The 2025 SEC softball season began play Thursday, February 6, and conference play began on Friday, March 7. The 2025 Southeastern Conference softball tournament took place May 6–10 at Turner Softball Stadium in Athens, Georgia. Vanderbilt University does not have a softball program.
SEC preseason poll The head coaches SEC preseason poll was released on January 30, 2025. Each head coach votes on a scale of 14 points for first place descending to 1 point for last place, 14th. Each coach only votes for 14 teams, since they can not vote for their own team. Newcomers, Texas and Oklahoma, were picked to finish 1st and 3rd, respectively. Texas, Florida, who finished 2nd, and Oklahoma were the only teams receiving 1st place votes,receiving 7, 6, and 2 1st place votes, respectively. Preseason poll 1 Texas 2 Florida 3 Oklahoma 4 Tennessee 5 Texas A&M 6 LSU 7 Arkansas 8 Georgia 9 Missouri 10 Alabama 11 Kentucky 12 Mississippi State 13 Auburn 14 Ole Miss 15 South Carolina
Record vs. conference opponents One game TAM @ UGA cancelled.Tie breakers: ARK>FLA hd to hd, SCA>MSU KEN common, LSU>ALA hd to hd, MIZ>AUB TAM common.
National rankings The SEC has had all 15 softball teams ranked in the top 25, at some point, in two of these polls, and 14 in the top 25, at some point, in the third. From the previous polls, to the final polls. Texas rose as much as 5 places. Tennessee went up 3 in one poll. Ole Miss rose as much as 17. Arkansas dropped as much as 10. Texas A&M dropped as much as 14. Alabama dropped as much as 5. LSU dropped as much as 11. Mississippi State dropped as much as 7. Georgia went up at most 10. There were no other teams with changes of more than 2 places, up or down. All games were in the 2025 NCAA Division I softball tournament. Rankings of opponents is at the time of the game in the D1Softball poll. Texas went 1–0 over #2 Oklahoma, #3 Florida, #7 Tennessee, & 2–1 versus #11 Clemson & #12 Texas Tech, and 4–0 against not ranked. Tennessee was 0–1 versus #2 Oklahoma, 1–0 over #3 Florida, 1–0 against #9 UCLA & #6 Texas, and 5–1 against not ranked. Ole Miss went 0–1 against #12 Texas Tech & #16 Oregon, was 2–1 over #13 Arizona & #4 Arkansas, and 1–0 over not ranked. Arkansas was 4–2 against not ranked. Texas A&M went 4–2 against not ranked. Alabama went 0–2 versus #2 Oklahoma and 3–0 over not ranked. LSU was 1–2 against not ranked. Mississippi State was 0–2 against #12 Texas Tech and 2–0 over not ranked. Georgia was 1–2 against #14 Duke and 1–0 over not ranked.
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D1Softball The 13th poll is after the end of the regular season, before the conference tournaments, then the 14th poll, after the NCAA tournament, is the final poll. Week01234567891011121314 TEX221222211121661TEXOKL342111123255133OKLTEN656975711101043254TENFLA1133333329881177FLAOMS–––––2018241919202022258OMSARK101391310192214138773211ARKSCA––2421914101066910141413SCATAM9784565653124114TAMUGA151212141616191925–––––16UGAALA1720–252124––24241918182017ALALSU118556444751012101122LSUMSU–1717192417161715171619191825MSUAUB––18231723–––––––––AUBMIZ–1521––––––––––––MIZKEN–––––––––––––––KEN
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All-SEC teams On May 9, SEC officials announced their softball awards for the 2025 season. Bri Ellis of Arkansas was selected as Player of the Year, Karlyn Pickens of Tennessee was named Pitcher of the Year, and Tori Edwards of LSU was Freshman of the Year, and Patty Gasso of Oklahoma was chosen as the Coach of the Year, and Sam Landry of Oklahoma is Newcomer of the Year.
The All-SEC Teams consist of 21 student-athletes on the First Team, 22 student-athletes on the Second Team, and a ten-member All-Defensive Team:
All-SEC First Team
Audrey Vandagriff, Alabama Bri Ellis, Arkansas AnnaLea Adams, Auburn Kendra Falby, Florida Taylor Shumaker, Florida Reagan Walsh, Florida Tori Edwards, LSU
Jaden Pone, Ole Miss Sierra Sacco, Mississippi State Julia Crenshaw, Missouri Sam Landry, Oklahoma Nelly McEnroe-Marinas,Oklahoma Kasidi Pickering, Oklahoma Taylor Pannell, Tennessee
Karlyn Pickens, Tennessee Reese Atwood, Texas Teagan Kavan, Texas Mia Scott, Texas Joley Mitchell, Texas Emiley Kennedy, Texas A&M Mya Perez, Texas A&M
All-SEC Second Team
Kali Heivilin, Alabama Robyn Herron, Arkansas Reagan Johnson, Arkansas Ella McDowell, Arkansas Mia Williams, Florida Dallis Goodnight, Georgia Hallie Mitchell, Kentucky Maci Bergeron, LSU
Sydney Berzon, LSU Danieca Coffey, LSU Lexie Brady, Ole Miss Persy Llamas, Ole Miss Nadia Barbary, Mississippi State Raelin Chaffin, Mississippi State Gabbie Garcia, Oklahoma
Sam Gress, South Carolina Kayden Henry, Texas Ashton Maloney, Texas Katie Stewart, Texas Mac Barbara, Texas A&M Amari Harper, Texas A&M Koko Wooley, Texas A&M
SEC All-Defensive Team
Pitcher: Sam Landry, Oklahoma Pitcher: Sam Gress, South Carolina Catcher: Reese Atwood, Texas
First Base: Bri Ellis, Arkansas Second Base: Ailana Agbayani, Oklahoma Shortstop: Gabbie Garcia, Oklahoma Third Base: Nadia Barbary, Mississippi State
Left Field: Jaden Pone, Ole Miss Center Field: Kendra Falby, Florida Right Field: Ashton Maloney, Texas
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