BUIES CREEK, N.C. — After earning first team all-district III honors earlier in the month, Campbell University senior softball player Karlie Love recently attained second team All-America status on the ESPN The Magazine / Academic All-America ® University Softball Team the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Wednesday, May 27th.

She is the third member of the Campbell softball program to ever attain Academic All-America ® status and the first since Annie Lewis in 2001. Lewis was a first team selection in 2001 as was Denelle Hicks in both 1995 and 1996.

Playing first base for the Camels, Love posted a 3.85 grade point average in government through her academic career in Buies Creek. The Mt. Airy, N.C. native led the team and ranked among the conference leaders in numerous offensive categories in 2009. Love led the Camels with her .384 batting average, 58 hits, 16 home runs, 53 RBIs, .755 slugging percentage, 30 walks, .508 on-base percentage and nine game-winning RBIs.

The senior also ranked among the conference leaders in hit by pitch (t-1st), home runs (2nd), slugging percentage (3rd), runs-batted in (3rd), on-base percentage (4th), total bases (4th), batting average (5th), and walks (t-5th). Additionally she currently ranks among the national leaders in home runs (20th), home runs per game (26th), runs-batted in per game (26th) and slugging percentage (41st).

Love was named the Atlantic Sun's Player of the Week on Feb. 9th. In conference only games she hit .362 with 21 hits, four home runs and 12 RBIs.

For her outstanding efforts this season the Mt. Airy native was honored with a first-team spot on the Atlantic Sun's All-Conference Team for the first time in her career.

Love will also go down as one of the great hitters in Campbell softball history and ends her career ranking among the top 10 in the record books in home runs (29-2nd), walks (94-2nd), games played (241-2nd), RBIs (123-3rd), hit by pitch (30-3rd), slugging percentage (.485-5th), total bases (300-5th) and hits (185-10th).

She also garnered academic honors from the conference in each of her four seasons at Campbell and was a CoSIDA All-District honoree in each of the last two years. She became only the fifth Fighting Camel softball player to receive CoSIDA Academic All-District honors earlier this spring. Love is also only the third Campbell softball player to be a two-time selection along with Hicks and Melissa Mullins.

Campbell student-athletes have now earned Academic All-America® honors from CoSIDA 15 times since 1988, most recently before this selection was in 2006 when Devin Sheppard was selected in men's soccer.

Love, along with Lipscomb's Kellie Sirus (first team), represent Atlantic Sun Conference softball on CoSIDA's Academic All-America® teams this season.

CoSIDA's 1,800 members in the United States and Canada nominate players for ESPN The Magazine / Academic All-America® recognition. To be eligible, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average and be a starter or key reserve on his or her team. CoSIDA members vote on the all-district teams, and then a national panel selects the Academic All-America squads.