BRONX, N.Y. – Recognized for their stellar performances throughout the 2025 campaign, Fordham University Softball named Holly Beeman, Neleh Nogay, and Sydney Wells as its team MVPs this season.
The trio of players combined to sit amongst the conference and national leaders in numerous statistical categories, while etching their names in several spots across the Fordham single season and career record books.
The Rams' ace in the circle all season long, Holly Beeman rarely allowed another pitcher to toe the rubber once she took the ball to start, tossing 19 complete games in 23 starts, ranked 17th best in the nation, and tied for the ninth most complete games in a single season at Fordham.
Earning 14 wins on the year, including four shutouts, 50th best in the nation, Beeman fanned 86 batters over 14.7.2 innings pitched, posting a 2.28 ERA, ranked 69th best of all pitchers in Division I.
Sitting 15th amongst all players in the nation with 77 hits this season Neleh Nogay locked down the leadoff spot for the Rams, and was a threat for an extra-base whenever she got on. Nogay set both a new Fordham and Atlantic 10 single season record with 46 stolen bases this season on 50 attempts, 10 more than the previous mark by a Ram and eight more than any player in conference history.
That effort placed Nogay sixth best of any player in the nation, and now sits just three shy of tying the all-time Fordham career mark entering her senior campaign in 2026. Hitting .367 on the year, Nogay 77 hits were the second most of any Ram in a single season, and her 52 runs scored her eighth most in a season as well.
Nogay now holds the highest batting average of any player in program history, a career .367 hitter through three seasons.
Sydney Wells finished her senior season with record setting numbers, recording the highest on-base percentage of any Fordham player in a single season at .533, and posted the third highest slugging percentage of any Ram ever at .783 on the season. Those marks placed her 29th and 53rd amongst all Division I players following the A-10 tournament, while also sitting eighth in walks per game, 41st in home runs, 83rd in RBIs.
Drawing 51 walks in 56 games played in 2025, Wells took the second-most free bases of any player in a season at Fordham, while tallying the fourth most home runs in a season with 17 on the year. Her 52 RBIs are tied for ninth most in a season, in addition to numerous overall career marks to end her tenure in The Bronx.
Etching her name in a number of spots on the all-time Fordham ranks, Wells finishes her career fifth all-time with 149 RBIs, sixth with 38 home runs, and seventh with 90 walks.
Beeman, Wells, and Nogay helped the Rams to their best win total since the 2022 campaign, reaching the Atlantic 10 Championship game for the first time since 2022 as well.
The Fordham University Athletic Department held its 91st annual
Block F Awards Dinner in the Rose Hill Gym on Apr. 30, honoring its student-athletes for their accomplishments during the 2024-25 academic year.
