The 2025-26 athletic calendar year has wrapped with many programs finding success in the postseason. That success was due to many athletes having stellar seasons. Record breaking performances, game winning plays, and lifting programs to new heights.
Here are the top five women’s student-athletes from the 2025-26 season:
1. Kelly Wetteland, Triathlon
In just its third season of existence, the triathlon team won a second consecutive National Championship. Senior Kelly Wetteland was a key part in the success of how dominant the Wildcats
were this season.
Wetteland earned her first individual national champion title in her career. She finished with a time of 1:02:09, and was the first of five top ten finishers for Arizona. Not only did she finish first in the National Championship, she finished first in all other four races to finish undefeated.
She earned CTCA first team all-american and all-west region. With a time of 16:56 in the National Championship, Wetteland set a program record. Next year Wetteland will go for her second national championship and the program will attempt to go for the three-peat.
2. Sydney Stewart, Softball
In her last season in Tucson, Sydney Stewart left it all out on the field. She helped the Wildcats finish 37-18 (16-8 Big 12) and earn a place in the NCAA Duke Regional.
Stewart finished with 54 runs, 53 hits, 76 RBIs, and 20 home runs. There were three games where she hit multiple home runs, and had a season high three hits against Drake.
She was named Big 12 player of the week twice this season and was second in the conference in RBIs. Stewart earned the Big 12 batting champion title with a .490 batting average and with all the statistical success, along with the winning on the field, it led to her being crowned the Big 12 player of the year.
After receiving a “golden ticket” to the AUSL Draft, she was selected with the ninth overall pick to the Portland Cascades. Stewart finished her time as a Wildcat with the Arizona career slugging percentage record (.866 slugging percentage) and 25th in program history for home runs with 40.
3. Kya Crooke, track and field
While a player like Stewart may be finishing her career at Arizona, Kya Crooke is just getting started. While her indoor season was short, she still set a bar for herself going into next season when she finished third at the Friday Night Axe ‘Em Open with a 1.86m jump.
Crooke started to make her mark during the outdoor season, mainly in the post season. In the Big 12 Championships, she cleared 1.85m where she finished in a tie for second and scored very important points for Arizona.
After qualifying for the Outdoor NCAA Championships, Crooke finished her season by clearing 1.90m to bring home bronze. She also earned a First-Team All-American nomination. A very impressive first season for Crooke has now set high expectations for next season.
4. Tanvi Narendran, tennis
Finishing the season at 20-10 (10-3 Big 12), Tanvi Narendran helped women’s tennis continue to elevate the program. She finished the season with a 16-6 singles match record, and a 15-5 doubles match record.
She also helped the Wildcats get to the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season. Through the ten game win streak into the Big 12 Championships, Narendran was the leader of the team and kept the team focused on its goals.
Narendran finished fifth in program history for singles wins percentage with a 69.50% win rate. Being a Tucson native, she represented the block A with an extra sense of pride and felt the urgency to help the program have successful seasons.
5. Jordan Wilson, Volleyball
For the first time since 2016, Arizona volleyball earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament and a key part to the successful season was senior outside hitter Jordan Wilson. She finished the season with 499 kills, 269 digs, and 45 blocks.
Where Wilson seemed to strive is on the road. At Utah, she had a season high 29 kills. At ASU, her career high 24 digs helped to secure a win, and in the NCAA Tournament win against South Dakota State she had five blocks.
The 499 kills put Wilson at eighth in program history kills in a single season. She also finished sixth in program history for kills per set with 3.77. A 17 game streak of ten or more kills is how she finished her final season.
Her career does not stop in Tucson as she was drafted in the MLV Draft at No. 18 overall to the Grand Rapids Rise for the 2026 season.
