LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Thirty-eight student-athletes from 28 different schools have been voted to one of two 2025 NFCA NAIA All-America teams, the Association revealed on Thursday afternoon.
Six of the 10 teams who advanced to the NAIA World Series had players earn All-America status, including national runner-up Oklahoma City University, who tied University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma for the most honorees by any institution this season with three each.
University of the Cumberlands, the No. 1 seed for the NAIA World Series, joined Indiana Wesleyan, Madonna, Middle Georgia State, Saint Xavier and the University of Northwestern Ohio with two players apiece chosen.
National titlist Southern Oregon University was one of 20 schools that had one player honored. For the Raiders, that player was freshman pitcher Ayla Davies, the most valuable player of the 2025 NAIA World Series and one of nine unanimous All-America selections.
Region VI had the most selections of any region with 11, followed by Region IV with nine, Region III with seven, Region I with five, and Regions II and V with three apiece.
Oklahoma City senior Tiffany Paul is the 2025 Diamond Sports/NFCA NAIA Catcher of the Year as the first-team player at that position. She batted .442 for the Stars this season, with 77 runs, 96 hits, 17 doubles, nine triples, 19 home runs and 75 runs batted in. On defense, she gunned down 15 of 36 runners attempting to steal (41.7 percent) and made just four errors in 261 fielding chances (228 putouts, 29 assists, .985 fielding percentage) behind the plate.
Saint Xavier junior outfielder Fiona Crane earned the New Balance/NFCA Golden Shoe award as the NAIA’s most prolific base stealer this season. She ranked first in the nation with 1.58 steals per game and had 71 steals in 73 attempts. Crane had 20 games with multiple stolen bases, including five steals in five attempts in the first game of a doubleheader with Judson on April 23. She logged five games with four steals, four games with three steals and 10 contests with two.
This is the third season since the renaming of the first-team Utility/Pitcher award to honor the late Joan Joyce, an NFCA Hall of Famer and pioneer of women’s sports. University of British Columbia senior Shae Sever earned that distinction in 2025, batting a team-best .394 with 16 runs, 50 hits, nine doubles, six home runs, 29 runs batted in, a .606 slugging percentage and 1.100 OPS. She also shined in the circle, with a 16-10 record, 2.32 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, two shutouts, 47 walks and 128 strikeouts over 141.2 innings.
The NFCA All-America teams are voted on by the Association’s All-America Committees. In NAIA, the committee is comprised of one member head coach from each of the NAIA’s six regions. All student-athletes who were nominated by a member head coach and voted to the first or second team All-Region squads were eligible for All-America consideration.
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