Jackie Mangola named First Team All-America by National Fastpitch Coaches Association

By: Tim Glon

ADA — Ohio Northern junior Jackie Mangola (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley) was named First Team All-America in softball for 2011 by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
Mangola is now a two-time NFCA All-American, earning First Team All-America as a sophomore in 2010.

She is also three-time First Team All-OAC award winner and is the first Polar Bear to be named OAC Player of the Year twice in her career.

Mangola set ONU single-season records with 21 home runs, 37 walks, a 1.140 slugging percentage and a .627 on-base percentage this season.

She also led Ohio Northern in batting average (.491) and total bases (130).

She was also second on the squad with 49 runs scored and 60 RBI.

Mangola has started all 144 games in her career at second base.

Mangola is ONU's all-time career home runs leader with 41 and ranks third in RBI (154), is fourth in base hits (179) and is fifth in doubles (37).

The Polar Bears went 27-14, won the OAC Regular Season title with a 14-4 mark and participated in the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2011 under first-year head coach Kim Burke.