VESTAL, N.Y. – The honors keep coming in for sophomore third baseman Rachel Carey. On Wednesday afternoon, she was named an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) All-Star for the first time in her career.Â
Carey - who currently ranks seventh in the nation with a .468 batting average - became just the second athlete in America East history to be named both its Softball Player of the Year as well as the Most Outstanding Performer at the conference tournament in the same season. She was also named first-team All-Northeast Region selection by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA).
The ECAC is an eighty-five-year-old organization with well over 200 member schools across all three NCAA Divisions - I, II and III.
Since 2010, Binghamton has posted 19 ECAC All-Stars. This marks the fifth straight year that the Bearcats have posted at least one ECAC All-Star.
Binghamton's ECAC Division I All-Stars (19)
2010 (1): Deannie Plemon (2nd Team, C)
2011 (1): Jessica Phillips (1st Team, OF)
2013 (1): Jess Bump (1st Team, 2B)
2016 (2): Jessica Rutherford (1st Team, OF), Griffin McIver (1st Team, DP)
2017 (2): Jessica Rutherford (2nd Team, OF), Kate Richard (2nd Team, 3B)
2018 (1): Jessica Rutherford (2nd Team, OF)
2019 (2): Sarah Benn (2nd Team, 3B), Marissa Braito (2nd Team, 2B)
2022 (2): Alli Richmond (1st Team, 2B),
Laney Harbaugh (Honorable Mention, OF)
2023 (2): Lindsey Walter (1st Team, DP), Alli Richmond (1st Team, 2B)
2024 (1): Brianna Roberts (1st Team, P)
2025 (3): Brianna Roberts (1st Team, P),
Emma Lawson (1st Team, 1B),
Brianna Santos (1st Team, OF)
2026 (1): Rachel Carey (1st Team, 3B)
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