Mitchell Northam is a Senior Writer for SB Nation, covering women’s college sports at Breakaway. Some of the best players in college softball from this past season will be playing next year in a new ...

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a new rule allowing both feet of pitchers to disengage from the playing surface during their delivery when pushing off the pitcher's plate. Under the ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. — On a steamy Thursday afternoon at Stanford’s Smith Family Stadium, every Cardinal player and coach not on the field stands against the dugout rail, shouting encouragement at ...

Two teams remain in the 2025 Women's College World Series, as a former in-state rivalry between Texas and Texas Tech will decide the NCAA softball tournament national champion. Texas Tech pitcher ...

Most sports are spaced out in easy to remember measurements. Football is played in quarters. Basketball is played in either halves or quarters. Soccer is played in halves. Baseball and softball stand ...

For Jocelyn Alo’s 10th birthday, her father gave her a poster of the 2008 U.S. Olympic softball team. She hung it up in her bedroom, where she could memorize the names and faces of the roster, ...

The NCAA selection committee has spoken, and the 2025 NCAA Softball Tournament field is set. Sixty-four teams will begin their road to a potential appearance in the Women's College World Series at the ...

The wait is over -- and organizers say that the time is right -- for professional softball to make its biggest push yet into a surging women's sports market with the launch of the Athletes Unlimited ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway. While there will of course be a cornucopia of competitive events that should appeal to anyone of almost any sports persuasion, there will not be baseball or ...

Former Stanford pitcher NiJaree Canady, the 2024 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, has committed to Texas Tech out of the transfer portal and will join the Red Raiders next spring on a ...

For the first time, women professional softball players in Latin America have a league of their own, another gain for women seeking more opportunities. The Diablos Rojos Femenil of Mexico City playing ...

DI college softball became an NCAA championship sport in 1982 and, since then, thousands of different players have entered their names in the record books. That made me curious. Which records would be ...