The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced the 2026 NAIA Softball All-Americans and Dordt has three athletes honored following a record setting year, ending with a 42-14 record and the program’s second berth in the NAIA National Championship field.
Chloe Kreuz (Junior; Rutherfordton, North Carolina) and Rylee Yager (Freshman; Estherville, Iowa) were both named to the NAIA All-America First Team and Lauren Steenstra (Senior; Wyoming, Michigan) earned third team honors.
Kreuz was earlier named to the All-GPAC First Team for the third time and is the 2026 GPAC Player of the Year. She batted .470 this season with 93 hits, 19 doubles, eight triples, 20 homeruns, 68 runs batted in, 74 runs scored, a .949 slugging percentage and 23 stolen bases. She also had 188 total bases. She is already Dordt’s career hits leader and had a 7-1 win-loss record with a 2.77 earned run average in the circle. Kreuz established Dordt single season records in batting average, hits, triples, homeruns, total bases, slugging percentage and runs scored.
Yager was also named to the GPAC First Team and was named the GPAC Freshman of the Year. She posted a 22-10 pitching record with a 2.59 earned run average with two saves, 202 innings pitched with 226 strikeouts. Her wins, innings pitched and strikeouts are new Dordt single season records. She batted .470 with 87 hits, 55 runs scored with eight doubles and 31 stolen bases. She shares the single season batting average record with Kreuz.
Steenstra was a GPAC First Team selection this season and had a .400 batting average with 19 doubles, 13 home runs and 82 runs batted in. Her rbi total is a new school record and ranked third in the NAIA. Steenstra leaves Dordt as the co-leader in career homeruns with 34 and she’s the career leader in rbi with 173.
Dordt’s previous players earning NAIA All-American recognition are:
Sarah Seymour 2010 Honorable Mention
Ella Koster 2023 2nd Team
Abby Kraemer 2023 Honorable Mention
