2003 NCAA Division I softball season

The 2003 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in January 2003. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2003 NCAA Division I softball tournament and 2003 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on May 26, 2003.

2003 NCAA Division I softball season
Defending Champions	California
Tournament
Women's College World Series
Champions	UCLA (10th (12th overall) title)
Runners-up	California (8th WCWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Sue Enquist (6th title)
WCWS MOP	Keira Goerl (UCLA)
Seasons

Conference standings

2003 Big 12 Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT No. 4 Texas ‍†‍‡‍y 15 – 2   .882 49 – 9   .845 No. 14 Oklahoma State ‍‍‍y 13 – 5   .722 39 – 15   .722 Missouri ‍‍‍y 12 – 5   .706 31 – 20   .608 No. 5 Oklahoma ‍‍‍y 12 – 6   .667 47 – 14   .770 No. 16 Texas A&M ‍‍‍y 10 – 8   .556 38 – 22   .633 No. 13 Nebraska ‍‍‍y 10 – 8   .556 39 – 17   .696 Iowa State ‍‍‍ 6 – 12   .333 19 – 28   .404 Texas Tech ‍‍‍ 4 – 14   .222 22 – 41   .349 Kansas ‍‍‍ 4 – 14   .222 26 – 22   .542 Baylor ‍‍‍ 3 – 15   .167 31 – 29   .517 † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from NFCA [1]	2003 Big Ten Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT No. 16 Iowa ‍†‍‡‍y 13 – 4 – 0   .765 55 – 15 – 0   .786 No. 12 Michigan ‍‍‍y 13 – 5 – 0   .722 44 – 16 – 0   .733 No. 24 Michigan State ‍‍‍y 13 – 6 – 0   .684 40 – 19 – 0   .678 Illinois ‍‍‍y 11 – 7 – 0   .611 39 – 17 – 1   .693 Minnesota ‍‍‍y 12 – 8 – 0   .600 37 – 21 – 1   .636 Northwestern ‍‍‍y 11 – 9 – 0   .550 36 – 19 – 0   .655 Penn State ‍‍‍y 9 – 9 – 0   .500 32 – 22 – 0   .593 Wisconsin  ‍‍‍ 7 – 13 – 0   .350 19 – 26 – 0   .422 Ohio State  ‍‍‍ 5 – 11 – 0   .313 26 – 23 – 0   .531 Purdue  ‍‍‍ 5 – 13 – 0   .278 34 – 27 – 0   .557 Indiana  ‍‍‍ 2 – 16 – 0   .111 19 – 31 – 0   .380 † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] As of May 2003[13] Rankings from NFCA	2003 Pacific-10 Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT Arizona  ‍†‍‍y 19 – 2 – 0   .905 54 – 5 – 0   .915 UCLA  ‍‍‍y 17 – 4 – 0   .810 54 – 7 – 0   .885 California  ‍‍‍y 10 – 11 – 0   .476 49 – 20 – 0   .710 Oregon  ‍‍‍y 10 – 11 – 0   .476 37 – 19 – 0   .661 Washington  ‍‍‍y 9 – 12 – 0   .429 46 – 14 – 1   .762 Stanford  ‍‍‍y 7 – 14 – 0   .333 41 – 26 – 0   .612 Arizona State  ‍‍‍y 7 – 14 – 0   .333 32 – 35 – 0   .478 Oregon State  ‍‍‍y 5 – 16 – 0   .238 36 – 31 – 0   .537 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2003[14] Rankings from Coaches' Poll
2003 Southland Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT Texas–Arlington  ‍†‍‍y 23 – 4 – 0   .852 41 – 17 – 0   .707 Southwest Texas State  ‍‍‍ 21 – 5 – 1   .796 46 – 18 – 1   .715 McNeese State  ‍‍‍ 15 – 11 – 1   .574 24 – 27 – 1   .471 Northwestern State  ‍‍‍ 14 – 13 – 0   .519 27 – 33 – 0   .450 Nicholls State  ‍‍‍ 13 – 14 – 0   .481 29 – 27 – 0   .518 Sam Houston State  ‍‍‍ 12 – 15 – 0   .444 24 – 33 – 0   .421 Stephen F. Austin  ‍‍‍ 11 – 16 – 0   .407 27 – 31 – 0   .466 Louisiana–Monroe  ‍‍‍ 9 – 17 – 0   .346 19 – 29 – 0   .396 Southeastern Louisiana  ‍‍‍ 8 – 18 – 0   .308 15 – 31 – 0   .326 Texas–San Antonio  ‍‍‍ 7 – 20 – 0   .259 15 – 40 – 0   .273 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of May 20, 2003[15] Rankings from Coaches' Poll

Women's College World Series

The 2003 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 22 to May 26, 2003 in Oklahoma City.^[16]

	First round					Second round					Semifinals						Finals
	1	Arizona	3
	8	Alabama	2
						1	Arizona	2
						5	Washington	1
	4	Oklahoma	1
	5	Washington	3
											1	Arizona	1	1
											7	California	212	4
	8	Alabama	3
	4	Oklahoma	69
						4	Oklahoma	2
						7	California	5
																	7	California	0
																	2	UCLA	19
	3	Texas	3
	6	Louisiana–Lafayette	2
						3	Texas	1
						7	California	0
	7	California	710
	2	UCLA	3
											3	Texas	0	1
											2	UCLA	3	2
	6	Louisiana-Lafayette	1
	2	UCLA	5
						2	UCLA	2
						5	Washington	1

Season leaders

Batting

• Batting average: .490 – Amber Jackson, Bethune–Cookman Wildcats
• RBIs: 79 – Lovieanne Jung, Arizona Wildcats
• Home runs: 25 – Lovieanne Jung, Arizona Wildcats & Kristen Rivera, Washington Huskies

Pitching

• Wins: 40-5 & 40-7 – Alicia Hollowell, Arizona Wildcats & Keira Goerl, UCLA Bruins
• ERA: 0.37 (13 ER/242.2 IP) – Cat Osterman, Texas Longhorns
• Strikeouts: 488 – Cat Osterman, Texas Longhorns

Records

Sophomore class single game RBIs: 11 – Stephanie Best, UCF Knights & Jackie Coburn, Arizona Wildcats; March 19 & May 10, 2003^[17]

Sophomore class strikeout ratio: 14.1 (488 SO/242.2 IP) – Cat Osterman, Texas Longhorns

Senior class walks: 107 – Veronica Nelson, California Golden Bears

Awards

• USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year:

Cat Osterman, Texas Longhorns^[18]

YEAR	W	L	GP	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP
2003	32	6	40	36	27	18	0	242.2	72	18	13	39	488	0.37	0.46

• Honda Sports Award Collegiate Woman Athlete of The Year:

Natasha Watley, UCLA Bruins

• Honda Sports Award Softball:

Natasha Watley, UCLA Bruins^[19]

YEAR	G	AB	R	H	BA	RBI	HR	3B	2B	TB	SLG	BB	SO	SB	SBA
2003	61	212	64	102	.481	53	10	5	12	154	.726%	22	14	35	44

All America Teams

The following players were members of the All-American Teams.^[20]

First Team

Position	Player	Class	School
P	Cat Osterman	SO.	Texas Longhorns
	Keira Goerl	JR.	UCLA Bruins
	Alicia Hollowell	FR.	Arizona Wildcats
C	Kristen Rivera	SO.	Washington Huskies
1B	Stacey Porter	JR.	Hawaii Rainbow Wahine
2B	Andrea Hillsey	SO.	Purdue Boilermakers
3B	Leah Gulla	SR.	Oklahoma Sooners
SS	Natasha Watley	SR.	UCLA Bruins
OF	Oli Keohohou	JR.	BYU Cougars
	Iyhia McMichael	JR.	Mississippi State Bulldogs
	Autumn Champion	FR.	Arizona Wildcats
DP	Claire Sua	JR.	UCLA Bruins
UT	Tairia Flowers	SR.	UCLA Bruins
AT-L	Lovieanne Jung	SR.	Arizona Wildcats
	Lindsay Chouinard	SR.	DePaul Blue Demons
	Lauren Bay-Regula	SR.	Oklahoma State Cowgirls
	Jessica van der Linden	JR.	FSU Seminoles
	Jenny Topping	SR.	Cal State Fullerton Titans

Second Team

Position	Player	Class	School
P	Michelle Green	SO.	Georgia Bulldogs
	Kami Keiter	SO.	Oklahoma Sooners
	Tia Bollinger	JR.	Washington Huskies
C	Jami Trinidad	SR.	UC Santa Barbara Gauchos
1B	Veronica Nelson	SR.	California Golden Bears
2B	Brandi Stuart	SR.	FSU Seminoles
3B	Phelan Wright	JR.	Arizona State Sun Devils
SS	Kristin Johnson	SR.	Iowa Hawkeyes
OF	Courtney Fossatti	JR.	Arizona Wildcats
	Nicole Barber	JR.	Georgia Bulldogs
	Kristen Zaleski	JR.	Texas State Bobcats
DP	Lai-Kia Fennell	SO.	CSUN Matadors
UT	Marissa Young	SR.	Michigan Wolverines
AT-L	Christina Clark	FR.	Fresno State Bulldogs
	Jamie Southern	SO.	Fresno State Bulldogs
	Jackie McClain	JR.	Alabama Crimson Tide
	Becky McMurtry	SR.	ULL Ragin' Cajuns
	Courtney Scott	SR.	California Golden Bears

Third Team

Position	Player	Class	School
P	Jodie Cox	SR.	Cal State Fullerton Titans
	Jessica Beech	JR.	Michigan State Spartans
	Lisa Birocci	SO.	Iowa Hawkeyes
	Kristin Schmidt	JR.	LSU Tigers
C	Elisa Velasco	JR.	FSU Seminoles
1B	Jaclyn Holden	FR.	North Carolina Tar Heels
2B	Brynnen Guthrie	SR.	Oregon State Beavers
3B	Andrea Loman	SR.	Notre Dame Fighting Irish
SS	Emily Robustelli	SR.	UMass Minutewomen
OF	Catalina Morris	FR.	Stanford Cardinal
	Tiffany Tolleson	SR.	North Carolina Tar Heels
	Danyele Gomez	FR.	ULL Ragin' Cajuns
DP	Saskia Roberson	SO.	DePaul Blue Demons
UT	Sarah Martz	JR.	DePaul Blue Demons
AT-L	Andrea Vidlund	SR.	Oregon Ducks
	Rachael McGinnis	JR.	Missouri Tigers
	Sandy Lewis	SR.	Michigan State Spartans
	Amanda Hallaway	SR.	Hofstra Pride
	Rosette Rough	SR.	Long Island Sharks
	Gina Oaks	SR.	Cal State Fullerton Titans