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Kim Ng, the first woman to serve as general manager of a major American men’s professional sports team, has joined Athletes Unlimited as a senior advisor, focusing on the new AU Softball League. Ng will oversee the development of the AUSL as it prepares for its launch in the spring of 2025, working with Chief […]
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Athletes Unlimited will start up the Athletes Unlimited Softball League with a scheduled launch in 2025 featuring four teams playing a 30-game season. The new league will complement the existing AU Pro Softball Championship season. The announcement was made on Tuesday ahead of the day’s action at the NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma […]
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USA Softball’s women’s elite team, a secondary team to the full national squad, will play two games against Great Britain in June in Oklahoma City before a series in Japan in July. The roster of players will have a week-long training camp in Oklahoma City before two games on June 29 and June 30 against […]
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USA Softball and Dallas will host one of three U-18 Women’s Softball World Cup Group Stage events next year as well as the 2025 finals, the World Baseball Softball Confederation announced this week. The group stage is scheduled for August 29 through September 2, the first in WBSC history to have a group stage and […]
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The LA28 sports program was officially confirmed by the International Olympic Committee during its annual session on Monday in India with baseball/softball, flag football, cricket, lacrosse and squash providing a mix of new and returning sports to the Olympic Summer Games. All five were voted in as a single package with two “no” votes from […]
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The 2024 USA Softball Gold National Championships will be in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex from July 14-21. The event will be in Oklahoma City for the third consecutive year in 2024. The competition will have teams from around the country in the 16-Under and 18-Under divisions play for […]
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USA Softball has renewed its official sponsorship with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and will remain as title sponsor of the annual convention, which this year is scheduled for December 6-9 at the Galt House & Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. “We are proud to renew our partnership with the NFCA as we […]
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With a year to go before the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris, for several U.S. national governing bodies, the focus instead is on 2028. For those NGBs, the chance to have their sports added to the LA28 program would be an almost indescribable boost in visibility and funding. With the program months from being […]
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One of the most dominant teams in collegiate sports history, Oklahoma University’s softball team is nearly three weeks removed from beating Florida State in the Women’s College World Series to be the first repeat champions since UCLA in 1990, finishing a season in which it won the final 53 games of the season to finish […]
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USA Softball has announced it will search for the first-ever naming rights partner for its softball complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which serves as the headquarters for USA Softball and hosts numerous local, regional and national softball events throughout the year including the NCAA College World Series. “This is an exciting opportunity for a company […]
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The IOC’s Coordination Commission was in Los Angeles this week for a three-day visit to review selected venues and track the progress of the @LA28 Games. The tours included the Rose Bowl, Intuit Dome and several venues in Long Beach.
The @HCHSA has appointed Ryan Walsh as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Janis Burke. Walsh is currently the chief executive officer and executive director of the Harris County Sports & Convention Corporation, a position he has held since 2018.
The USA Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates national championship is returning for the second straight year to @VisitWichita from May 7–10, 2025, at the Scheels Stryker Sports Complex.
NEW PODCAST: Leonard Hoops of @VisitIndy and Patrick Talty of @IndSportsCorp discuss the Big Ten Conference, look back at some of 2024’s biggest events and look ahead to 2025 while also talking about how they work together on events.
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