CLEVELAND, Ohio – Senior Chandler Rice (Louisville, Ohio) was awarded a spot on the All-Mid-American Conference First Team at second base, the league office announced Tuesday. The All-MAC teams were determined from voting by the league's 12 head coaches.

    "Chandler is extremely well deserving of this honor," said Head Coach Kristen Butler. "She puts in a lot of time and effort toward improving her game. She's been an outstanding leader for our team and it was a pleasure coaching her for the past three years. I'm looking forward to seeing what she will accomplish in her future endeavors."
 
    The senior led Toledo this year in batting average (.392), at bats (194), runs (49), hits (76), doubles (16), triples (2), home runs (12), RBI (39), total bases (132), slugging percentage (.680), on-base percentage (.454), stolen bases (21) and fielding percentage (.992). Rice finished the season as the only athlete in the conference to rank Top-5 in 12 offensive statistical categories and led the MAC in hits, total bases, plate appearances and at bats. She was a first-team All-MAC selection in 2014 and 2016, an All-Freshman Team selection in 2014, and a five-time MAC Player of the Week.
 
    Rice finished her career with seven entries in Toledo's all-time individual game records, 19 entries in UT's single season records (12 of which came from her senior season), and 14 entries in the all-time career records. The Louisville, Ohio native ranks first all-time at UT with 132 total bases in 2017, 49 runs scored in 2017, .531 career slugging percentage, 50 career doubles and 365 career total bases.
 
Click here to see Toledo's All-Time Softball Record Book.
 
    She is also represented in the MAC Softball Record Book 10 times, with three entries in the individual single game records, one spot in the single season records, and six rankings in the league's all-time career records.

    Rice graduated from UT this past Sunday, May 7 with degrees in human resource management and organizational leadership and was honored with the University of Toledo's 2016-17 Women's Most Valuable Player award. The two-time MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete consistently excelled in the classroom and was awarded with 2016-17 College Sports Information Directors of American Academic All-District® second-team honors.
 
Chandler Rice in MAC All-Time Softball Record Book
Individual Single Game Records
T-1. 3 doubles vs. Savannah State (2/19/17)
T-3. 2 home runs vs. Tulsa (2/17/17) and at EMU (4/5/16)
 
Individual Single Season Records
T-13. 76 hits (2017)
 
Individual Career Records
8. 50 doubles (2014-17)
9. 244 hits (2014-17)
10. .531 slugging percentage (2014-17)
T-21. 132 runs (2014-17)
24. 121 RBI (2014-17)
T-48. 21 home runs (2014-17)
 
2017 All-MAC First Team
Bekah Harnish, Northern Illinois, C
Kayti Grable, Northern Illinois, 1B
Maddy Labrador, Ball State, 2B
Chandler Rice, Toledo, 2B
Maddy Grimm, Kent State, 3B
Kat Lee, Miami, 3B
Mikayla Cooper, Ohio, SS
Ashley Sims, Akron, OF
Allison Curtis, Central Michigan, OF
Bailey Brownfield, Kent State, OF
Rachael Knapp, Central Michigan, P
Savannah Jo Dorsey, Ohio, P
Maison Kalina, Central Michigan, UT
Morgan Geno, Ohio, UT
Ronnie Ladines, Kent State, UT/P