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The Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) and the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) also feature community colleges with softball programs as members. In the NJCAA, 357 schools compete across three divisions of play, divided up into 24 different regions. [1] In California, 77 schools compete in ten different CCCAA conferences ...
Cougars softball players celebrate a home run during the 2011 NCAA Division I softball tournament. The Houston Cougars softball team is the college softball team of the University of Houston. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference as a Division I team. Their home games are played at Cougar Softball Stadium on-campus. The team was ...
The Houston Cougars softball team is the college softball team of the University of Houston. The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference as a Division I team. Their home games are played at Cougar Softball Stadium on-campus. The team was established in 2001, and was the regular season champion of Conference USA three times.
The following is a list of schools that participate in NCAA Division I softball, according to NCAA.com. [1] These teams compete to go to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Devon Park for the Women's College World Series. (For schools whose athletic branding does not directly correspond with the school name, the athletic branding is in parentheses.)
In 2006, the first Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy in the United States was opened in Compton, California, providing free baseball and softball instruction to Southern California youth, ages 8–17. Since then academies have opened in Houston, Texas (2010), New Orleans, Louisiana (2012), Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. (2014).
A total of 14 softball-sponsoring schools changed conferences after the 2024 season. Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah joined the Big 12 Conference. [4] California and Stanford joined the Atlantic Coast Conference. [5] Oklahoma and Texas joined the Southeastern Conference. [6] Oregon, UCLA, and Washington joined the Big Ten Conference. [7] [8]
Jacksonville State, Liberty, New Mexico State, and Sam Houston joined Conference USA (CUSA). [7] Western Illinois joined the Ohio Valley Conference. [8] The 2024 season was the last for 16 Division I softball schools in their current conferences. Eight of the nine softball-sponsoring members of the Pac-12 Conference left for other conferences:
The 2023 season was the last for 14 softball schools in their current conferences, as well as the aforementioned Hartford's only season as a D-I independent. BYU, Houston, and UCF moved to the Big 12 Conference. BYU left the West Coast Conference, while the others left the American Athletic Conference (The American). [18] [19]