Sierra Humphreys Earns NFCA All-America Third Team Honors

ORLANDO – After helping lead her squad to the most prolific offensive season in program history, junior second baseman Sierra Humphreys, already duly-recognized for her efforts this season, has now brought to Orlando an honor accomplished just once before by a Knight.

Humphreys, an All-Big 12 First Team and NFCA All-Region First Team selection in 2026, has now become the second player in program history to earn NFCA All-America recognition, as announced by the organization Wednesday evening.

The Corona, California, native was added to the NFCA’s All-America Third Team, cementing her place in program lore alongside UCF Hall-of-Famer Shelby Turnier, who earned NFCA All-America First Team status in 2015.

Humphreys, in just her first year as an everyday second baseman after spending her first two collegiate seasons at third base, enjoyed the strongest year of her standout UCF tenure thus far, starting each of the Knights’ 61 games as the Black and Gold marched toward the second NCAA Super Regional berth in program history.

She set single-season career bests in average (.379), on-base percentage (.454), slugging percentage (.712), runs scored (48), total hits (67), doubles (15), home runs (14), total bases (126) and RBI (57), and matched her previous season best in walks (26).

Among the program’s all-time single-season leaderboards, Humphreys this year ranked fourth in RBI, fourth in double plays turned, fifth in average, fifth in slugging percentage, sixth in total bases, seventh in on-base percentage, seventh in runs scored, seventh in home runs, and tied for ninth in doubles.

She also enters her senior season next spring representing the program’s second-leading hitter by average all-time, as her career .359 batting average trails only Knights Hall-of-Famer Stephanie Best’s .384 mark, and she also ranks among career program leaders in on-base percentage (3rd, .431), slugging percentage (.4th, .582), double plays turned (7th, 35), assists (9th, 311), and home runs (10th, 21).

She began the season on an incredible tear, hitting .477/.538/.955 (21-for-44) through her first 16 games Feb. 5-21, going hitless just one time in that span with six multi-hit games, 14 runs scored, seven doubles, one triple, four home runs, 21 RBI, 42 total bases and seven walks.

The second baseman homered in three straight games Feb. 8-13 against Maryland, Missouri and Northwestern, and came through with a first-inning RBI single in the Knights’ early statement win over then-No. 10 LSU in Clearwater Feb. 14.

She provided a key seventh-inning go-ahead RBI double in UCF’s 6-4 Sunday win over then-No. 12 Oklahoma State March 8, helping her squad clinch the first series win over the Cowgirls in program history, and later hit safely in all three games against then-No. 3 Texas Tech, including a fourth-inning, game-tying RBI double against two-time NFCA National Pitcher of the Year NiJaree Canady March 20.

Humphreys helped lead the Black and Gold’s explosive three-game sweep of Houston March 27-29, hitting .600 (6-for-10) with four home runs, one double, nine RBI, 19 total bases and a 1.900 slugging percentage on the weekend. She joined teammates Aubrey Evans and Izzy Mertes in matching Best’s program single-game home run record with a three-homer game in the series finale March 29.

She later homered in each of UCF’s two wins over Utah the following weekend, pushing her home run total to five in a three-game span, and added her 11th home run of the year in the Knights’ bounce-back 8-1 win over then-No. 23 Arizona State in Tempe April 12.

Her offensive exploits toward the end of the season helped propel her squad into postseason play, as Humphreys produced a trio of multi-hit games in the Knights’ series win at Iowa State, including her first career grand slam in the series-opener May 1.

She went 2-for-4 with a double in her squad’s Big 12 Tournament opener against fifth-seeded Kansas, and in the Knights’ NCAA Tallahassee Regional clash with Jacksonville State, the second baseman went 2-for-4 and scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Humphreys concluded her season hitting safely in both of UCF’s NCAA Los Angeles Super Regional matchups with No. 8 overall seed UCLA, highlighted by her 14th home run of the year in the teams’ Friday matchup at Easton Stadium May 22.

With 14 home runs on the year, Humphreys joined teammates Beth Damon, Aubrey Evans, Izzy Mertes and Kendall Yarnell in double figures, giving UCF five players with at least 10 home runs in a single season for the first time in program history.

She finished her season ranking among Big 12 Conference leaders in defensive assists (5th, 124), total bases (7th, 126), doubles (8th, 15), RBI (9th, 57), slugging percentage (13th, .712), total hits (14th, 67), and home runs (15th, 14).

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