LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) announced their 2025 Division II Player and Pitcher of the Year watchlist this week. Conference Carolinas had four individuals from three institutions named to the list.

Alyssa Poston and Madalyn White of fourth-ranked Francis Marion University were named to the list along with North Greenville University’s Emily Blackwell and King University’s Jessica Campbell.

Poston leads Conference Carolinas with an ERA of 1.48 and 12 complete games. She has 114 strikeouts in 113.2 innings pitched and owns a record of 17-1. Her teammate, White owns a batting average of .469 with 53 hits, which ranks second in the league behind Blackwell. She has also scored 52 runs and is 24-for-26 on stolen bases.

Blackwell leads Conference Carolinas with 59 hits and owns a .500 batting average. She has stolen 21 bases in 24 attempts and has scored 39 runs while driving in 27. Campbell ranks third in the league with a .528 batting average, ripping three doubles four triples and two home runs. She has scored 25 times, driven in 18 and is successful on all eight stolen base attempts.

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The list is broken down into the eight NCAA Regions (Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, South Central, Southeast and West) with up to 15 student-athletes represented in each region. The list is compiled by the elected members of the NFCA Division II All-American Committee with one head coach representing each of the eight NCAA regions. To be eligible, a student-athlete’s head coach must be a member.

Voted on by the NFCA’s Division II All-American Committee, the 2025 NFCA Player and Pitcher of the Year winners will be announced on May 30 following the conclusion of the NCAA Division II National Championships. All student-athletes are eligible for the end-of-the-season award and do not have to be on this list to be considered.

The Player of the Year award was created in 2015 to honor the outstanding athletic achievements among softball student-athletes throughout NCAA Division II. In 2019, the Association expanded the award to include a Player and Pitcher of the Year.