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2025 All-MWC Softball
Meredith Cavaleri

Position Player of the Year Emmie Nyen Highlights Foresters' Seven All-MWC Selections

5/10/2025 4:27:00 PM

The 2025 All-Midwest Conference Softball Teams and major award winners were announced at the completion of the MWC Tournament on Saturday and league champion Lake Forest College was well-represented.

Junior outfielder Emmie Nyen was named MWC Position Player of the Year after leading the league with a .523 batting average, .588 on-base percentage, and 1.338 OPS during the 16-game conference schedule. She also ranked fourth with a .750 slugging percentage and tied for second with 16 runs batted in, third with 9 stolen bases, and fourth 16 runs scored in those contests.

Joining Nyen on as First Team All-MWC selections were fellow juniors Riley Stiles and Kyla Chevalier. Stiles, a pitcher, posted the second-lowest earned run average (1.29) and fourth-best opponent batting average (.214) during conference play and went 5-1 with three shutouts against MWC foes. Splitting time between first base and catcher, Chevalier was listed as the top utility player in the conference after batting .463 with five doubles, two triples, a home run, and 16 runs batted in during league games.

Senior pitcher Hannah Smith, junior third baseman Cadence Dempsey, sophomore catcher Paige Ratliff, and sophomore center fielder Kaia Mismash earned Second Team All MWC distinction in 2025. Smith went 4-1 with a 2.33 earned run average and ranked fourth in the conference with 32 strikeouts. Dempsey was the league leader with 18 runs batted in while her four home runs were tied-for-first and 19 runs scored ranked second. Ratliff's .452 batting average was the MWC's eighth-highest mark and she threw out four runners attempting to steal bases. With 22 stolen bases, Mismash had more than twice as many as any other player in the conference and her 22 runs scored were also atop the list.

Lake Forest's seven all-conference selections matches the team's highest total in the last 10 seasons.

The Foresters are 28-14-1 and won 14 of 16 MWC games this spring to claim the program's eighth title in the last 11 years and 14th in program history. They also went 3-0 to win the MWC Tourney and will represent the league in the NCAA Division III Tournament, which will begin next Thursday.
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