Pair of softball players collect 2025 all-region team honors

Hamilton College pitcher/utility player Emma Tansky ’25 (Collegeville, Pa./Episcopal Academy) and outfielder Alexis Mayer ’26 (Woodcliff Lake, N.J./Pascack Hills HS) were selected for the 2025 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III All-Region Team on Friday, May 16.

Tansky was one of 14 athletes that made the second team in Region 1 after she was on the all-region third team each of the previous three years. Mayer, who received her first all-region team honor, was one of 13 players on the third team.

The all-region teams honor student-athletes from the association’s 10 regions with selection to one of three teams. NFCA member head coaches nominate and then vote for the athletes in their respective region.

Tansky (7-4) posted a 3.51 earned run average over 83.2 innings. She pitched in 19 contests and had four complete games in 10 starts, including an eight-inning shutout against Wesleyan University on April 20. Tansky had one save and struck out 69 batters. She led the team with a .444 batting average (28-for-63) and played in 29 of 32 games. Tansky scored 22 runs, stole a program-record 21 bases in 22 attempts and owned a .493 on-base percentage. She owns Hamilton’s career stolen base record with 64, ended up second in program history with 139 career hits and 90 career runs, and boasted a career batting average of .408.

Mayer, who was on the NFCA Division III Pitcher and Player of the Year Watchlist in early April, hit .347 (33-for-95) and started all 32 games. She hammered six doubles, tied a program record with seven triples, smacked five home runs, and had a .716 slugging percentage. Mayer set a program record with 38 runs batted in, scored 28 runs, stole eight bases, drew 17 walks and had a .443 on-base percentage. She ended up with a .953 fielding percentage on 43 chances with three outfield assists.

Hamilton started the season with eight straight wins and finished with an overall record of 15-17. The Continentals swept Bates College in a New England Small College Athletic Conference doubleheader and added conference wins against Colby College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University and Amherst College.