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National Champion Texas sits atop final Softball America Top 25.
The complete final Top 25 can be found at The Final Softball America Top 25 of the 2025 Season. https://www.on3.com/…/softball-america-top-25-rankings…/
Mercer has named Chris Kuhlmeyer their new head coach. Kuhlmeyer spent the past seven seasons leading the program at Maryland Baltimore County where he went 158-128 overall. He won the American East Conference Championship four times while making the NCAA Postseason those same seasons.
The 2025 Women’s College World Series was the most attended in event history. 119,778 fans descended on Oklahoma City this year setting the highest WCWS cumulative attendance.
2025 Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team
Aliyah Binford, Ole Miss
Sam Landry, Oklahoma
Ella Parker, Oklahoma
Taylor Pannell, Tennessee
Karlyn Pickens, Tennessee
NiJaree Canady, Texas Tech
Mihyia Davis, Texas Tech
Reese Atwood, Texas
Joley Mitchell, Texas
Mia Scott, Texas
Katie Stewart, Texas
Teagan Kavan, Texas-Most Outstanding Player
University of Alabama-Huntsville head coach Les Stuedeman is retiring. The Hall of Fame Coach spent 30 seasons leading the Chargers. During that time she compiled a record of 1,297-453-1 while winning 14 conference championships. Her programs appeared in the NCAA Postseason 26 times finishing the 2009 and 2011 seasons as National Runner-up.
Program alum Melanie Carter has been promoted to succeed Stuedeman as head coach. She has served on staff the last 14 seasons at UAH as an assistant coach and associate head coach.
The Southeastern Conference has decided to seek a neutral site for their conference tournament championship starting in 2027. The move was voted upon by Athletic Directors of each member institute at the recent SEC Spring Meetings. The tournament is currently rotated between each member campus. From 1997-2003 the tournament was held at neutral sites that included Columbus, GA, Chattanooga, TN, and Plant City, FL. The 2026 championship will happen in Lexington on campus at the University of Kentucky.
Megan Coronado has been named the new head coach at the Illinois-Chicago. Coronado has been the Program Director/Organizational Lead for the Chicago Cheetahs Club Organization since 2018, and the Director of Softball Operations for Bo Jackson’s Elite Sports since 2023. She also served on coaching staffs on the collegiate level at Texas State, UT Arlington, and Roosevelt. Coronado played collegiately in the Chicagoland area at DePaul.
Major League Baseball is getting into the softball business.
MLB has announced a strategic investment into the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. The long awaited move brings viability to the sport professionally for the new league that launches on June 7. This season the Talons, Bandits, Blaze, and Volts will barnstorm the country with multiple series stopping at various cities.
David Martinez has been named the new head coach at the University of Texas Permian Basin. Martinez worked with the program at the end of the 2025 season as interim head coach. He also spent 2024-25 as head coach at Compass Academy Charter School in Odessa, Texas. Before coming to West Texas he spent seven years on staff at Henderson State as an assistant then head coach. He also has had stops on coaching staffs at Southern Miss and Delta State.