Jordy Frahm – Big 10 Pitcher of the Year (2nd straight year)
Alexis Jensen – Big 10 Freshman of the Year
Rhonda Revelle– Big 10 Coach of the Year
Not a bad haul when you snag three of the four major awards.
In addition, Jensen, Samantha Bland, Hannah Coor, Kacie Hoffmann and Ava Kuszak were named as Second-team All-Big Ten honorees. Coor and Frahm were named to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team at their positions. Jensen, unsurprisingly added to her FOTY award by being named to the Big 10 All-Freshman team and Emmerson
Cope was selected as NU’s sportsmanship honoree.
Here is a complete listing:
2026 Big Ten Softball Postseason Awards
Player of the Year: Jordan Woolery, Sr., INF, UCLA
Pitcher of the Year: Jordy Frahm, Sr., Nebraska
Freshman of the Year: Alexis Jensen, P/UTL, Nebraska
Coach of the Year: Rhonda Revelle, Nebraska
All-Big Ten First Team*
LAUREN PUTZ, So., OF, Michigan
JORDY FRAHM, Sr., P, Nebraska
MARINA MASON, Fr., P, Northwestern
Emma Raye, Jr., C, Northwestern
AMARI HARPER, Sr., OF, Oregon
LYNDSEY GREIN, Sr., P, Oregon
Stefini Ma’ake, So., INF, Oregon
ALLISON ONEACRE, Fr., INF, Penn State
Anna Moore, Fr., INF, Purdue
Hailey Painter, Gr., DP, Purdue
Moriah Polar, Jr., OF, Purdue
Samantha Rohwer, Jr., INF, Rutgers
Bri Alejandre, Fr., INF, UCLA
Aleena Garcia, R-Fr., INF, UCLA
MEGAN GRANT, Sr., OF, UCLA
RYLEE SLIMP, So., OF, UCLA
JORDAN WOOLERY, Sr., INF, UCLA
Giselle Alvarez, Jr., INF, Washington
Alexis DeBoer, So., INF, Washington
All-Big Ten Second Team*
Alex Cooper, Jr., INF, Indiana
Madalyn Strader, So., INF, Indiana
Aly VanBrandt, Jr., INF, Indiana
Samantha Bland, Jr., INF, Nebraska
Hannah Coor, Sr., OF, Nebraska
Kacie Hoffmann, Sr., OF, Nebraska
Alexis Jensen, Fr., P, Nebraska
Ava Kuszak, Sr., INF, Nebraska
Sami Bewick, Jr., INF, Ohio State
Kiki Estrada, Sr., INF, Ohio State
Hadley Parisien, Jr., OF, Ohio State
Abbie Wilhelm, So., INF, Ohio State
Elon Butler, Sr., OF, Oregon
Breanna Hanik, Fr., OF, Penn State
Brooke Klosowicz, Jr., DP, Penn State
Kaniya Bragg, So., INF, UCLA
Alexis Ramirez, Jr., C, UCLA
Taylor Tinsley, Sr., P, UCLA
Morgan Reimer, So., P, Washington
All-Defensive Team
1B: Alexis DeBoer, So., Washington
2B: Kaylynn Jones, So., Oregon
SS: Aleena Garcia, R-Fr., UCLA
3B: Kylie Franks, Jr., Purdue
P: Jordy Frahm, Sr., Nebraska
C: Alexis Ramirez, Jr., UCLA
OF: Hannah Coor, Sr., Nebraska
OF: Moriah Polar, Jr., Purdue
OF: Khloe Banks, Sr., Purdue
All-Freshman Team
ALEXIS JENSEN, P, Nebraska
MARINA MASON, P, Northwestern
Jenna Molk, P, Ohio State
Breanna Hanik, OF, Penn State
ALLISON ONEACRE, INF, Penn State
Anna Moore, INF, Purdue
Bri Alejandre, INF, UCLA
ALEENA GARCIA, INF, UCLA
Jolyna Lamar, OF, UCLA
Melody Acevedo, INF, Washington
Kaycie Burdick, OF, Washington
Sportsmanship Honorees
Eileen Donahue, Illinois
Brianna Johnson, Iowa
Aly VanBrandt, Indiana
Sammi Woods, Maryland
Madi Ramey, Michigan
Sydney Doloszycki, Michigan State
Maggie Werner, Minnesota
Emmerson Cope, Nebraska
Abby Harvey, Northwestern
Skylar Limon, Ohio State
Remmington Hewitt, Oregon
McKenna Young, Penn State
Emma Bailey, Purdue
Bailey Briggs, Rutgers
Aleena Garcia, UCLA
Tia Durst, Washington
Kaylie Whidden, Wisconsin
NOTES: * – Additional player due to tie in voting; ALL CAPS denotes unanimous selection. Nebraska Cornhuskers are in italics.
ONLY ONE??
I’ll be honest – the first joke in my mind was if you finish the regular season 43-6 and ranked as the consensus #2 team in country with only one All-Big 10 First Teamer, you better get Coach of the Year. Five other teams had two or more 1st team honorees including Purdue who finished with a losing record in conference.
I could argue for a 2nd teamer or two being moved up, but the name which sticks out glaringly as being ignored is Hannah Camenzind. She hit .386 with over a third of her hits going for extra bases and currently leads the #2 team in the nation with 50 RBI’s. In 35 innings in the circle, she is 5-0 with a 1.40 ERA. Her .386 average is second on the team among players qualified as full-time and she hits to all fields, as well as being the only player I know of to hit the Big Red “N” on the Gordon Center.
That should count for something.
That being said, Big 10 awards this year tended to be based strongly on stats – the weekly winners, including Nebraska’s, tended to have the team lower in the Big 10 standings as their opponents when they took home the trophies. And looking at some who made it, such as Coor, Hoffman and Bland, coaches apeared to have taken defense strongly into consideration.
Still feels weird for Hannah, though. But not sinister at least.
More on the Big Three Winners
Rhonda Revelle – The 43-6 regular season was the highest win percentage in program history at .878. Under Revelle they also reached their first #1 ranking in school history as she won her fifth conference coach of the year award. They also finished with a 23-1 record while winning the Big 10 title, the most wins and highest win% in conference history. The outright regular-season title was her first in the Big 10 and her first one since 2002.
Jordy Frahm – Named the Big Ten Pitcher of the Year for the second time. She is now a four-time conference pitcher of the year honoree, only the third power conference pitcher to accomplish that feat. Frahm was also 1st Team All-Big Ten and All-Defensive first team. Frahm leads the Huskers in BA (.429), runs (55), hits (70), triples (four), HR’s (19), SL% (.890), OB% (.523), OPS (1.313), ERA (1.25), SH (seven), SVS (10) and K’s (193).
Alexis Jensen – the Big Ten Freshman of the Year, the Huskers’ first since Ava Bredwell in 2022. Jensen, ranks 5th nationally in K/BB ratio, 7th in strikeouts per seven innings, 9th in wins and 14th in strikeouts. She has a 21-2 record and 2.72 ERA and has 185 strikeouts and 31walks. Offensively, Jensen is batting .333 with four doubles and six homers.
So while it may sting a little if we got voted a little light on the First Team side, remember this:
It won’t mean a damn thing if we’re settling in our seats in Oklahoma City in a few weeks.
