2025 TribLive HSSN Softball Player of the Year: Neshannock’s Addy Frye

By: Chris Harlan
Thursday, June 26, 2025 | 1:18 AM

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TribLive HSSN Softball Player of the Year

Addy Frye

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The Neshannock softball team went 100-1 in Addy Frye’s four seasons with the Lancers, a dominance that ranks their dynasty among the greatest in WPIAL history.

They won four WPIAL titles and three state championships. This spring for the second year in a row, they went 26-0.

And Frye led the way.

A Providence recruit, the senior went 23-0 with a 0.81 ERA, 217 strikeouts and only 15 walks in 121 innings pitched. But she wasn’t just a pitcher. Frye also batted .547 with 41 RBIs and eight home runs.

Frye’s success makes her the 2025 TribLive HSSN Softball Player of the Year. She and the Lancers succeeded — and were flawless, as well — even while wearing the target of a soon-to-be four-time WPIAL champion.

Neshannock defeated Chartiers-Houston, 7-1, in the WPIAL finals and later District 4 champion South Williamsport, 8-3, in the state championship.

The pressure didn’t bother them.

“Our team has always kind of used that for motivation,” Frye said. “We talked about how everyone’s going to bring their best game against us. Everyone wants to say they were the team that brought us down. We just had to take every team like it was the best team in the state.”

Neshannock’s only loss in her high school career came against Everett, 9-6, in the 2023 state semifinals. Any bitterness felt after that loss hasn’t faded, Frye said, but she sees a silver lining in hindsight.

“We could’ve potentially been four-time state champs and the seniors could’ve been undefeated,” she said. “But at the same time, I feel like it was very motivating for my senior class. That was kind of a blessing in disguise, just to motivate us to never want to feel that again.”

They never did.

The seniors finished their careers with a 52-game winning streak — the longest in WPIAL history.

Frye discussed her season with TribLive HSSN’s Don Rebel on the Rebel Yell podcast.

Chris Harlan is a TribLive reporter covering sports. He joined the Trib in 2009 after seven years as a reporter at the Beaver County Times. He can be reached at charlan@triblive.com.

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