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Georgia Softball History
Entering its 29th season of existence, the Georgia softball program has made noise across the collegiate softball landscape. From five Women’s College World Series appearances to three Southeastern Conference titles, Georgia has established itself a winning tradition.
Since the 1997 inaugural season, the Bulldogs have accumulated 1,201 wins, including 393 in SEC action. A majority of those wins came under the helm of Lu Harris-Champer, who collected 959 in her 21 years in the Classic City. Georgia had 40-win seasons in 17 of the 20 years under Harris-Champer, including seven of those with 50 or more victories.
The winning doesn’t stop when the regular season ends but carries on into postseason action. Hot bats and clutch pitching propelled Georgia to a second-place finish in the SEC and trips to the Women’s College World Series in 2009 and 2010. In 2014, the Bulldogs brought home the SEC Tournament crown after defeating Kentucky in the championship game. The team chemistry of the 2016 squad carried the Bulldogs to Oklahoma City. For the second time in three seasons, Georgia appeared in OKC in 2018, sweeping its way through the Athens Regional and Super Regional. In Harris-Champer's final season in 2021, the Bulldogs made an improbable run to Oklahoma City as an unseeded team.
The past 22 years have seen Georgia in an NCAA Regional while appearing in 13 Super Regionals, with 84 wins in the program’s NCAA Championship history.
Georgia’s winning tradition doesn’t just stem from the Bulldogs' accomplishments in regular-season games, but from what it has achieved when those are over.
The Bulldogs have made themselves a mainstay in NCAA Championship action, making it to an NCAA Regional in each of the past 22 seasons. Georgia's stellar track record in the postseason puts it as one of seven teams in the nation to appear in a regional for 23 or more straight years. Within that realm, Georgia is one of three Southeastern Conference teams to produce such success. Georgia isn’t just a staple in Regional fields, but also into the next round, appearing in 13 Super Regionals since 2005.
The pinnacle of college softball is in Oklahoma City, and Georgia made back-to-back showings at the Women’s College World Series in 2009 and 2010, finishing as one of the last four teams standing in both. The Bulldogs returned in 2016 after knocking off back-to-back National Champion Florida in dramatic walk-off fashion in the Super Regional. After sweeping the NCAA Regional and Super Regional in Athens, the Bulldogs punched their ticket to OKC in 2018 for the fourth program appearance at the WCWS. The Bulldogs turned a rocky end of the 2021 season around and made a run to Oklahoma City as an unseeded team, shutting out No. 4 Florida on its home field in the Super Regional round.
The consistency that the Bulldogs have shown reaching postseason play has planted the program as one of the top teams in NCAA softball.