Nebraska senior Jordy Frahm was named the 2026 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year at the Women’s College World Series banquet in Oklahoma City on May 26 — the first winner in program history. The award has honored Division I players for 24 seasons, and Frahm is the sixth two-way recipient since its inception in 2002.

Her numbers at the time of the announcement explained the honor on both sides of the ball: a 1.15 ERA, fourth nationally; an NCAA-best 12 saves, a Nebraska single-season record; a 3.08 strikeout-to-walk ratio, third nationally; and a .848 slugging percentage. In the circle, she had compiled a 19-4 record with 225 strikeouts in 163⅔ innings pitched, ninth nationally.

Frahm won her second straight Big Ten Pitcher of the Year honor and her third conference pitcher of the year award overall, having also won in the Big 12 in 2023. She earned All-Big Ten First Team honors and was a three-time Big Ten Pitcher of the Week in 2026.

She helped Nebraska earn the program’s first-ever Super Regional hosting bid, and against No. 15 Oklahoma State she hit .500 and threw eight innings with nine strikeouts to send the Huskers to the WCWS — Nebraska’s first appearance since 2013 and eighth overall — after the Huskers won the Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles.

The honors kept coming. One day after the USA Softball announcement, Frahm was named the NFCA Player of the Year for the second straight season — the first back-to-back winner since the award was founded in 2016 — and became just the 14th player in NCAA history to earn four NFCA First Team All-America selections, including her two seasons at Oklahoma, where she won back-to-back national championships before transferring to Nebraska. She also won a Rawlings Gold Glove at pitcher.

Accepting the USA Softball award, Frahm said: “There are so many people who could be standing here, so this is an incredible honor.” She had been a top-three finalist for the award in 2025 and a top-10 finalist in 2022 and 2023.