The Georgia softball team has yet to play its first game of the year, but that time is drawing ever closer. The Bulldogs are No. 10 in the USA Today/NFCA (National Fastpitch Coaches Association) Division I Top 25 Preseason Poll. As head coach Lu Harris-Champer enters her 12th year leading the team, the ESPN.com/USA Softball Poll put [...]
The Georgia softball program and head coach Lu Harris-Champer announced their 2012 schedule on Wednesday. The Bulldogs will play a 56-game regular season schedule including 36 contests at home in the Jack Turner Softball Stadium. The 2012 schedule features four regular-season tournaments and a 28-game Southeastern Conference slate. A total of 24 games will come [...]
The National Pro Fastpitch brought its 2011 Back-To-School Tour to the University of Georgia on Thursday and the All-Stars defeated the Bulldogs, 6-1, at Jack Turner Softball Stadium. In its second year, the NPF’s Back-To-School Tour was making it second trip to the Classic City and in this year’s meeting the All-Stars pulled out the [...]
Taylor Scholpy, Alisa Goler, Megan Wiggins, and Brianna Hesson returned to Jack Turner Field Thursday, October 13, 2011. The National Professional Softball team has been traveling around the nation playing in their 2011 Back to School Tour.
Head coach Lu Harris-Champer and the Georgia softball program announced Friday Tara Archibald joined the Bulldogs as an assistant coach. A native of Johnston City, Ill., Archibald joins the Bulldogs having served as a manager and coach of the Southern Force Softball Organization from 2003-11. “I’ve been watching Tara for years and for a long [...]
Gerry Glasco has been promoted to Associate Head Coach of the Georgia softball team according to an announcement made by head coach Lu Harris-Champer. Glasco joined the Bulldogs as an assistant coach prior to the 2009 season, and in his three years with the program, Georgia has gone 148-39 overall and 53-24 in Southeastern Conference [...]
The one season that never stops at Georgia is recruiting season. Summer is prime time for football programs to add players for the following season’s recruiting class, but it also marks the time when college athletes decide to make a change of scenery and transfer to a new place. The month of June has proven [...]
Georgia seniors Alisa Goler and Megan Wiggins have been named Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-Americans. Both Goler and Wiggins were selected to the NFCA All-America Second Team. For Goler, it marks her third selection to the NFCA All-America team after being chosen to the First Team in 2009 and the Second Team in 2010. This [...]
After winning game two 14-2 to force a deciding game three for the 2011 Athens Super Regional, Georgia got down big in the first inning against Baylor and could not muster enough offense to win game three losing 9–2 at Jack Turner Stadium on Sunday to end its season. In a sport where one pitcher [...]
Baylor starting pitcher Whitney Canion has been one of the most dominant pitchers in the NCAA this season posting a 27-9 record with a 1.16 ERA coming into Saturday’s game against Georgia. And in game one of a best-of-three series in the 2011 Athens Super Regional Georgia batters understood why as Canion not only proved [...]
