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2013 Tennessee Softball Season Preview - UTSPORTS.COM - University of Tennessee Athletics
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Coming off an outstanding 2012 season highlighted by its fifth appearance in the Women's College World Series in the last eight years, the No. 6/5 Tennessee softball team opens its 2013 season this week and the Lady Vols are primed to make another run at a national title.
Tennessee starts the season at the Red Desert Classic in St. George, Utah, where the team will face Southern Utah, Idaho State, Utah State, South Dakota, BYU and Oklahoma State from Feb.7-10.
UT is ranked No. 6 in the preseason USA Today/NFCA poll and No. 5 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll. UT was also picked to win the SEC Eastern Division by the league's coaches.
Tennessee leads the nation with four Lady Vols named to USA Softball's Top 50 "Watch List" for the 2013 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. That list includes Raven Chavanne, Lauren Gibson, Ellen Renfroe and Madison Shipman. UT also led the SEC with four preseason all-conference picks in Chavanne, Gibson, Shipman and Kat Dotson.
Tennessee is also on the cusp of some major milestones. The UT softball program has 799 wins, so the next victory will mark No. 800. Co-head coach Karen Weekly has 789 wins, 11 shy of 800. Co-head coach Ralph Weekly has 1,067 wins, 33 shy of 1,100. The Weeklys have 566 wins at UT, so 34 wins will push them over 600. Three-time All-American Chavanne enters 2013 as UT's current career leader in career batting average (.444) and on-base percentage (.507). Her 102 stolen bases rank third on the Lady Vols' all-time list and she is within range to break Lindsay Schutzler's record of 120.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Coming off an outstanding 2012 season highlighted by its fifth appearance in the Women's College World Series in the last eight years, the No. 6/5 Tennessee softball team opens its 2013 season this week and the Lady Vols are primed to make another run at a national title.
Tennessee starts the season at the Red Desert Classic in St. George, Utah, where the team will face Southern Utah, Idaho State, Utah State, South Dakota, BYU and Oklahoma State from Feb.7-10.
UT is ranked No. 6 in the preseason USA Today/NFCA poll and No. 5 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll. UT was also picked to win the SEC Eastern Division by the league's coaches.
Tennessee leads the nation with four Lady Vols named to USA Softball's Top 50 "Watch List" for the 2013 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. That list includes Raven Chavanne, Lauren Gibson, Ellen Renfroe and Madison Shipman. UT also led the SEC with four preseason all-conference picks in Chavanne, Gibson, Shipman and Kat Dotson.
Tennessee is also on the cusp of some major milestones. The UT softball program has 799 wins, so the next victory will mark No. 800. Co-head coach Karen Weekly has 789 wins, 11 shy of 800. Co-head coach Ralph Weekly has 1,067 wins, 33 shy of 1,100. The Weeklys have 566 wins at UT, so 34 wins will push them over 600. Three-time All-American Chavanne enters 2013 as UT's current career leader in career batting average (.444) and on-base percentage (.507). Her 102 stolen bases rank third on the Lady Vols' all-time list and she is within range to break Lindsay Schutzler's record of 120.
