Texas Tech Softball Continues Historic Season in the Semifinals

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Texas Tech continued its historic postseason with a 3-1 victory over UCLA on Saturday night to advance to the semifinals of the Women’s College World Series, marking another milestone in the program’s best-ever season.

The No. 12-seed Red Raiders (52-12) will face off with Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Oregon 4-1 on Sunday night. The semifinal matchup is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday and will air on ESPN.

This marks Texas Tech’s first appearance in the WCWS and places the 2025 softball team among the most accomplished in school history. If successful in Oklahoma City, the Red Raiders could add a fourth national title to the university’s athletics legacy. Texas Tech previously claimed NCAA championships in women’s basketball (1993) and men’s track and field (2019 outdoor, 2024 indoor).

The softball program joins eight other Texas Tech teams that have finished in the top eight nationally in their respective sports since 2015, including men’s basketball, baseball, and both men’s and women’s golf and track and field.

Texas Tech has already won a school-record eight Big 12 titles this year, including regular season and tournament championships in both softball and women’s tennis, and a sweep of indoor and outdoor conference titles in men’s and women’s track and field.

Head coach Gerry Glasco, in his first season at the helm, has rapidly transformed the program. Since being hired last summer, he has guided the Red Raiders through a series of historic milestones: earning a national seed, hosting a regional, and sweeping No. 5 Florida State on the road to advance past the Super Regional round.

Glasco becomes just the sixth head coach in NCAA history to reach the WCWS semifinals in his first season and only the second—alongside UCLA’s Sue Enquist in 1989—to do so by winning the first two games in Oklahoma City. The Red Raiders are riding an 11-game winning streak heading into Monday’s matchup.

Key players have fueled Tech’s surge, including All-American pitcher NiJaree Canady, who leads the nation with a 0.89 ERA, and veterans like Demi Elder and Mihyia Davis, both of whom have made significant contributions on both sides of the field.

A win on Monday would move the Red Raiders within one game of the national championship series and continue a dream postseason for a team that had never previously advanced past the regional round.