Best Dressed Division I Softball Teams of 2019

Mark Allister is the author of Women’s College Softball on the Rise: A Season Inside the Game. He will be writing on DIII softball this spring and would welcome story ideas and comments at allister@stolaf.edu

BATON ROUGE – The No. 4 LSU Softball team will travel to Fullerton, California for the Judi Garman Classic Thursday through Saturday at the Anderson Family Fields.  All five of LSU's games this weekend will stream online through FloSoftball. A fee to watch will be required. All five games will also be available via live stats at LSUStats.com.

THE Spring Games is back. With over 500 college softball teams participating, THE Spring Games is undoubtedly the largest college softball event in the world.

Prior to the start of the 2020 season, the LSU Tigers were picked to finish third in the SEC Coaches poll behind Alabama and Tennessee. They opened the season ranked 11th in both the ESPN/USA Softball poll and USA Today/NFCA DI Coaches poll.

Alma College remains perfect at THE Spring Games after picking up their third straight win over Capital University, winning 9-3. They also plowed through their competition on Sunday, winning 22-1 over Northern Vermont-Johnson and 11-3 over Hanover College. 

March is right around the corner, and the last week of February means play in the Judi Garman Classic will close out the opening month of the 2020 NCAA Softball. Cal State Fullerton will again host the 13-team event starting on Thursday, February 27 and running through Sunday.

The Coyotes wrapped up their trip to THE Spring Games by defeating Merrimack 8-0. They were able to capture a 4-1 record on the week while improving their overall record to 8-8. 

Stony Brook had quite the showing at THE Spring Games as they went 5-0 on the week after defeating both Georgetown and Cornell. Not only did they leave Florida with a perfect 5-0 record on the week, but Dawn Bodrug also added on a perfect game to wrap up their journey at THE Spring Games. 

UCLA softball photos from the 2020 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic taken by Kelvin Kuo from USA TODAY Sports.

Wisconsin softball photos from the 2020 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic taken by Kelvin Kuo from USA TODAY Sports.