The stage for the 2025 NCAA softball tremendous regionals is ready, and it is stuffed with expertise. A number of of the nation’s greatest hitters and pitchers throughout the remaining 16 groups are searching for a shot on the Ladies’s Faculty World Sequence in Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma.
No. 2-seed Oklahoma will host a No. 15-seed Alabama crew that appears to spoil the Sooners’ five-peat quest with its gifted roster. And No. 5-seed Florida State and No. 12-seed Texas Tech will lean on star energy in its matchup.
This 12 months’s high seeds aren’t the one ones with loaded squads. Nebraska has probably the greatest two-way gamers within the nation, and Liberty rides into the weekend contemporary off its historic regionals efficiency.
From aces to highly effective sluggers to pesky defenders, listed below are the must-watch gamers on each remaining tremendous regionals crew.
Leap to a brilliant regional:
Tallahassee | Austin | Gainesville
Columbia | Norman | Knoxville
Fayetteville | Eugene
Tallahassee Tremendous Regional
No. 12 Texas Tech at No. 5 Florida State (Thursday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2)
Canady was primarily identified for her dominance within the circle in her first two seasons at Stanford — and rightfully so. Now, in her first season at Texas Tech, Canady is excelling behind the plate, too. She leads the Purple Raiders with 10 dwelling runs and a .716 slugging proportion. The reigning USA Collegiate Participant of the Yr and top-three finalist for this 12 months’s award additionally boasts the second-best ERA within the nation (0.92) with 272 strikeouts.
Isa Torres, INF, Florida State
In 58 begins, Torres leads the Seminoles with a .448 batting common because of her 95 hits — third most within the nation. She has additionally made her mark as an influence hitter with 9 homers and a .656 slugging proportion. On protection, she has solidified herself as probably the greatest shortstops within the nation. Torres has a .963 fielding proportion with simply seven errors and 72 putouts.
Austin Tremendous Regional
No. 11 Clemson at No. 6 Texas (Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2)
Maddie Moore, INF, Clemson
Moore ranks top-two in virtually each offensive class for the Tigers. She has a team-high 16 dwelling runs and 66 RBIs — a single-season document for Clemson. She ranks second behind Alex Brown with a .417 batting common and 75 hits. She’s additionally a speedster with 51 profession stolen bases — probably the most in Clemson historical past.
Reese Atwood, C, Texas
Atwood is as soon as once more glorious within the batter’s field for the Longhorns. She leads the nation with 84 RBIs after recording 90 RBIs final season. She seeks to develop into the fourth participant in Division I softball historical past to have a number of seasons with 90-plus RBIs. Atwood performed an enormous function in serving to Texas make it by means of the Austin Regional; she had 13 RBIs and three dwelling runs throughout three video games final weekend.
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Reese Atwood blasts a house run
Reese Atwood (Texas) with a Spectacular Hit Michigan, 05/17/2025
Gainesville Tremendous Regional
Georgia at No. 3 Florida (Friday at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN2)
Taylor Shumaker, OF, Florida
Shumaker is probably the most highly effective hitter on the Gators’ roster with 21 dwelling runs and a .817 slugging proportion. She’s tied for the second-most RBIs (83) and fifth-most runs (70) within the nation. Based on ESPN Analysis, Shumaker wants 4 extra RBIs to move Jocelyn Erickson (86 in 2024) for probably the most in a season in Florida historical past, and he or she has her sights on changing into the third freshman in Division I softball historical past to document 90 RBIs. It is exhausting to consider that Shumaker is only a freshman with these numbers.
Jaydyn Goodwin, INF/OF, Georgia
In 58 begins, Goodwin has bested all of her earlier profession highs on offense. She boasts a .344 batting common and leads the crew with 11 dwelling runs and 62 hits. Within the Durham Regional finale, Goodwin smashed an eighth-inning leadoff homer to assist maintain the Bulldogs’ season alive.
Columbia Tremendous Regional
No. 9 UCLA at No. 8 South Carolina (Friday at 1 p.m. ET on ESPN2)
Jordan Woolery, INF, UCLA
Woolery is within the midst of the most effective season of her profession. She has hit 22 homers, 82 RBIs with a .423 batting common. The Massive Ten All-First Workforce choice additionally boasts a .513 on-base proportion — the Bruins’ second-best mark — in 62 begins. Woolery’s a harmful pairing with Megan Grant, who each have a mixed 161 RBIs this season — probably the most by a UCLA duo in a season in program historical past.
Arianna Rodi, INF, South Carolina
The Gamecocks are contemporary off a Columbia Regional by which they outscored opponents 16-2. Rodi is part of why South Carolina is without doubt one of the hottest-hitting groups within the nation. Her 17 dwelling runs are a single-season South Carolina document, with 12 go-ahead dingers. She additionally leads this system with 53 RBIs in 146 at-bats.
Norman Tremendous Regional
No. 15 Alabama at No. 2 Oklahoma (Friday at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2)
Audrey Vandagriff, OF, Alabama
Vandagriff has introduced pace to Tuscaloosa. The freshman ranks second within the nation with 50 stolen bases, and her .507 on-base proportion leads the crew. She additionally boasts a .406 batting common with 69 hits and tops off her stats with six dwelling runs.
Sam Landry, RHP, Oklahoma
After the Sooners graduated final 12 months’s ace, Kelly Maxwell, they wanted somebody to step up. And Landry, a switch from Louisiana, has executed simply that. In 160⅔ innings pitched, she leads the crew with a 2.00 ERA and 165 strikeouts. The 2025 SEC Newcomer of the Yr additionally helped Oklahoma to a 22-4 document when within the circle.
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Sam Landry highlights belief in her Oklahoma teammates
After the No. 2 Sooners’ win over Boston, Landry discusses how she was in a position to “work by means of the zone” and assault hitters as a result of she will be able to depend on the protection behind her.
Knoxville Tremendous Regional
Nebraska at No. 7 Tennessee (Friday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2)
Jordy Bahl, RHP/UTL, Nebraska
The season that Bahl is having is unimaginable. She powered her approach again to the diamond after struggling a season-ending ACL harm in 2024, and now she’s a top-three finalist for USA Collegiate Participant of the Yr and was the primary participant to be named Massive Ten Participant and Pitcher of the Yr in the identical season. Behind the plate, she broke Nebraska’s single-season dwelling run document (23) and is fifth within the nation with a .472 batting common. Within the circle, her 1.58 ERA is sweet for ninth greatest and her 270 strikeouts are the fifth most in 186⅓ innings of labor. Bahl joins Canady as probably the greatest two-way gamers within the recreation.
Karlyn Pickens, RHP, Tennessee
The Woman Volunteers flamethrower is considered one of softball’s most feared pitchers for good purpose. Pickens made headlines earlier this faculty softball season for tossing a 78.2 mph strike — the quickest recorded pitch in softball historical past. She has the most effective ERA within the nation at 0.90 and ranks sixth with 252 strikeouts. She’s coming off a powerful regionals displaying the place she stifled the new bats of Ohio State, the nation’s dwelling run chief. In 9.0 innings of labor towards the Buckeyes, she did not surrender a house run and allowed simply 5 hits.
Fayetteville Tremendous Regional
Ole Miss at No. 4 Arkansas (Friday at 8 p.m. ET on ESPNU)
Lexie Brady, C, Ole Miss
The Rebels are within the midst of a standout season. They’ve smashed a program-record 63 dwelling runs — 11 within the Tucson Regional — and it is Brady main the way in which with a single-season document 16 homers. She’s additionally strong behind the plate; Brady owns a .987 fielding proportion with simply 4 errors and 272 putouts.
Bri Ellis, INF, Arkansas
What Ellis has executed in her senior season has been exceptional. The Razorbacks star has a career-high 26 dwelling runs and 72 RBIs. The 2025 SEC Participant of the Yr has a 1.787 OPS, which ranks first nationally and is the third highest in a season since 2005 (in a minimal 100 at-bats) behind Georgia Tech’s Jen Yee (2.002 OPS in 2010) and Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo (1.881 OPS in 2022), in keeping with ESPN Analysis.
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Arkansas’ Bri Ellis: ‘So long as there’s a strike left its our recreation’
Ellis offers her teammates credit score for stepping up and being efficient in important moments for the No. 4 Razorbacks in a recreation the place she was walked 4 instances.
Eugene Tremendous Regional
Liberty at No. 16 Oregon (Friday at 10 p.m. ET on ESPNU)
Rachel Roupe, OF, Liberty
Liberty’s historic path to the tremendous regionals could not have occurred with out Roupe. In Video games 6 and seven of the Bryan-Faculty Station Regional, she smashed 9 RBIs and three dwelling runs. And that was nothing new. Roupe is the commander of the Flames’ offense with a team-leading 23 homers and 73 RBIs. On protection, she boasts a .987 fielding proportion with only one error and 72 putouts.
Kai Luschar, OF, Oregon
Luschar is a speedster, sitting because the nationwide chief in stolen bases with 58 on 65 makes an attempt. The Geese’ leadoff hitter and fifth-year senior set profession highs in batting common (.412) and RBIs (21) in 59 begins.
