{"id":1428,"date":"2025-05-22T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/lauren-derkowski-signs-with-ausls-talons\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:37:20","slug":"lauren-derkowski-signs-with-ausls-talons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/lauren-derkowski-signs-with-ausls-talons\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Derkowski signs with AUSL&#8217;s Talons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-548694\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>After a stellar career for the Michigan softball team, senior right-hander Lauren Derkowski is taking her talents to the professional level, signing with the Talons of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Derkowski saw limited involvement in her freshman year in 2022, consigned to just five starts from the circle, but followed that with a breakout sophomore year in 2023. In her 2023 campaign, she posted an 18-12 record as a starter alongside a stellar 2.12 ERA, earning an All-Big Ten Second Team nod and firmly cementing herself as the Wolverines\u2019 ace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 season, Derkowski\u2019s junior year, was truly when she began to etch her place into Michigan softball folklore. She posted a 19-10 record with a 2.29 ERA, and was named to the All-Big Ten First Team and earned the Big Ten Tournament\u2019s Most Outstanding Player award as she pitched all 19 innings en route to the Wolverines\u2019 tournament victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Derkowski endured a slightly more turbulent regular-season campaign than she was used to, but that wasn\u2019t apparent in the Big Ten Tournament. In Michigan\u2019s back-to-back conference tournament title run, she again earned the tournament\u2019s Most Outstanding Player award as she spearheaded Michigan\u2019s surprising defense. She finishes her Wolverines career with a 2.34 ERA and 60 career wins \u2014 figures that highlight a collegiate career in which she was more often than not Michigan\u2019s talisman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>And now, with the Talons \u2014 one of four charter teams in the inaugural season of the AUSL, a brand new professional softball league \u2014 she will have a chance to demonstrate her talents on a professional level.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a stellar career for the Michigan softball team, senior right-hander Lauren Derkowski is taking her talents to the professional level, signing with the Talons of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League.\u00a0 Derkowski saw limited involvement in her freshman year in 2022, consigned to just five starts from the circle, but followed that with a breakout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1586,787,266,472,1587],"class_list":{"0":"post-1428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ausls","9":"tag-derkowski","10":"tag-lauren","11":"tag-signs","12":"tag-talons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}