The long wait is almost over.

No team came closer to ending the Oklahoma Sooners 2022 softball season than UCLA at the Women’s College World Series, and the Bruins enter 2023 as the Sooners’ biggest threat to a three-peat.

The college softball season begins with a series of highly anticipated preseason tournaments that will help craft many teams' Women’s College World Series expectations.

Oklahoma infielder Tiare Jennings enters the 2023 college softball season as the front-runner to win National Player of the Year.

Two-time defending national champion Oklahoma begins its pursuit of a historic, third straight Women's College World Series title facing a stacked field at the Mark Campbell Invitational.

USA Softball has officially unveiled the Top 50 Watch List for the 2023 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. With sights set on the highly anticipated NCAA collegiate softball season, the prestigious award will look to recognize a Collegiate Player of the Year based on outstanding play throughout the entire NCAA Division I collegiate softball season.

The 2023 college softball season begins in February as teams from across the country will play their first slate of games before conference season begins. Many of those games will take place at preseason events such as the Mark Campbell Collegiate Invitational, the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge and 2023 Candrea Classic.