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2023 WPF season; League: Women's Professional Fastpitch: Sport: Fastpitch softball: Duration: June 15, 2023 – August 13, 2023: Number of teams: 4: 2023 WPF College Draft; Top draft pick: Alex Storako: Picked by: OKC Spark: Regular season; Season champions: Texas Smoke: Season MVP: Janae Jefferson: Championship Series and Playoffs; Champions ...
Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF) is a professional women's fastpitch softball league in the United States. The new league began its promotional campaign in 2021 [3] and launched its first official season in 2023. [4] [5] [6]
1st place National Pro Fastpitch: Lost to Chicago Bandits in NPF Finals 2017: 40: 9: 0: 1st place National Pro Fastpitch: Lost to Scrap Yard Dawgs in NPF Finals 2018: 42: 5: 0: 1st place National Pro Fastpitch: Won NPF Championship: 2019: 32: 13: 0: 2nd place National Pro Fastpitch: Won NPF Championship: 2023: 18: 16: 0: 3rd Place Women's ...
The Chicago Bandits were a women's professional softball team based in Rosemont, Illinois. Since the 2005 season, they have played as a member of National Pro Fastpitch (NPF). The Bandits won the 2008 NPF championship, defeating the Washington Glory in the final game of the championship series.
The 2004 season was distinguished by 178 league-wide games, 96 of the best female softball players in the country, the continued support of Major League Baseball as the Official Development Partner of NPF in the category of women's fastpitch softball, NPF playoffs (both best of three series went three games) and the inaugural NPF Championship ...
A championship was held in Canada between several American and Canadian teams in 1952 and 1953. [2] Australia had also hosted an international tournament that predated the first Women's World Championship. [3] [4] In 1965, the first ISF Women's World Championship was held in Melbourne, with games being played at Albert Park.
Association of Fastpitch Professionals (AFP) is a professional women's fastpitch softball league in the United States consisting of independent teams in collaboration to create a platform for competition at the highest level. The new league began its promotional campaign in 2023 and launched its first official season to begin June, 19 2024. [2]
The fastpitch style is also used in college softball and other international competition. It is the form used in the American Women's Professional Fastpitch league, a women's professional league whose inaugural season began in June 2022. [1] [2] Pitchers throw the ball with an underhand motion at speeds up to 77 miles per hour (124 km/h) for women.