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The 2025 All-Big 12 Soccer honors includes 22 players on First and Second teams, along with seven individual awards being claimed by players and coaches from Baylor, Colorado, Kansas, TCU and Texas Tech. The yearly awards were voted on by the league\u2019s head coaches, who could not vote for their own players.<\/p>\n
Colorado and TCU tied with two outright individual league season awards apiece as CU\u2019s Hope Leyba earned Forward of the Year and Jordan Nytes defended her Goalkeeper of the Year award. TCU\u2019s Kamdyn Fuller was named the league\u2019s top freshman and Eric Bell was named Big 12 Soccer\u2019s Coach of the Year. Baylor\u2019s Tyler Isgrig claimed Midfielder of the Year, Texas Tech\u2019s Macy Blackburn procured the title of the league\u2019s best defender. Three players earned Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which was claimed by CU\u2019s Nytes, Kansas\u2019 Caroline Castans and TCU\u2019s Seven Castain.<\/p>\n
Leyba was unanimously named the Big 12\u2019s Forward of the Year after posting a league high in points (21) and goals (10) during Conference play, averaging 1.91 points a game during the 11-game slate. \u00a0She has posted the nation\u2019s second-most 19 goals to break the Buffaloes\u2019 19-year-old record of most goals in a season (17). Leyba is the second offensive player from Colorado and first since 2003 to earn a Big 12 yearly award.<\/p>\n
Isgrig, a unanimous selection, claimed Baylor\u2019s sixth Big 12 yearly honor as she became the first Bear to capture a positional Big 12 Player of the Year award. She tied as the league\u2019s leader with six assists during league play, while the senior led the BU team with 25 points, nine goals and seven assists in 18 appearances this season. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Blackburn reclaimed her defensive yearly award, making her the fourth defender to accomplish the feat in Big 12 history. The Red Raider backline held all their Conference opponents to eight goals, the program\u2019s fourth consecutive year of goals conceded in the single digits. Blackburn has also dished out 11 assists this season on the offensive end to bring her career total to 44, which placed her at No. 4 in the Big 12 record book.<\/p>\n
Nytes captured her second consecutive and third career honor as the league\u2019s best goalkeeper. The senior grabbed 58 saves and only conceded eight goals for the league\u2019s best .88 save percentage during Big 12 action. She recorded 1,665 minutes in goal during the 2025 season, earning seven clean sheets to become CU\u2019s all-time leader with 26 career shutouts. Nytes was named Big 12\u2019s Goalkeeper of the Week three times this season to bring her career total honors for the award to 10, placing her atop the Big 12 record book for career selections as the award was added to the league\u2019s weekly honors during the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n
Fuller was voted the Conference\u2019s top freshman as she totaled 11 points, five assists and three goals during her debut season. She made 17 appearances, which included every Big 12 match, for a total of 1,201 minutes of action on the pitch. Fuller is the fourth Horned Frog to bestow the league\u2019s Freshman of the Year honor and the second in four seasons.<\/p>\n
Bell earns his second straight and fourth career Coach of the Year award after leading TCU to the 2025 Big 12 regular-season title. It was the program\u2019s fourth regular season crown in six seasons after earning its first in 2020. TCU went 9-1-1 and earned 28 points during Big 12 action, while the team secured a 15-2-1 regular season record. In his 14th season at the helm, the team went 3-0-1 when facing top 15 teams, including three matchups in league play.<\/p>\n
Although not the first time two or more players have been named the Big 12\u2019s Scholar-Athlete of the Year, three players captured the yearly awards that focus on academic and participation. \u00a0
\nColorado\u2019s Nytes graduated with a degree in sociology with a 3.75 GPA and has a 4.0 GPA as a graduate student studying Organizational Leadership. She has appeared in every match for the Buffaloes this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kansas\u2019 Castans has appeared in every match for the Jayhawks this season, totaling 1,587 minutes. The junior marketing student earned a Big 12 weekly honor and TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week honors in September.<\/p>\n
TCU\u2019s Castain, a senior majoring in writing with a 4.0 GPA, scored the Conference\u2019s third-most goals (12) this season. She was a unanimous selection to this season\u2019s All-Big 12 First Team, her third consecutive honor to the league\u2019s First Team.<\/p>\n
The Horned Frogs led the All-Big 12 honors with 11 selections between the First, Second and All-Freshman Teams. Texas Tech posted eight honors, BYU and Colorado earned six selections, Baylor and West Virginia captured five selections, UCF and Kansas tallied four honorees, while Arizona State and Houston both had one selection apiece.<\/p>\n
2025 All-Big 12 Awards
\nForward of the Year: Hope Leyba, Colorado
\nMidfielder of the Year: Tyler Isgrig, Baylor
\nDefender of the Year: Macy Blackburn, Texas Tech
\nGoalkeeper of the Year: Jordan Nytes, Colorado
\nFreshman of the Year: Kamdyn Fuller, TCU
\nCoach of the Year: Eric Bell, TCU
\nScholar-Athlete of the Year: Jordan Nytes, Colorado, Caroline Castans, Kansas and Seven Castain, TCU
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\n\t\t\tGK\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n\t\t\tAzul Alvarez, Baylor\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\n\t\t\tJordan Nytes, Colorado
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\n\t\t\tFaith Leyba, Colorado
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\n\t\t\tCaroline Castans, Kansas
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\n\t\t\tD
\n\t\t\tMorgan Brown, TCU
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\n\t\t\tCameron Patton, TCU
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\n\t\t\tKylie Bahr, Texas Tech
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\n\t\t\tMacy Blackburn
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\n\t\t\tTyler Isgrig, Baylor*
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\n\t\t\tLucy Kesler, BYU
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\n\t\t\tJace Holley, Colorado
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\n\t\t\tSydney Becerra, TCU
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\n\t\t\tKamdyn Fuller, TCU
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\n\t\t\tSam Courtwright, Texas Tech
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\n\t\t\tPeyton Parsons, Texas Tech
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\n\t\t\tEllie Walbruch, BYU
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\n\t\t\tLiz Worden, UCF
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\n\t\t\tHope Leyba, Colorado*
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\n\t\t\tLexi Watts, Kansas
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\n\t\t\tSeven Castain, TCU*
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\n\t\t\tTaylor Zdrojewski, Texas Tech*
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\n\t\t\tTaylor White, West Virginia
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\nSecond Team<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tGK
\n\t\t\tGenesis Perez Watson, UCF
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\n\t\t\tFaith Nguyen, Texas Tech
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\n\t\t\tHallie Augustyn, Baylor
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\n\t\t\tPresley Freeman, BYU
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\n\t\t\tIzzi Stratton, BYU
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\n\t\t\tCaley Swierenga, Colorado
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\n\t\t\tGrace Coppinger, TCU
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\n\t\t\tEleanor Hays, Texas Tech
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\n\t\t\tNyema Ingleton, West Virginia
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\n\t\t\tTatum Thomason, Arizona State
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\n\t\t\tHonoka Hamano, UCF
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\n\t\t\tMaria Tregansin, UCF
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\n\t\t\tJillian Gregorski, Kansas
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\n\t\t\tKate Langfelder, Kansas
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\n\t\t\tMolly Skurcenski, Texas Tech\u00a0
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\n\t\t\tAnna Hauer, West Virginia
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\n\t\t\tMaddie Levy, West Virginia
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\n\t\t\tCameron Valladares, Arizona State
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\n\t\t\tCallie Conrad, Baylor
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\n\t\t\tRajanah Reed, UCF
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\n\t\t\tSamira Minor, Houston
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\n\t\t\tAJ Hennessey, TCU
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\n\t\t\tEmma Yolinsky, TCU
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\nAll-Freshman Team<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tAddison Baltodano, Arizona State
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\n\t\t\tOlivia Hess, Baylor
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\n\t\t\tMia Goettsche, BYU
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\n\t\t\tMia Lopez, BYU
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\n\t\t\tVivi Zacarias, Colorado
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\n\t\t\tSamira Minor, Houston
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\n\t\t\tKamdyn Fuller, TCU
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\n\t\t\tGrace Vest, TCU
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\n\t\t\tEmma Yolinsky, TCU*
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\n\t\t\tRaleigh Greason, Texas Tech
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\n\t\t\tAva Arnold, West Virginia
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