/r/CollegeSoftball
Official subreddit of NCAA Women's College Softball.
/r/CollegeSoftball
Hey everyone! We are a brand new Discord server dedicated to uniting women's sports fans from the women's soccer community and other women's sports communities! We are an LGBTQ+ friendly server and are a safe place for people to talk about ALL women's! DM this Reddit account if you are interested in joining the server!
I attend a D2 university, came in as a freshman starting and had a great year. Half way through season my 1st coach got fired. We ended up getting a new coach who was equally amazing and has helped me to love the game even more, half way through my sophomore year she got fired. Ended up getting a new coach who randomly just did not play me. He didn’t get to know my name and would call me (mexican girl). He later on didn’t get rehired and i’m now into my Junior year with another brand new coach. I feel that i have to start over every year and with the last 2 coaches i’ve had they’ve kind of put me on the back burner when i’m a hard working player. I don’t know if i should keep going. I feel like a second option to my new coach and don’t know if i believe in myself anymore. I fear that it’s too late to transfer out to a different school and don’t know what to do or if i should keep playing. My new current head coach now is a mess and our assistant coach acts like a 16 year old teenager involving herself into the drama. I work hard and always get extra practice in but somehow i don’t feel seen by my new coach. I feel like all hope is lost. Don’t know what to do now.
https://theausl.com/news/ausl-inaugural-draft-tracker-by-round
The website seems to be having trouble loading...maybe we broke it!
Hi Everyone!! Today’s Draft Day!! The Draft for the 2025 Athletes Unlimited Softball League Draft! Here is my mock draft for what’s going to happen tonight.
Here are the Teams
Bandits - GM Jenny Dalton-Hill and Coached by Stacey Nuveman Diaz
Blaze - GM Dana Soresen and Coached by Alisa Goler
Talons - GM Lisa Fernandez and Head Coach Howard Dobison
Volts - GM Cat Osterman and Head Coach Kelly Krestchman
And here we go with the picks
**Round 1**
Bandits - Amanda Lorenz
Blaze - Lexi Kilfoyil
Talons - Rachel Garcia
Volts - Megan Farmino
Round 2
Blaze - Bubba Nickels
Talons - Dejah Mulipola
Volts - Jessi Warren
Bandits - Georgina Corrick
Round 3
Talons - Aubrey Leach
Volts - Mia Davidson
Bandits - Carley Hoover
Blaze - Aleshia Ocasio
Round 4
Volts - Sis Bates
Bandits - Skylar Wallace
Blaze - Tiare Jennings
Talons - Victoria Hayward
Round 5
Bandits - Savanna Jaquish
Blaze - Tori Vidales
Talons - Keilani Ricketts
Volts - Morgan Zerkle
Round 6
Blaze - Aliyah Andrews
Talons - Sam Show
Volts - Taylor Mcquillian
Bandits - Baylee Klingler
Round 7
Talons - Ali Aguilar
Volts - Maya Brady
Bandits - Erkia Piancastelli
Blaze - Montana Fouts
Round 8
Volts - Megan Wiggins
Bandits - Kelsey Stewart-Hunter
Blaze - Sharlize Palacios
Talons - Delanie Wisz
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Volts - Sydney Romero
Bandits - Erin Coffel
Blaze - Madi Huskey
Talons - Bella Dayton
Hi Everyone!!
Tomorrow is the first ever draft for the Athlete's Unlimited Softball League. This will be a more traditional league like how the old NPF use to work.
There are some of the biggest stars in the game are part of this league. Here's the guide to the draft!!
The Four Teams are the Bandits, Talons, Blaze and the Volts. The Draft is going to be tomorrow night 1/29 at 8 ET on ESPN+ and Youtube.
Here's my Ranking by Position of all the players in the draft pool! My Mock Draft will be out tomorrow
Pitcher Rankings
Catcher
Middle Infield
Corner Infield
Outfield
Utility
Sahvanna Jaquish – LSU (2023 WPF Stats .243/3/18)
Samantha Show – Oklahoma State (2023 WPF Hitting Stats .243/3/18) (2023 WPF Pitching Stats .243/3/18)
Valerie Cagle – Clemson (2024 AU Stats 1-1/2.56/13)
Kayla Kowalik – Kentucky (2024 AU Stats .341/0/6)
Suzy Brookshire – Long Beach State (2023 WPF Stats .250/3/12)
Karli Spaid – Miami of Ohio (2024 AU Stats .333/1/3)
Allie Skaggs – Arizona (2024 AU Stats .211/0/0)
Hayley Busby – Oklahoma State (2022 AU Stats .222/0/1)
Ali Newland – LSU (2024 NCAA Stats .304/9/41)
Makena Brocki – SDSU (2024 NCAA Stats .252/0/17)
Pal Egan – Florida (2023 NCAA Stats .280/6/28)
Sara Fessler – Youngstown State (.305/9/21)
Good day everybody! We are really looking forward to the start of the season in the Softball 365 Discord Server and we would love to have you as part of the discussions! - discord.gg/zDBjN6NfEU
We have a moderated environment to take care of troublemakers, so you don't have to worry about excessive trolling or negativity. We have individual discussion threads for big tournaments (The Clearwater Tournament discussion thread just went up) as well as big games and series and every regional and super regional. There are individual discussion channels for almost every DI team and conference (if you want one created for a specific team that doesn't exist, just ask). It's a welcoming environment and we would love to have fans of more teams join in the fun! Let me know if you have any questions. There are a lot of channels, so it can be a little intimidating looking at first :)
Make sure and come by the #claim-your-team channel to announce your fandom and get tagged with your team(s)
They just posted their Tim Walton episode today, but within the past week they’ve done episodes with Gasso, Torino, and Deifel.
Super interesting listens, if you have the time. I am so freaking excited for this year.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-circle/id1129600119
Today The Mexico Softball League Liga Mex kicks off its 2nd season.
American Players in the League are
Naranjeos - Morgan Smith and Kyleigh Sand
Algodoneras - Britt Vonk and Ciara Bryan
Diablos Rojas - Megan Faramino and Mia Davidson
Sultanes - Baylee Klingler, Mckenzie Clark and Lindsay Lopez
Las Olmecas - Christina Toniolo and Destini Brown
Bravas De Leon - Courtney Wyche.
Update on 1/25, Texas has published their schedule: https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/softball/schedule/2025
As of 1/20, the Texas softball site doesn't have it's non SEC schedule. However, the SEC site has part of Texas' preseason schedule. https://www.secsports.com/schedule/softball/university-of-texas
Does anyone know what happened to that podcast where he’d ask the softball commits questions about their journeys?
As a big Virginia Tech fan, I’m curious where we think they’ll end up in the ACC standings, and generally how strong the ACC will be as a whole.
A lot of returning production for the Hokies, Lemley is a senior this year in the circle. McMillan is a great athlete. Coach Pete is a heck of a softball coach.
Just wondering. Thank you so much!
Here's mine
With the spring softball season coming up soon. I wanted to share some helpful information on what the recruiting process looks like for college softball. Here are 12 steps you can take yourself to start the recruiting process.
1. Rate Yourself. You need to provide an honest assessment of yourself as a player. This one is a hard one, but be realistic with yourself. Not everyone will be able to play at the next level, so do you have the talent, skills, work ethic, size needed to play at the next level, if so what level? Some ways to help determine this could be the following:
2. Research – Start researching schools and programs. Since you are focused on softball you may think that is all you need to consider, but the school itself is extremely important, and should be a primary focus as well, since this is where you will be living for four years. Consider the following for your school:
Remember that there are multiple levels of playing collegiate sports– D1, D2, D3, NAIA, and even Junior College. And within those levels, are a whole range of programs from perennial powerhouses, to power conference teams to mid-majors to bottom of table to even brand new programs. All are fine and require players with a wide range of skills and talent. Research where you might be a good fit, talent wise and have an opportunity to play.
3. Eligibility - If you are serious about getting recruited, you will have to register for eligibility with the NCAA, you will have to pay a fee if you want to be at a D1 or D2 school. D3, NAIA, and NJCAA have different rules. To register or learn more about NCAA eligibility with this website - https://web3.ncaa.org/ecwr3/.
More on NAIA eligibility here - PlayNAIA.org
More on NJCAA eligibility here - https://www.njcaa.org/compete/index
4. Profiles – Get your profiles, social media, website, highlight videos, in order and keep them updated. Develop a list of links that you can share quickly, when asked. When posting videos, make sure you can be clearly identified at all times, or are somehow highlighted in the video. Not sure where to start - look at what others are doing - recently recruited athletes can be a great source for inspiration.
5. Emails – Since you will be filling out lots of forms and emailing of coaches, you might want to have a dedicated email address to solely handle the recruiting process, so you do not have to worry about other emails getting mixed in. This will make it easier to keep track of any outreach and correspondences you may have. Check your junk and spam mail folders often, sometimes legitimate emails from coaches or programs get caught. Set up a good folder and tagging system in your emails - maybe set it up Division Level or Conferences or Geographic Regions or Interest Level.
6. September 1 – Is the start of official recruiting for D1 and D2 NCAA coaches in softball. Official recruiting for coaches starts on September 1 for player’s in their junior year at high school. That is when D1 and D2 coaches can start communicating with players via email, phone calls, text messages and more. Also this doesn’t mean coaches only start recruiting at this time, they have already been scouting and keeping an eye on players, so that is why it is important to have your accounts, profiles and social media updated ahead of time.
o Note – D3 and NAIA have different rules, so they could be actively recruiting and reaching out before this date.
7. Recruiting Forms on College Athletic Websites - Almost all college athletic programs have a website where you can fill out a recruiting form. To find it, navigate to the school’s athletic website (most schools have their general website and their athletics website), and visit the page for the specific sport you are pursuing. You can do this before the recruiting contact start date. In filling out the website recruiting form, they generally follow a similar pattern for your sport – asking for details about you, measurements, positions, clubs you play for, stats, test scores, gpa, etc. so if you fill out one, you should take all that information and put it in a document, so you can just copy and paste the information into future recruiting forms that you fill out.
What happens when you fill out a recruiting form? Usually the information gets filtered into a type of recruiting database where coaches can review the data submitted, and search the data if they are looking for something in particular. Additionally, you will usually receive an auto-generated form email response from the program. Keep track of what schools you filled out forms for and when. Lastly, if there are programs you are interested in and that might be good fits (remember that honest self-assessment?) fill out the recruiting forms.
8. Track - Make a spreadsheet to track the recruiting process. It is extremely helpful to keep track of all of the following:
Basically, there is a lot of information that you want to be able to access and check on quickly, so when you get a call from coach, you can recall what was discussed previously.
To help with this recruiting process I have created spreadsheets for women's college softball for the following:
divisions 1,2,3, and NAIA. Feel free to check out the link collegesportsheets.etsy.com for more information on these specific spreadsheets. I have a daughter who is now a D1 swimmer, and these spreadsheets helped her organize her recruiting.
9. Follow-up Emails - You will not hear from every program or coach you try to contact. But it can’t hurt to follow-up at least once to see if there is any interest (coaches get busy, they may overlook emails or there may have been turnover with staff). Good rule to follow is to keep it simple focus on the following:
Remember sometimes no response is the response. It is ok to follow-up but be reasonable and don’t overdo it. You won't hear back from everyone. Additionally, coaches can be very hot and cold in following up so don't take it personally if you start having conversations, and all of a sudden the coach stops and you don’t hear from them. Coaches ghost too.
When doing email outreach, if possible send to and CC (carbon copy) all the coaches on the team that you can. You might not know which coach is in charge of recruiting. If a conversation starts, the coaches will let you know who your point of contact should be going forward.
10. ID Camps - Many colleges (and 3rd party groups) offer ID Camps for softball. ID Camps generally require registration and payment to participate. Camps can be ways to get in front of college coaches, gauge your talent level and skills against other players, and an opportunity to learn. To see if ID Camps make sense for you, here are a couple of notes regarding ID Camps. ID Camps:
Party Camps are hosted by other organizations that invite a large number of coaches to attend and watch.
Recommendations for ID Camps
11. Social Media - You can also follow the programs you are interested in on any of the social media channels to get a feel for the program as well. Also monitor what programs are following your social media accounts. If you see a new program following you, it could be a good sign to do some research on the program, fill out a recruiting form and send over an email to see if you can get a conversation started. Develop content that works for you and also showcases your abilities. Make sure you optimize your bio, headline to convey important information. Check out what other athletes are doing (current or recently recruited) to get inspiration and ideas from.
o Note - Make sure you sanitize your social media accounts. Ask yourself about your account – Is this something that an elderly relative would be ok reading and watching?
12. Coaches Contacting You – Talking to adults who have all the power in recruiting, can be overwhelming. If you can, practice being on a call to simulate the interaction. Additionally to help be comfortable in taking the call, have a few notes about the program that you can talk about, and also have a few questions ready to ask, think like 3 or 4 to help keep the conversation going.
Additionally, don’t write off coaches who want to talk to you even if you aren’t interested in the program. Why? Because it is good practice. You get comfortable talking to coaches, asking questions and in general having a natural conversation with a coach. Lastly, you never know, you might be surprised and have a good connection with a coach and program and want to learn more about the program.
If you want these 12 steps in a PDF version check out my bio for a free copy. Anyone else has any tips or helpful comments to share, let me know.
Hope this helps and good luck to all the players!
Hey, y’all! I feel like a lot happened this offseason and I’m still trying to catch up before the 2025 season. I was wondering what you guys think are some of the biggest storylines/things to watch for this season. I know about NiJaree Canady transferring and Jordy Bahl returning. But what can I expect from OU? Which teams are going to be the most fun to watch this year?
It looks like the OU/Loyola Marymount (2/8) and OU/Long Beach State (2/9) games are sold out already. Are any of you fans on either side going who have an extra ticket? I'll sit wherever. DM me.
Hello. I want to know how being recruited from the transfer portal works. I’m not sure if I enter and hope that someone picks me up or if there is actually a recruitment process. I am playing at a D2 school and really want to go to a D1 school.
I saw that FSU refers to themselves as Team 42 a lot, couldn't figure it out and thought it was something specific to them until recently I noticed a few other teams (Boston College, Michigan) refer to themselves as such as well. Further searching revealed multiple other college softball teams refer to themselves as such, but I can't find anything about what it means. Does anyone here know?
Excited for softball to get going. Looks like OU keeps reloading. It's wide open this year though.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to see the Top 100 players ranked without paying for it?
Georgetown softball is a complete joke, mostly because the athletic department has tolerated a horrible coach with a long history of accumulating reports of abuse and dishonesty. After yet another investigation, she finally got the boot despite the season starting in just three weeks. Hopefully the AD will find a decent coach, but the timing will make it pretty difficult. Pat Conlan should never be in a position of power over children or young adults again.
I’ve never been so excited to watch the Big Ten. In recent years, the Big Ten has had the least amount of WCWS representation. I’m not just excited because of the additions of UCLA, Oregon, and Washington. The OG Big Ten teams are locked and loaded for the 2025 season. I’m so excited to watch Michigan, Northwestern, Indiana, Penn State, and Nebraska. WE ARE SO BACK!!!!
I'm planning to go to the SEC tournament in Athens, GA this May. Having never been to the tournament, I'm wondering if it's fairly easy to get tickets or if it's very challenging and shouldn't buy flights until tickets are secured. Thanks!