Rich named first-team All-OAC, selected to All-OAC Tournament Team

Five Baldwin Wallace University women's soccer players have been named to the All-Ohio Athletic Conference teams for their performances on the field for the 2026 season. 

Defender Ella James, midfielder Elise Papp and forward Kalyn Rich have all been selected to the first team; midfielder Mia Fourtounis is a member of the second team; and goalkeeper Mackenzie Butcher rounds things out as a selectee of the third team.

The best player on the offensive side of the ball, Rich (Lynchburg-Clay HS/Lynchburg, Ohio) played and started all 20 games this season. She had 11 goals and six assists for a total of 28 points. Her 11 goals are the third-most in the conference, and six assists are tied with two three-assist leaders for the second-most. 

Rich took a conference-leading 111 shots, with 51 on goal, also leading the conference. Four of her goals were game-winners, and she played 1,561 minutes. 

In her career, she has played 70 games, 68 of which were starts. She has 26 goals and 16 assists for a total of 68 points. She has also taken 218 shots, with 107 of them on goal. Ten of her 26 career goals have been game winners, and she has seen action in 4,762 minutes.

Rich was also named to the All-Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament team. The Yellow Jackets advanced to the semifinals with a win over Mount Union 2-1 in the quarterfinals, before falling to Ohio Northern in the semifinals, 1-0.
  
In the two games Rich played, she took eight total shots, with five of them on goal, and she was a part of both goals that were scored in the Mount Union game. She scored the first goal of the victory over the Purple Raiders and assisted the second of the night. She played all but seven minutes in the two games as her career in a brown and gold uniform ends.
 
BW finished the season with a 10-8-3 overall record and a 4-3-1 record in the OAC.