2013 NCAA Division I softball season

The 2013 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 February 2013. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2013 NCAA Division I softball tournament and 2013 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 June 6, 2013.

2013 NCAA Division I softball season
Defending Champions	Alabama
Tournament
Women's College World Series
Champions	Oklahoma (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tennessee (6th WCWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Patty Gasso (2nd title)
WCWS MOP	Keilani Ricketts (Oklahoma)
Seasons

Conference standings

2013 Big 12 Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT No. 1 Oklahoma ‍†‍‍y 15 – 2   .882 57 – 4   .934 No. 3 Texas ‍‍‍y 14 – 4   .778 51 – 10   .836 No. 20 Baylor ‍‍‍y 10 – 8   .556 42 – 17   .712 Kansas ‍‍‍ 9 – 8   .529 34 – 16   .680 Oklahoma State ‍‍‍ 6 – 12   .333 30 – 26   .536 Texas Tech ‍‍‍ 4 – 14   .222 30 – 26   .536 Iowa State ‍‍‍ 4 – 14   .222 21 – 34   .382 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from NFCA [1]	2013 Big Ten Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT No. 6 Michigan  ‍†‍‍y 20 – 2   .909 51 – 13   .797 No. 8 Nebraska  ‍‍‍y 16 – 6   .727 45 – 16   .738 Minnesota  ‍‍‍y 14 – 6   .700 36 – 19   .655 Wisconsin  ‍‍‡‍y 16 – 7   .696 44 – 13   .772 Northwestern  ‍‍‍ 12 – 10   .545 31 – 22   .585 Illinois  ‍‍‍ 11 – 12   .478 22 – 27   .449 Michigan State  ‍‍‍ 9 – 10   .474 24 – 25   .490 Ohio State  ‍‍‍ 10 – 13   .435 34 – 22   .607 Iowa  ‍‍‍ 8 – 15   .348 30 – 24   .556 Purdue  ‍‍‍ 8 – 15   .348 23 – 32   .418 Penn State  ‍‍‍ 5 – 17   .227 16 – 34   .320 Indiana  ‍‍‍ 3 – 19   .136 19 – 35   .352 † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 2, 2013[2] Rankings from NFCA	2013 Southeastern Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT Eastern No. 5 Florida  x‍†‍‡‍y 18 – 6   .750 58 – 9   .866 No. 2 Tennessee  ‍‍‍y 16 – 6   .727 52 – 12   .813 No. 11 Missouri  ‍‍‍y 15 – 8   .652 38 – 14   .731 Georgia  ‍‍‍y 14 – 9   .609 40 – 21   .656 No. 14 Kentucky  ‍‍‍y 13 – 11   .542 41 – 21   .661 South Carolina  ‍‍‍y 8 – 16   .333 34 – 25   .576 Western No. 18 LSU  x‍‍‍y 15 – 8   .652 42 – 16   .724 Arkansas  ‍‍‍y 12 – 10   .545 36 – 20   .643 No. 10 Alabama  ‍‍‍y 13 – 11   .542 45 – 15   .750 No. 13 Texas A&M  ‍‍‍y 10 – 13   .435 42 – 18   .700 Mississippi State  ‍‍‍y 8 – 16   .333 32 – 24   .571 Auburn  ‍‍‍ 7 – 17   .292 30 – 23   .566 Ole Miss  ‍‍‍ 3 – 21   .125 25 – 31   .446 x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 2013[3] Rankings from NFCA
2013 Southland Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT McNeese State **  ‍‍‍ 19 – 5 – 0   .792 38 – 15 – 0   .717 Northwestern State ‡  ‍‍‍ 18 – 7 – 0   .720 40 – 15 – 0   .727 Sam Houston  ‍‍‍ 17 – 10 – 0   .630 37 – 24 – 0   .607 Central Arkansas  ‍‍‍ 15 – 10 – 0   .600 38 – 20 – 0   .655 Lamar  ‍‍‍ 14 – 13 – 0   .519 24 – 35 – 0   .407 Southeastern Louisiana  ‍‍‍ 13 – 13 – 0   .500 32 – 22 – 0   .593 Nicholls  ‍‍‍ 12 – 13 – 0   .480 22 – 26 – 0   .458 Stephen F. Austin  ‍‍‍ 9 – 17 – 0   .346 16 – 32 – 0   .333 Houston Baptist  ‍‍‍ 6 – 20 – 0   .231 15 – 27 – 0   .357 Texas A&M–Corpus Christi  ‍‍‍ 6 – 21 – 0   .222 11 – 39 – 0   .220 ‡ – SLC Tournament Champion **Southland Tournament #1 seed champion As of May 18, 2013[4][5] Rankings from USA Today/NFCA Coaches	2013 Sun Belt Conference softball standings v t e Conf. Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT RV Western Kentucky  ‍†‍‍y 20 – 3   .870 43 – 18   .705 No. 17 South Alabama  ‍‍‡‍y 17 – 3   .850 48 – 9   .842 No. 12 Louisiana–Lafayette  ‍‍‍y 19 – 4   .826 47 – 15   .758 North Texas  ‍‍‍ 12 – 9   .571 29 – 24   .547 Florida Atlantic  ‍‍‍ 10 – 12   .455 28 – 29   .491 FIU  ‍‍‍ 10 – 13   .435 27 – 28   .491 Troy  ‍‍‍ 7 – 14   .333 21 – 32   .396 Louisiana–Monroe  ‍‍‍ 3 – 20   .130 19 – 35   .352 Middle Tennessee  ‍‍‍ 1 – 21   .045 7 – 47   .130 † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of May 15, 2019[6] Rankings from

Women's College World Series

The 2010 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 30 to June 4, 2013 in Oklahoma City.^[7]

	First round					Second round					Semifinals						Finals
	14	Nebraska	3(8)
	11	Washington	4
						11	Washington	0
						7	Tennessee	1
	7	Tennessee	9
	2	Florida	2
											7	Tennessee	2	—
											4	Texas	0	—
	14	Nebraska	8(15)
	2	Florida	9
						2	Florida	0
						4	Texas	3
																	7	Tennessee	3(12)	0	—
																	1	Oklahoma	5	4	—
	5	Arizona State	3
	4	Texas	5
						4	Texas	2
						1	Oklahoma	10
	8	Michigan	1
	1	Oklahoma	7
											1	Oklahoma	6	—
											11	Washington	2	—
	5	Arizona State	0
	8	Michigan	2
						8	Michigan	1
						11	Washington	4

Season leaders

Batting

• Batting average: .484 – Thomasina Garza, Texas Southern Tigers
• RBIs: 84 – Lauren Chamberlain, Oklahoma Sooners
• Home runs: 30 – Megan Baltzell, Longwood Lancers & Lauren Chamberlain, Oklahoma Sooners

Pitching

• Wins: 40-12 – Olivia Galati, Hofstra Pride
• ERA: 0.87 (17 ER/136.0 IP) – Michelle Gascoigne, Oklahoma Sooners
• Strikeouts: 422 – Blaire Luna, Texas Longhorns

Records

Junior class single game home runs: 4 – Alexandria Anttila, Georgetown Hoyas; April 6, 2013^[8]

Sophomore class slugging percentage: 1.113% – Lauren Chamberlain, Oklahoma Sooners

Sophomore class runs: 87 – Lauren Chamberlain, Oklahoma Sooners

Awards

• USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year:

Keilani Ricketts, Oklahoma Sooners^[9]

• Honda Sports Award Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year:

Keilani Ricketts, Oklahoma Sooners

• Honda Sports Award Softball:

Keilani Ricketts, Oklahoma Sooners^[10]

YEAR	W	L	GP	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP
2013	35	1	45	40	27	16	2	238.1	123	47	42	63	350	1.23	0.78

YEAR	G	AB	R	H	BA	RBI	HR	3B	2B	TB	SLG	BB	SO	SB	SBA
2013	61	153	44	58	.379	60	15	0	8	111	.725%	51	33	9	9

All America Teams

The following players were members of the All-American Teams.^[11]

First Team

Position	Player	Class	School
P	Keilani Ricketts	SR.	Oklahoma Sooners
	Blaire Luna	SR.	Texas Longhorns
	Hannah Rogers	JR.	Florida Gators
C	Amber Freeman	SO.	Arizona State Sun Devils
1B	Lauren Chamberlain	SO.	Oklahoma Sooners
2B	Lauren Gibson	SR.	Tennessee Lady Vols
3B	Raven Chavanne	SR.	Tennessee Lady Vols
SS	Madison Shipman	JR.	Tennessee Lady Vols
OF	Janie Takeda	SO.	Oregon Ducks
	Kayla Braud	SR.	Alabama Crimson Tide
	Cassidy Bell	SR.	Penn State Nittany Lions
UT	Kaitlin Ingelsby	JR.	Washington Huskies
	Alexa Peterson	JR.	Oregon Ducks
AT-L	Lauren Haeger	SO.	Florida Gators
	Taylor Hoagland	SR.	Texas Longhorns
	Chelsea Thomas	SR.	Missouri Tigers
	Rachele Fico	SR.	LSU Tigers
	Jessica Moore	SR.	Oregon Ducks

Second Team

Position	Player	Class	School
P	Olivia Galati	SR.	Hofstra Pride
	Dallas Escobedo	JR.	Arizona State Sun Devils
	Jolene Henderson	SR.	California Golden Bears
C	Megan Baltzell	SO.	Longwood Lancers
1B	Alicja Wolny	SR.	Louisville Cardinals
2B	Katie Keller	JR.	Louisville Cardinals
3B	Shelby Pendley	SO.	Oklahoma Sooners
SS	Cheyenne Coyle	JR.	Arizona State Sun Devils
OF	Haylie McCleney	FR.	Alabama Crimson Tide
	B.B. Bates	SR.	UCLA Bruins
	Brianna Turang	SR.	Oklahoma Sooners
UT	Tatum Edwards	JR.	Nebraska Cornhuskers
	Cali Lanphear	FR.	Texas A&M Aggies
AT-L	Sierra Romero	FR.	Michigan Wolverines
	Kaila Hunt	JR.	Alabama Crimson Tide
	Emilee Koerner	SO.	Notre Dame Fighting Irish
	Brianna Cherry	SR.	ULL Ragin' Cajuns
	Hannah Campbell	JR.	South Alabama Jaguars

Third Team

Position	Player	Class	School
P	Kaia Parnaby	SR.	Hawaii Rainbow Wahine
	Aimee Creger	JR.	Tulsa Hurricanes
	Lacey Waldrop	SO.	FSU Seminoles
C	Sarah Draheim	SR.	ULL Ragin' Cajuns
1B	Geri Ann Glasco	FR.	Georgia Bulldogs
2B	Kaylan Howard	SR.	Oregon Ducks
3B	Kaitlyn Richardson	SO.	Minnesota Golden Gophers
SS	Taylor Thom	JR.	Texas Longhorns
OF	Tomeka Watson	SR.	Elon Phoenix
	Maggie Hull	SR.	Kansas Jayhawks
	A.J. Andrews	SO.	LSU Tigers
UT	Jaclyn Traina	JR.	Alabama Crimson Tide
	Brooke Short	SR.	Longwood Lancers
AT-L	Sara Nevins	JR.	USF Bulls
	Jennifer Gilbert	JR.	Ball State Cardinals
	Stephanie Pasquale	JR.	Temple Owls
	Ashley Lane	SR.	Michigan Wolverines
	Melissa Dumezich	SR.	Texas A&M Aggies