FRISCO, Texas — McNeese's Brookelyn Taylor and Alexis Dibbley have earned this week's Jersey Mike's Southland Softball Player of the Week awards, the conference office announced Monday. Taylor gets her second nod of the season while Dibbley is the third different Cowgirls hitter to earn recognition.  

Softball Hitter of the Week: Alexis Dibbley, McNeese – Jr. – OF – Moss Bluff, La. (Sam Houston High School)
Dibbley helped McNeese to a 4-0 record last week with a road win at Houston and a home Southland Conference opening series sweep over Lamar.  Dibbley hit .750 on the week (6 for 8) with a 2.250 slugging percent and a .750 on base percent.  All of her hits were extra base hits (three homeruns and three doubles).  She recorded 6 RBI, scored seven runs, three walks without striking out.

Softball Pitcher of the Week: Brookelyn Taylor,  McNeese – Fr. – RHP – Liberty, Texas (Liberty High School)
Taylor helped McNeese to a 4-0 record last week with a road win at Houston and a home Southland Conference series sweep over Lamar. She posted a 2-0 record and picked up her first SLC win in the opening game of the Lamar series and closed out the series with the shutout win in Game 3.  She posted a 0.58 ERA with 13 strikeouts in 12.0 innings. Taylor only allowed three runs (only one earned), seven hits and walked six. 
Honorable mention: Molly Yoo, Nicholls

2026 Southland Conference Softball Players of the Week

Date	Hitter	Pitcher
Feb. 9	Ellie Vance, SFA	Hallie Burns, Southeastern
Feb. 16	Rylee Cloud, McNeese	Molly Yoo, Nicholls
Feb. 23	Reagan Heflin, Nicholls	Brookelyn Taylor, McNeese
March 2	Nyjah Fontenot, McNeese	Mattison Buster, Northwestern State
March 9	Alexis Dibbley, McNeese	Brookelyn Taylor, McNeese

Southland weekly award winners are nominated and voted upon by each school's sports information director. Voting for one's own athlete is not permitted. To earn honorable mention, a student-athlete must appear on 25 percent of ballots.