Five Gators Named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Softball Team
ALBANY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College had five student-athletes named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Softball Team.
ALBANY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College had five student-athletes named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Softball Team.
Junior pitcher Leah Madore (Williamsville, VT/Brattleboro Union) and junior catcher/outfielder Emma Heartquist (Stuyvesant, NY/Ichabod Crane) repeated as honorees, while sophomore infielder Annalise Tyler (Schenectady, NY/Schalmont), junior pitcher Bailey Catlin (Petersburg, NY/Berlin/Saint Rose), and senior outfielder Madalyn Ring (Gansevoort, NY/South Glens Falls) were chosen for the first time.
The five Academic All-District® honorees advanced to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. Academic All-America® honorees will be announced June 17.
RSC (16-24/12-10 E8) qualified for the Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament for the fifth-straight year.
The 2025 Academic All-District® Softball Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
Gator Bites with Papa John's: RSC swept a home doubleheader from SUNY Brockport on April 27 to secure a spot in the E8 Tournament for the fifth-straight spring. The run of playoff appearances includes a trip to the finals in 2023…12 returnees combined with eight newcomers on this year's roster…Tyler and Madore repeated as second-team All-E8 picks...In 2024, Madore punched out 154 batters across 174 innings, which were both single-season program records...The righty established a new school single-season strikeout standard on May 2 at Nazareth, finishing with 162 and counting...She became the program's all-time leader for career strikeouts in the complete game shutout of visiting Saint John Fisher on April 4…Madore finished her season into the playoffs with 374 career K's and 420.2 innings pitched...The righty became just the second Gator pitcher to eclipse 400.0 career innings pitched in the E8 doubleheader sweep at SUNY Poly on April 30...She surpassed 350 career K's on April 29 vs. Union...The junior closed the regular season with 156 strikeouts, 121.0 innings pitched and a 2.95 ERA...The marks ranked third, third, and sixth respectively in the Conference...She was chosen the E8 Pitcher of the Week for the period ending Sunday, April 6…Madore went 3-0 and whiffed 15 batters across 15.0 scoreless innings…The right-hander tossed no-hitters in the shutout wins at Keuka on April 19 and at Hartwick on April 22…Tyler finished her spring leading the E8 in hits and sat third with 13 doubles…She ranked fifth in the E8 with 17 stolen bases, and sixth with 39 runs scored...Ring and junior infielder Hannah Smith (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa/Saint Rose) were voted third-team All-Conference...Ring, who also earned third-team All-E8 honors as a junior, commenced the postseason with 56 career stolen bases, good for third in RSC records...She had career hit number 100 on April 29 vs. Union...The outfielder had a .350 batting average and an .409 on-base percentage during the regular season...She swiped 13 bases, good for sixth in the Conference…Smith drove in a team-high 25 runs this spring...She sat second on the Gators in hits with 40 and doubles with 11...The 11 two-base hits during the regular season tied for seventh in the Conference...RSC opened its spring with eight contests in Florida between March 10-14… Sophomore outfielder Bella Julian (Cicero, NY/Cicero North-Syracuse) led the Gators with a .500 batting average during the time in the "Sunshine State"…She commenced the playoffs with a Conference-best and program single-season record eight triples…Sophomore infielder/outfielder Allison Kenyon (Mechanicville, NY/Mechanicville), Ring, and Heartquist comprised the team's Leadership Committee in 2025.
