Team 2024 &ndash; Jaeleigh Darnell, outfield: 1st Team 2024 &ndash; Dakota Lake, pitcher: 2nd Team 2016 &ndash; Holly Kelley, pitcher: 2nd Team 2014 &ndash; Sarah Rothe, catcher: 1st Team</div>

🥎 HutchCC's Kruger named NFCA 2nd-Team All-American