• All-Time OVC Female Athlete of the Year Award Winners
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech senior outside hitter
Madolyn Isringhausen has been selected as the Ohio Valley Conference Female Athlete of the Year for 2024-25 in voting by the league’s athletics directors and communications directors.
The OVC Male Athlete of the Year will be announced on Thursday.
Isringhausen set school records for the rally-scoring era for kills (559), kills per set (4.90), service aces (59), service aces per set (0.52), points (642.0), and points per set (5.63) on her way to earning AFCA All-American honors (the first player in TTU history to earn the honor). During the year she piled up a league-record eight Offensive Player of the Week honors and was the first player in TTU history to collect National Player of the Week honors.
Isringhausen, the OVC Player of the Year, paced the OVC in kills, kills per set, aces, aces per set, points, and points per set, while also ranking eighth in hitting percentage with a mark of .291 on her way to earning All-OVC first-team honors for the third time (becoming just the fourth player in school history to achieve the feat). Nationally she ranked third in points, fourth in kills, sixth in kills per set, seventh in points per set, ninth in service aces, and 14th in aces per set.
She finished her career ranking first in TTU history in points (2011.0), second in kills (1,721), attacks (4,737) and service aces (169), third in aces/set (0.36) and points/set (4.21), fourth in sets played (476) and fifth in kills/set (3.62). Additionally, she became just the 11th member of the program's Double Grand Club, securing more than 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs during her career.
Following this year's OVC Championships, Isringhausen was selected to the OVC All-Tournament Team for her efforts in Tech's two contests, a 3-0 sweep over Little Rock and a heartbreaking, 3-2 loss to eventual champion Lindenwood.
She made more history after the conclusion of the season, becoming the first Golden Eagle to make the roster of a Pro Volleyball Federation team after signing as a free agent with the Atlanta Vibe, playing in five matches during her rookie season.
Isringhausen is the eighth different Tennessee Tech student-athlete to win the award (three of those winners repeated making this the 11th time one has earned the award) and first since 2005-06 (softball player Bonnie Bynum). She is only the second non-basketball player from her school to win the honor. The other award winners from TTU were Jerilynn Harper (1980-81 & 1981-82), Cheryl Taylor (1985-86), Angela Moorehead (1990-91), Roschelle Vaughn (1992-93), Diane Seng (1997-98 & 1999-00) and Janet Holt (2000-01 & 2001-02).
Other female nominees for the award included Eastern Illinois senior basketball forward
Macy McGlone, Lindenwood graduate setter
Allie Otten, Little Rock junior goalkeeper
Peyton Urban, Morehead State junior golfer
Tuva Isebakke, Southeast Missouri junior track athlete
Anna Thomason, SIUE senior infielder
Kaylynn Salyars, Southern Indiana senor basketball forward
Meredith Raley, UT Martin senior midfielder
Izzy Patterson and Western Illinois senior volleyball outside hitter
Keyana Cruse.
The OVC first awarded a Female Athlete of the Year honor in 1981.