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The Big West has released the conference softball schedule for the 2025 season.A ten-member league, the Big West received multiple bids to the NCAA tournament in 2023 and were represented in the postseason by Cal State Fullerton in 2024.For the first time, the Big West is sponsoring a conference tournament this season. The top six teams in the regular-season standings will participate in the double-elimination […]

Megan Casper has plenty of stories to tell. At every step of her journey through softball, there’s been an unplanned roadblock, a fork in the road, or a twist in what otherwise seemed to be pretty normal plans.

UC Riverside has hired Brittney Matta as the program’s new head coach.Matta spent the 2024 season as an assistant coach on staff at UTEP. She helped lead the Miners to a 26-21 overall record and a 6th-place finish in the Conference USA standings.She previously spent four years as head coach at South Mountain Community College. In the final season of her tenure at SMCC, Matta […]

UC Riverside is on the hunt for a new head coach. Here’s an in-depth look at some of the candidates who could be the Highlanders’ next leader.

On the strength of quality non-conference schedules, the Big West earned multiple bids to the NCAA tournament a season ago. Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton are the favorites, but don’t look past some of their conference mates.

A matchup between Oklahoma and UCLA highlights the schedule for the 2023 Mary Nutter College Classic, which runs Feb. 23-26 in Cathedral City, Calif.