This is the third ASC Female Athlete of the Year award for ETBU as Maddox has won two and former softball student-athlete Ayrika Henderson earned the first in 2009-10. The three awards are tied for the second most by an ASC school.
Maddox recorded a year that will be remembered for years to come as she helped ETBU to the 2024 NCAA Division III National Championship. Voted as the Honda/College Women Sports Awards NCAA Division III Athlete of the Year, she was also the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) National Player of Year along with being the ASC Softball Player of the Year. Batting over .300 with eight RBI and two home runs in the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament, she earned the Most Outstanding Player. Along with that award, she was named the ASC Tournament MVP and made the Marshall, Texas Regional All-Tournament team. The NFCA named her an All-American first-teamer for the second year in a row and an All-Region team member for the third year in a row while being on the Player to Watch List. The ASC voted her to the first team for the fourth year in a row as she earned three ASC Hitter of the Week awards.
For her ETBU career, she holds the records for runs scored (190) and doubles (55) while being second in at-bats (585) and hits (230), third in home runs (40), RBI (182), stolen bases (94), and hit-by-pitches (36). She also broke the single season record for home runs this year with 17.
Finishing the year batting .437, she recorded 69 hits, 16 doubles, 17 home runs, 63 RBI, and 30 stolen bases. She led the ASC in at-bats (159), hits, doubles, home runs, total bases (138), hit-by-pitches (19), and RBI. In the NCAA, she was second in home runs and hit by-by-pitch, third in total bases, seventh in RBI, and 10th in hits.
