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While the teams are most often segregated by sex, coed fast-pitch leagues also exist. Considered the most competitive form of softball, fastpitch is the format played at the Olympic Games. Softball was on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) program in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2020.
16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball, [1] cabbageball, [2] [3] puffball, blooperball, smushball, [4] and Chicago ball [5] [6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders.
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.
Fastpitch softball is more popular in competitive leagues, especially at the college and international tournament levels, while slow pitch is more popular in recreational leagues where the relative skill levels of different players may vary widely. The different rules of slowpitch can be viewed as maintaining a competitive balance for less ...
The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association approved fastpitch softball districts for the 2025 and 2026 seasons on Wednesday. OSSAA approves Oklahoma high school fastpitch softball ...
The U-18 Women's Softball World Cup is a fastpitch softball tournament for age 18-and-under national teams held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Prior to the 2021 edition, the tournament was an under-19 tournament.
Oklahoma high school fastpitch softball state tournaments. More: Vote for Landmark Fine Homes girls high school athletes of the week for Sept. 29-Oct. 5. Class 2A Thursday’s quarterfinal games.
There is some debate regarding the degree to which a rise ball actually “rises”. [4] It is a popular belief among players, coaches and observers that the rise ball exhibits an increasing upward trajectory during its flight – if viewed in 2 dimensions, from the side, the flight path of the ball is a convex curve with respect to the origin.