Noles News: FSU softball earns No. 9 national seed, will host Tallahassee Regional

FSU is one of four schools (FSU, Alabama, Oklahoma, UCLA) to host a regional in each of the last 12 seasons.

If the Seminoles advance, they are paired up with Los Angeles Regional and No. 8 UCLA. If both FSU and UCLA win, FSU would travel to Los Angeles for the Super Regional. LET'S DANCE💃💃#Team43pic.twitter.com/mMuElYhEue

— Florida State Softball 🥎 (@FSU\_Softball) May 10, 2026 NCAA softball selection committee chair Natalie Honnen, appearing on ESPN2 during the bracket reveal show, said the decision between FSU and UCLA for the final national seed “wasone that we kept coming back to a few times over the last two days. And for us, when you just kept comparing the metrics, UCLA kept having the edge. They had better top-25 wins, so for us, UCLA gets the edge over Florida State.” The bracket is set! 🥎

👉 🎟️ #RoadToWCWSpic.twitter.com/vodddfl1RT

— NCAA Softball (@NCAASoftball) May 10, 2026

Baseball

No. 14 Florida State baseball won its first series at Clemson since 2014, taking two of three from the Tigers to improve to 17-10 in ACC play, with a top eight seed still within the Seminoles’ grasp heading into this weekend’s regular season finale series vs. Miami.

Parker Messick pitched to a 2.08 ERA in April and took home the Pitch Hand Award! 👍

The @CleGuardians rookie LHP joined #MLBCentral to talk through what has been working on the mound, the trust he has in the team's catchers and much more. pic.twitter.com/gHb0kzVbcz

— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) May 7, 2026

Football

Florida State athletic director Michael Alford appeared on Kelly Gramlich and Eric Maclain’s podcast on Friday, discussing FSU and Georgia cancelling their home-and-home series:

There’s a lot of factors when we looked at that game in the future. One point, let’s just start, we always have Florida on our schedule. They always have Georgia Tech. So both conferences go into nine conference games, brings us 10 P4s to each schedule automatically every year.

We also looked at small data. We only have one season under this new format, the CFP, but how is the committee going to judge these non-conference games? How are they going to look at them when they sit in the room?

How are they going to look at it? I’ll tell you that we think Texas [playing] Ohio State hurt Texas. Personally, I do. When they sat in that room, they didn’t get any credit for playing a tough game, opening the season on the road.

I think our fans would have loved to have gone between the hedges. But having our schedule, adding a ninth game, having Georgia on there as well, just created difficulty for our program, looking at it with our goals of how we want to get into the CFP and into that tournament.

We’re still going to play. We’re both, we have seven cities right now that have reached out with some aggressive proposals for us to come look at and play a neutral site game in 28, week zero of 28. So we still want to do, both schools want to play each other. View Link AG on where he sees Darrell Jackson Jr. lining up along the D-line pic.twitter.com/rkI5zjmQfZ

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All Sports

Jordan Silversmith broke down the story of FSU men’s basketball head coach Luke Loucks personally flying to Slovakia to recruit 6-foot-11 Colorado transfer forward Sebastian Rancik, a trip he said was well worth it for landing the player and building a relationship with him:

Let's fly to Slovakia! @lukeloucks tells @jeffculhane the story of how @FSUHoops landed star player Sebastian Rancik over other blue bloods out of the Transfer Portal pic.twitter.com/1tYYVWjDoS

— Seminole Sports Network (@SeminolesSN) May 8, 2026 Andrea Adelson shared the story of Florida State women’s basketball head coach Brooke Wyckoff adding to her family — via her sister’s surrogacy: Florida State coach Brooke Wyckoff had given up on the idea that she would become a mom again. Sitting inside the fertility clinic in the summer of 2024, she listened with growing distress as her doctor told her surrogacy would be the only option to have a baby of her own.

Wyckoff already had a daughter, Avery, from a previous relationship, and the family of three was happy. Though Wyckoff and Esmoris wanted a biological child together, they both had accepted it might not happen.

The months passed, and Wyckoff prepared for the start of basketball season. Florida State opened with a record-breaking 119-49 win on Nov. 4 against North Florida. At 5:21 p.m. that same day, Wyckoff got a text from one of her sisters, Jaime Piening.

“I had the craaaaaziest dream last night.”

“Really?” Wyckoff replied. “Do tell!” Florida State women’s golf will begin play Monday at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional at Seminole Legacy Golf Club, where FSU is the No. 4 seed in a 12-team field with the top five teams advancing to the national championships, and admission is free: The top five finishing teams will advance to the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, which will be held May 22-27 at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. Florida State will tee off from the 10th hole at 8:00 a.m. on Monday and will be paired with Eastern Michigan and Kentucky.

**2026 NCAA Tallahassee Regional**

• *No. 3 Florida*
• *No. 9 Wake Forest*
• *No. 16 UCLA*
• *Florida State*
• *No. 23 Eastern Michigan*
• *Kentucky*
• *Purdue*
• *Clemson*
• *ULM*
• *North Florida*
• *Little Rock*
• *Texas Rio Grande Valley* Florida State women’s golf sophomore Sophia Fullbrook was named to the All-ACC Team on Friday: Fullbrook earns her first career All-ACC honor, after leading the Noles in 2025-26 behind two wins, six top 10 finishes and a 71.20 scoring average in 10 starts.  She is listed as the No. 26 player in the NCAA Division I by the Scoreboard rankings.

Fullbrook earned back-to-back wins at the Florida State Match Up and Coach Mo Classic. Her consecutive wins in back-to-back starts, were the first since Mirabel Ting in 2024-25. Fullbrook won the Florida State Match Up tournament by five strokes, turning in a score of 10-under, 206 after rounds of 69, 67 and 70. At the Coach Mo Classic, Fullbrook was the leader in the clubhouse after two rounds following scores of 72 and 67.  In the final round, Fullbrook slipped to third, but fought back in the final four holes after a birdie on the par four 393-yard 15th at the St. Johns Golf Club. She closed the tournament shooting 1-over, 73, tying for the win.

The St. Albans, England, native, finished in the top 15 in each of the first four tournaments to start the year,  securing her highest at the Jim West Challenge where she tied for seventh behind scores of 73, 68 and 70 to finish at 5-under.

This season, Fullbrook has led the Noles to a pair of wins this season as well as two runner-up finishes. 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗚𝗼

Here's everything you need to know ahead of the NCAA Tallahassee Regional! #NoleFamilypic.twitter.com/qObWI2tAHH

— FSU Golf (@FSUGolf) May 9, 2026