CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Eight Harvard softball players were recognized on Thursday as 2022 All-Ivy League selections. Anna Reed and Lauren Bobowski were first-team honorees, while Katie Arrambide, Morgan Melito, Trina Hoang and Madi Mays garnered second-team accolades. Allison Heffley and Kaitlin Lampson rounded out the group by landing on the honorable mention list.
 
The eight Crimson all-conference picks matched the program's total from the 2019 campaign and its two first-teamers were Harvard's most since 2018 when four were honored. The Crimson's second-team quartet marked its highest total since having seven in 2012. At the conference level, Harvard tied Princeton for the most award winners overall.
 
Reed was one of two starting pitchers on the first team after enjoying an Ivy season that saw her go 10-1, going the distance six times, and post a team-best 1.35 ERA. The sophomore, who led a Harvard pitching staff that recorded a 2.07 ERA, allowed more than two runs just once and set a career high in strikeouts (7) twice during the league campaign. The award is the first of her career.
 
Bobowski, another sophomore, hit .309 and was a menace on the basepaths, stealing an Ivy-best 11 bags in 13 attempts and scoring a team-best 18 runs, which ranked second among all Ivy players. The Macomb, Mich., native reached base 20 times in 21 games and played a near-flawless centerfield, making just two errors in 47 chances (.957 FLD%). Like Reed, this is Bobowski's first career honor.
 
With Arrambide on the second team, Harvard was the only school in the league to have a pair of starting pitchers voted to the top two squads (Princeton and Dartmouth each had one). The first-year finished Ivy play with a 1.83 ERA, while leading the team with three shutouts and two saves (tied with Lindsay G. Poulos). Overall, she went 5-4 and a posted a Crimson-best 1.07 WHIP. In a start at Yale, she fanned a career-high seven Bulldogs in a complete-game, two-hit, 1-0 victory.
 
Melito earned her second All-Ivy nod in her final season after being an honorable mention choice in 2019. The senior led Harvard in conference play in nearly offensive category, while being a consistent force amongst her Ivy peers, ranking in the top 10 in triples (2^nd; 2), on-base percentage (5^th; .457), walks (7^th; 10), RBI (8^th; 14), runs (8^th; 13), hits (9^th; 22), OPS (9^th; 1.040), slugging percentage (9^th; .583), batting average (10^th; .367) and home runs (10^th; 2). Melito also had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 21 conference games.
 
Hoang is also a two-time All-Ivy award winner after she, too, was an honorable mention selection in '19. The junior played a majority of the conference season at second base and recorded the third-most putouts on the team (23) en route to a .938 fielding percentage. Hoang was a threat to snag a bag when she was on base, going a perfect 7-for-7 to help the Crimson lead the league with 47 stolen bases, which outpaced its conference counterparts by 44.
 
Mays rounded out Harvard's second-team contingent, earning the nod at designated player. The sophomore hit .280 in conference games with a .767 OPS and led the Crimson with 16 RBI. Mays, a first-time all-league pick, had a big three-run home run in the first inning of Harvard's series-opening win at Columbia and polished off the Ivy season with at least one RBI in her final seven games, driving in a total of nine runs.
 
Heffley, a junior catcher, collected her first all-conference award, following a year in which she hit .328 with a team-high-tying two home runs and 14 RBI (tied for second). Hailing from Lemoore, Calif., Heffley produced an OPS of .889 and a flawless 1.000 fielding percentage. At one point during the Ivy season, Heffley had a 14-game hitting streak and hit .365 during that stretch.
 
Wrapping up Harvard's list of postseason award winners, Lampson secured her first Ivy League nod after hitting .304, while playing shortstop. The junior was 4-for-4 in stolen-base attempts in conference action and tied for the team lead in sacrifice hits (3). In the field, Lampson had a Crimson-high 39 assists and recorded a .909 fielding percentage.
 
In addition to the Ivy League postseason awards, the Ancient Eight also announced its Academic All-Ivy squad. Representing Harvard was Melito, who follows in the footsteps of Poulos after she was named to the 2021 squad.
 
Harvard, which tied for the fewest first-team selections despite finishing the regular season in second place, will return to action on Friday at noon ET when it opens the best-of-three Ivy League Playoff Series at Princeton. Game 2 is scheduled for Saturday at noon ET with Game 3 to follow, if necessary. All three contests will air on ESPN+.

2022 All-Ivy League First Team

Anna Reed, SP
Lauren Bobowski, OF 

2022 All-Ivy League Second Team

Katie Arrambide, SP
Morgan Melito, 1B
Trina Hoang, 2B
Madi Mays, DP

2022 Ivy League Honorable Mention

Allison Heffley, C
Kaitlin Lampson, SS

2022 Academic All-Ivy League

Morgan Melito, 1B