Casey Stangel, the former Lake City High pitcher now starring at the University of Washington, hit a pair of home runs Sunday to boost the 10th-ranked Huskies past UCLA.

She experienced two more impressive coups this week.

Stangel was accepted into Vanderbilt University’s prestigious graduate school on Tuesday, where she'll also be a graduate assistant for the Nashville school's baseball program.

Then on Wednesday, it was Major League Baseball calling the Coeur d'Alene kid. Stangel has been selected for a summer internship at the Office of the Commissioner in New York City.

"My all-time dream is to become an MLB general manager," said Stangel, who will study Leadership Organizational Performance at Vanderbilt. "Player development is where I'd like to start."

Stangel will spend the majority of her time as an intern doing administrative work with an emphasis on on-field operations and pace of play.

"About 70 percent of the time I'll be in the office," Stangel said. "But when I am out of the office, I'll be at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium."

Named after MLB Hall of Famer Casey Stengel, the MaxPreps 2013 National High School Softball Player of the Year played her freshman year at Missouri before transferring to Washington.

It was during her short time in the Southeastern Conference, though, when she met Vanderbilt Coach Tim Corbin, who led the Commodores to the College Baseball World Series championship in 2014.

"Our baseball team was playing Vandebilt and I had so much respect for their coach," she said. "When the game was over I introduced myself. Actually, I kind of ambushed him.

"He says, 'Don't be scared of life. Go take chances.' And that's what I did," said Stangel, who has twice earned earned All-Pac 12 honors.

She's taking that approach to her lofty post-softball aspirations, too.

In her extensive knowledge of college baseball, she said she's never seen a female graduate assistant baseball coach at the NCAA Division I level. She just might be the first.

But it’s the journey she’s looking forward to most.

"I am excited to learn about the business side of baseball I have never really been exposed to," she said. "Softball has been the biggest thing in my life outside of family and faith. I think I have learned so many lessons from being a softball player that I can apply in my adult life."