Rollins is keeping it in the family for the next head coach of the Tars program, naming Christine Roser-Lefevers to the role on Monday. Roser-Lefevers takes over the program from longtime head coach Michele Frew, who retired on September 2nd. Arguably the greatest player to wear Tars colors, Roser-Lefevers played for Frew from 2008-11 and helped Rollins win the Sunshine State Conference Championship annually from 2009-2011. Roser-Lefevers earned First Team All-SCC honors in all four years of her career and was named the league’s Freshman of the Year in 2008. Roser-Lefevers earned NFCA All-American First Team honors in 2009 and…
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The Big 12’s blockbuster addition of four new schools added three new and successful softball programs to the league. BYU, Houston, and UCF are all perennial postseason teams historically and all three are set to begin competing in the Big 12 within the next few years – and possibly sooner. Following the official announcement of their respective programs joining the Big 12, JWOS spoke exclusively with the head coach of each program to get their thoughts on the move and what it means for their programs. BYU head coach Gordon Eakin “Joining the Big 12 is a great honor. The…
The championship game of the Little League Softball World Series earlier this month drew more than 400,000 viewers. The game, between Muskogee, Oklahoma and Chesterfield, Virginia brought in a crowd of 409,000 viewers, according to ShowBuzzDaily.com. While that number is down from the 2019 Championship game, Oklahoma’s 9-1 win is the 3rd-most-watched Little League Softball championship game ever. Also worthy of note: the 2021 title game started at 5 pm Eastern time, compared to a 10 pm Eastern start in 2019 when the LLSWS was held in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific time zone. These was no game in 2020…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER When the 2022 college softball season gets underway, there will be a new tournament on the schedule in February. The Northern Lights/Southern Nights Invitational will make its debut on the weekend of February 11-13 in Leesburg, Florida. The inaugural tournament field will feature teams from three of the “Power Five” conferences, including the SEC and ACC. “Women’s college softball is considered a spring sport, but the season begins in deep winter, creating a disadvantage for northern teams,” stated a press release announcing the event. “To be considered for the event, teams must be either…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER When you watch softball in the Tokyo Olympics, you will hear familiar voices calling it. NBC officially announced in late June that Beth Mowins, who has worked 27 Women’s College World Series championship tournaments, will call Olympic softball alongside analyst Michele Smith. Smith is a two-time United Stated Olympic gold medalist in softball; she and Mowins have worked together at ESPN since Smith joined the network in 1995. Also part of the softball coverage will be Jessica Mendoza, who won a gold medal in 2004 and a silver medal in 2008 as part of…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER If head-to-head TV numbers operated under softball rules, then it would be a run-rule victory for the Women’s College World Series over the Men’s CWS. The 2021 WCWS averaged 1.2 million viewers, which easily topped that men’s counterpart, which gathered 755,000 viewers on average. Digging deeper, the WCWS Championship Series between Oklahoma and Florida State averaged 1.84 million TV viewers, which again easily topped the men’s version; the baseball championship series between Mississippi State and Vanderbilt averaged 1.15 million viewers. This marks the third time since 2015 that the Women’s College World Series has…
Chris Steiner’s departure from Florida International (FIU) came at a rather unexpected time, and leaves the Panthers looking for what will be their fourth head coach in five years. The Panthers have struggled to maintain relevancy in Conference USA since Beth Torina departed in 2011, and have not had the same head coach for longer than four years at a time. Steiner’s hire was a late one in 2019, as was the naming of Heather Gelbard as interim a year prior. Could one of these candidates be the next Panthers’ head coach?
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER The Oklahoma/Florida State matchup in the Women’s College World Series Championship Series averaged 1.84 million viewers, marking the most-watched WCWS final since Michigan/Florida in 2015. The Sooners/Seminoles series was up 15% from the last time the event took place in 2019, when UCLA and Oklahoma averaged 1.57 million viewers, according to ESPNPR. That number is especially impressive, considering that Game 3 of this year’s Championship Series aired in a mid-afternoon time slot; despite the early start, the game was UP 6% from the previous Game 3 (2016; Oklahoma vs. Auburn; 1.48 million) which aired…
TRENDING NOW: NCAA TRANSFER TRACKER / COLLEGE COACHING TRACKER One game to monitor this weekend is Game 2 of the Washington and Oklahoma series, which is scheduled to air on ABC. The game will air on Saturday at 3 pm Eastern time. It marks the first time in history that a college softball game will air on one of the major broadcast networks. The Huskies-Sooners Super Regional also marks the return of Jessica Mendoza to the softball broadcast booth, as she reunites with Beth Mowins, Michele Smith, and Holly Rowe for the call in Norman. Kevin Brown and Amanda Scarborough will be in…
For a full, in-depth breakdown of Bracketology 8.0, please click here. For frequent updates on the Bracket impacts of various games, click here for Bubble Watch. Bracketology 8.0: Regionals * = Automatic Qualifier #1 Seed #2 Seed #3 Seed #4 Seed UCLA* Mississippi State Fresno State* Morgan State* Oklahoma* Texas State Texas A&M Manhattan* Alabama* Notre Dame South Alabama Western Kentucky* Florida UCF Troy Alabama State* Oklahoma State Minnesota Stanford BYU* Arkansas Wichita State* Southern Illinois* George Washington* Florida State Georgia South Florida UMBC* LSU Louisiana* Baylor McNeese* Missouri Iowa State Northern Iowa UIC* Washington Auburn Boston* Seattle* Tennessee Virginia Tech James…