Tansky ’25, Mayer ’26 are 2025 all-NESCAC softball team selections

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 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Softball All-Conference Team on Wednesday, May 14 when the conference announced their end-of-season awards.
 
Tansky, who was voted to the second team in 2024, was one of 14 players on the first team this year. Mayer was one of 14 athletes on the second team and collected all-NESCAC honors for the first time.
 
Tansky played in all 18 conference games and was fourth in the NESCAC with a .444 batting average with 16 hits in 36 at-bats. She was fifth in on-base percentage (.487) and second with 12 stolen bases. Tansky (4-4) pitched in 11 conference games and finished with 49.2 innings. She was 14^th with a 3.95 earned run average, fourth with 33 strikeouts and tied for fifth with four wins. Tansky set a program record with 21 stolen bases this year and owns the career record with 64. She ended up second in program history with 139 career hits and 90 career runs. Tansky boasted a career batting average of .408.
 
Mayer was sixth in the NESCAC in slugging percentage (.660), tied for 18^th in on-base percentage (.438) and was fifth in OPS (1.098) as she started in all 18 conference games. She was second with 20 runs batted in, tied for 12^th with 13 runs scored, tied for fourth with three home runs, seventh with three triples and tied for second with 10 walks. Mayer hit .340 with 18 hits in 53 at-bats and added two doubles. She set a program record this year with 38 RBI and tied another with seven triples. Mayer’s 68 total bases were just two shy of the team mark of 70 set by Amber O’Connor in 2006.
 
Hamilton started the 2025 season with eight straight wins and finished with an overall record of 15-17. The Continentals swept Bates College in a NESCAC doubleheader and added conference wins against Colby College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University and Amherst College.