The Florida State Seminoles women's softball team represents Florida State University (variously Florida State or FSU) in the sport of

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. Florida State competes in Division I of the

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(NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In the forty-six year history of the Seminoles softball program, the team has won eighteen ACC championships, two

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slow-pitch national championships, and one NCAA championship. Florida State has made thirty-four appearances in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the

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on eleven occasions, reaching the semifinals on four occasions and the championship series on two occasions.

Jessica van der Linden Jessica van der Linden is a former college softball pitcher for the Florida State Seminoles. In 2004, she won the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year and Honda Sports Award The Honda Sports Award is an annual award in the United States, ...

and

Lacey Waldrop Lacey Waldrop (born March 6, 1993) is an American, former collegiate All-American professional softball pitcher and current assistant coach at Houston. Waldrop was a starting pitcher for Florida State, where she is the school career leader in w ...

have won the

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award while thirty-five Seminole players have been honored as All-Americans while seven have been drafted into the National Pro Fastpitch League and one has been drafted into the Women Professional Fastpitch League. The Seminoles play their home games at JoAnne Graf Field on the university's

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campus, and are currently led by head coach

Lonni Alameda Alana Maree "Lonni" Alameda (born June 11, 1970) is an American softball coach who is the current head coach at Florida State. She has been head coach at Florida State since 2009, in addition to the USSSA Pride of National Pro Fastpitch from 2016 ...

Program history

Florida State has been one of the most successful softball programs in the history of collegiate softball. As of the end of the 2021 season, only nine teams in the history of the NCAA have made more WCWS appearances than FSU, and no school east of Arizona has been to more NCAA Tournaments than the Seminoles. Florida State has made a regional appearance every year since 2000. Florida State has never endured a losing season and the Seminoles have achieved 38 forty-win seasons; under head coach Lonni Alameda, the Seminoles have achieved 12 forty-win seasons, including eight straight from 2012 to 2019, and won six consecutive ACC titles from 2014 to 2019. ;2018 season The

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season saw the Seminoles win the ACC regular season title for the sixth consecutive year and the ACC tournament title for the fifth consecutive year, defeating

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in the ACC championship game with a walk-off homerun. securing a spot in the NCAA Tournament as the sixth overall seed. The Seminoles defeated Auburn and Jacksonville State twice to win the Tallahassee Regional and advance to the Tallahassee Super Regional, where they defeated

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in a double header after dropping the first game of the series, clinching a spot in the

. In the World Series, the Seminoles dropped their opener to

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after blowing a late lead; they went on to win their next four games: defeating

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, top-seed

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, and UCLA twice in the semifinals to advance to the national championship for the first time to face

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. Florida State went on to sweep the Huskies to win the national title, becoming the first team to lose their first game in the World Series and go on to win the title during the championship series era. The Seminoles also tied the record for most elimination game wins, going 6-0 over the course of the postseason.

Venue

The softball team plays at the Seminole Softball Complex; the field is named for

JoAnne Graf JoAnne Graf is an American former softball coach and Associate Professor in Sport Management at Florida State University. As coach of the Florida State Seminoles women's softball team from 1979 to 2008, she logged more wins than any coach in the ...

, the winningest coach in school history and the second-winningest coach in college softball history.

Head coaches

*''Records are through the 2022 season''

Current Coaching Staff

Records and results

Year-by-year results

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, C = Conference

All-time record vs. ACC teams

Florida State softball maintains a winning percentage against all current ACC teams.

Rivalries

College World Series

Florida State has made 11 trips to the

, winning the title in 2018 and finishing as runner-up in 2021.

Championships

National championships

Conference regular season championships

Division championships

Conference tournament championships

Florida State has made twenty-four appearances in the ACC Championship, with a 18-6 record.

Awards

USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year

Broderick Award

Gold Glove Award

All-Americans

*Serita Brooks *

Jessica Burroughs Jessica Burroughs (born November 2, 1993) is an American former collegiate All-American professional softball pitcher. She played college softball at Florida State, being named a four-time all-conference and back-to-back Pitcher of the Year i ...

*Susan Buttery *Myssi Calkins * Darby Cottle *Danielle Cox *Lisa Davidson *Natalie Drouin *Renee Espinoza *Kristy Fuentes *Toni Gutierrez *Kylee Hanson *Casey Hunter *Meghan King *Morgan Klaeveman *Christy Larsen *Cindy Lawton *Marla Looper *Leslie Malerich *Susan Painter *Alex Powers *Toni Robinette *Kathryn Sandercock *Sydney Sherrill *Jan Sikes *Brandi Stuart *

*Elisa Vasquez *

* Jessie Warren *Shamalene Wilson *Veronica Wootson

Conference awards

*ACC Player of the Year – Toni Gutierrez (1992), Cindy Lawton (1995), Shamalene Wilson (1996),

(2003, 2004), Maddie O'Brien (2014), Alex Powers (2016), Jessica Warren (2017, 2018) *ACC Defensive Player of the Year – Jessica Warren (2017), Sydney Sherrill (2019, 2021, 2022) *ACC Pitcher of the Year – Sarah Hamilton (2009), Lacey Waldrop (2014, 2015), Jessica Burroughs (2016, 2017), Kylee Hanson (2018) *ACC Freshman of the Year - Shamalene Wilson (1993), Kristy Hull (1995), Jessica van der Linden (2001), Veronica Wootson (2004), Tiffany McDonald (2005), Monica Montez (2007), Jessica Warren (2015), Sydney Sherrill (2018) *ACC Coach of the Year – JoAnne Graf (1992, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004), Lonni Alameda (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

Retired jerseys

References

External links

Seminoles.com
– Official website of the Florida State Seminoles softball team. {{Florida State University