Thanks to the major success of Florida State pitcher Meghan King’s Kinger’s Korner blog during the 2019 season, we learned just how much softball fans enjoy hearing first-hand from collegiate players about their individual seasons and off-field endeavors. With that in mind, we’ve brought together an eclectic group of young ladies who will be chronicling the 2020 season exclusively through JWOS. Introducing our 2020 Player Bloggers: Heaven Burton of Texas Tech; Molly Grumbo of Loyola Marymount; Mackenzie Lawter of Virginia Tech; and Jayden Mount of Louisiana-Monroe! Burton is a redshirt junior outfielder at Texas Tech. Following an all-region and Big 12…
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A look back at 2019 Florida finished the 2019 season with a 49-18 overall record, with a 12-12 showing in SEC play. The Gators started the season on an 18-game winning streak, including wins over Michigan and Arizona on opening weekend and early March victories over Oregon and Washington, but fell twice to UCLA. The Gators bested Minnesota in a mid-season single game, and split a home-and-home set with archrivals Florida State. The Gators started the conference season in rather unceremonious fashion, losing their first three series’ of SEC play against Tennessee, LSU, and Ole Miss, respectively, salvaging an individual…
A look back at 2019 Arizona finished the 2019 season with a 48-14 overall record, posting a 19-5 mark in PAC-12 play. The Wildcats posted a solid non-conference record, with victories over Michigan, Oklahoma State, Minnesota, and James Madison and losses to Florida, South Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. The Cats dropped a best-of-three series against Florida State early in the season, managing to salvage one game from the series. The Wildcats started their conference season 16-0 before dropping the middle game of their series against Cal, a 9-inning, one-run affair. The Cats would go on to suffer a sweep at…
(Editor’s Note: As we preview Division II softball with our Teams and Players to Watch in 2020, we have elected to open these articles as free content for all readers. We’ve included this note, however, to ask that you consider subscribing to JWOS and supporting independent softball journalism. To subscribe and see all of our content during the season, including the best D2 coverage anywhere, please click here.) 1. Callie Nunes, Concordia Irvine Nunes tied for the Division II statistical lead with 33 wins in the circle in 2019, adding 266 strikeouts and a 1.34 ERA. She dominated the…
(Editor’s Note: As we preview Division II softball with our Teams and Players to Watch in 2020, we have elected to open these articles as free content for all readers. We’ve included this note, however, to ask that you consider subscribing to JWOS and supporting independent softball journalism. To subscribe and see all of our content during the season, including the best D2 coverage anywhere, please click here.) 1. Augustana Vikings The Vikings were the last team standing in 2019, winning the second national championship in program history and the first since 1991. The Vikings set a single-season…
Minnesota standout Hope Brandner is “not medically cleared to play” in 2020, according to a university statement on Tuesday. “University of Minnesota infielder Hope Brandner is not medically cleared to play and her status moving forward is not yet known,” the statement read. Brandner enjoyed a breakout 2019 campaign that saw her earn first-team all-Big Ten and all-Region second team honors after batting .354 on the season. She led the Gophers roster with nineteen home runs, the third-highest single-season total in program history, and drove in fifty-nine runs on the year. In the winner’s bracket game of the Regional round…
A look back at 2019 Alabama finished the 2019 season with a 60-10 overall record. The Crimson Tide assembled an 18-6 showing in conference play, and performed well at home and on the road, finished 24-3 at Rhoads Stadium and 15-3 in away games. The Tide began the season on a 33-game winning streak, mowing down every team that they faced in early season non-conference play. The non-conference slate was highlighted with wins over South Florida, Cal State Fullerton, Arizona, and a pair of victories over Minnesota in a rematch from the infamous 2017 Regional. During SEC play, the Tide…
I. 2019 Recap Harvard won the Ivy League’s regular-season championship in 2019, then later emerged victorious from the best-of-three championship series against Columbia to win the Ivy League title and the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. All eight league schools sponsor softball, including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. II. 2020 Predictions Player of the Year: Emma Nedley, Penn Coming off of an incredible freshman campaign that saw her named Ivy League Freshman of the Year and a unanimous all-Ivy selection, Nedley is already one of the best players in the conference. Pitcher of the…
Louisiana-Lafayette has signed Gerry Glasco to a contract extension through the 2025 season, the school announced on Monday. Per a university press release, the extension takes Glasco’s contract through the 2025 season. The deal adds two years to Glasco’s original deal, which had been set to run through ’23. “Gerry Glasco has provided tremendous leadership for our softball program, both on and off the field,” Ragin’ Cajuns athletic director Bryan Maggard said in a statement. “We are extremely excited that both he and Vickie will remain a part of the Ragin’ Cajuns family for years to come.” Glasco is entering…
Calling Heather Tarr’s Washington Huskies “perennial contenders” would be an understatement. The program has reached three consecutive Women’s College World Series, standing as one of the last four teams playing in each of those years, and owns seven trips overall to Oklahoma City since 2007. Entering the 2020 season, the Huskies are among the favorites to take home the national title. After her team finished just a game away from playing head-to-head for the championship last season, Tarr had plenty of quality pieces of the puzzle to build on from her team’s 2019 showing. “I just think it was an…