AWARD | SB | Maddox Earns Back-to-Back NFCA Player of the Year Award

MARSHALL, Texas – Finishing off a historical career for the East Texas Baptist University softball program, Tristen Maddox is the 2025 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Player of the Year. She earns her second straight NFCA Player of the Year award and is only the second player to be given the award in back-to-back years by the NFCA.

Maddox joins Virginia Wesleyan University’s Hanna Hull as the only two players to receive the National Player of the Year award in back-to-back seasons. Hull was the winner in 2017 and 2018 and then won the Pitcher of the Year in 2021. The NFCA split the award into Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year awards in 2019. 

TRISTEN MADDOX AWARDS

• Honda/CWSA National Player of the Year: 2024
• NFCA Player of the Year: 2024, 2025
• NFCA All-American First Team: 2023, 2024, 2025
• NFCA All-American Second Team: 2022
• NFCA All-Region First Team: 2023, 2024, 2025
• NFCA All-Region Second Team: 2022
• NFCA Watch List: 2023, 2024, 2025
• NFCA Top 50 Players: 2023
• NFCA Gold Glove: 2023
• NCAA Marshall, Texas Regional Tournament Most Outstanding Player: 2025
• NCAA Marshal, Texas Regional All-Tournament Team: 2025
• ASC Female Athlete of the Year: 2023, 2024
• ASC Tournament Most Outstanding Player: 2024
• ASC Player of the Year: 2023, 2024
• All-ASC First Team: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• ASC Hitter of the Week: 7 times

It was a stellar year for Maddox, as she earned her fourth NFCA All-American award, marking her third consecutive year on the First Team. This year, she hit .392 and led the team in home runs (16), RBI (53), runs scored (57), doubles (19), and total bases (135). The five-time All-ASC First Team selection and 2023 and 2024 ASC Player of the Year led the ASC in at-bats (160), runs scored, doubles, home runs, RBI, and slugging percentage (.844). She produced two game-winning hits in ASC victories over LeTourneau and #25 Hardin-Simmons. In the NCAA, she was fourth in total bases, seventh in home runs, 12th in doubles, 19th in RBI, and 20th in slugging percentage. 

She helped ETBU maintain the No. 1 national ranking throughout the season, as recognized by the NFCA, while the Tigers won the American Southwest Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championships. ETBU hosted and won the Marshall, Texas Regional Tournament and were the Super Regional runners-up. 

Her career has brought her six ASC records for at-bats (743), hits (247), runs scored (247), doubles (74), RBI (235), and total bases (548). She now holds the ETBU records for games played (229), at-bats, runs scored, hits, doubles, RBI, and hit-by-pitch. 

In five years at ETBU, the Tigers won 196 games, four ASC Tournament Championships, two Marshall, Texas Regional Tournaments, and one Super Regional and National Championship. ETBU hosted five NCAA Regional Tournaments, three ASC Tournaments, and two Super Regionals.