PRINCETON, N.J. – On Wednesday, the Ivy League announced the 2026 Softball All-Ivy Teams and Major Award winners following the conclusion of the 2026 regular season.
 
Cornell’s Lauren Holt and Penn’s Jade Montgomery shared Co-Player of the Year honors after a tie in voting among the league’s coaches.
 
Holt led the Ivy League in several major statistical categories, including batting average (.474), slugging percentage (1.015), on-base percentage (.565), hits (64), runs (48), RBI (66) and home runs (19). Her 19 home runs set the Ivy League single-season record. The senior also totaled 14 doubles, 12 stolen bases and 30 walks while striking out just nine times in 43 games.
 
Montgomery, also a senior, turned in a .415 batting average and a .696 slugging percentage. She finished with 56 hits, including 17 doubles and seven home runs, to go along with 33 RBI and 30 runs in 44 games. In Ivy play, she hit a staggering .537.
 
Columbia freshman Mads Lawson earned both Pitcher of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors. In her first collegiate season, Lawson posted a 13-7 overall record with a league-leading 2.39 ERA and 17 complete games in the circle. The California native logged 140.2 innings and four shutouts for the Lions, striking out 133 batters while holding opponents to a .235 batting average.
 
After capturing its fifth consecutive regular season title, Princeton’s coaching staff, led by head coach Lisa Van Ackeren, was named Coaching Staff of the Year. The Tigers finished the regular season 30-13 with an 18-3 conference mark, earning the league's No. 1 seed in this week’s Ivy League Tournament.
 
The All-Ivy First Team featured an honoree from six different League institutions. Holt, Lawson, and Montgomery were unanimous All-Ivy selections, along with the Princeton duo of Graciela Dominguez and Cassidy Shaw and Cornell’s Tarisa Frans.
 
Joining them on the First Team was a trio of players from Harvard in Nicolette Hunter, Sophie Sun, and Audrey Szollosi, as well as Princeton’s Karis Ford and Sonia Zhang. Gigi Ganje of Penn and Libby Peoples of Yale completed the First Team selections.
 
In addition, eight Ivies were named to the Academic All-Ivy team for their outstanding performances both in the classroom and on the field. The Academic All-Ivy team includes Brown’s Lily Berlinger, Columbia’s Sarah Mikami, Cornell’s Laney Freiband, Dartmouth’s Lauren Ben-Ezra?, Harvard’s Ryan Grace, Penn’s Delaney Smith, Princeton’s Sonia Zhang, and Yale’s Kaitlyn Oikle?.

CO-PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Lauren Holt, Cornell
 
CO-PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Jade Montgomery, Penn
 
PITCHER OF THE YEAR:
Mads Lawson, Columbia
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
Mads Lawson, Columbia
 
COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR:
Princeton
 
FIRST TEAM^
P – Mads Lawson, Columbia*
P – Cassidy Shaw, Princeton*
C – Lauren Holt, Cornell*
1B – Jade Montgomery, Penn*
2B – Graciela Dominguez, Princeton*
3B – Sonia Zhang, Princeton
SS – Sophie Sun, Harvard
OF – Tarisa Frans, Cornell*
OF – Audrey Szollosi, Harvard
OF – Gigi Ganje, Penn
UTIL – Libby Peoples, Yale
P/UTIL – Nicolette Hunter, Harvard
DP – Karis Ford, Princeton
 
SECOND TEAM^
P – Riley Flynn, Harvard
P – Ellie Joseph, Yale
C – Maddie Ratcheson, Princeton
1B – Sarah Mikami, Columbia
2B – Finley Payne, Harvard
3B – Sofia Hernandez, Cornell
SS – JuJu O’Brien, Columbia
SS – Julia Dumais, Princeton
OF – Olivia Schramm, Dartmouth
OF – Abby Hornberger, Princeton
OF – Mia Valenzuela, Princeton
UTIL – Charlize Cai, Cornell
P/UTIL – Macy Borowski, Brown
DP – Delaney Smith, Penn
 
HONORABLE MENTION:
P – Kelly Zybura, Penn
P – Emma Taylor, Yale
C – Quinn Salazar-Stewart, Harvard
1B – Abby Bettencourt, Brown
2B – Faby Serna, Dartmouth
3B – Hannah Ziecik, Harvard
OF – Jasmine Hsiao, Brown
OF – Eleni Katsivalis, Columbia
OF – Sheila Forbes, Harvard
OF – Julieta Roa, Princeton
UTIL – Lexi Youngren, Penn
DP – Caylene Nguyen, Columbia
 
*unanimous selection
^team expanded due to ties in voting