The Big South Conference softball tournament (also referred to as the Big South Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in college softball for the Big South Conference. It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I softball tournament.
Format The top six teams from the regular season compete in the double-elimination tournament.
Champions
Year-by-year Year Champion Location MVP 1987 N/A 1988 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Dori Beach, Charleston Southern 1989 Coastal Carolina Softball Complex • Conway, SC Lisa Kemme, Winthrop 1990 Coastal Carolina Softball Complex • Conway, SC Lisa Kemme, P, Winthrop 1991 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Lisa Kemme, P, Winthrop 1992 CSU Softball Complex • North Charleston, SC Michelle Hall, P, Coastal Carolina 1993 Campbell Softball Field • Buies Creek, NC Andrea Nardolillo, P, Campbell 1994 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Winn Hazelgrove, P, UNC Greensboro 1995 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Christine Yon, 2B, Winthrop 1996 UNCG Softball Field • Greensboro, NC Erin Chandler, P, UNC Greensboro 1997 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Christine Hornak, P, UNC Greensboro 1998 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Kacee Crumpacker, SS, Coastal CarolinaKatie Phillips, P, Liberty 1999 Winthrop Softball Complex • Rock Hill, SC Denise Reagan, P, East Carolina 2000 Coastal Carolina Softball Complex • Conway, SC Lauren Yates, P, Coastal Carolina 2001 James I. Moyer Sports Complex • Salem, VA Sarah Lockett, 3B, Coastal Carolina 2002 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Ali Thompson, P, Liberty 2003 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Sarah Pauly, P, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 2004 BSC Softball Park • Birmingham, SC Sarah Pauly, P, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 2005 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Sarah Pauly, P, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 2006 Radford Softball Stadium • Radford, VA Christine Doyle, P, Coastal Carolina 2007 Coastal Carolina Softball Complex • Conway, SC Cari Wooldridge, P, Winthrop 2008 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Cari Wooldridge, P, Winthrop 2009 Radford Softball Stadium • Radford, VA Kristen Shifflett, SS, Radford 2010 Coastal Carolina Softball Complex • Conway, SC Kristen Shifflett, SS, Radford 2011 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Tiffani Smith, P, Liberty 2012 Radford Softball Stadium • Radford, VA Sarah Maples, UTIL, Coastal Carolina 2013 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Libby Morris, P, Longwood 2014 Coastal Carolina Softball Complex • Conway, SC Cheyenne Gandara, P, Charleston Southern 2015 Amanda Littlejohn Stadium • Buies Creek, NC Libby Morris, P, Longwood 2016 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Sydney Gay, P, Longwood 2017 Lancer Field • Farmville, VA Elizabeth McCarthy, P, Longwood 2018 Radford Softball Stadium • Radford, VA Autumn Bishop, 1B, Liberty 2019 Amanda Littlejohn Stadium • Buies Creek, NC Karleigh Donovan, 1B, Longwood 2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 Brinkley Softball Stadium • Boiling Springs, NC Claire Blount, UTIL, Campbell 2022 Lancer Field • Farmville, VA Georgeanna Barefoot, P, Campbell 2023 Radford Softball Stadium • Radford, VA Claudia Ware, OF, Campbell 2024 Terry Field • Rock Hill, SC Alyssa Kelly, P, USC Upstate 2025 PC Softball Complex • Clinton, SC Maddie Drerup, P, USC Upstate 2026 Cyrill Softball Stadium • Spartanburg, SC Maddie Drerup, P, USC Upstate
By school School Championships Years Winthrop 6 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2007, 2008 Coastal Carolina 5 1992, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2006 Longwood 5 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 Campbell 4 1993, 2021, 2022, 2023 UNC Greensboro 4 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Liberty 3 2002, 2011, 2018 USC Upstate 3 2024, 2025, 2026 Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 3 2003, 2004, 2005 Charleston Southern 2 1988, 2014 Radford 2 2009, 2010 East Carolina 1 1999 Italics indicates the school currently does not sponsor softball in the Big South.
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