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Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks Softball
The Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks softball team represents the University of Louisiana at Monroe in NCAA Division I college softball. The team participates in the Sun Belt Conference. The Warhawks are currently led by head coach Molly Fichtner, who was hired in September 2018. The team plays its home games at the Geo-Surfaces Field at the ULM Softball Complex located on the university's campus. Perfect games The following perfect games have been thrown by Louisiana–Monroe pitchers over the program's history. *February 12, 2016. Paige Porter vs Grambling State (won 23–0, 5 innings) Coaches Year-by-year results See also *List of NCAA Division I softball programs The following is a list of schools that participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I College softball, softball, according to NCAA.com. These teams compete to go to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Devon Par ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Louisiana- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Fichtner
Molly Fichtner (born 1992) is an American softball coach and former player. She is currently the head coach at Louisiana–Monroe. Career She attended Clear Brook High School in Houston, Texas. She later attended the University of Texas at San Antonio for two years, before transferring to the University of Alabama, where she played catcher for the Alabama Crimson Tide softball team. Fichtner was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 12, and played four years of NCAA Division I college softball with the condition. During her senior season in 2014, Fichtner led the Crimson Tide to the 2014 Women's College World Series finals, where they fell to Florida, 2–0. Coaching career After graduating from Alabama, Fichtner later went on to serve as an assistant softball coach at the University of Alabama, Dartmouth College, and East Carolina University East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geo-Surfaces Field At The ULM Softball Complex
The ULM Softball Complex is the home stadium for the Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks softball team. Located on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, the area the complex is built on was the former home of the Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks baseball team until the early 1980s. The complex utilizes bleacher seating, and has a capacity for over 500 people, as well as room for additional seating space along both foul lines. The stadium was the site of the Southland Conference The Southland Conference (SLC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in ... softball tournament in 1985 and 1997. Gallery File:ULM Softball Complex, Monroe, LA.jpg, ULM Softball Complex File:ULM Softball Complex, Stangier–Young Leadership Center, Monroe, LA.jpg, ULM Softball Complex, Stangier–Young Leadership Center Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks
The Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks (ULM Warhawks) are the intercollegiate athletics teams representing the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM). ULM currently fields 15 varsity teams (six men's and nine women's) in 11 sports and competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision in football) level as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. Nickname The nickname for the Louisiana–Monroe sports teams are the Warhawks."The ULM WarhawkWebsite.Retrieved on September 7, 2008. Nickname controversy On January 30, 2006, university president James Cofer announced officially that ULM would be retiring the 75-year-old "Indians" mascot in light of new NCAA restrictions against Indigenous-themed mascots, which the NCAA considers "hostile and abusive" to Native Americans, despite issuing an appeal to the NCAA to keep the name after the NCAA's ruling allowing Florida State to keep their Seminoles nickname."Louisiana-Monroe will appeal nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southland Conference
The Southland Conference (SLC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Southland sponsors 18 sports, 10 for women and eight for men, and is governed by a presidential Board of Directors and an Advisory Council of athletic and academic administrators. Chris Grant became the Southland's seventh commissioner on April 5, 2022. From 1996 to 2002, for football only, the Southland Conference was known as the Southland Football League. The conference's offices are located in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas. According to a press release from April 11, 2022, the conference was to undergo a rebrand in 2022 that included a new name and logo. The rebranding was unveiled in March 2023, with a new logo but no change to the conference name. History Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Louisiana At Monroe
The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is a public university in Monroe, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the University of Louisiana System. History ULM opened in 1931 as Ouachita Parish Junior College. Three years later it became the Northeast Center of Louisiana State University. In 1936 and 1937, its dean was Stephen A. Caldwell. Its name changed again in 1949, to Northeast Junior College of Louisiana State University. A year later, it became an autonomous four-year institution as Northeast Louisiana State College. In 1969, it granted doctoral degrees for the first time and was elevated to university status as Northeast Louisiana University (NLU). In 1999, NLU, in conjunction with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Southwestern Louisiana wanting to rebrand to have a university with "Of Louisiana" in the title, agreed to rebrand, as agreed on by university president Lawson Swearingen. As such, it was changed so that both schools would inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Division II and Division III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Softball
College softball is softball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. College softball is normally played by women at the Intercollegiate level, whereas college baseball is normally played by men. As with other intercollegiate sports, most college softball in the United States is played under the auspices of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Over 600 NCAA member colleges are sponsors of women's softball programs. The women's softball championships are held in NCAA Division I, Division I, NCAA Division II, Division II, and NCAA Division III, Division III. The NCAA writes the rules of play, while each sanctioning body supervises season-ending tournaments. The final rounds of the NCAA tournaments are known as the Women's College World Series (WCWS); one is held on each of the three levels of competition sanctioned by the NCAA. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Belt Conference
The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference that has been affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division I, Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its College football, football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The 14 member institutions of the Sun Belt are distributed across the Southern United States. History The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976, with the University of New Orleans, the University of South Alabama, Georgia State University, Jacksonville University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of South Florida. Over the next ten years the conference would add Western Kentucky University, Old Dominion University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Virginia Commonwealth University. New Orleans was forced out of the league in 1980 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grambling State Lady Tigers Softball
The Grambling State Tigers and Lady Tigers represent Grambling State University in NCAA intercollegiate athletics. Grambling's sports teams participate in Division I (I-FCS for football) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). Sports sponsored Baseball Notable players *Tommie Agee *Matt Alexander * Courtney Duncan *Ralph Garr * Johnny Jeter * Lenny Webster * Gerald Williams * Gary Eave Men's basketball The Grambling State Tigers won the NAIA National championship tournament in 1961, beating Georgetown College (Ky.). The victory made Grambling State the first and only college basketball program in the state to win a national basketball championship. In the following years, the Tigers made it to the NAIA Final Four, and placed 3rd in 1963, and 1966, defeating Fort Hays State (Kan.) and Norfolk State (Va.) respectively. The Tigers appeared in the NAIA National Tournament eight times from 1959 to 1971, with a total NAIA National Tournament record of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 National Invitational Softball Championship
The 2017 National Invitational Softball Championship (NISC) began on May 16, 2017 and concluded on May 24. The Liberty University Lady Flames defeated the Lamar University Lady Cardinals in a controversial rain-shortened two-game final on Liberty's home.field in Lynchburg, Virginia. Tournament play and team selection The NISC tournament is designed to feature forty-eight teams in eight six-team regional tournaments with the regional champions advancing to a National Finals tournament. The regionals and the Finals are double-elimination competitions. For the inaugural tournament, only fifteen of the thirty-two NCAA conferences sent an automatic qualifier (AQ). Seven schools having non-losing records and RPIs in the top 100 entered the tournament with "National RPI" bids. Four other teams with non-losing records against challenging schedules were added as "At-large" teams. The twenty-six teams were placed in six regional tournaments of four or five teams. The six regional champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of NCAA Division I Softball Programs
The following is a list of schools that participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I College softball, softball, according to NCAA.com. These teams compete to go to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Devon Park (stadium), 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.) Conference affiliations reflect those in the next NCAA softball season in 2025. Years of conference changes, indicated in footnotes, reflect softball seasons, which take place in the calendar year after a conference change takes effect. Future programs See also * List of NCAA Division II softball programs * List of NCAA Division III softball programs * List of community college softball programs * List of NCAA Division I baseball programs References {{AIAW Women's College World Series College softball in the United States lists, Divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
