Huskies Begin Road To WCWS On Friday Against Indiana

COLUMBIA, Mo. – No. 13 Washington softball begins its road to the Women’s College World Series as the No. 2-seed in the Columbia Regional. The Huskies are set to face the No. 7 national seed Missouri Tigers, Indiana Hoosiers and Omaha Mavericks in a double elimination tournament beginning on Friday.
 
The Huskies will open play with Indiana at noon PT on Friday and airing on ESPN+. Washington will then matchup with Missouri or Omaha on Saturday.
 
Stay up to date on all tournament information by visiting the Tournament Central page.
 
AWARD SEASON
Pac-12 and NFCA All-Region honors have come out. Below is a list of all postseason honors that the Huskies have received. For the sixth consecutive season, the Huskies earned eight or more Pac-12 nods as the conference announced this year’s All-Pac-12 teams last week.
 
Rylee Holtorf – All-Pac-12 First Team
Ruby Meylan – All-Pac-12 First Team
Brooke Nelson – All-Pac-12 First Team
Alana Johnson – All-Pac-12 Second Team
Jillian Celis – All-Pac-12 Third Team
Giselle Alvarez – Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
Sidne Peters – Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
 
POSTSEASON DAWGS
The Huskies have made 30 consecutive regional dating back to 1994 – the second year of Washington softball. Washington has the fourth-most NCAA Tournament wins all-time (134) and fourth-most WCWS appearances (15). The 104 wins in regionals and super regionals in fourth-most all-time. All-time UW has 15 Super Regional berths and 15 WCWS appearances to go with one National Championship (2009).
 
ROAD DAWGS
The Huskies opened the first four weeks of the season on the road opening up at the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge Feb. 8-10. Washington will then head to Florida for 10 days starting off at the Clearwater Invitational, followed by a pair of midweek games at Florida Gulf Coast and Stetson before ending the trip at the South Florida Showdown hosted by USF. UW then made its way down to Eugene, Ore. for the Jane Sanders Classic, Feb. 29-March 2. Washington is 9-6 in true road games and 11-3 in neutral site contests this season. At the conclusion of the regular season, the Huskies will have traveled 19,382 miles with 11,890 miles occurring in the non-conference slate.
 
DAWGS WORLDWIDE
Ruby Meylan, Lindsay Lopez, Jillian Celis, Sis Bates and Heather Tarr all represented national teams this summer along with former Huskies Ali Aguilar, Taran Alvelo…