College softball is softball as it is played at the intercollegiate level in higher education institutions, mostly in the US. At the intercollegiate level, women often play college softball while men typically play college baseball.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) oversee the majority of college softball in the US, much like they do other intercollegiate sports. Women’s softball programs are sponsored by more than 600 NCAA member universities. The Division I, Division II, and Division III women’s softball championships are held. The season-ending tournaments are overseen by each sanctioning organization, although the NCAA sets the rules of play.Sponsored by the Division of Girls’ and Women’s Sports and the Amateur Softball Association, the inaugural WCWS was held in 1969 in Omaha, Nebraska.[1][2] In 1982, the first one held under NCAA rules took place. 64 teams from 16 different regions will now compete in a double-elimination regional round to begin the event. The top sixteen seeds advance to a best-of-three series known as a “super regional,” which is often played at the home field of the higher seed. To decide which team is the national champion, the eight victors advance to a modified double-elimination competition. The tournament is divided into two brackets rather than being a “true” double-elimination match; however, the losers move to the other bracket. Each bracket’s victor advances to a best-of-three championship. The competition
Just two months after the 2004 Olympic competition, the International Softball Federation (ISF) hosted the inaugural World University Softball Championship in 2004.[3] Team USA defeated Chinese Taipei to win the gold medal in the eight-country competition.[4] Softball was added to the FISU World University Games in 2007. The second World University Softball Championship was hosted in Taiwan in 2006 by the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU).[3][5]
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