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2024 CUSA Commissioner’s Academic Medal
2024 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
2023 Academic All-District (CSC)
2023 CUSA Commissioner’s Academic Medal
2023 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
2022 CUSA Commissioner’s Academic Medal

FIU Athletics Paw'dcast Episode 18 | Bouncing Back with Softball's Brooke McCann and Women's Basketball's Fantasia James 

2024 (Medical Redshirt): Suffered season-ending injury during the preseason.

2023 (Sophomore): Saw action in a total of 50 games, while making 42 starts as one of the Panthers’ primary outfielders…posted a .267 batting average while recording 31 hits, including five doubles…scored 14 runs and tabbed 13 RBI…was a perfect 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts…recorded multiple hits in seven games…drove in a pair of runs in three contests…only committed one error over 71 chances…had a pair of assists from the outfield.

2022 (Freshman): Saw action in a total of 42 games, while making 30 starts in the outfield for the Panthers during her freshman campaign…recorded a .221 batting average and a .572 OPS…scored a total of 13 runs and tabbed four RBI…tabbed a pair of extra base hits…committed just three errors over 63 chances in the field…tabbed multiple hits in five contests...was a 2022 Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll member.

Community Service/Academics: Completed 100 hours of community service… Volunteered at an elementary school and softball clinics… Majoring in Physical Education with a concentration in sports and fitness… Principal’s honor rolls all four years of high school.

Prep: Timber Creek Softball District and Regional champions in 2018… Timber Creek Softball district runner up in 2019 & 2021… Third place with Firecrackers Sewell at PGF Nationals in 2017… First place in Impact Affrunti at Colorado Sparkler in 2021… Made the All-Metro team in 2020… .459 batting average in 2019… .556 batting average in 2020… .327 batting average and three home runs in 2021.

Personal: Her parent is named Dawn Henkel… Has three older siblings and two younger siblings… Born in Toms River, New Jersey… Currently lives in Orlando, Florida… Graduated from Timber Creek High School in Orlando… Favorite Major League Baseball team is the Yankees…  Favorite place to eat in Miami is The Habit… Favorite place to visit in Miami is the beach.