Huskers Kick Off 2026 Season in San Antonio

The No. 10 Nebraska softball team opens its 2026 season at Roadrunner Field in San Antonio, Texas. The Huskers will play five games over the course of three days, including two on Friday and two on Saturday. Nebraska was ranked in all four preseason polls. The team was tabbed No. 10 by the NFCA, No. 9 by D1 Softball, No. 9 by ESPN/USA Softball and No. 11 by Softball America. 

NU will begin the tournament against Big Ten foe Washington on Friday, Feb. 6 at 1:05 p.m. (CT) before turning around to take on No. 1 Texas on the same day at 6:05 p.m. (CT). NU will take on the top-ranked Longhorns again on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 3:35 p.m. (CT) and will face the hosts, UTSA, at 6:05 p.m. (CT) on Saturday. The Huskers will close the tournament on Sunday, Feb. 8 with a contest against Washington at 10:05 a.m. (CT). NU’s games against Washington will not count toward conference standings.

The Huskers return 18 letterwinners and a majority of the starting lineup from last year’s squad that went 43-15 and advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals. The Big Red welcomes back 97% of its innings pitched, including NFCA Player of the Year and Big Ten Player and Pitcher of the Year Jordy Frahm, and 84% of its at-bats from an offense that is first in the record books in 16 stat categories last year. 

All five games this week - and every game this season - will have a free radio broadcast with Nate Rohr on the call. The radio broadcast is available at Huskers.com/listen and on the official Huskers app. Additionally, all of NU’s games this weekend will be streamed on ESPN+.

The Nebraska softball team will rely on its experience in 2026, as the squad includes 12 seniors and 10 players with 100+ games played in their careers. 

• Nebraska returns 97% of its innings pitched from last year, including 58% from 2025 NFCA Player of the Year Jordy Frahm.

• The Big Red welcomes back 84% of its at-bats from last season, including the top nine batting averages. Frahm and Ava Kuszak highlight the returning bats, as both are in the top 10 in school history for single-season batting average (Frahm, 1st, .462; Kuszak, 7th, .412). 

• Ten total Huskers on this year’s roster have played 100+ games in their career and 10 have started more than 80 games.

• The Huskers’ 23-player roster includes 12 seniors and 17 total upperclassmen, 15 of which were on last season’s Super Regional team.

• With last year’s Super Regional berth, 20-of-23 (87%) of the NU’s 2026 squad has experience being in the NCAA Tournament. Frahm and Hannah Coor have WCWS experience and won national championships at Oklahoma.

 

Nebraska’s 2026 roster includes four newcomers, including two transfers and two true freshmen.

• Hannah Coor is a senior outfielder who came from Oklahoma, where she was a three-time national champion and played with current Husker Jordy Frahm. Coor appeared in 152 games with 25 starts in her time with the Sooners. She owns a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage and has racked up 31 hits and 23 RBI on a .279 batting average. Coor was named a Big Ten Player to Watch prior to the 2026 season.

• Jesse Farrell, a junior catcher from UNLV, is the Huskers’ second transfer for 2026. Farrell was on the All-Mountain West second team in 2025 and was tabbed Second-Team NFCA All-West Region in 2024. Also in 2024, she was one of 25 finalists for the National Freshman of the Year. In her two years at UNLV, Farrell played in 100 games and started 99. She has 221 putouts with 139 assists in her career, along with a .338 batting average with 100 hits, 74 RBI and 19 homers.

• Nebraska adds freshman two-way phenom Alexis Jensen to its pitching staff and batting order in 2026. Jensen, a state champion at Gretna, was a MaxPreps Second-Team All-American in 2025 and a two-time Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year. Jensen was also a three-time Nebraska-All State Team member and owns Gretna program records in batting average (.445), career wins (83), strikeouts (959) and ERA (1.30). Jensen is a D1 Softball and Softball America Freshman to Watch.

• Skarlett Jones rounds out the newcomers for Nebraska. Jones played with Jensen and redshirt freshman Carlie Muhlbach at Gretna, where she was a state champion in 2024. Jones was on the Nebraska All-State team twice and was a two-time Omaha World-Herald All-Nebraska selection. She posted a .409 batting average and .502 on-base percentage in her high school career.

 

NU's Offense Last Season
Nebraska returns a majority of its high-powered offense from 2025 that set 16 records, individually and as a team.

• The 2025 Nebraska softball team is first in school history with 107 home runs, 218 extra-base hits and 459 runs.

 

• The 2025 squad also ranks first in batting average (.346) and slugging percentage (.628) and second in on-base percentage (.430).

 

• NU notched the most run rule victories in program history with 26 last season.

 

• The Big Red scored 10+ runs in five straight games from Feb. 14-16 for the first time in program history. NU also notched five home runs in three straight games for what is believed to be the first time in school history.

 

• Nebraska scored 102 runs in its first 10 games of the season, which marked the quickest the team has hit the 100-run milestone. The Huskers scored 200 runs in their first 23 games of the season, which marked the quickest the team has hit the 200-run milestone. NU scored 300 runs through 37 games, which marked the quickest the team has hit the 300-run milestone. The Big Red hit the 400-run milestone through 49 games, which is the fastest it got to that mark as well.

 

• Ava Kuszak and Samantha Bland both posted three-homer games last year and are now tied with Kaylan Jablonski and Christie McCoy for the school record for home runs in a game. 

 

• Jordy Frahm and Ava Kuszak are both in the Nebraska record books in numerous offensive categories, which are tabled below. 

 

Huskers Earn Preseason Recognition
The Big Red have garnered preseason honors, both team and individual, in 2026.

• For the third straight season, the Huskers were ranked in every preseason poll. NU earned its highest spot from D1 Softball and USA Softball, both of which ranked the Huskers No. 9. Nebraska was tabbed No. 10 by the NFCA and No. 11 by Softball America.

• Jordy Frahm was named to the Top 50 Watch List for the USA Softball Player of the Year for the second straight season. She was a top-three finalist for the award last year. Frahm was tabbed a Preseason First-Team All-American by both D1 Softball and Softball America  and was the No. 2 overall player for both outlets. She was Softball America’s No. 1 two-way player and D1 Softball’s No. 2 pitcher and two-way player. Frahm was also named a Big Ten Player to Watch.

• Ava Kuszak was also on the Top 50 Watch List for USA Softball Player of the Year and was a Big Ten Player to Watch. She was a D1 Softball Preseason Second-Team All-American and the outlet’s No. 24 overall player and No. 4 shortstop. Softball America tabbed her the No. 43 overall player and No. 5 shortstop.

• Alexis Jensen was tabbed a Freshman to Watch by both Softball America and D1 Softball.

• Hannah Camenzind was Softball America’s No. 90 overall player and the No. 5 two-way player.

• Hannah Coor was named a Big Ten Player to Watch.

 

Frahm Back for Final Season
2025 NFCA Player of the Year and First-Team All-American Jordy Frahm returns for her final season of college softball. Frahm (previously Jordy Bahl) got married to former Husker baseball player Trey Frahm over the summer and changed her last name.

• Frahm earned numerous major national accolades last season, including being named a top three finalist for both the Honda Award for Softball and the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Award.

• The two-way star was a First-Team All-American for the third time in her career and was named the NFCA DI Player of the Year after leading the Huskers to their first Super Regional appearance since 2014. 

• Frahm was both the 2025 Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Pitcher of the Year. She is the first athlete in Big Ten history to earn both awards in the same season.

• The Papillion, Neb., native owns the top season marks in school history in extra-base hits (41), home runs (23), runs scored (72), total bases (167), batting average (.462) and slugging percentage (.988).

• Frahm ended the season ranked in the top 10 nationally in hits allowed per seven innings (2nd), runs per game (4th), shutouts (4th), total bases (4th), runs (5th), strikeouts (5th), batting average (6th), complete games (6th), slugging percentage (6th), strikeouts per seven innings (6th), wins (6th), WHIP (6th), home runs (7th), ERA (8th), games started (8th) and home runs per game (9th).

• Frahm became the first player in NCAA history with more than 20 wins in the circle and more than 20 home runs at the plate in the same season.

• She was the first Husker ever with 15+ home runs and 15+ doubles in the same season, and the second Husker in history to record 60+ hits, runs and RBI in the same season.

• Frahm became the first player since 2017 to score more runs (72) than she allowed (68) with a minimum of 130 innings pitched.

 

Nebraska Natives Power Red Team
Nebraska softball’s 2026 roster boasts 11 local products, which is 48% of the team. 

• The Huskers’ 11 Nebraska natives come from seven different towns throughout the state -- Gretna, Valley, Omaha, Lincoln, Elkhorn, Blair and Papillion.

• Seniors Lauren and Hannah Camenzind, Bella Bacon, Kacie Hoffmann and Jordy Frahm all chose different programs out of high school and transferred back to Nebraska to finish out their careers.

• Shortstop Ava Kuszak is from Colorado, but played club ball for Nebraska Gold with Frahm and Bacon.

 

Nebraska's Pitching Staff
The Huskers return 97% of their innings pitched from last season, including 206.1 from two-way player Jordy Frahm. NU also welcomes back Kylee Magee, Hannah Camenzind and Emmerson Cope and adds freshman Alexis Jensen.

• Frahm pitched the majority of the Huskers’ innings last year and grabbed a 26-8 record. Her 26 wins were the sixth-most in the country. She finished the year with an ERA of 1.56, eight shutouts and 286 strikeouts. Her opponents logged a batting average of just .156.

• Going into the 2026 season, Frahm has the second-lowest ERA (1.27) of any active player in D1. She also has the third-most wins (70), fourth-most career strikeouts (686) and the fourth-most shutouts (23).

• Kylee Magee amassed a record of 8-4 with an ERA of 4.38 in her first season back from injury. She logged 45 strikeouts to 37 walks in 48.0 innings pitched.

• Magee was on the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team her first year at Arizona State and has a 13-11 record in her career with an ERA of 3.81.

• Hannah Camenzind threw the second-most innings for the Huskers last year at 63.0. The two-way player also had the second-lowest ERA on the team at 3.11 and totaled a record of 5-2 in 24 appearances in the circle.

• In her career, Camenzind is 19-5 with an ERA of 3.11 and 96 strikeouts.

• Emmerson Cope tossed 29.1 innings last season and posted a 4.06 ERA. She was 4-1 in the circle in 2025 with nine strikeouts.

• Alexis Jensen will add even more depth to the Huskers’ pitching staff, as she was a MaxPreps Second-Team All-American in high school and a two-time Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year. Jensen has the Gretna records in career wins (83), strikeouts (959) and ERA (1.30). 

 

Red Team Sets Attendance Records
Not only did Nebraska set records in the circle and at the plate last year, but NU also enjoyed numerous attendance records. 

• Nebraska’s average attendance of 2,306 last season was first in the Big Ten and fourth nationally. NU’s total attendance of 36,896 was second in the Big Ten and 18th nationally. Notably, 12 of the schools above Nebraska in total attendance hosted an NCAA Regional, while the Huskers did not.

• The Big Red set program records in total attendance (36,896), average attendance (2,306), single-game attendance (3,021) and weekend series attendance (7,929) last season.

• Nebraska’s weekend attendance of 7,929 for last year’s series against Maryland was higher than seven Big Ten schools’ total attendance for 2025.

• Bowlin Stadium has a capacity of 2,800, which is tied with Michigan for the largest in the conference. Additionally, NU’s average attendance of 2,306 in 2025 was higher than 14 Big Ten schools’ stadium capacities.

 

Scouting Washington
Washington finished with a 35-19 record in 2025 and went 12-9 in Big Ten competition. NU faced Washington in a three-game series last year and went 2-1. The Huskies made the NCAA Tournament last year and fell to then-No. 18 Mississippi State in the Lubbock Regional.

• Sophomore Alexis DeBoer represents UW on USA Softball’s Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List. DeBoer led the Huskies with a .358 batting average last season and racked up 58 hits, 37 runs and 55 RBI with 21 homers.
 
• DeBoer was last year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year and was a top 10 finalist for the NFCA Freshman of the Year award. She was also First-Team All-Big Ten.

• The Huskies also return Ava Carroll, Jadyn Glab and Sophi Mazzola, all of whom played 50+ games last season. Glab was the catcher on the Big Ten All-Defensive Team in 2025.

• Washington welcomes back pitching duo Sophia Ramuno and Morgan Reimer, which combined for 68% of UW’s innings pitched, along with Rylee Rehbein, who went 2-2 last year. The Huskies add left-hander Ryan Maddox to the equation, as she transferred from Arizona, where she threw 49.2 innings over 20 appearances.

• Washington hit .291 last year while holding opponents to .237 on the season. They also hit 75 home runs to their opponents’ 47 and logged 306 RBI while holding opponents to 168.

• In the circle, Washington’s pitching staff posted an ERA of 3.10 while raising its opponents to 5.61. The Huskies’ pitching staff tossed 13 shutouts and logged six saves while striking out 370 batters and walking only 100. 

• The Huskies were ranked in every preseason poll except the NFCA poll. They were tabbed No. 22 by both Softball America and D1 Softball and No. 25 by USA Softball.

• Head coach Heather Tarr is entering her 22nd season at the helm of Washington softball and is 854-333-1 in her career and with the Huskies.

 

Scouting #1 Texas
Texas enters the 2026 season as the defending national champion, as the Longhorns claimed the Women’s College World Series title in 2025. Texas went 56-12 last year, including 16-8 in the SEC. The Longhorns advanced out of their Regional, downed Clemson in the Super Regionals and would post victories over Florida, Oklahoma and Tennessee before eventually downing in-state foe Texas Tech in the WCWS Finals.

• Five Texas players are on the Top 50 Watch List for USA Softball Player of the Year -- Reese Atwood, Kayden Henry, Teagan Kavan, Ashton Maloney and Katie Stewart.

• As a team, Texas is ranked No. 1 in the NFCA Coaches Poll and the D1 Softball Preseason poll. The Longhorns are tied for No. 1 with Texas Tech in the USA Softball rankings and were deemed No. 2 by Softball America.

• Catcher Reese Atwood returns as a two-time First-Team All-American. She was also on the 2025 All-SEC and NFCA All-Central first teams. Atwood was also the NFCA’s Catcher of the Year in 2025. Atwood averages .371 at the plate in her career and has amassed 205 hits, 130 runs and 222 RBI. 

• Teagan Kavan was Texas’ ace pitcher last year and racked up a 28-5 record with a 2.16 ERA in 2025. She was an NFCA Second-Team All-American last year and was on the All-SEC and NFCA All-Central first teams. Kavan was the 2025 Women’s College World Series Most Outstanding Player.

• Outfielder Ashton Maloney is one of two returning Longhorns who had a batting average above .400 last season. She hit .415 and started all 68 games in 2025. Maloney racked up 86 hits, 69 runs and 60 RBI with 10 home runs. 

• Kayden Henry, the centerfielder for the Longhorns last year, returns with a .409 average across 64 games started last season. She logged 30 RBI on 85 hits in 2025. 

• Katie Stewart played in the outfield for Texas last season and was on the NFCA All-Central first team and All-SEC second team. She hit .381 in 2025 and totaled 75 hits, 54 runs and 80 RBI with 17 homers.

• The Longhorns added pitcher Brenlee Gonzales (Texas Tech) and utility players Taylor Anderson (Oklahoma State) and Kaiah Altmeyer (Arizona) in the transfer portal.

• As a team, Texas hit .352 last season and held their opponents to just .228. The Longhorns notched 486 runs to 197 by their opponents and totaled 630 hits and 460 RBI.

• Texas’ pitching staff posted an impressive ERA of 2.55 last year, while their opponents had a 7.27 ERA. The Longhorn pitchers strick out 414 batters, walked 135 and logged nine saves with 15 shutouts on the season.

• Head coach Mike White is entering his eighth season with Texas. He owns a 316-93-2 record with the Longhorns. Previously, he spent nine season at Oregon, where he went 436-111-2. White is 752-204-4 in his career.

 

Scouting UTSA
UTSA went 21-34 in 2025 and finished ninth in the American Conference. Sixteen of the UTSA’s 21 wins last season came on their home field. The Roadrunners went 5-0 at last year’s UTSA Invitational.

• UTSA hit .259 as a team last season while averaging 3.7 runs per game. Defensively, the Roadrunners posted a 5.53 ERA and .950 fielding percentage. UTSA returns five players who started at least 36 games last season, including three of their top four hitters, all of whom started at least 50 games in 2025. In the circle, the Roadrunners return all six pitchers from last season.

• Sabrina Wick returns after she started all 55 games in 2025 and led the Roadrunners with a .301 batting average and 14 stolen gases. Skylar Rucker is also back after she batted .282 in 54 starts last season. She boasts the top returning on-base percentage (.384) of any UTSA player.

• Katia Reyes his .275 in 50 starts last season, when she led the Roadrunners with seven home runs and 28 RBIs.

• In the circle, Ava Eldridge returns after she went 8-10 with two saves and a 4.38 ERA in 96.0 innings in 2025. Eldridge led UTSA last season in ERA, wins, innings, strikeouts (47) and appearances (36). Reagan Stoudt was second on the team with 64.1 innings pitched across 31 appearances and nine starts in 2025. She posted a 1-9 record with a 5.01 ERA and one save. 

• Meredith Schmitt was 5-5 with a 6.00 ERA in 63.0 innings over 32 appearances and eight starts in 2025. Madison Collins (1-4, 6.56 ERA in 32.0 IP in 2025) and Kaylie Olivarez (3-2, 7.06 ERA in 37.2 IP in 2025) round out the Roadrunners’ returning pitchers.

• UTSA is led by head coach Vann Stuedeman, who is in her fourth season with the Roadrunners. She owns a 36-76 record at UTSA. Previously, Stuedeman was the head coach at Mississippi State for eight seasons from 2012-19, compiling a 277-190 record. She owns a 312-266 record in 10 seasons as a career coach.