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Maddie Penta earns another All-America honor

After finishing up a successful career on the Plains, Auburn’s ace earns All-American honors for the second year in a row.

Auburn’s softball season ended on May 19 with a loss to Florida State in the regional finals of the Tallahassee Regional. Despite that, not everything has proven to be bitter about the ending of the season.

For ace pitcher [autotag]Maddie Penta[/autotag], she is ending her career on the Plains with some honors. She is walking away as an All-American for the second straight season, earning a Third Team placement by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA).

Her All-America accolade goes as the 17th one earned by an Auburn player and the first to go back-to-back years since [autotag]Kasey Cooper[/autotag] and [autotag]Emily Carosone[/autotag] in 2015 and 2016. She is the only pitcher in Tiger history to rack up multiple NFCA All-America honors.

Penta posted a 1.90 earned run average, giving up 55 earned runs over her 202.1 innings of work in 2024. She also struck out 264 batters, which contributed to opposing players batting just .184 against her.

She goes down as the winningest pitcher in program history with 76 wins over the course of her career. She went 16-10 this season, posting 15 complete games in 30 starts.

Penta finished her time at Auburn in the top seven of 15 career pitching categories. On top of being the all-time winningest pitcher, she has the most career starts at 122 career combined shutouts at 20. She is also the only Tiger to record multiple perfect games in her career, being part of two this season.

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Emily Carosone returns to Auburn as assistant coach

The former Auburn player holds many records.

Former Auburn softball legend Emily Carosone will return to Auburn as an assistant coach. The announcement was made public on Wednesday by head coach Mickey Dean.

Coach Dean on the Carosone hire:

“We are excited to have Emily join our staff as a full-time member…she has earned this opportunity as a player and as our volunteer assistant for the last three seasons.”

Carosone left Auburn before the 2020 season start to begin training with the Italian National Team for the Tokyo Olympics. Prior to her departure she served as a graduate assistant in 2017 and the program’s volunteer assistant in 2018-2019.

She’s Auburn’s all-time leader in five categories, per auburntigers.com they are as follows: career batting average (.406), hits (285), runs (267), on-base percentage (.534) and hit by pitches (85). Carosone is a three-time All-American whose defensive performances and leadership helped clinch the 2015 and 2016 SEC Softball Tournament titles. She also helped the Tigers advance to the 2015 and 2016 Women’s College World Series.

“I’m excited to be back with the Auburn Family,” Carosone said. “There’s no other place I’d rather be.”

Carosone was drafted in the fourth round of the 2016 National Pro Fastpitch Draft. She has playing experience with the Chicago Bandits, Cleveland Comets, and USSSA Pride. While her journey to the Olympics has been postponed, her return to Auburn is welcomed with open arms!

We’re glad to have you back, Coach Carosone!