FORT COLLINS, CO — Tournament officials have announced the 12-team field that will head to Colorado for the 2022 National Invitational Softball Championships, a Division-I postseason softball event that includes four Power 5 programs and eight mid-majors with action set to begin Friday, May 20.

HARRISONBURG, Va. – The final games of the 2022 James Madison softball season have been canceled, following the recent passing of sophomore catcher Lauren Bernett on Monday, April 25.

Here's how to watch the 2022 National Invitational Softball Championships on FloSoftball.

Aloha to history, Jocelyn Alo.

Arizona might be hosting (and the namesake of) the Wildcat Invitational to kick off college softball’s first weekend in March, but the eight-time NCAA champions aren’t the focus of this preview piece.

College softball has a new benchmark for success in Carol Hutchins.

Just about every youngster who takes up a sport dreams of reaching the pinnacle, but the dreams becoming reality may have sounded unbelievable to Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo.

Programs never want to get left behind early in the college softball season, and UCLA and Tennessee are two teams where the idea especially applies.

Want to watch a Women’s College World Series preview in February?

The names of the perennial Women’s College World Series teams embarking on California’s Coachella Valley for the 2022 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic are some of the most well-known programs in softball: UCLA, Arizona, Tennessee, Missouri, and reigning national champion Oklahoma.

After her freshman season ended in 2019, Ashley Rogers had already cemented herself as one of the top young pitchers in college softball. An NFCA All-Southeast Region and All-SEC First Team selection, Rogers posted 21 victories, third-best in the conference and 41st in the nation. Her 1.94 ERA was best on the team and put her seventh in the SEC.

As much as the strain of winter is impacting areas across the country, the college softball scene should heat things up this February.

VTU was the only undefeated team last weekend at the highly competitive Northern Lights/Southern Nights Invitational in Leesburg, Florida. Returning All-American Keely Rochard was named Outstanding Player, as she picked up three wins and a save in the circle, throwing complete game wins over three top-25 teams in Northwestern, Missouri, and Kentucky. Kelsey Bennett was a hitting machine at the plate for the Hokies, with an OPS of 1.457 for the five games.

You wouldn’t be blamed for finding the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic a bit overwhelming.

When NCAA sanctions against the Missouri softball program were upheld in 2020 following an academic cheating scandal, head coach Larissa Anderson became nervous. The program would not only be banned from both SEC and NCAA postseason action, but players would be allowed to transfer without having to sit out a year.