LOCK HAVEN, Pa. -- Junior pitcher Madelayne Ruffner (Charles Town, W.Va./Washington) of the Shepherd University softball team has been named to the 2026 PSAC Spring Top Ten as announced by the league office on Thursday.

Ruffner boasts a 3.78 grade point average as an elementary education major. She collected multiple postseason honors, including PSAC Softball East Pitcher of the Year, the D2CCA and NFCA All-America Teams, and the 2025-26 Shepherd Female Athlete of the Year award. She appeared in 31 games with 23 starts, recording a 15-8 record with a 1.28 ERA, the third-lowest mark in the nation. Ruffner struck out 292 batters with just 22 walks in 164.2 innings. She ranks first in Division II in strikeout-to-walk ratio (13.86), strikeouts per seven innings (12.4), and WHIP (.071).

2026 PSAC Spring Top 10
 
Men
 
Brady McGuire, Seton Hill
Garrett Quinan, Shippensburg
Rasmus Seppanen, Gannon
Ty Sherman, Shippensburg
Seaton Wozniak, Slippery Rock
 
Women
 
Emily Henn, Kutztown
Paige Jenkins, Slippery Rock
Sadie Kauffman, East Stroudsburg
Kelly Leszcynski, Bloomsburg
Madelayne Ruffner, Shepherd

Shepherd All-Time PSAC Top Ten Honorees
Deonte Glover, football Fall 2019
Ricky Robinson, football Fall 2021
Kyle Daggett, men's basketball Winter 2021-22
Adam Stilley, football Fall 2022
Delaney Bittner, women's soccer Fall 2024
Madelayne Ruffner, softball Spring 2026