Jayma Dawson

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

@adaschweller has earned 1st Team All-State pitcher for the 2026 softball season! An incredible senior season for our Ace! We are so proud of you Ada! You have left a legacy at OE! #Team>Self 💙🥎🧡 🦄

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

We can’t wait to see you out at the fields tonight to support our Kansas all-star and pitcher of the year nominee @adaschweller 4 pm game time! 💙🥎🧡

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

And our girl @adaschweller is our 1st team All Sunflower League Pitcher for the 2026 season! Way to go Ada! 🧡🥎💙

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

We are so proud to announce that @adyson_dawson has received Honorable Mention Infield for the 2026 season! Way to go Ady! 💙🥎🧡

[Jayma Dawson @dawson_jayma]

Congratulations!!! So proud of you!!

[Adyson Dawson @adyson_dawson]

Beyond grateful to be named All Sunflower League Honorable Mention Infield!
@oehawkssoftball @BCU_Softball

[SUNFLOWER LEAGUE SOF @SFLSOFTBALL]

ALL-SUNFLOWER SOFTBALL LEAGUE FOR 2026:
HONORABLE MENTION:

INFIELD:
Annika Whitcomb - OS
Hadley McKinney - SME
Ady Dawson - OE
Talia Augustine - SME
Mila Mitchell - SMS
Logan Waters - MV

OUTFIELD:
Aspen Walker - GE
Ava Rosner - ON
Cameron Clutchey - OS
Julia Norris - LAW

[Chris Olsen @RebelsOlsen]

Players, you need to hear this. It’s what your coaches want you to know when it's all said and done.

Softball is a cruel teacher.

It will hand you the greatest feeling of your life, then snatch it back before you can hold onto it. A walk-off. A perfect game. A moment where the ball meets the bat and you just know. We let those moments go too soon, traded in the second something goes wrong.

But the lows don’t ask permission. They follow you to the car ride home, to the silence at dinner, to the replay that won’t stop running in your head at 2 a.m. You’ll carry an error longer than you should. You’ll lie awake after a strikeout that didn’t even matter in the final score. You’ll question whether you’re good enough, whether you belong, whether any of it is worth it.

It is. Stay with me.

Here’s the truth: your strikeouts, your errors, your losses don’t define you. They just make you harder to quit on.

What defines you is what you do after. Running back to the dugout fence to cheer for your teammate when your own at-bat is still stinging. The tears on your face after a mistake, because you care that much. Putting in extra reps when no one is keeping score. Sitting when you want to be starting, trusting the process when the reward feels years away, and showing up anyway.

This game will test you in ways most people will never understand. But it gives back. Maybe not on the scoreboard, not always in a trophy or a starting spot, but in the person next to you in the dugout and in the kind of toughness that sneaks up on you one hard season at a time.

Just know: this game loves you back, even when you’re struggling to love it.

And more than anything, your coaches love you. On your worst days. After your worst games. Long after the season ends.

Being you is enough. Failures and all.

Ladies, carry this with you: your coaches will always be your biggest fans, even when we’re no longer coaching you.

[Adyson Dawson @adyson_dawson]

My high school career came to a close last night, it didn’t end the way any of us wanted, but I couldn’t be more proud of how we performed. I am beyond grateful to have been a part of this program Thank you @oehawkssoftball for everything, I loved every minute of it! #rollawks

[Olathe East Athletics @OEastAthletics]

Hawks Win! Hawks Win! Lady Hawks softball defeats SM North 10-1. On to the Regional championship at approx 7:00pm. @OlatheEastHawks @oehawkssoftball

[Olathe East Softball Booster Club @oehawksoftball]

Today is the day!! Get out to Blue Valley HS and watch the Hawks in regional action. Lets go Hawks!! #EastSide

[Olathe East Softball Booster Club @oehawksoftball]

No excuses. Get over to BV on Thursday and cheer on your #5 seeded OE Hawk softball squad. Its go time. #EastSide #ThisIsIt

[Olathe East High School @OlatheEastHawks]

And that’s a wrap. Congratulations to the Olathe East Class of 2026. Go change the world. Hawk Proud!!! @OEActivities @OEastAthletics

[Olathe East Athletics @OEastAthletics]

Hawks Win! Hawks Win! Lady Hawks softball with the doubleheader sweep over BV Southwest with an 8-1 victory in game two. @OlatheEastHawks @oehawkssoftball

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

@adaschweller reaches her 600th career strikeout as a Hawk! What an incredible accomplishment! We love Ada so much and are so proud of her hard work! Way to go! #Team>Self 💙🥎🧡

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

A complete team effort by the Hawks tonight to defeat the Falcons 3-1! Katelyn Tilghman hits another 💣 and Ada and Kate hold it down on the mound! Looking forward to our last regular season games at CBAC on Thursday! #Team>Self 🧡🥎💙

[Olathe East Softball Booster Club @oehawksoftball]

@adyson_dawson dropping a walk off grand slam on senior night!! Of course she did!! #Eastside

[Adyson Dawson @adyson_dawson]

Walk off grand slam for senior night!! Thank you OE softball for everything, I couldn’t ask for a better team
@oehawkssoftball @BCU_Softball

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

Kate Jacquinot went 4-4 tonight driving in 5 runs including a 3-run homerun to centerfield in the 3rd inning! She also held it down in the circle with 5 k’s in 3 innings! Great game Kate! 🧡🥎💙 #Team>Self

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

These 6 Seniors have given so much to Olathe East softball over the last 4 years, we could not be more proud of the amazing young women you have become! This group has truly left their mark and will be deeply missed! We love you Ada, Hayden, Emma, Katie, Kaedyn and Ady! 💙🥎🧡

[Olathe East Softball @oehawkssoftball]

Ady Dawson walks it off with the game winning GRAND SLAM in the bottom of the 7th against Lawrence Free State in Senior Night! Hawks win 12-8! #Team>Self 💙🥎🧡