LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Missouri Southern softball student-athletes Kiki Pickens and Bailey Dillon were named 2026 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II All-Americans, the Association revealed Wednesday morning.
 
Pickens was named a Second Team All-American by both the NFCA and the Division II Conference Commissioners Association Wednesday, while Dillon was tabbed a Third Team All-American by the NFCA. 
 
For Dillon, it marks her second-consecutive All-American honors after also being selected to the NFCA Third Team in 2025.

For Pickens, the All-American honors are the first in her career.
 
Missouri Southern was one of seven programs to have two NFCA All-Americans in 2026.
 
The NFCA All-America teams are voted on by the Association's All-America Committees. In Division II, the committee is comprised of one member head coach from each of the NCAA's eight regions. All student-athletes who were nominated by a member head coach and voted to the first- or second-team All-Region squads were eligible for All-America consideration.
 
 
2026 NFCA Division II Second Team All-American, 2026 D2CCA Secon Team All-American - Pitcher: Kiki Pickens 
#25 | Jr. | Beebe, Ark. | Pitcher
 
Kiki Pickens, the 2026 MIAA Pitcher of the Year and 2026 MIAA Championship Tournament Most Outstanding Player, leads the Lions and the MIAA with 26 wins (25-3 in 2026, 9-1 in MIAA in 2026) over 182.1 innings (third in MIAA).
 
She ranks first in the MIAA for opposing batting average (.189), first for hits allowed per seven innings (4.80, first in MIAA, 14th in NCAA DII), third for strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.29), second for strikeouts per seven innings (7.3), first for WHIP (0.98), first for ERA (1.73) and second for strikeouts (191).

In league play, Pickens paced the MIAA for ERA (1.48) and opposing batting average (.129), was second for wins (9) and was third for strikeouts (70).
 
Pickens started all three games of the 2026 MIAA Championship Tournament, posting a 0.81 ERA with a 2-0 mark over 17.1 innings with 23 strikeouts. She tossed a complete game in the opener against Washburn and limited opposing batters to a .156 batting average over the Tournament. 

Over 38 total appearances (second in MIAA, 29 starts, third in MIAA) in 2026, the junior from Beebe, Arkansas, has a 1.00 WHIP, 14 complete games (fourth in MIAA), three shutouts and a save.

The 2026 Central First Team All-Region player by both the NFCA and D2CCA has been named MIAA Pitcher of the Week twice in 2026 and was featured on the 2026 NFCA Division II Player and Pitcher of the Year watchlist.
 
The All-American honor is the first in Pickens' career.


 
2026 NFCA Division II Third Team All-American - At-Large-Outfield: Bailey Dillon
#6 | So. | Lenexa, Kan. | Left Fielder
 
Bailey Dillon, a 2026 All-MIAA First Team selection, leads MSSU at the dish, batting .422 (fourth in the MIAA) with 63 runs (third in MIAA), 87 hits (second in MIAA), 11 doubles, four triples (sixth in MIAA), three home runs, 28 RBI, 115 total bases (eighth in MIAA), and MSSU program-record 48 stolen bases (second in MIAA, 0.79 per game).
 
She has an OPS of 1.041 (.558 SLG, .483 OB%). The sophomore from Lenexa, Kansas, has started all 61 games in left field.

The Lions leadoff hitter batted .438 in MIAA play (.494 OB%, .538 SLG%), was third for triples (3) and was fourth with 24 runs and 35 hits.
 
Dillon leads the Lions with 27 multi-hit games. She went on a team-high 28-game reached base streak (13-game hitting streak) in 2026 and has six multi-RBI games this season.

The 2026 Central First Team All-Region player by both the NFCA and D2CCA was named the MIAA Hitter of the Week once in 2026.
 
 
2026 NFCA DII All-Americans
Fifty-five student-athletes from 41 different institutions were voted to one of three 2026 NFCA Division II All-America teams.
 
Twelve All-Americans hailing from six programs are representing their teams at the 2026 NCAA Division II Championships, which begins on May 28 at Frost Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee.