Seville Earns NFCA All-Midwest Region First Team Honors

OMAHA, Neb. -- Creighton Softball senior Sydra Seville was named to the 2025 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Midwest Region First Team, the association announced on Thursday afternoon.

Seville earned a First Team All-Midwest Region selection for the first time in her career, becoming just the ninth Bluejay in program history to secure NFCA First Team All-Region honors. In addition, Seville is the first Bluejay to earn first team all-region honors since Cayla Nielsen received first team honors in 2023.

Last week, Seville earned her second consecutive all-conference honor, claiming All-BIG EAST First Team recognition after starting each of Creighton's 24 conference games in the lead-off position. The standout senior paced the Bluejays and ranked third in the BIG EAST with a .468 batting average, while racking up a BIG EAST single season record 44 hits in league play.

Overall, the senior slugger led the BIG EAST, ranked ninth nationally and set a Creighton single season record with 80 hits, posting a .396 batting average with nine doubles, two triples, two home runs and a team-leading 46 runs and 21 stolen bases. Seville's 46 runs scored were the fourth-most in school history, while her 21 stolen bases this season were the seventh-most in a single season in program history and the most by a Bluejay since Melanie Dorsey recorded 24 stolen bags in 2005. In total, Seville reached base safely in 50 of the Bluejays 55 games this spring, ranking second on the team with a .453 on-base percentage.

The New Lenox, Ill. native was just the 13^th Bluejay to earn All-BIG EAST First Team honors and the sixth to claim All-BIG EAST honors multiple times since Creighton joined the league prior to the 2014 season. Seville finished her four-year career ranked ninth on Creighton's all-time career batting average list, hitting at a .333 average on 133 hits.

The NFCA All-Region teams honor softball student-athletes from the association's 10 regions with first, second and third-team selections. NFCA member head coaches from each respective region voted on the teams, and in all 380 student-athletes honored now become eligible for the 2025 NFCA All-America teams.

The Midwest region consists of 29 schools from 10 different conferences – BIG EAST Conference (Creighton, DePaul), Missouri Valley Conference (Bradley, Drake, Illinois State, Missouri State, Murray State, Southern Illinois, Evansville, UIC, Northern Iowa), Big 12 (Iowa State, Oklahoma State), Ohio Valley (Lindenwood, Northern Illinois, Southeast Missouri State, SIU-Edwardsville, Western Illinois), A10 (Loyola-Chicago, Saint Louis), Big 10 (Iowa, Minnesota), SEC (Missouri, Oklahoma), Summit League (Kansas City, Omaha, St. Thomas), American (Tulsa) and Conference USA (Western Kentucky).

Conference Players and Pitchers of the Year from member institutions are added to the third team if they were not already votes to an all-region squad. In some instances, limited regional nominations prevent a position from being filled. Complete Midwest All-Region teams are listed below.

In the 49-years, a total of 28 Bluejays have earned NFCA All-Region recognition with five having also been honored as NFCA All-Americans (Angie Rajtora, 1984, Jody Schwartz, 1988, Kelly Brookhart, 1991, Tara Oltman Higgins, 2009, and Renae Sinkler, 2010).

2025 NFCA Midwest Region Teams
First Team
P - Ruby Meylan, Oklahoma State
P - Sam Landry, Oklahoma
P - Maddia Groff, Omaha
C - Julia Crenshaw, Missouri
1B - Abby Knight, Illinois State
2B - Rosie Davis, Oklahoma State
3B - Kate Lappe, Northern Iowa
SS - Gabbie Garcia, Oklahoma
OF - Kasidi Pickering, Oklahoma
OF - Tatum Johnson, Iowa State
OF - Sydra Seville, Creighton
U/P - Ella Cook, St. Thomas (Minn.)
DP or U/P - Ella Parker, Oklahoma

Second Team
P - Jalen Adams, Iowa
P - McKenzie Newcomb, Southern Illinois
C - Abby Mallo, Saint Louis
1B - Cydney Sanders, Oklahoma
2B - Jena Young, Iowa
3B - Nelly McEnroe-Marina, Oklahoma
SS - Kylee Sanders, Northern Iowa
OF - Megan Delgadillo, Oklahoma State
OF - Tia Warsop, Oklahoma State
OF - Avery Wukawitz, St. Thomas (Minn.)
U/P - McKenzie Vaughan, Missouri State
DP or U/P - Jessie Clemons, Iowa State

Third Team
P - Taylor Hochman, Saint Louis
P - Ava Kleinfeldt, St. Thomas (Minn)
C - Amanda Hasler, Oklahoma State
1B - Karli Godwin, Oklahoma State
2B - Ailana Agbayani, Oklahoma
3B - Sydney Thomason, Omaha
SS - Payton Brown, Western Illinois
SS - Sydney Dennis, Southeast Missouri State
OF - Angelina Allen, Iowa State
OF - Abigale Dayton, Oklahoma
OF - Emma Austin, Southern Illinois
U/P - Danielle Stewart, Northern Illinois
DP or U/P - Addison McElrath, Northern Iowa

Seville Earns NFCA All-Midwest Region First Team Honors

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