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’s head coaches, who could not vote for their own players.

Colorado and TCU tied with two outright individual league season awards apiece as CU’s Hope Leyba earned Forward of the Year and Jordan Nytes defended her Goalkeeper of the Year award. TCU’s Kamdyn Fuller was named the league’s top freshman and Eric Bell was named Big 12 Soccer’s Coach of the Year. Baylor’s Tyler Isgrig claimed Midfielder of the Year, Texas Tech’s Macy Blackburn procured the title of the league’s best defender. Three players earned Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which was claimed by CU’s Nytes, Kansas’ Caroline Castans and TCU’s Seven Castain.

Leyba was unanimously named the Big 12’s 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.  She has posted the nation’s second-most 19 goals to break the Buffaloes’ 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.

Isgrig, a unanimous selection, claimed Baylor’s 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’s 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.  

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’s 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.

Nytes captured her second consecutive and third career honor as the league’s best goalkeeper. The senior grabbed 58 saves and only conceded eight goals for the league’s 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’s all-time leader with 26 career shutouts. Nytes was named Big 12’s 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’s weekly honors during the 2020-21 season.

Fuller was voted the Conference’s 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’s Freshman of the Year honor and the second in four seasons.

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’s 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 14^th season at the helm, the team went 3-0-1 when facing top 15 teams, including three matchups in league play.

Although not the first time two or more players have been named the Big 12’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year, three players captured the yearly awards that focus on academic and participation.  
Colorado’s 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. 

Kansas’ 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.

TCU’s Castain, a senior majoring in writing with a 4.0 GPA, scored the Conference’s third-most goals (12) this season. She was a unanimous selection to this season’s All-Big 12 First Team, her third consecutive honor to the league’s First Team.

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.

2025 All-Big 12 Awards
Forward of the Year: Hope Leyba, Colorado
Midfielder of the Year: Tyler Isgrig, Baylor
Defender of the Year: Macy Blackburn, Texas Tech
Goalkeeper of the Year: Jordan Nytes, Colorado
Freshman of the Year: Kamdyn Fuller, TCU
Coach of the Year: Eric Bell, TCU
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Jordan Nytes, Colorado, Caroline Castans, Kansas and Seven Castain, TCU
 
 
First Team

GK	Azul Alvarez, Baylor
GK	Jordan Nytes, Colorado
D	Faith Leyba, Colorado
D	Caroline Castans, Kansas
D	Morgan Brown, TCU
D	Cameron Patton, TCU
D	Kylie Bahr, Texas Tech
D	Macy Blackburn
MF	Tyler Isgrig, Baylor*
MF	Lucy Kesler, BYU
MF	Jace Holley, Colorado
MF	Sydney Becerra, TCU
MF	Kamdyn Fuller, TCU
MF	Sam Courtwright, Texas Tech
MF	Peyton Parsons, Texas Tech
F	Ellie Walbruch, BYU
F	Liz Worden, UCF
F	Hope Leyba, Colorado*
F	Lexi Watts, Kansas
F	Seven Castain, TCU*
F	Taylor Zdrojewski, Texas Tech*
F	Taylor White, West Virginia

Second Team

GK	Genesis Perez Watson, UCF
GK	Faith Nguyen, Texas Tech
D	Hallie Augustyn, Baylor
D	Presley Freeman, BYU
D	Izzi Stratton, BYU
D	Caley Swierenga, Colorado
D	Grace Coppinger, TCU
D	Eleanor Hays, Texas Tech
D	Nyema Ingleton, West Virginia
MF	Tatum Thomason, Arizona State
MF	Honoka Hamano, UCF
MF	Maria Tregansin, UCF
MF	Jillian Gregorski, Kansas
MF	Kate Langfelder, Kansas
MF	Molly Skurcenski, Texas Tech
MF	Anna Hauer, West Virginia
MF	Maddie Levy, West Virginia
F	Cameron Valladares, Arizona State
F	Callie Conrad, Baylor
F	Rajanah Reed, UCF
F	Samira Minor, Houston
F	AJ Hennessey, TCU
F	Emma Yolinsky, TCU

All-Freshman Team

D/MF/F	Addison Baltodano, Arizona State
MF	Olivia Hess, Baylor
F/MF	Mia Goettsche, BYU
MF	Mia Lopez, BYU
MF	Vivi Zacarias, Colorado
F	Samira Minor, Houston
MF	Kamdyn Fuller, TCU
F	Grace Vest, TCU
F	Emma Yolinsky, TCU*
F	Raleigh Greason, Texas Tech
MF	Ava Arnold, West Virginia

* unanimous selection