Newsstand: Three Michigan softball players enter NCAA transfer portal
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Following the Wolverines’ disappointing exit in the NCAA Tournament, two of Michigan’s most key softball players — pitcher Alex Storako and catcher Hannah Carson — have entered the transfer portal. Both earned All-Big Ten honors this season. A third in freshman pitcher and utility player Annabelle Widra has also entered the portal.
This past season, Storako finished with a 25-8 record, a 1.71 ERA and a career-high 300 strikeouts (fourth nationally) in 200.1 innings. She was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Year.
Carson led Michigan with 37 RBIs and added five home runs and a .329 batting average, earning second-team All-Big Ten honors.
She just finished her fourth year at Michigan, and told TheWolverine.com last fall that she wants to pursue a master’s degree but was undecided on exactly where that would be.
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“I would love to go into sports psychology and maybe play a fifth year somewhere, but that’s still up in the air,” Carson said. “I would love to work with high school athletes, college athletes and then eventually professional athletes in sports psychology.”
Widra pitched 32.1 innings last season, and posted a 1.73 ERA.
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Michigan Wolverines football and baseball two-sport athlete Joey Velazquez is having a nice spring. For the first time in his career, he was full time with football during the spring, but now that the Wolverines’ spring practices are over, he’s fully engulfed in baseball. Michigan needs to win the Big Ten Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament, and Velazquez helped the Maize and Blue advance into the winner’s bracket late Thursday night/Friday morning. He drove home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning in the 7-5 victory over Illinois.
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