Texas softball’s championship staff earned national honors again after a 53-win season, another WCWS title and a historic offensive surge.
Texas softball isn’t just winning trophies anymore. The Longhorns are building a machine, and the sport keeps handing Mike White and his staff the receipts.
For the second straight year, Texas’ coaching staff has been named the ATEC/NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year after guiding the Longhorns to another Women’s College World Series championship.
It’s the third time the program has earned the national staff honor, and this one might be the loudest yet.
White, along with assistants Pattie Ruth Taylor, Ehren Earleywine and Kristen Zaleski, led Texas to a 53-12 season, a second consecutive national title and the kind of postseason run that turns a good program into a national bully.
The Longhorns swept Texas Tech in the championship series, winning 7-3 and 4-1 on June 3-4, to finish off another title run in Oklahoma City.
It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing, either. Texas dropped its WCWS opener to No. 8 Tennessee, 6-3, then flipped the switch and ripped off six straight wins at Devon Park.
The Longhorns went 11-2 in the NCAA Tournament and a perfect 6-0 in elimination games. That’s not luck. That’s a team with teeth.
Texas also became just the fifth team ever to lose its first WCWS game and still win the championship. White now owns 24 career WCWS victories, ranking sixth all-time and third among active head coaches.
The Longhorns have also reached the WCWS Championship Series in four of the last five seasons, which is dynasty-adjacent territory whether rivals want to admit it or not.
The roster backed up the coaching buzz with star power everywhere. Reese Atwood, Teagan Kavan and Katie Stewart earned NFCA Second-Team All-America honors.
Atwood and Ashton Maloney became the first Longhorns to win NFCA Gold Glove awards. Kavan made history as the first two-time WCWS Most Outstanding Player, while Stewart joined her on the WCWS All-Tournament team.
Stewart also became Texas’ first SEC Player of the Year and blasted a program-record 31 home runs, the fourth-most in the country.
Freshman Hannah Wells added 15 homers, breaking the Longhorns’ freshman record.
As a team, Texas crushed a school-record 99 home runs, hit .335, scored 449 runs and posted a .572 slugging percentage.
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The Longhorns also won their first SEC Tournament title, making their debut season in the league feel less like an adjustment and more like a warning.
Texas didn’t just repeat; it reloaded and reminded everyone who owns the moment.
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