Nebraska head coach Rhonda Revelle earned career win #1,000 on Saturday night. Revelle is in her 28th season as the head coach at Nebraska, and entered the 2020 season in 12th place on the career wins list for active Division I coaches. She is the winningest coach in any sport in Nebraska athletics history, and the second-longest tenured coach in the school’s athletic department. Four times the conference’s Coach of the Year, including most recently in 2014, Revelle has led the Huskers to the NCAA tournament twenty times during her tenure leading the program. She was inducted into the NFCA…
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ESPN commentator and former softball star Jessica Mendoza will take on new roles at the network. Among Mendoza’s new roles will be serving as an analyst for midweek Major League Baseball games for ESPN’s family of networks; covering the World Series for ESPN Radio; and making studio appearances on SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight, and other network programming. Notably, the expanded role also takes Mendoza out of the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast booth, where she spent four seasons and was paired in 2019 with play-by-play broadcaster Matt Vasgersian and fellow color commentator Alex Rodriguez. The former softball great has also resigned from…
(Editor’s Note: This content comes to you from JWOS’ “On the Road” trip (learn more here) but we are offering this article for free to honor the excitement of opening weekend! Please consider picking up a subscription today to support the work of JWOS and, in particular, this road trip! We have the lowest subscription cost around and our goal will always be to keep it that way, but we need your support! Also, you will help keep Justin sleeping in hotels and not truck stops! Thank you!) When Missouri freshman pitcher Jordan Weber took the circle to start the…
New Mexico State head coach Kathy Rodolph earned her 500th win during her tenure at New Mexico State on Friday night. Rodolph, who has led the Aggies since 2003, led her team to a 13-4 run-rule victory over Bradley to reach the milestone. The victory also kept the Aggies undefeated at 2-0 on the 2020 season. Now in her sixteenth season as the Aggies’ head coach, Rodolph led her Aggies to four consecutive conference regular-season championships from 2015-18 and reached the NCAA tournament twice during that same span. The Aggies finished as WAC runners-up in both the regular season standings…
Hello everyone! My name is Mackenzie Lawter and I am a catcher at Virginia Tech. I am a junior this year and I am double majoring in Multimedia Journalism and Political Science. I am from South Boston, Virginia, which is about three hours from Virginia Tech. That’s one reason why I love being at Tech, because it is close enough for my parents to come to Blacksburg for all of our games. I also have three older sisters who have played a big part in my softball career, so it’s important to me that I get to see them so…
(Editor’s Note: This content comes to you from JWOS’ “On the Road” trip (learn more here) but we are offering this article for free to honor the excitement of opening weekend! Please consider picking up a subscription today to support the work of JWOS and, in particular, this road trip! We have the lowest subscription cost around and our goal will always be to keep it that way, but we need your support! Also, you will help keep Justin sleeping in hotels and not truck stops! Thank you!) In their season-opening victory on Thursday night, the UCF Knights not only earned an impressive win…
Instant replay will return to the 2020 SEC tournament, the conference announced in a news release on Thursday. Replay debuted at the 2019 tournament, where it was used on a trial basis with special permission from the NCAA. For the 2020 tournament, a replay official will be located in the conference office in Birmingham, where they will have the capability to review plays and make decisions that will be communicated to the game’s umpiring crew. The NCAA has approved a national standard of regulations for the use of replay in softball, specifically for regular-season conference games and conference tournaments. Coaches will…
I. 2019 Recap UCLA and Washington tied for the conference regular season title, and the pair of teams led the group of five league teams that reached the NCAA tournament: Arizona, Arizona State, and Stanford joined the Bruins and Huskies in the field of 64. Nine league schools sponsor softball, including Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, Utah, and Washington. II. 2020 Predictions
I. 2019 Recap Oklahoma won the Big 12’s regular season title, and would have played for the conference tournament title that was ultimately cancelled due to rain. Three total Big 12 teams hosted regionals, including the #1-seeded OU, #9 Texas, and #13 Oklahoma State. Texas Tech was the fourth conference team to reach the NCAA tournament. Seven of the ten league schools sponsor softball, including Baylor; Iowa State; Kansas; Oklahoma; Oklahoma State; Texas; and Texas Tech. II. 2020 Predictions
I. 2019 Recap Alabama won the SEC regular season title, while Florida ran the table and earned the conference tournament championship. All thirteen conference teams were selected to the NCAA tournament. Thirteen of the fourteen league schools sponsor softball, including Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas A&M. II. 2020 Predictions