COLUMBIA, Mo. – On Wednesday, the Southeastern Conference announced the 2021 Softball Community Service Team. Mizzou was represented by redshirt-junior Katherine Kadlec. This is the second time Kadlec has been named to the Community Service Team. She also received the honor during the 2020 season.
Katherine Kadlec has served with a variety of outlets since stepping on campus. The Columbia, Missouri native has spent time serving with the Harry S. Truman Veteran’s Hospital, the Thompson Center for Autism, the Mizzou Youth Experience, and the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Kadlec spent many hours sewing masks for others. She has also attained her EMT license. She is a Health Sciences major with an emphasis in pre-professional medicine and a minor in biology. She plans to attend medical school after graduation.
Kadlec has been on the Mizzou Softball roster for four seasons. She served with Mizzou’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) as an executive board member. She was named to the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll in 2019 and 2020 and to the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll for the 2017-18 academic year. The redshirt-junior was named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete during both her freshman and sophomore seasons. She was given the “For the Love of the Game” Award by the Mizzou Made program last spring.
