The 2026 Florida Gators softball team are an American college softball team that represents the University of Florida during the 2026 NCAA Division I softball season. The Gators are led by head coach Tim Walton in his 21st season. They play their home games at Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium in Gainesville, Florida.

Previous season The Gators finished the 2025 season 48–17 overall, and 14–10 in the SEC, finishing in sixth place during the regular season. They fell in the first game of the 2025 SEC tournament to Ole Miss. They would host the Gainesville Regional and Super Regional, eliminating Mercer, Florida Atlantic, Georgia Tech, and arch-rivals Georgia. They were eliminated from the postseason after losing their first two games in the Women's College World Series.

Roster and personnel

2026 Florida Gators roster Pitchers 00 – Ava Brown – Junior 1 – Caroline Stanton – Freshman 7 – Keagan Rothrock – Junior 13 – Olivia Miller – Junior 16 – Allison Sparkman – Junior 32 – Leah Stevens – Freshman 39 – Katelynn Oxley – Sophomore

Catchers 8 – Jocelyn Erickson – Senior 74 – Ella Wesolowski – Junior

Outfielders 21 – Taylor Shumaker – Sophomore 22 – Cassidy McLellan – Junior 44 – Townsen Thomas – Freshman Infielders 4 – Kalie Matsuno – Freshman 10 – Gabi Comia – Sophomore 12 – Kendall Grover – Senior 31 – Kenleigh Cahalan – Junior

Utility 2 – Giulia Desiderio – Graduate student 24 – Madison Walker – Junior Reference:

2026 Florida Gators coaching staff Tim Walton – Head coach Aric Thomas – Assistant coach Francesca Enea – Assistant coach Stephanie VanBrakle Prothro – Assistant coachReference:

Schedule and results 2026 Florida Gators Softball Game Log Regular season (47–9) February (23–1) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record February 6 Illinois StateUSF-Rawlings Invitational No. 5 USF Softball StadiumTampa, FL 7–0 Rothrock (1–0) McLeod (0–1) — 1,634 1–0 — February 7 vs. RV MichiganUSF-Rawlings Invitational No. 5 USF Softball StadiumTampa, FL 5–1 Rothrock (2–0) Hoehn (0–1) — 1,679 2–0 — February 7 vs. Bethune-CookmanUSF-Rawlings Invitational No. 5 USF Softball StadiumTampa, FL 8–0 (6) Brown (1–0) Tohara-Yshiki (0–1) — — 3–0 — February 8 vs. KansasUSF-Rawlings Invitational No. 5 USF Softball StadiumTampa, FL 11–2 Rothrock (3–0) Washington (0–1) — 2,053 4–0 — February 8 at USFUSF-Rawlings Invitational No. 5 USF Softball StadiumTampa, FL 6–1 Oxley (1–0) Ernst (0–1) Brown (1) 2,192 5–0 — February 10 at Jacksonville No. 5 Pruitt Softball ComplexJacksonville, FL 20–0 (5) Brown (2–0) White (0–1) — 201 6–0 — February 11 Jacksonville No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 11–1 (5) Rothrock (4–0) Harrelson (0–1) — 1,189 7–0 — February 13 MarshallFlorida Classic No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 6–3 Brown (3–0) King (0–1) Rothrock (1) 2,008 8–0 — February 13 Georgia TechFlorida Classic No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 8–5 Miller (1–0) Johnson (0–1) Brown (2) 2,008 9–0 — February 14 FIUFlorida Classic No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 14–6 (6) Miller (2–0) Girigorie (0–1) — 1,860 10–0 — February 14 MarshallFlorida Classic No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 14–4 (6) Rothrock (5–0) King (0–2) — 1,861 11–0 — February 15 Georgia TechFlorida Classic No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 5–1 Stevens (1–0) Watts (0–1) Brown (3) 1,638 12–0 — February 17 UNF No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 7–3 Rothrock (6–0) Cook (0–1) — 1,103 13–0 — February 18 at UNF No. 5 UNF Softball ComplexJacksonville, FL 10–0 (5) Brown (4–0) Ponich (0–1) — 523 14–0 — February 20 LongwoodFlorida Tournament No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 10–0 (5) Rothrock (7–0) Gawryluk (0–1) — 1,332 15–0 — February 20 Middle TennesseeFlorida Tournament No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 8–0 (5) Stevens (2–0) Klaiber (0–1) — 1,332 16–0 — February 21 LindenwoodFlorida Tournament No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 8–0 (5) Brown (5–0) Owens (0–1) — 1,600 17–0 — February 21 LongwoodFlorida Tournament No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 12–4 (6) Miller (3–0) Chapin (0–1) — 1,600 18–0 — February 22 Middle TennesseeFlorida Tournament No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 7–0 Rothrock (8–0) Hall (0–1) — 1,219 19–0 — February 26 vs. CalJudi Garman Classic No. 4 Anderson Family FieldFullerton, CA 8–0 (5) Rothrock (9–0) McGowan (0–1) — 456 20–0 — February 26 vs. East Texas A&MJudi Garman Classic No. 4 Anderson Family FieldFullerton, CA 28–0 (5) Stevens (3–0) Masters (0–1) — 435 21–0 — February 27 vs. No. 9 UCLAJudi Garman Classic No. 4 Anderson Family FieldFullerton, CA 12–15 Cable (1–0) Rothrock (9–1) — 857 21–1 — February 27 vs. LMUJudi Garman Classic No. 4 Anderson Family FieldFullerton, CA 7–5 Rothrock (10–1) O'dell (0–1) — 560 22–1 — February 28 vs. Oregon StateJudi Garman Classic No. 4 Anderson Family FieldFullerton, CA 21–1 (5) Rothrock (11–1) Murray (0–1) — 654 23–1 — March (10–3) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record March 7 Missouri No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 5–4 Rothrock (12–1) Donahue (0–1) — 2,029 24–1 1–0 March 8 Missouri No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 4–3 (11) Rothrock (13–1) Carr (2–3) — 2,234 25–1 2–0 March 9 Missouri No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 5–2 Rothrock (14–1) McCann (2–5) — 1,323 26–1 3–0 March 13 at Kentucky No. 5 John Cropp StadiumLexington, KY 10–2 (6) Rothrock (15–1) Haendiges (7–3) — 1,099 27–1 4–0 March 14 at Kentucky No. 5 John Cropp StadiumLexington, KY 9–0 (5) Oxley (2–0) Nutter (7–2) — 1,277 28–1 5–0 March 15 at Kentucky No. 5 John Cropp StadiumLexington, KY 9–0 (6) Rothrock (16–1) Nutter (7–3) — 1,222 29–1 6–0 March 20 No. 1 Tennessee No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 1–2 Mardjetko (7–0) Rothrock (16–2) Pickens (2) 2,455 29–2 6–1 March 21 No. 1 Tennessee No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 5–2 Miller (4–0) Pickens (7–1) — 2,635 30–2 7–1 March 22 No. 1 Tennessee No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 3–2 Rothrock (17–2) Pickens (7–2) — 2,164 31–2 8–1 March 25 Stetson No. 3 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 3–2 Stevens (4–0) Arnold (2–2) Rothrock (2) 1,227 32–2 — March 27 at No. 10 Arkansas No. 3 Bogle ParkFayetteville, AR 2–6 Herron (10–2) Rothrock (17–3) Burnham (2) 2,924 32–3 8–2 March 28 at No. 10 Arkansas No. 3 Bogle ParkFayetteville, AR 12–6 Oxley (3–0) Burnham (7–3) Rothrock (3) 3,718 33–3 9–2 March 29 at No. 10 Arkansas No. 3 Bogle ParkFayetteville, AR 4–6 Timmerman (7–0) Rothrock (17–4) — 2,842 33–4 9–3 April (14–3) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record April 1 at Stetson No. 5 Stetson Softball ComplexDeLand, FL 8–2 Miller (5–0) Braswell (11–7) Oxley (1) 483 34–4 — April 3 No. 13 Mississippi State No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 2–0 Rothrock (18–4) Goold (13–5) — 1,693 35–4 10–3 April 4 No. 13 Mississippi State No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 5–9 Faircloth (10–3) Oxley (3–1) — 1,902 35–5 10–4 April 5 No. 13 Mississippi Statepresented by Campus USA No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 5–4 Rothrock (19–4) Goold (13–6) — 1,546 36–5 11–4 April 8 USF No. 6 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 4–1 Oxley (4–1) Long (11–4) — 1,415 37–5 — April 10 at South Carolina No. 6 South Carolina Softball ComplexColumbia, SC 5–0 Rothrock (20–4) Heard (6–6) — 1,379 38–5 12–4 April 11 at South Carolina No. 6 South Carolina Softball ComplexColumbia, SC 15–2 (5) Miller (6–0) Heard (6–7) — 1,586 39–5 13–4 April 12 at South Carolina No. 6 South Carolina Softball ComplexColumbia, SC 6–1 Rothrock (21–4) Heard (6–8) — 1,249 40–5 14–4 April 15 FGCU No. 4 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 9–6Miller (7-0) Gabrielse (0-3) Rothrock (4) 1,220 41–5 — April 17 Auburnpresented by Florida Dairy Farmers No. 4 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 9–1 (5) Rothrock (22–4) Geurin (5–7) Rothrock (5) 1,624 42–5 15–4 April 18 AuburnSenior Day presented by Southern Chevy No. 4 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 0–4 Harrison (11–9) Stevens (4–1) — 2,153 42–6 15–5 April 19 Auburnpresented by Meldon Law No. 4 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 7–1 Rothrock (23–4) Harrison (11–10) Rothrock (6) 1,647 43–6 16–5 April 22 at No. 10 Florida State No. 5 JoAnne Graf FieldTallahassee, FL 1–3 Danley (9–1) Rothrock (23–5) — 1,738 43–7 — April 24 No. 22 UCF No. 5 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 7–0 Rothrock (24–5) Vega (16–7) — 1,619 44–7 — April 25 at No. 22 UCF No. 5 UCF Softball ComplexOrlando, FL 7–0 Miller (8–0) Vokoun (2–2) — 830 45–7 — April 28 No. 9 Florida Statepresented by UF Health No. 6 Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 4–3 Rothrock (25–5) Gaskell (2–1) — 2,575 46–7 — April 30 at No. 17 Georgia No. 6 Jack Turner Softball StadiumAthens, GA 5–3Rothrock (26–5)Roelling (14–9) — 1,648 47–717–5 May (0–2) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record May 1 at No. 17 Georgia No. 6 Jack Turner Softball StadiumAthens, GA 9–10 Roelling (15–9) Miller (8–1) — 1,835 47–8 17–6 May 2 at No. 17 Georgia No. 6 Jack Turner Softball StadiumAthens, GA 1–9Roelling (16–9) Rothrock (26–6) — 2,280 47–9 17–7 Postseason (5–3) (1–1) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record Tournament Record May 7 vs. (14) Auburn (3) No. 7 John Cropp StadiumLexington, KY 10–9 Stevens (5–1) Herndon (5–6) Rothrock (5) 48–9 1–0May 8 vs. (2) No. 4 Alabama (3) No. 7 John Cropp StadiumLexington, KY 1–9 (5) Moten (19–4) Stevens (5–2) — 48–10 1–1 (3–0) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record Regional Record May 15 Florida A&M (6) Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 12–0(5) Rothrock (27–6) Hughes (14–6) — 1,699 49–10 1–0May 16 Georgia Tech (6) 8–0(5) Rothrock (28–6) Watts (7–8) — 1,745 50–10 2–0May 17 Georgia Tech (6) 5–2 Rothrock (29–6) Johnson (16–13) — 1,502 51–10 3–0 (1–2) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record Super Regional RecordMay 22 (11) Texas Tech (6) Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 8–10 Canady (24–5) Oxley (4–2) — 1,830 51–11 0–1May 23 (11) Texas Tech (6) Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 10–2 Rothrock (30–6) Canady (24–6) — 2,225 52–11 1–1May 24 (11) Texas Tech (6) Katie Seashole Pressly StadiumGainesville, FL 7–16 (5) Canady (25–6) Rothrock (30–7) — 1,864 52–12 1–2

Record vs. conference opponents

Rankings

References