Cunningham Honored as Landmark Conference Softball Senior Scholar-Athlete
TOWSON, Md. --- Moravian University senior pitcher Madi Cunningham has been honored as the 2024 Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete for Softball.
TOWSON, Md. --- Moravian University senior pitcher Madi Cunningham has been honored as the 2024 Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete for Softball.
The Landmark Conference selects 23 senior scholar athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics. The honorees must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators and sports information directors. Chosen at the conclusion of each sport season, the six winter honorees are being announced this week.
"Congratulations to Madi on being named Landmark Softball Senior Scholar-Athlete," stated Head Coach Josh Baltz. "Madi is a great competitor on the softball field and especially inside the circle. She has that same competitive nature with her academics. To graduate in three years and accomplish everything she has on the field and off is very impressive."
This spring, Cunningham helped the Greyhounds to a 31-10 record, a Landmark Conference Championship and the program's 20th appearance in the NCAA Division III Tournament as Moravian hosted for a regional for the first time. Cunningham was honored on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III All-Region V First Team, the Landmark All-Conference Second Team and the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Regional All-Tournament team. Cunningham posted an 18-3 mark in the circle in 2024 to go with five shutouts, 18 complete games, 82 strikeouts, just 17 walks and a 1.83 earned run average in 130 innings of action. She also had ten hits, 11 runs, two doubles, a homer and seven RBIs at the plate to go along with eight putouts and 26 assists in the field
In 2023, Cunningham was a key part in the Hounds' 38-12 squad that won the Landmark Conference title, the NCAA Division III Medford, Massachusetts Regional and the NCAA Division III Cambridge, Massachusetts Super Regional while earning a trip to the NCAA Division III Championship Finals in Texas. Cunningham garnered spots on the NFCA All-Region V First Team and the Landmark All-Conference First Team, and she was also honored as the Landmark Conference Tournament's Most Outstanding Player and the Cambridge, Massachusetts Super Regional Most Outstanding Pitcher and earned a spot on the Medford, Massachusetts Regional All-Tournament Team. Cunningham recorded an 18-7 record in the circle in 2023 with six shutouts, 23 complete games, 95 strikeouts, 30 walks and a 2.14 ERA in 177 innings of work. She collected 15 hits, 15 runs, three doubles, a homer and seven RBIs at the plate to go with eight putouts and 43 assists.
In 2022, Cunningham helped Moravian to a 29-5 record and a berth in the Landmark Conference Championship game. Cunningham was selected as the Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year and earned spots on the Landmark All-Conference First Team and the NFCA All-Region V Second Team. She registered a 17-1 record in the circle with one save, three shutouts, 14 complete games, 83 strikeouts, just 17 walks and a 2.18 ERA in 118.2 innings of action. Cunningham also hit .359 with 14 hits, 11 runs, two doubles, five homers and 13 RBIs to go with one putout and 24 assists.
In her career, Cunningham posted a 53-11 record with one save, 14 shutouts, three no-hitters with one perfect game, 54 complete games, 260 strikeouts, 64 walks and a 2.06 ERA in 425.2 innings of action. Despite playing just three seasons, Cunningham ranks fifth in winning percentage (.828), seventh in victories, eighth in strikeouts and tenth in innings pitched in the Moravian record book. At the plate, Cunningham had 39 hits, 37 runs, seven doubles, seven homers and 27 RBIs in her career to go along with 17 putouts and 93 assists in the field.
]Off the diamond, Cunningham made Moravian's Dean's Honors List all six times as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. She will be a two-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll. Cunningham graduated in three years with a bachelor's degree in economics and finance and a minor in art as she posted a career 3.98 grade point average. Cunningham was selected to the 2023 NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete, and she is a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree. Cunningham was also an economics tutor on campus as well as a teachers assistant for America Reads.
Cunningham is Moravian's 42nd Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete since the conference began in 2007-08, and she is the fifth softball student-athlete to be honored.
