Olivia Bruno needed a second opinion. When the former two-way standout for Kansas softball got a message in February from an Italian club team asking if she wanted to play for them, she had to consult Morgan Zerkle, her boss at Marshall. “I showed her the DM and I was like, ‘Is this ...

The Kansas softball team reached new heights, at least for Jennifer McFalls’ eight-year tenure as head coach, by earning a postseason bid in 2026. Now the work of replicating that performance continues, and the Jayhawks will have to go forward without an influential class of seniors that ...

Hailey Cripe grew up dreaming of playing professional softball, but it's not a dream that all that many get the chance to attain. That’s both because of the elite level one has to reach in the sport to receive consideration and because so many attempts at pro leagues in recent years have ...

NORMAN, Okla. — The Michigan softball team couldn’t score on Kansas freshman Lila Partridge for eight innings on Friday and then proceeded to pile on four runs against her on Saturday without Partridge even recording an out. That was one of innumerable ways in which the Jayhawks’ and ...

NORMAN, Okla. — A matchup with an old foe yielded a disappointingly familiar result for the Kansas softball team. KU managed just one hit and fell 9-0 in five innings to its former conference rival, No. 1 seed Oklahoma, in an NCAA regional matchup on Saturday afternoon at Love’s ...

NORMAN, Okla. — A few moments before Kansas’ actual walk-off winner against Michigan on Friday came a bit of a misfire. When senior right fielder Aynslee Linduff sent a ball down the line in left field with the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the eighth inning, the KU dugout ...