For decades, UCLA softball has been considered the example for how to build a collegiate program.

Watch Oklahoma softball this season with an expectation of fireworks.

What’s just as good (if not better) than a high-stakes game between two of the country’s most historic softball programs at the end of the season?

It’s a different feeling being defending national champions without playing a single Women’s College World Series game last season. Then again, just about everything in 2020 has been different thanks to a global pandemic, social unrest, and a college sports landscape that saw spring seasons abruptly halted.

Here's how to watch the Mark Campbell Collegiate Classic 2022 on FloSoftball.

Jayda Coleman can’t pinpoint the exact day, year, and event where it was when a much older fan approached her after one of her games and adamantly stated his doubts about Coleman being successful as a left-handed shortstop. All she knows is that his words and others like those have fueled a fire inside Coleman that has been growing for years since she first picked up a glove at an early age.

It should come as no surprise the Oklahoma Sooners were once again voted the favorite in the 2020 Big 12 Preseason Coaches’ Poll. After all, they’ve won eight consecutive regular-season conference titles, becoming the first team to finish Big 12 play undefeated in back-to-back seasons. OU has won 54 consecutive conference series and hasn’t lost one since 2011.

Back in 2017, FloSoftball featured Jordyn Bahl as a Rising Star after a summer of winning the Tulsa Elite Invitational, a second-place finish at Top Gun and the Colorado Sparkler. It was clear that Bahl's talent and competitive edge was going to take her places.

At 5:30 AM Monday morning, the softball community lost one of the legendary softball coaches of Southern California with the passing of OC Batbusters and Pacifica High School Coach Mark Campbell.

Many who are close to Tiare Jennings know she grew up sporting UCLA blue and gold and idolizing Bruins legends and the championship teams of the 2000s. After all, the Long Beach, California softball standout resides less than an hour away from the school’s campus. However, it was a trip to the University of Oklahoma that sealed her college fate.