ATLANTA, Ga. (May 6, 2024) – Coming off a dominating regular season and tournament title, Berry took three major awards to highlight the 2024 Softball All-SAA teams.
 
Berry’s Morgan Frye was voted the SAA Athlete of the Year while teammate Ava Fouts earned both Pitcher of the Year and Newcomer of the Year honors. Birmingham-Southern leader Megan Curry was honored as Coach of the Year.
 
The All-SAA awards were voted on by the conference’s seven head coaches.
 
Frye is a four-time First Team All-SAA honoree after leading the Vikings to an 18-0 record in league play. The infielder led the conference in nearly every offensive category. She hit .638, going 30-for-47, with 23 RBIs and 30 runs scored over her 18 SAA games. Frye tallied eight doubles and three homers while striking out just four times to drawing a league-high 18 walks. She won three-straight SAA Athlete of the Week awards to start April, going 17-for-25 with 17 RBIs over a nine-game stretch. A Berry player has been voted SAA Athlete of the Year eight times, including each of the last three seasons. Frye joins teammates Katie White (2023) and Anna Jackson (2022) to win the award most recently.
 
Fouts made an immediate impact for the Vikings, going 6-0 with a 0.48 ERA in her six SAA appearances. In 29 innings of work, she allowed 14 hits and two earned runs while racking up 29 strikeouts. Five times she posted shutouts and had a conference-season high six strikeouts in five innings against Millsaps. Fouts gives Berry four SAA Pitcher of the Year awards, joining Kassie Howard (2018, 2016) and Marie Collop (2017) to earn the honor. She is only the third player to be named Pitcher of the Year and Newcomer of the Year in the same season with BSC standouts Margaret Axelson winning both in 2023 and Hailee Bryan doing the same in 2021.
 
Curry joined Birmingham-Southern in the summer of 2023 before leading the Panthers to a runner-up finish in the conference and a run into the SAA title game during her first season. She guided BSC to a 24-17 overall record and 13-5 mark in league play. They won all but one conference series and posted weekend sweeps three times. As the two seed in the SAA Tournament, Curry’s Panthers swept through their pod and split the first two games of the conference championship series with Berry before coming up short in the final. Curry mentored eight All-SAA performers this season, including first teamers Isabella Furgason, Emma Jolley, and Katie Hart. She joins Kimball Cassady (2019, 2016) as BSC coaches to be voted Coach of the Year.
 

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2024 Softball All-Conference Awards
 
Athlete of the Year – Morgan Frye, Berry
Pitcher of the Year – Ava Fouts, Berry
Newcomer of the Year – Ava Fouts, Berry
Coach of the Year – Megan Curry, Birmingham-Southern
 

First Team All-SAA Pitcher: Gina Dudley, Rhodes Pitcher: Ava Fouts, Berry Catcher: Anna Jackson, Berry First Base: Morgan Frye, Berry Second Base: Isabella Furgason, Birmingham-Southern Shortstop: Emma Jolley, Birmingham-Southern Third Base: Katie Parker, Berry Outfield: Katie Hart, Birmingham-Southern Outfield: Katie White, Berry Outfield: Betty Wolfe, Hendrix Utility: Casey Holloway, Berry Designated Player: Allana Vasquez, Millsaps At-Large: Lauren Cothern, Berry At-Large: Shelby Daniel, Berry

Second Team All-SAA Pitcher: Hannah Gore, Berry Pitcher: Natalie Snow, Birmingham-Southern Catcher: Hannah Wilson, Sewanee First Base: Kaylee Gregory, Centre Second Base: Cheney Floyd, Centre Shortstop: Savannah Russell, Rhodes Third Base: Quinn Thompson, Rhodes Outfield: Sydney Moroney, Berry Outfield: Molli Perry, Millsaps Outfield: Jasmyn Stanley, Rhodes Utility: Olivia Trout, Birmingham-Southern Designated Player: Kate Ledlie, Rhodes

 
Honorable Mention
Harper Allee-Press, Rhodes
Elly Bennett, Berry
Eve Bournias, Sewanee
Madison Bromley, Rhodes
Ashlyn Fowler, Hendrix
Madison Granberry, Rhodes
Reagen Huskey, Sewanee
Morgan McGuire, Birmingham-Southern
Katie Norris, Millsaps
Layne Ogle, Centre
Emily Pertuit, Rhodes
Taylor Petty, Rhodes
Andrea Searcy, Centre
Danielle Sudick, Berry
Morgan Tabor, Centre
Sydney Tackett, Sewanee
Hailey Watson, Centre
Maile White, Birmingham-Southern
Leah Wood, Birmingham-Southern