The American Conference softball tournament is the conference championship tournament in college softball for the American Conference. It is a single-elimination tournament, with seeding based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Softball Championship each season. The conference regular-season champion, as determined by win-loss record, receives the #1 seed in the conference tournament.
The American is one of two successors to the original Big East Conference, which split after the 2013 season. The first year of the tournament was held at Cougar Softball Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Tournament The American softball tournament is a single-elimination tournament held each year at various American-conference campus stadiums. Ten of the thirteen current all-sport members of the conference sponsor softball. Rice, Temple, and Tulane do not sponsor softball teams.
Champions
Year-by-year Year Champion Site MOP 2014 Cougar Softball Stadium • Houston, TX Katie Keller (2B), Louisville 2015 UCF Softball Complex • Orlando, FL Samantha McCloskey (C), UCF 2016 Collins Family Softball Complex • Tulsa, OK Maddie Withee (C), Tulsa 2017 East Carolina Softball Complex • Greenville, NC Emily Watson (P), Tulsa 2018 USF Softball Stadium • Tampa, FL Emily Watson (P), Tulsa 2019 No champion Cougar Softball Stadium • Houston, TX 2020Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic 2021 Collins Family Softball Complex • Tulsa, OK Addison Barnard (OF), Wichita State 2022 Max R. Joyner Family Stadium • Greenville, NC Jada Cody (C/3B), UCF 2023 USF Softball Stadium • Tampa, FL Sarah Willis (P), UCF 2024 Wilkins Stadium • Wichita, KS Addison Barnard (OF), Wichita State 2025 South Florida USF Softball Stadium • Tampa, FL Belle Sardja (P), South Florida 2026 South Florida Max R. Joyner Family Stadium • Greenville, NC Anne Long (P), South Florida
By school
School Championships Years Tulsa 3 2016, 2017, 2018 UCF 3 2015, 2022, 2023 South Florida 2 2025, 2026 Charlotte 1 2024 Louisville 1 2014 Wichita State 1 2021 East Carolina 0 Florida Atlantic 0 Memphis 0 UTSA 0 North Texas 0 UAB 0 Italics indicate school no longer sponsors softball in The American.
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