The West Coast Conference on Wednesday released the conference softball schedule for the 2025 season. Six teams will battle for the WCC title.

Beth Torina’s passion for raising awareness and funds for ovarian cancer research has spread across the softball world and earned the LSU head coach the 2024 Humanitarian Award from the NFCA.

A senior class full of talent departed Oregon after last season, but the Ducks added a new group of key and crucial transfers and freshmen who will contribute as they look to make a deep postseason run.

Former Baylor two-way star Aliyah Binford is transferring to Ole Miss, she announced on social media on Tuesday.

A rash of injuries could have curtailed Arizona’s 2024 season before it started, but the Wildcats instead reached a Super Regional. Now back to full health, they’ll look to make another run this season.

Five new players joined Oklahoma’s roster via the transfer portal this offseason. Here’s a look at what the group brings to the table and how they might fit into the Sooners’ run for a 5th consecutive title.

In The Circle is joined by Nebraska Head Coach Rhonda Revelle to discuss her team’s optimism heading into 2025.

Reigning Big Ten Player of the Year Jess Oakland has entered the transfer portal. She owns 34 career home runs and has two years of eligibility remaining.

International softball veteran star Michelle Cox is retiring.Cox announced her retirement plans on Instagram. “After over 120 games for Australia, it’s time to announce my retirement from international softball,” she wrote. “Throughout the past 15 years, I’ve had the incredible honor of representing Australia on the international stage. From the highs to the challenges, every moment in the green and gold has been a privilege, […]

Alabama “probably has the 20 best athletes” it’s ever had at one time. Expect to see the Tide use speed to try and return to Oklahoma City in 2025.

Some key pieces of last season’s FGCU championship squad are now graduated. The Eagles have a returning ace in the circle in Allison Sparkman, but what else is in store for the group from Fort Myers?

Veteran pitcher Ellen Roberts has announced her retirement. She played college softball at Memphis, spent a decade playing professionally, and pitched for Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Amy Hogue’s word of the year is curious, one she admits should probably be that every year. But curiosity seems especially fitting this season for a Utah team that is coming off back-to-back postseason berths, but lost a lot of experience and talent.

Pitcher Mariah Mazon and infielder Aubrey Leach are the latest veteran pro players to sign on for the inaugural AUSL season in 2025.

Australian national team head coach Laing Harrow is stepping down from his post. He led the squad for several years, including in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

There are a lot of changes at LSU on the field and in the dugout. The Tigers have a generational recruit in the circle and high hopes to develop a winning identity.

In The Circle is joined by Oregon Softball Associate Head Coach Sam Marder and Oregon Baseball Assistant Coach Jack Marder.

Baylor two-way star Aliyah Binford has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, sources have told D1Softball.The Baylor Lariat first reported Binford’s entrance into the portal earlier Friday evening. D1Softball has confirmed that report.Binford was named the 2024 D1Softball Comeback Player of the Year after returning from injury and leading the Bears on a Super Regional run. She earned all-Big 12 and all-region honors in 2022 and […]

Omaha raised their profile on a national level with their eye-catching performance in last season’s Columbia Regional. The Mavericks now head into a 2025 season that presents both an opportunity and a challenge.

Rachel Becker will return to the Spark in 2025 to mark her third professional season and her second year in OKC.

After briefly dipping her toe into the coaching waters in the past, Lexie Handley decided this summer that shepherding a college softball bullpen was the full-time career she wanted.

In year one of the Lindsay Leftwich era, NC State outperformed everyone’s expectations – maybe even including their own.The Wolfpack improved their RPI standing by more than 100 spots and were +12 in the win column. Thought to be a program at the very beginning of a total rebuild, Leftwich and her staff turned things around immediately.Wins over Clemson and Virginia Tech in conference play […]

Today, we chat with Michigan Assistant Head Coach Amanda Chidester about the improved Wolverine offense plus her induction into the Michigan Hall of Honor.

Dipping into the transfer portal has become an annual occurrence for the Ole Miss softball program. After an 0-2 showing in last season’s NCAA tournament, the Rebels picked up a six-member portal class. The group is one of the largest transfer classes in the SEC.Pitcher Alison Cooper, infielders Ashton Lansdell and Lair Beautae, outfielders Star Ferguson and Taylor Strain, and slugger Taylor Roman make up […]

Every fall, Marissa Young asks her team to decide on a motto for the year.Something unique to them.Most years, and definitely the past few years, the Duke coach had an idea of what the motto would be. She had teams led by upperclassmen, and she had a sense of where their heads were and how they were leaning.“But this team,” Young said, “I really have […]

The OKC Spark have re-signed outfielder Rylie Boone to a contract for the 2025 season.Boone spent the 2024 summer season with the Spark. She made her professional debut in Chattanooga for the first games of the summer season and primarily played left field during the campaign.As a rookie, Boone batted .303, notching six RBIs and scoring 11 runs.During her college career, Boone was part of […]

One year after making one of the biggest transfer portal acquisitions that softball has ever seen – adding Jordy Bahl fresh off a national title at Oklahoma – Nebraska went back into the portal this summer to stabilize their roster.In total, six new players joined the Huskers via the portal this summer – pitchers Kylee Magee and Hannah Camenzind, infielder Ava Kuszak, outfielder Kacie Hoffmann, […]

Arkansas wasn’t happy with how last season ended. The Razorbacks are using that-along with some talented newcomers-as motivation for 2025.

Toledo and head coach Jessica Bracamonte have agreed to a contract extension.The new pact adds two years to Bracamonte’s existing deal and stretches through the 2027 season.Bracamonte enters her 3rd season leading the Toledo program in 2025. She has shepherded a program turnaround since taking the reins of the Rockets; in her first two seasons at the helm, she piloted the Rockets to winning records […]