EASTON, Mass. (May 7, 2025) – Senior Isabella Therrien (Auburn, Mass.) and freshman Grace Conaway (St. Paul Park, Minn.) earned All-Northeast Conference honors for the first time in Stonehill Softball's Division I era, the conference announced on Wednesday.
 
Therrien highlights the Skyhawks' award winners as an All-Conference First Team honoree at the catcher position while also being named the NEC's Most Improved Player. She becomes the first major award winner and first team honoree by a Stonehill softball player since joining the NEC in the fall of 2022.

The last Skyhawks to earn First Team honors were Megan Staudle, '16, and Alison Sumski, '16, who were named to the NE10 All-Conference First Team in 2016. Overall, the last All-Conference winner for the Skyhawks was in 2022 when Alexandra Hammond, '22, and Skylar Brandemarte were given NE10 Third Team honors.
 
At the Division I level, Therrien and Conaway join teammate sophomore Harper Sullivan (Glendale, Ariz.) with an NEC postseason honor after she was named to the All-Rookie Team a season ago.
 
Therrien shined behind home plate for the Skyhawks, starting 45 games of the 50 games, all as the catcher, leading the conference and ranking second in the country with 22 runners caught stealing. Over her three-year career at Stonehill, Therrien has thrown out 49 baserunners. On 170 chances in the field, Therrien had 134 putouts, 34 assists, and just seven errors for a .960 fielding percentage.
 
At the plate, Therrien improved on her batting average by over .100 points from a season ago, jumping from a .190 average (22-116) last season to a .305 (40-131) this year, the third-best mark on the team. Therrien led the team in runs scored at 30 and her four home runs this year were tied for a team-high mark while she ranked second on the team in hits (40), runs batted in (22), doubles (6), OPS (.804), and SLG% (.443). Therrien was also 6-6 on stolen base attempts, drew 12 walks, and struck out just 14 times.
 
En route to winning Most Improved Player, Therrien doubled nearly all her offensive stats from a season ago, improving from two home runs to four, 22 base hits to 40, three doubles to six, and three stolen bases to six.
 
Conaway joins Therrien with postseason honors as she's the second Skyhawk to be named to the NEC All-Rookie Team, and the first freshman to earn All-Conference honors in Stonehill's DI era. Conaway was one of eight first-year NEC student-athletes to be named to either the First or Second Team All-Conference.
 
Conaway led the Skyhawks with a .350 (36-103) batting average, playing in 40 games with 33 starts this season, tied for the sixth-best average in the conference and the third-best among freshmen. Conaway scored 18 times, drove in 10 runs, and tallied four doubles with five walks drawn and two stolen bases.
 
Conaway's .350 batting average is the highest mark by a Skyhawk since Michelle Theilgard, '21, finished the 2019 season with a .350 clip. It is also the highest average by a first-year player since Theilgard hit .367 in her freshman campaign in 2018.
 
Stonehill softball improved on its record by two wins in its third season in the NEC, capping off the 2025 campaign with a 16-34 record, its best record at the DI level that included a 7-8 mark at Fr. Gartland Field. The Skyhawks return to action in 2026 for their fourth Division I campaign in the Northeast Conference.
 
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