The University of Texas at Austin Softball

After building the University of Oregon’s softball program into a consistent national power from 2010-18, Mike White was named Head Softball Coach at The Uni...

Ehren Earleywine was hired as Texas Softball's Associate Head Coach on Aug. 18, 2025. The 2026 season will be Earleywine's first on the Forty Acres.Earleywin...

Kristen Zaleski enters her fourth season on staff prior to the start of the 2026 season. Zaleski was hired on July 1, 2022, by head coach Mike White. Zaleski was a former volunteer assistant at Oklahoma and head coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Temple College. In her third season on the Forty, Zaleski helped the program reach new heights and win its first WCWS National Championship in 2025. Zaleski and the coaching staff were honored as the ATEC/NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year following the season. The Longhorns topped Division I with 630 base hits, finished second with 460 RBI and third with a .352 batting average and 486 runs scored. They also ranked inside the top-15 in win/loss percentage (5th / .824), doubles (9th / 99), home runs (9th / 94), slugging (10th / .583) and scoring (14th / 7.15). The Longhorns nabbed three NFCA All-America selections in Reese Atwood, Teagan Kavan and Mia Scott, including Atwood becoming the program's first Diamond Sports/NFCA Catcher of the Year, to round out yet another enormous postseason awards haul. The three NFCA All-Americans for the Horns are the most by a single Longhorn squad since 2013 (Taylor Hoagland, Blaire Luna and Taylor Thom) and is just the fourth time (1998, 1999, 2013, 2025) in program history three different players were selected to a NFCA All-America team. Texas concluded its inaugural SEC season with seven All-SEC nods, with Atwood, Kavan, Scott and Joley Mitchell earning First-Team All-SEC accolades. Texas

Pattie Ruth Taylor enters her third season on staff at Texas prior to the 2026 season. In 2025, Taylor was part of a Texas coaching staff that earned the ATEC/NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year after guiding Texas to the program's first WCWS National Championship. The Longhorns finished the season 56-12 - capturing a program-record 56 victories. Taylor spearheaded a dominant pitching staff that ranked 10th in the nation in shutouts with 15, 12th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.07), 15th in ERA (2.55) and 15th in WHIP (1.18). She helped sophomore RHP Teagan Kavan earn Most Outstanding Player at the Women's College World Series, setting a WCWS record after not allowing an earned run across 31.2 innings of work while compiling four wins and a save. Kavan landed on the NFCA's All-America Second Team. Handling the pitching duties in her first season on the Forty Acres in 2024, Taylor guided true freshman right-hander Teagan Kavan to unprecedented heights in her first season of collegiate softball. Kavan led all Longhorn pithcers with 20 wins and 135 strikeouts in a team-high 130.2 innings pitched en route to being named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Softball America Freshman All-American and D1Softball Freshman All-American. Kavan, a two-time Big 12 Pitcher of the Week throughout the 2024 campaign, became the first Texas player to toss a complete game shutout in their Women's College World Series (WCWS) debut and the first freshman Texas pitcher in program history to toss a