Mizzou softball’s senior catcher Julia Crenshaw earned 2025 NFCA First Team Midwest All-Region honors, announced by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association on Thursday. This marks the first NFCA postseason award in Crenshaw’s four-year tenure as a Tiger.
The starting catcher is one of 380 student-athletes from 146 programs selected for NFCA All-Region honors this season. The Southeastern Conference led all conferences with 76 players selected. Crenshaw also received her first SEC award this past Friday when she was named to the 2025 All-SEC First Team. In conference play, Crenshaw led the Tigers in batting average (.343), hits (23), home runs (7), runs (16) and slugging percentage (.731).
Crenshaw hit a career-best and team-high .361 over the season with 48 runs, 56 hits, 14 homers and 32 RBI. She ended her season fifth on the SEC leaderboard for stolen bases, 26, and sixth in doubles, 14. She led MU with 16 multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI games.
The O’Fallon, Mo. product also walked 37 times this season, landing seventh on the Mizzou leaderboard for walks in a single-season. Her .731 slugging percentage ranks fourth in the conference and tops at her position.
The senior showed she is more than just an offensive powerhouse this season. She caught an SEC-best nine runners stealing and rounded out her collegiate career with a .983 fielding percentage.
Crenshaw’s season-high came in Mizzou softball’s largest all-time victory over the nation’s top team. She went 3-for-3 at bat, one of which a home run that contributed to the Tigers’ 9-1 run-rule win over Texas A&M on April 18.
All 380 recipients of the award are eligible for 2025 NFCA Division I All-America Squads.