Women's College World Series

The Women's College World Series (WCWS) is the final portion of the NCAA Division I Softball Championship for college softball in the United States. The tournament format consists of two four-team double-elimination brackets. The winners of each bracket then compete in a best-of-three series to determine the Division I WCWS National Champion. The WCWS takes place at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. From 1969 to 1981, the women's collegiate softball championship was also known as the Women's College World Series and was promoted as such.^[1] During 1969–1979, the series was played in Omaha.

Softball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the AIAW for sole governance of women's collegiate sports. The AIAW continued to conduct its established championship program in the same twelve (and other) sports; however, after a year of dual women's championships, the NCAA conquered the AIAW and usurped its authority and membership.^[2]

Division I 1
- Team titles 1.1
- DGWS/AIAW World Series championships by school 1.2
- Championships & appearances by school † 1.3
- Championships & appearances by conference † 1.4
See also 2
References 3
External links 4

Division I

Year	Champion	Title Series Score	Runner-up	Tie-3rd		Tie-5th		Tie-7th
1982	UCLA WCAA	2-0 (8 inn)	Fresno State NorPac	Cal St. Fullerton WCAA	Arizona State WCAA	Nebraska Big Eight	Western Michigan MAC	Creighton Gateway	Oklahoma State Big Eight
1983	Texas A&M Southwest	2-0 (12 inn)	Cal State Fullerton WCAA	UCLA WCAA	South Carolina Independent	Louisiana Tech Southland	Pacific NorPac	Indiana Big Ten	Missouri Big Eight
1984	UCLA WCAA	1-0 (13 inn)	Texas A&M Southwest	Northwestern Big Ten	Nebraska Big Eight	Adelphi Atlantic 10	Fresno State NorPac	Cal Poly Pomona CCAA	Utah State High Country
1985	UCLA WCAA	2-1 (9 inn)	Nebraska* Big Eight	Cal St. Fullerton PCAA	Cal Poly Pomona CCAA	Adelphi Atlantic 10	Northwestern Big Ten	Louisiana Tech Southland	Utah High Country
1986	Cal State Fullerton PCAA	3-0	Texas A&M Southwest	California NorPac	Indiana Big Ten	Creighton Gateway	Long Beach State PCAA	Louisiana Tech Southland	Northwestern Big Ten
1987	Texas A&M Southwest	4-1	UCLA Pac-10	Cal St. Fullerton PCAA	Nebraska Big Eight	Central Michigan MAC	Fresno State PCAA	Arizona State Pac-10	Florida State Metro
1988	UCLA Pac-10	3-0	Fresno State PCAA	Arizona Pac-10	Cal Poly Pomona CCAA	Nebraska Big Eight	Texas A&M Southwest	Aldelphi Atlantic 10	Northern Illinois North Star
1989		1-0		Arizona Pac-10	Oklahoma State Big Eight	Cal Poly Pomona CCAA	Oregon Pac-10	South Carolina Metro	Toledo MAC
1990		2-0		Florida State Metro	Oklahoma State Big Eight	Long Beach State Big West	UNLV Big West	Arizona Pac-10	Kent State MAC
1991	Arizona Pac-10	5-1	UCLA Pac-10	Fresno State Big West	Long Beach State Big West	Florida State Metro	Missouri Big Eight	UNLV Big West	Utah WAC
1992	UCLA Pac-10	2-0	Arizona Pac-10	Fresno State Big West	Massachusetts Atlantic 10	California Pac-10	Long Beach State Big West	Florida State ACC	Kansas Big Eight
1993	Arizona Pac-10	1-0	UCLA Pac-10	Southwestern Louisiana Sun Belt	Oklahoma State Big Eight	Cal St. Northridge WAC	Connecticut Big East	Florida State ACC	Long Beach State Big West
1994	Arizona Pac-10	4-0	Cal State Northridge WAC	Oklahoma State Big Eight	UCLA Pac-10	Fresno State WAC	Utah WAC	Illinois–Chicago Mid-Con	Missouri Big Eight
1995	UCLA** Pac-10	4-2	Arizona Pac-10	Iowa Big Ten	UNLV Big West	Cal St. Fullerton Big West	SW Louisiana Sun Belt	Michigan Big Ten	Princeton Ivy
1996	Arizona Pac-10	6-4	Washington Pac-10	Iowa Big Ten	UCLA Pac-10	California Pac-10	SW Louisiana Sun Belt	Michigan Big Ten	Princeton Ivy
1997	Arizona Pac-10	10-2 (5 inn)	UCLA Pac-10	Fresno State WAC	Washington Pac-10	Iowa Big Ten	Michigan Big Ten	Massachusetts Atlantic 10	South Carolina SEC
1998	Fresno State WAC	1-0	Arizona Pac-10	Oklahoma State Big 12	Washington Pac-10	Michigan Big Ten	Nebraska Big 12	Massachusetts Atlantic 10	Texas Big 12
1999	UCLA Pac-10	3-2	Washington Pac-10	California Pac-10	DePaul Conference USA	Arizona Pac-10	Fresno State WAC	Arizona State Pac-10	Southern Miss Conference USA
2000	Oklahoma Big 12	3-1	UCLA Pac-10	Arizona Pac-10	Southern Miss Conference USA	Alabama SEC	Washington Pac-10	California Pac-10	DePaul Conference USA
2001	Arizona Pac-10	1-0	UCLA Pac-10	LSU SEC	Stanford Pac-10	California Pac-10	Oklahoma Big 12	Iowa Big Ten	Michigan Big Ten
2002	California Pac-10	6-0	Arizona Pac-10	Arizona State Pac-10	Florida State ACC	Nebraska Big 12	UCLA Pac-10	Michigan Big Ten	Oklahoma Big 12
2003	UCLA Pac-10	1-0 (9 inn)	California Pac-10	Arizona Pac-10	Texas Big 12	Oklahoma Big 12	Washington Pac-10	Alabama SEC	LA-Lafayette Sun Belt
2004	UCLA Pac-10	3-1	California Pac-10	LSU SEC	Stanford Pac-10	Florida State ACC	Oklahoma Big 12	Michigan Big Ten	Washington Pac-10
2005***	Michigan Big Ten	0-5 5-2 4-1 (10 inn)	UCLA Pac-10	Tennessee SEC	Texas Big 12	Alabama SEC	Arizona Pac-10	California Pac-10	DePaul Conference USA
2006	Arizona Pac-10	8-0 5-0	Northwestern Big Ten	Tennessee SEC	UCLA Pac-10	Arizona State Pac-10	Texas Big 12	Alabama SEC	Oregon State Pac-10
2007	Arizona Pac-10	0-3 1-0 (10 inn) 5-0	Tennessee SEC	Northwestern Big Ten	Washington Pac-10	Baylor Big 12	DePaul Big East	Arizona State Pac-10	Texas A&M Big 12
2008	Arizona State Pac-10	3-0 11-0	Texas A&M Big 12	Alabama SEC	Florida SEC	LA-Lafayette Sun Belt	UCLA Pac-10	Arizona Pac-10	Virginia Tech ACC
2009	Washington Pac-10	8-0 3-2	Florida SEC	Alabama SEC	Georgia SEC	Arizona Pac-10	Michigan Big Ten	Arizona State Pac-10	Missouri Big 12
2010	UCLA Pac-10	6-5 (8 inn) 15-9	Arizona Pac-10	Georgia SEC	Tennessee SEC	Florida SEC	Hawaii WAC	Missouri Big 12	Washington Pac-10
2011	Arizona State Pac-10	14-4 7-2	Florida SEC	Alabama SEC	Baylor Big 12	California Pac-10	Missouri Big 12	Oklahoma Big 12	Oklahoma State Big 12
2012	Alabama SEC	1-4 8-6 5-4	Oklahoma Big 12	California Pac-12	Arizona State Pac-12	LSU SEC	Oregon Pac-12	South Florida Big East	Tennessee SEC
2013	Oklahoma Big 12	5-3 (12 inn) 4-0	Tennessee SEC	Washington Pac-12	Texas Big 12	Michigan Big Ten	Florida SEC	Arizona State Pac-12	Nebraska Big Ten
2014	Florida SEC	5-0 6-3	Alabama SEC	Oregon Pac-12	Baylor Big 12	Oklahoma Big 12	Kentucky SEC	LA-Lafayette Sun Belt	Florida State ACC
2015	Florida SEC	3-2 0-1 4-1	Michigan Big Ten	Auburn SEC	LSU SEC	UCLA Pac-12	Alabama SEC	Tennessee SEC	Oregon Pac-12

* Nebraska's runner-up finish in 1985 was vacated by the NCAA.

** The 1995 title by UCLA and any related records have been vacated by the NCAA due to scholarship violations. Criticism also centered on UCLA player Tanya Harding who was recruited from Queensland, Australia midway through the 1995 season. After UCLA captured the NCAA National Championship, Harding, the MVP of the tournament, returned to her homeland without taking final exams or earning a single college credit. Despite not violating any formal rules in recruiting Harding, the incident generated heated criticism that some foreign athletes were little more than hired guns.^[3]^[4]

*** Beginning in 2005, a best-of-three series determines the national championship.

Team titles

School	Championships	Years
UCLA*	11	1982, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2010
Arizona	8	1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2007
Arizona State	2	2008, 2011
Oklahoma	2	2000, 2013
Texas A&M	2	1983, 1987
Florida	2	2014, 2015
Alabama	1	2012
Cal St. Fullerton	1	1986
Fresno St.	1	1998
Michigan	1	2005
Washington	1	2009
California	1	2002
*UCLA also won the 1995 title, but it has since been vacated by the NCAA; see above.

DGWS/AIAW World Series championships by school

School	Championships	Years
John F. Kennedy College (Nebraska)	3	1969, 1970, 1971 (all DGWS)
Arizona State	2	1972 (DGWS), 1973
Utah State	2	1980, 1981
Florida State	2	1981, 1982 (both Slow Pitch)
(Southwest) Missouri State	1	1974
Nebraska Omaha	1	1975
Michigan State	1	1976
Northern Iowa	1	1977
UCLA	1	1978
Texas Woman's	1	1979
Texas A&M	1	1982

Championships & appearances by school †

Color coded by current conference; table is sortable
Bold indicates team won the CWS that year

School	Championships (through 2015)	Title Games (through 2015)	WCWS Appearances (through 2015)	Years (through 2015)
UCLA^‡	11	19	25	1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2015
Arizona	8	13	22	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
California	1	3	12	1986, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 2003, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012
Fresno State	1	5	12	1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999
Arizona State	2	2	11	1982, 1987, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
Washington	1	3	11	1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013
Michigan	1	2	11	1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2015
Alabama	1	2	10	2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Oklahoma	2	3	9	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2013, 2014
Florida State	0	0	8	1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2004, 2014
Florida	2	4	7	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
Nebraska^‡	0	0	7	1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2002, 2013
Oklahoma State	0	0	7	1982, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2011
Tennessee	0	2	7	2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
Texas A&M	2	5	7	1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2007, 2008
Cal State Fullerton	1	2	6	1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 1987, 1995
Louisiana–Lafayette	0	0	6	1993, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2008, 2014
Missouri	0	0	6	1983, 1991, 1994, 2009, 2010, 2011
Long Beach State	0	0	5	1986, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
Northwestern	0	1	5	1984, 1985, 1986, 2006, 2007
Texas	0	0	5	1998, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2013
Cal Poly Pomona	0	0	4	1984, 1985, 1988, 1989
DePaul	0	0	4	1999, 2000, 2005, 2007
Iowa	0	0	4	1995, 1996, 1997, 2001
LSU	0	0	4	2001, 2004, 2012, 2015
Oregon	0	0	4	1989, 2012, 2014, 2015
Baylor	0	0	3	2007, 2011, 2014
Louisiana Tech	0	0	3	1983, 1985, 1986
Massachusetts	0	0	3	1992, 1997, 1998
South Carolina	0	0	3	1983, 1989, 1997
UNLV	0	0	3	1990, 1991, 1995
Utah	0	0	3	1985, 1991, 1994
Adelphi	0	0	2	1984, 1985
Cal State Northridge	0	1	2	1993, 1994
Creighton	0	0	2	1982, 1986
Georgia	0	0	2	2009, 2010
Indiana	0	0	2	1983, 1986
Princeton	0	0	2	1995, 1996
Southern Mississippi	0	0	2	1999, 2000
Stanford	0	0	2	2001, 2004
Auburn	0	0	1	2015
Central Michigan	0	0	1	1987
Connecticut	0	0	1	1993
Hawaii	0	0	1	2010
Illinois–Chicago	0	0	1	1994
Kansas	0	0	1	1992
Kent State	0	0	1	1990
Kentucky	0	0	1	2014
Northern Illinois	0	0	1	1988
Oregon State	0	0	1	2006
Pacific	0	0	1	1983
South Florida	0	0	1	2012
Toledo	0	0	1	1989
Utah State	0	0	1	1984
Virginia Tech	0	0	1	2008
Western Michigan	0	0	1	1982

^‡ UCLA's 1995 NCAA championship and Nebraska's 1985 runner-up finish were vacated by the NCAA and are not counted

Championships & appearances by conference †

Conference	Championships (Through 2015)	Title Game/Series Appearances (Through 2015)	WCWS Appearances (Through 2015)
Pac-12¹	23	36	82
SEC	3	8	33
Big 12	2	3	27
Big Ten	1	3	23
Big West²	1	4	19
Big Eight³ (d)			12
WAC⁴	1	2	11
Atlantic 10			6
Southwest⁵ (d)	2	4	5
ACC			9
Conference USA⁶			5
Sun Belt			6
CCAA			4
MAC			4
Metro ⁶(d)			4
Southland			3
American Athletic Conference ⁷			3
Ivy			2
Missouri Valley⁸			2
Independent			1
Summit League⁹			1
NorPac¹⁰ (d)		1	3
North Star¹⁰ (d)			1
WCAA¹⁰ (d)	3	3	6
¹UCLA's 1995 WCWS participation & title were vacated by the NCAA, and are not included in these figures; see above. The Pac-12, which adopted its current name on July 1, 2011, retains all historical records from its years as the Pac-10. The conference had adopted the "Pac-10" name in 1978, but did not begin sponsoring women's sports until the 1986–87 school year.
²The Big West Conference was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association until July 1988. Totals include all appearances by conference members under both names, but includes only appearances after the conference began sponsoring women's sports in 1984–85.
³ Nebraska's 1985 WCWS participation & title game appearance were vacated by the NCAA, and are not included in these totals. The Big Eight merged with four teams from the Southwest Conference to form the Big 12 in 1996.
⁴The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) did not sponsor women's sports until the 1990–91 academic year, after absorbing the High Country Athletic Conference (HCAC), a parallel women's-only conference. The WAC maintains all historic records from the HCAC; totals include Utah State's 1984 and Utah's 1985 appearances while in the HCAC.
⁵Texas A&M won two titles, made four title game appearances and five WCWS appearances while they were still members of the Southwest Conference. This conference is now defunct. Texas A&M was a charter member of the Big 12 in 1996, but left for the Southeastern Conference in July 2012.
⁶Following the breakup of the Metro in 1991 by Florida State, South Carolina, Cincinnati, and Memphis, the Metro and its breakaway Great Midwest Conference reunified in 1995 as Conference USA.
⁷The American Athletic Conference records includes the former Big East Conference from 1979 until 2013. The charter and all records of the former Big East remain with The American.
⁸Records include those of the former Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference when it was originally a women's-only conference parallel to the MVC. In 1985, after the MVC stopped sponsoring football, the Gateway took on football as its only men's sport. In 1992, the women's portion of the Gateway merged into the MVC, which maintains all historic records of Gateway women's sports. The football side of the conference maintained the Gateway charter, first as the Gateway Football Conference and now the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
⁹The Mid-Continent Conference adopted its current name of The Summit League in June 2007.
¹⁰The NorPac, in full the Northern Pacific Conference, was a women's-only conference that operated from 1982 to 1986. The conference disbanded when the then-Pac-10, home to five of the final seven NorPac members, began sponsoring women's sports in 1986–87. The remaining two schools, which were members of the PCAA for men's sports, moved their women's sports to that conference.
⁹The North Star Conference was a women's-only conference that merged into the Mid-Con, now The Summit League, in 1992. The Summit maintains all historic records of North Star sports.
¹⁰The WCAA, in full the Western Collegiate Athletic Association, was a women's-only conference that operated from 1981 to 1986. Its final five members were all members of the conference known at the time as the Pac-10, and moved their women's sports to that league.
(d) Conference is now defunct.

† Excludes results of the pre-NCAA Women's College World Series of 1969 through 1982 (both Division I tournaments in 1982—AIAW and NCAA—were called "Women's College World Series").

References

^ Mary L. Littlewood (1998). Women's Fastpitch Softball - The Path to the Gold, An Historical Look at Women's Fastpitch in the United States (first ed.). National Fastpitch Coaches Association, Columbia, Missouri. pp. 145, 208.
^ Grundy, Pamela and Shackelford, Susan (2005). Shattering the Glass. The New Press.
^ Starr, Mark (June 12, 1995). "No Credit For UCLA".
^ Montville, Leigh (June 12, 1995). "Ringer From Down Under".

External links

NCAA softball webpage

NCAA Division I Women's College World Series

1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Most Outstanding Players

National Collegiate Athletic Association

NCAA	Awards Hall of Champions Conferences

Division I sports and championships	Institutions Athletic directors Baseball Championship CWS Basketball Men Women Cross Country Men Women Field hockey Championship Football FBS FCS Golf Men Women Ice hockey Men Women Lacrosse Men Women Rowing Women Soccer Men Women Softball Championship CWS Swimming & Diving Men Women Tennis Men Women Track and Field Men's indoor and outdoor Women's indoor and outdoor Volleyball Men Women Wrestling Championship

Division II	Institutions Baseball Championship/CWS Basketball Men Women Cross Country Men Women Field hockey Championship Football Championship Golf Men Women Ice hockey Men Lacrosse Men Women Rowing Women Soccer Men Women Softball Championship/WCWS Swimming & Diving Men Women Tennis Men Women Track and Field Men's indoor and outdoor Women's indoor and outdoor Volleyball Women Wrestling Championship

Division III	Institutions Baseball Championship/CWS Basketball Men Women Cross Country Men Women Field hockey Championship Football Championship Golf Men Women Ice hockey Men Women Lacrosse Men Women Rowing Women Soccer Men Women Softball Championship/WCWS Swimming & Diving Men Women Tennis Men Women Track and Field Men's indoor and outdoor Women's indoor and outdoor Volleyball Men Women Wrestling Championship

Single-division sports and championships	Beach volleyball Women, beginning in 2015–16 Bowling Women Boxing Championship Fencing Championships Gymnastics Men Women Men–DII Women–DII Rifle Championship Skiing Championships Trampoline Championship Water polo Men Women

Events listed in italics have been discontinued.

Major women's sport leagues in North America

Women's basketball	Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Women's American Basketball Association (WABA) Women's Blue Chip Basketball League (WBCBL) American Basketball League (defunct) National Women's Basketball League (defunct) Women's Professional Basketball League (defunct) NCAA Division I NCAA Division II NCAA Division III CIS

Women's ice hockey	Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL) National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) National Collegiate women's ice hockey championship NCAA Division III women's ice hockey (NCAA) Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's ice hockey (CIS)

Women's soccer	National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) (defunct) Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) (defunct) Women's Premier Soccer League Elite (defunct) W-League (USL-W) Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) Women's League Soccer (WLS) NCAA Women's Soccer Championship Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's soccer

Women's softball	National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) NCAA Division I Softball Championship Women's College World Series (WCWS)

Other sports	Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) National Ringette League (NRL)

National Collegiate Athletic Association	NCAA Bowling Championship NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship NCAA Division I Rowing Championship NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships NCAA Women's Tennis Championship NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship

Women's College World Series