Adams, Peralta, Geurin earn NFCA All-Region Team selections

Auburn softball’s AnnaLea Adams, Nelia Peralta and SJ Geurin earned national postseason honors as the Tiger trio was selected to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Gulf Region Teams, the organization announced Thursday.

Adams, Peralta, Geurin earn NFCA All-Region Team selectionsAdams, Peralta, Geurin earn NFCA All-Region Team selections
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. –Auburn softball’s AnnaLea Adams, Nelia Peralta and SJ Geurin earned national postseason honors as the Tiger trio was selected to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Gulf Region Teams, the organization announced Thursday. 

The award honors softball student-athletes from across the association's 10 regions with first, second and third team selections. NFCA member head coaches from each respective region voted on the teams. All selected student-athletes are now eligible for the 2025 NFCA Division I All-America squads.

Adams was tabbed to the NFCA All-Gulf Region First Team while Peralta and Geurin both earned NFCA All-Gulf Region Second Team selections. Auburn’s three selections are the most it’s had in a single season since four Tigers were honored in 2017 and brings the program’s overall total to 38 honorees. 

Earning the program’s 22nd NFCA First Team All-Region accolade, Adams is first freshman to be named a first team honoree since Kasey Cooper in 2014. Peralta becomes a two-time honoree with her selection. She earned third team honors back in 2023. 

Amid one of the best freshman campaigns in program history, Adams enters the Tallahassee Regional with a .408 batting average, which leads all SEC true freshmen and ranks 10th overall in the league. She has knocked 51 hits, including nine doubles and nine home runs for a .696 slugging percentage. She’s scored 19 runs and ranks second on the team with 36 RBI. She has drawn nine walks to hold a .453 on-base percentage and has stuck out just 14 times across her 125 at bats.

The Liberty, Indiana, native has split time at designated player and at first base for the Tigers. She holds a .985 fielding percentage, committing just a pair of errors in her 133 chances. She holds the second highest batting average and third highest slugging percentage ever recorded by a Tiger freshman. Her batting average is currently sixth highest in a single season in program history. Her nine home runs are tied for the fourth most hit by a freshman in a season at Auburn.

One of the hottest bats in the Tiger lineup as of late, Peralta holds a .354 batting average and leads the team with 57 hits. She holds a .609 slugging percentage, knocking nine doubles, one triple and 10 home runs over her senior season. She has scored a team leading 46 runs and has added 33 RBI.

Also leading the team in walks with 32, Peralta holds a .460 on-base percentage. In her fourth season as the Tigers starting shortstop, the Wellington, Florida, native holds a .923 fielding percentage. She ranks fourth in the SEC in assists (107).

She became just sixth Tiger in program history to record 180 career hits, 120 career RBI and 120 runs scored in an Auburn uniform. She has also worked her way into the top 10 in multiple Auburn career categories, including sacrifice flies (9), walks (120), triples (5), assists (323), double played turned (33) and on-base percentage (.423).  

Auburn’s leader in the circle, Geurin holds a 2.79 earned run average and a 20-10 record this season. She’s added four saves to be directly involved in 24 of Auburn’s 32 wins this season. The redshirt sophomore is just the 12th player in program history to record 20 or more wins in a season. She ranks fourth in the SEC and 25th in the country in total wins.

She’s tossed five complete games, three of which have been shutouts. The workhorse in the circle, she leads the team with 165.2 innings pitched and has held opponents to a .253 average at the plate. She struck out 91 this season. 

The Leander, Texas, native ranks second in the SEC in saves, third in innings pitched, fourth in walks allowed per seven innings (1.82), 10th in shutouts and 16th in WHIP (1.24)

The 2025 NFCA Division I All-America teams, voted on by the NFCA DI All-American Committee, will be announced on Wednesday, May 28.