Eight Buckeyes Earn NFCA All-Region Honors
5/15/2025 2:12:00 PM | Softball
Jasmyn Burns, Kami Kortokrax and Reagan Milliken are first team selections
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A program-record eight Ohio State Buckeyes took home NFCA All-Great Lakes Region honors on Thursday afternoon on the eve of the NCAA Tournament.
Jasmyn Burns, Reagan Milliken and Kami Kortokrax earned first team honors, Taylor Cruse was chosen for the second team and Skylar Limon, Hadley Parisien, Morgan Frye and Kaitlyn Farley were third team honorees. The Buckeyes' eight selections were the most of any team in the region, which is comprised of 34 teams from 10 different conferences. The Big Ten members in the region are Indiana, Michigan, Northwestern and Wisconsin.
Kortokrax earned all-region honors for the third time in her career. She had previously been a third-team selection in 2023 and 2024. A three-time All-Big Ten choice as well, Kortokrax is hitting .360 this season with 18 home runs, 46 RBI, 56 runs scored and has a .749 slugging percentage.
Burns was one of five unanimous first team All-Big Ten honorees last week and is among the national leaders in home runs (23), RBI (70), batting average (.467) and slugging percentage (1.026). Like Kortokrax, she was a third-team all-region choice last season.
Milliken was a first-year starter at first base in 2025 and is among the Big Ten leaders in RBI (71) while also batting .318 with 18 home runs, 14 doubles and a .716 slugging percentage. She's already set a single-season program record with 22 multi-RBI games this season.
Cruse, a sophomore, has a breakout season this spring and enters the NCAA Tournament with 15 home runs, 52 RBI and a .791 slugging percentage from her position as the team's No. 9 hitter in the lineup. Over half of her home runs (eight) have come against teams with an RPI in the top 75 nationally.
Farley, a senior, has started nearly every game of her career at second base and at the plate this season is batting a career-best .329 with 44 RBI and 49 runs scored. She's joined on the third team by Frye, a graduate student who in her one season with the Buckeyes made an instant impact to the tune of a .385 batting average, 11 home runs, 35 RBI and a .547 on-base percentage. The two other third-team members were Limon, whose .375 batting average is the third-best on the team, and Parisien, a transfer from Miami University who has scored a team-best 61 runs and hit .284 with 18 RBI against RPI top-75 teams.
The Buckeyes (43-12-1) are the No. 2 seed in this weekend's Knoxville Regional at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on the campus of the University of Tennessee. They'll face third-seeded North Carolina on Friday at 4 p.m. in their tournament opener. The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU.
