Kayla Kowalik proved she can do it all – accomplished captain, excellent pitch caller, versatile hitter – and is now the 2025 Athletes Unlimited Softball League All-Star Cup champion. Kowalik finished atop the leaderboard with 1,570 total points. The catcher finished the season with an 8-2 record, earning a league-leading

Taking in Kayla Kowalik at first glance, or from watching her on offense, it would be difficult to guess that she was a catcher. Like many backstops, Kowalik is tall, at 5-foot-9. But unlike most of her fellow catchers, she is also speedy. Kowalik bats from the left side and

When it comes to being connected with softball fans, Sam Landry is tapped in. She stays late after games to sign autographs, fosters meaningful connections with young players, and shares the personal side of her life on social media. That’s why, when it came to choosing her Athlete Cause for

Before each Kentucky Derby, the tradition is for a choir to sing “My Old Kentucky Home.” And then they’re off to the races. We’re coming to the home stretch of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League All-Star Cup, with three doubleheaders in Rosemont, Ill., from Friday to Sunday. Those games will

The finale of the 2025 Athletes Unlimited Softball League All-Star Cup begins on Friday, Aug. 29. Kayla Kowalik (Gold), Erin Coffel (Orange), Rachel Garcia (Blue), and Keilani Ricketts (Purple) selected their teams on Thursday for Series 4 of the 2025 AUSL All-Star Cup. The All-Star Cup is a four-series season

With its inaugural regular season drawn to a close, the AUSL has released the list of the 10 most popular player jerseys of 2025. Rookie right-hander Sam Landry led all players based on online and in-venue sales since Opening Day on June 7. The first overall pick in the inaugural

Series 3 of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League All-Star Cup begins Sunday, and so far there’s been no slowing down Kayla Kowalik. After a 4-for-8 showing in Series 1 vaulted her to the top of the standings, Kowalik followed it up by going 5-for-7 in Series 2 to take a

USA Softball is back on top at the World Games. After a pair of hard-fought wins on Sunday at the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China, USA Softball won its fourth consecutive World Games gold medal. USA Softball first defeated Japan, 7-6, in 10 innings before taking down Chinese Taipei,

Athletes Unlimited has made more than its share of softball history since its inception in 2020. The next AUSL All-Star Cup round of games will make even more history in Rosemont, Illinois, from August 19-21.

Kayla Kowalik (Gold), Sarah Willis (Orange), and Kendra Falby (Blue) have selected their teams for Series 2 of the 2025 AUSL All-Star Cup. The All-Star Cup is a four-series season from Aug. 2 to 31 in which 60 professional softball players compete to become the individual champion utilizing Athletes Unlimited’s

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League All-Star Cup begins on Saturday, but before the first pitch, the Series 1 captains will select their teams. The AUSL All-Star Cup is a four-series season from Aug. 2 to 31 in which 60 professional softball players compete to become the individual champion utilizing Athletes

The opening rosters for the 2025 Athletes Unlimited Softball League All-Star Cup have been selected. The AUSL All-Star Cup is a four-series season from Aug. 2 to 31 in which 60 professional softball players compete to become the individual champion utilizing Athletes Unlimited’s innovative format. Teams are hand-picked by the

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) All-Star Cup features 60 professional softball athletes competing for four weeks in Holly Springs and Greenville, N.C., and Rosemont, Ill. Check out the athletes competing in the 2025 AUSL All-Star Cup.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- "What a day," Talons manager Howard Dobson said. "What a day to make history." The ball sailed over the left-field fence, Sydney Romero flapped her Talon wings as she crossed home plate, and an inning later, her team had won the first ever Athletes Unlimited Softball League

Backed by a historic partnership with Major League Baseball, the Athletes Unlimited Softball League's inaugural season came to an end on Sunday with the Talons defeating the Bandits in the second game of the three-game championship series. They finished the regular season with the best two records in the four-team

After a historic inaugural season – with record-breaking crowds, superstar-powered highlights and elite women-celebrating-women cameos – it's time for the Athletes Unlimited Softball League Championship Series presented by Sephora. Two teams, the Talons and the Bandits, are squaring off in what should be an epic best-of-three series in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Erin Coffel’s name is now etched in history. The Bandits infielder has been crowned MVP of the inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball League season. The announcement was made Saturday prior to Game 1 of the three-game championship series between the first-place Talons and Coffel’s second-place Bandits, who had an AUSL-leading 152

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) announced several of its award recipients for the 2025 season ahead of Wednesday’s regular-season finales in Rosemont, Ill., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. Bandits infielder Erin Coffel was named the league’s Hitter of the Year. Three days later, she was named the league's first Most Valuable

The first year of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League is almost complete, with the Talons and Blaze set to face off this weekend in the Championship series beginning Friday night. The two teams raced ahead of the competition, thanks to stars like the Talons' Georgina Corrick, who paced the circuit

Georgina Corrick is a softball-hurling superstar. She was transcendent at the University of South Florida -- putting up a 113-32 record with a 1.04 ERA in five seasons. She's the school's all-time leader in no-hitters, perfect games, starts, complete games, wins, strikeouts and any other stat you know or don't

It started out innocently enough. With the bases loaded in the top of the second inning, the Volts' Danieca Coffey swung at a two-strike offering and hit a slow tapper back to Bandits pitcher Emiley Kennedy. What could have been an easy out at first instead ended up being one

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … McKenzie Clark? With DC’s "Superman" being released in theaters earlier this month, it was fitting that there was a superhero catch in Saturday’s slate of AUSL games. Perhaps it was even more appropriate that the player making that catch has a name

The Bandits have the best offense in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League, but sometimes it hurts. They lead the AUSL in several offensive categories, including runs, hits, home runs, batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. The trade-off for that sweet swinging is that the Bandits -- well, one player

Come for the clutch homer. Stay for the spin. Skylar Wallace put a little flourish on her fourth home run of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League season Thursday, and for good reason.

Howard Dobson was watching the Texas Rangers’ championship run in 2023 when Corey Seager launched his third home run of that World Series. Seager was on fire, and he’s continued to stay hot, pursuing a perfect swing. In the media coverage and conversation of Seager’s elite hitting, then-Rangers bench coach