MHS Softball Star Connor Fogarty Has a Ridiculous .745 Slugging Percentage

By Sam Bernardi | Posted June 12, 2025

Montgomery News Athlete of the Month Connor Fogarty

Montgomery softball star Connor Fogarty always has the green light to swing. While most coaches advise their players to take a pitch during a hitter-friendly 3-0 count, Fogarty is the exception.

MHS Senior Connor Fogarty.

MHS Coach Bryan Upshaw’s faith in his captain was never more rewarded than during a game against Rutgers Prep, when Fogarty drove a high fastball over the fence for her first career home run.

“Oh, this is going far,” Fogarty knew off-the-bat.

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An NJISAA scholar-athlete award recipient, an Oberlin College commit, and a four-year varsity starter, Fogarty has risen through the ranks and become an invaluable piece of this Cougars squad.

Connor Fogarty will attend Oberlin College in the fall.

Fogarty has a ridiculous .745 slugging percentage and is batting an even more ridiculous .549 for her senior campaign, and recently recorded her 100th hit. Even with all of Fogarty’s individual success, she emphasized her improving team and loves how they have grown this spring.

“I’ve been very impressed with our team’s wins in the last couple games of the season,” Fogarty said. “Building momentum has been really exciting toward the end, just seeing a lot of things come together finally is nice.”

“Ever since her freshman year, she had that attitude of wanting to get better, to compete,” Upshaw said. “She’s just a kid who loves the game of softball.”

Fogarty excels as a middle infielder, in the outfield, and has even taken up pitching this season. That willingness to support the team in any fashion possible is not something Upshaw takes lightly.

“She would step in, no questions asked,” Upshaw said. “She’s ready to pitch. She’s that kind of player that wants to help out the team… She’ll go wherever the coaches need her.”

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Fogarty is a student of the game who meticulously studies her opponents and relays that information to her younger, eager-to-learn teammates.

Her insight and wisdom were partially inherited from her father, a former baseball player; her aunt, a college softball player; and her hitting coach in Flemington.

She also has a younger brother, Patrick, who plays for Montgomery’s varsity baseball team. As siblings so often do, they trade light-hearted jabs about their respective success on the diamond.

But Fogarty’s impact is not limited to her dominant bat and smooth fielding. Her mother is the booster president, and that behind-the-scenes impact is something Fogarty emulates.

She is in charge of the team’s coveted speaker, alerts her teammates about uniform and scheduling updates, and, perhaps most importantly, controls the aux cord.

If you hear “Dior” by Pop Smoke near the softball field, you are sure to find Fogarty.

When she began her varsity career, she knew there was more to learn about softball than mechanics and skills. Her relentless pursuit has had a remarkable trickle-down effect on her team.

“My freshman year, the seniors took me under their wing and showed me the ropes,” Fogarty said. “So, ever since I was a sophomore and junior and people started to look up to me, that’s always been one of my big goals to inspire passion in the girls to love the sport the way I was taught to, and this is how we do it.”

Best of luck to Connor as her Montgomery days conclude, and look for her to continue reaching milestones at Oberlin.

“I wish I could do it all over again and have another Connor,” Upshaw said