The UConn softball team is headed to the 2026 Big East Softball Championship.

The Huskies closed the regular season on Sunday with a 15-1 shellacking of Georgetown in Washington, D.C. They now are off to the conference tournament in the Chicago suburbs, beginning Thursday.

Providence (29-18, 18-6 Big East) and UConn (28-25, 18-6) finished as conference co-champions after the Friars lost two of three games over the weekend to Butler in Indianapolis. Providence is the No. 1 seed in the championship round, however, based on tiebreakers.

The Friars won two of three games against the Huskies in Storrs, Conn., in mid-April.

Creighton is the No. 3 seed, and Butler is the No. 4.

The 2026 Big East Softball Championship is scheduled to begin Thursday and conclude Saturday. The Huskies will open the double-elimination tournament against Creighton. In the regular season, UConn won two out of three games played April 24-26 in Storrs, Conn.

Here is the full schedule for the four teams advancing to the Big East championship round.

Thursday, May 7
Game 1 (1 p.m. ET): #1 Providence vs. #4 Butler (ESPN+)
Game 2 (4 p.m. ET): #2 UConn vs. #3 Creighton (ESPN+)
Game 3 (7 p.m. ET): Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2 (ESPN+)
Friday, May 8
Game 4 (2 p.m. ET): Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2 (ESPN+)
Game 5 (5 p.m. ET): Winner of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4 (ESPN+)
Saturday, May 9
Game 6 (2 p.m. ET): Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 5 (ESPN+)
Game 7 (4 p.m. ET): If Winner of Game 5 Wins Game 6 (ESPN+)

The championship tournament games will be played at The Stadium at the Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont, Ill. The 2,000-seat stadium was the first facility of its kind in the nation built solely for women’s professional sports and opened in 2011.

Rosemont is about 20 miles from downtown Chicago but just minutes from O’Hare International Airport.

Offensively, the Huskies are led by Cat Petteys, a sophomore infielder from New York. In starting all 53 regular-season games, Petteys hit .385 with 17 home runs and 54 RBIs. With 15 doubles and two triples, she tallied 135 total bases, and she produced a .799 slugging percentage.

Petteys was a first-team All-Big East selection in 2025 and the conference Freshman of the Year.

Helping to provide the punch to the lineup is junior outfielder Kaitlyn Breslin, who hit 11 home runs, drove in 51 and accumulated 92 total bases.

Savannah Ring (.344) and Ava Calciano (.302) also batted over .300. Calciano stole 10 bases in 11 attempts, second on the team only to Kaitlyn Kibling (13-of-14).

On the mound, grad student Jessica Walter (101 1/3) and freshman Caprice Bohmer (117 2/3) accounted for most of the innings.

Walter (6-8, 3.45 ERA) started 15 games but also had nine saves, with Bohmer (12-8, 4.05) starting 22. Bohmer threw six complete games, including one shutout.

The Huskies are coached by Laura Valentino, who was hired before the start of the 2019-20 academic year.

Her 2025 Huskies finished 35-19 – UConn's fourth consecutive 30-win season. The Huskies won the Big East tournament title for the first time since 2001 to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

They were eliminated following losses to Nebraska and LSU.

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