Long Beach State is so close to the host venue for the 2025 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic – at least compared to most teams (120 miles) – that the Beach might feel like the home team for each of their five games at the prestigious event.

Carly Wynn has been named the Gopher softball associate head coach after most recently spending 2016 through the 2020 shortened season at Arizona State University as an assistant coach, head coach Piper Ritter announced Wednesday. 

Following the announcement of the Texas Fastpitch League, the Heart of America Elite Fastpitch League (HFL) made a similar announcement that will include club softball teams from 21 states.

University of Minnesota Athletics Director Mark Coyle announced today that Piper Ritter has been named head softball coach at the University of Minnesota. 

From Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, 2021 Top Gun Academy ace Allison Benning has all of the tools to be a fierce Division I pitcher.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (January 7, 2020) – Softball Australia and Peppers Pro made it official today that the Aussie Peppers will return to Mankato as their home base for the National Pro Fastpitch competition of 2020.

The University of Minnesota pitcher has made history in her career already. Last year, she became the first Golden Gopher to win the Big 10's Player of the Year award since 1991. She has also been the conference's Pitcher of the Year and Freshman of the Year -- one of just three Big 10 softball athletes to win all three awards. And Groenewegen is only a junior.

One of the top pitchers in the 2016 class is Kendal Judge of Providence Catholic High in New Lenox, Ill.

Gabby is rated as one of the Top 10 players in the initial 2017 Hot 100. Coming off a great week at PGF 16U Nationals, in which she led her team to a tie for 5th place, Gabby Sprang showed why she’s a Top 10 player in the 2017 Hot 100.

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.

Today’s recruit spotlight takes us to the Midwest where we learn more about a pitcher who had a fantastic weekend pitching a no-hitter in a qualifier.

Junior Katie Koshes (Amity Regional/Woodbridge, Conn.), senior Maddie Damon (Kasson-Mantorville/Kasson, Minn.), senior Rachel Douglas (Rappahannock/Warsaw, Va.), senior Megan Hensley (Ashland Blazer/Ashland, Ky.) and senior Cielo Meza (St. Bonaventure/Ventura, Calif.) were selected MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week, respectively, announced on Monday for games played May 25-May 31.

In its 30th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, today announced its honorees for the 2015 Softball State Players of the Year.

The National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced the top-10 finalists for the NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award, which will be presented prior to the start of the 2015 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla.

We kick off coverage of the 16U teams today and, admittedly, this was tough as many players have moved up and some teams did too (or stopped altogether)!