The Leader’s 2026 All-County Softball Team
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Over the next five weeks for the entire month of July the Leader will be recognizing the athletes from the 2025-2026 sports seasons that made the biggest impact on the fields and courts for their teams.
We get things started this week with a deserving group of young ladies that carried their teams to success on the softball diamond.
Here is the Randolph Leader’s 2026 All-County Softball Team.
RCHS catcher Hannah Parmer’s sophomore season was a breakout year in every respect. She improved on a hot finish to the 2025 season, and put up monster numbers in leading her team to the state tournament for the second straight year. That performance makes her this year’s player of the year. Parmer became one of the most feared hitters in the county and will carry that distinction into her junior season in 2027.
Handley’s Breydan Watkins put a cap on her high school career with another outstanding season at the plate. She led the county with 11 home runs and became a player that opposing coaches often didn’t even bother pitching to.
Taylor plays with a carefree attitude that conveys pure enjoyment when she’s on the field. She’s aggressive at the plate, crafty on the bases and an anchor on the infield for the Lady Bobcats.
There was not a better leadoff hitter in the county, and it wasn’t even that close. Huckeba, who is headed to Southern Union next season, led the county in runs scored, finished five percentage points shy of hitting .500 and had an on-base percentage of .617 while going 29-for-29 in her stolen base attempts.
Last year’s Player of the Year, Williams continued her dominant play in the circle and continued to distinguish herself as the county’s best pitcher. She already has a number of scholarship offers and will be looking to pitch Woodland to the state tournament for the third straight season in 2027.
Smith was Handley’s top pitcher, their best middle infielder and the second-best bat in the lineup behind Watkins. She will be a centerpiece of the 2027 team and a valuable senior presence on what should be a young Handley squad next year.
Strikeouts tend to be the stat that catches most people’s eye when they look at a pitcher, but the full story of Waters’s year as RCHS’s ace can be told in the number of walks she allowed. In over 110 innings she issued just 12 walks, and that control was vital to making her a big part of the Lady Tigers’ second straight run to the state tournament.
One of two RCHS eighth-graders on the all-county team (along with second-teamer Khloe Yates) Thompson is the player in waiting to take over for Huckeba in the RCHS leadoff spot. As the No. 2 hitter in the lineup she led the county in on-base percentage at .623. One other interesting statistic for the left-handed slap hitter – all 37 of her hits this past season were singles.
Puckett proved to be an invaluable presence for Woodland both in the lineup and in the field. She played well as the starting left fielder, but also gave the Lady Bobcats a second pitching option that has been missing for the past couple of seasons. Puckett’s continued development will play a big part in the Bobcats’ future for years to come.
The all-county second team features a trio of Wadley players, as well as several vital members of state tournament teams for Woodland and RCHS. It is rounded out by a pair of gutsy Handley players who helped the team reach the regional tournament.
