The Florida State softball team used a first-inning grand slam and a solid pitching-by-committee approach to cruise past Louisiana Tech on the second day of action at the 2025 Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

LAFAYETTE – Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Softball head coach Gerry Glasco announced on Monday (Nov. 9, 2020) the addition of Justice Milz, who is transferring from Georgia, to the program's roster for the 2021 season.

Sooner or later, every coach experiences an epiphany, that moment when they discover their team’s true identity. For Texas Bombers Fastpitch coach Scott Smith, it happened eight years into the club’s existence.

LAFAYETTE – Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Softball head coach Gerry Glasco added a veteran outfielder and proven left-handed batter to the program's 2021 roster on Thursday (Nov. 5, 2020) with the signing of Georgia graduate transfer Ciara Bryan.

One of the first things you’ll notice when scrolling through Kayden Henry’s Twitter feed is the post pinned to the top. It’s a quote from Bob Shipley, a former Texas high school coach and athletics director. The first sentence is particularly meaningful to Kayden, a left-handed-hitting outfielder for Texas Bombers-Smith:

Last fall couldn’t have ended better for Avery Hodge. After nearly capturing the PGF Premier Nationals 16U title with Texas Bombers-Jones last summer, the left-handed-hitting shortstop was selected to represent Team USA at the U-17 Women’s Pan American Championship.

Mojo 04 Coach Josh Fisher announced the formation of a new league called the Conference of the South following the launch of the Texas Fastpitch League and the Heart Of America Elite Faspitch League. 

Prior to the start of the 2020 season, the LSU Tigers were picked to finish third in the SEC Coaches poll behind Alabama and Tennessee. They opened the season ranked 11th in both the ESPN/USA Softball poll and USA Today/NFCA DI Coaches poll.

THIBODAUX, La. - The Nicholls State University softball team will play in the Sunshine State for the second time in as many weekends as the Colonels are set for five games in the Madeira Beach Tournament. 

When does greatness begin? At birth? Once a person starts playing a sport? When he or she gets to high school? 

Back in September, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association selected Michael Lotief, head softball coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, as the recipient of the 2016 Donna Newbury Perseverance Award; recognizing him for his demonstration of strength and character in the face of adversity.

First, there were the “Latin Queens.”

It was another exciting year of high school softball across the nation going back to the fall when states like Georgia, Missouri and Oklahoma competed for state championships.

Nicole Mendes, a 2016 pitcher/outfielder who plays for the Diamond Sports Hotshots – Davis team and has committed to Oklahoma, is interning with FloSoftball and is a frequent contributor of articles related to the sport. 

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