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Texas Tech's softball team, after a strong postseason run last spring, has transformed from underdogs to villains in the sport. With significant roster upgrades through the transfer portal, they aim for another Women's College World Series appearance.
LUBBOCK, Texas â When Texas Tech rolled through the softball postseason last spring, collecting its first-ever Regional and Super Regional titles along the way, the Red Raiders became the darlings of the 2025 Womenâs College World Series.
Led by pitcher NiJaree Canadyâs million-dollar arm â the ace received a lucrative name, image and likeness deal to transfer from Stanford to Tech before her junior season â and signature foot stomp, Texas Tech dazzled die-hards and casual fans, serving notice in a world long dominated by Oklahoma and other SEC schools that the revamped Big 12 was still going to be a factor.
The Red Raiders, led by first-year coach Gerry Glasco, lost the championship series to Texas, falling 10-4 to the Longhorns in a decisive Game 3, but promised they werenât going to be a one-hit wonder. Theyâd be back, they said.
And they werenât shy about how they were going to do it. Within weeks of losing in the WCWS, the Red Raiders completed an unprecedented shopping spree to upgrade their roster, plucking many of the best players out of the transfer portal. With the financial backing of its NIL collective, The Matador Club, Tech signed a bevy of superstar transfers, including All-Americans Taylor Pannell (previously at Tennessee) and Mia Williams (Florida), along with Kaitlyn Terry (UCLA), catcher Jasmyn Burns (Ohio State) and infielder Jackie Lis (Southern Illinois).
As a result, Texas Tech has gone from beloved to bad guy in less than a year â quite the 180-degree turn for the 2026 No. 11 seed, which begins its quest Friday for a second straight WCWS appearance when it hosts Marist in the Lubbock Regional.
âI definitely feel like people think weâre villains,â said Terry, who leads the team with a .471 average and boasts a 1.30 ERA in 118 1/3 innings pitched. âWe have a target on our back, for sure. We hear it a lot: âOh, they just bought a team.â But we know what weâre doing, and what other people say doesnât matter.â
Even if those people say it loudly.
Hours after Pannell announced her commitment to Tech, Tennessee coach Karen Weekly posted on social media a scathing rebuke of alleged cheating in the sport, closing with, âMoney isnât the issue â tampering is!â Many interpreted Weeklyâs post to be directed at Glasco and Texas Tech. She told The Athletic this week that the post wasnât necessarily a shot at them, âbut thereâs no question they were in contact with our player long before the season was over. ⊠A financial agreement was signed with Texas Tech before she ever went in the portal. (She) told me that.â
Texas Tech on Wednesday said in a statement to The Athletic: âWe are aware of these allegations and believe the recruitment followed all parameters in place at that time. We have been in contact with the NCAA.â
Texas Tech won its first-ever Regional and Super Regional titles during the postseason.
Pitcher NiJaree Canady, who transferred from Stanford, is the standout player and received a lucrative NIL deal.
Texas Tech upgraded its roster by signing several top players from the transfer portal, including All-Americans Taylor Pannell and Mia Williams.
Texas Tech aims to secure a second consecutive appearance in the Women's College World Series after their previous season's success.

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In the new pay-for-play era, Techâs athletic department has been the beneficiary of two billionaire oil tycoons, Cody Campbell and John Sellers, both of whom played football for the Red Raiders. Sellersâ wife, the former Tracy Cartier, played softball at Tech from 2001 to 2003. The stadium is named after Tracy, and it was the Sellers who originally committed so much money to Canady.
Campbell and Sellers have flooded Red Raiders coaches with money, allowing them to assemble all-star rosters that instantly made them national contenders. Texas Tech planned to pay out an estimated $55 million to athletes during the 2025-26 academic year. Football, menâs and womenâs basketball and softball have experienced tremendous success in the last two years, often to the chagrin of rivals.
âI think whatâs upsetting other schools is they thought, âOh, thatâs cute, Texas Tech made it to the finals last year and were a game away from winning it,ââ said Sellers, the deep-pocketed donor. âBut weâre here to stay, and I donât think they like that.â
Itâs true, said Terry and Canady, that it feels like because theyâve been labeled the bad guys, no one wants to play them; hence, Techâs relatively poor RPI of 13. The Red Raidersâ nonconference schedule was underwhelming to say the least, as they thumped schools like Abilene Christian (Tech won 24-0), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (18-0) and Louisiana-Monroe (13-1), among others.
At Februaryâs Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic just outside Palm Springs, Calif., billed as one of the marquee nonconference tournaments in college softball, numerous top-10 programs squared off against each other. Meanwhile, at the same event, Tech beat up on Fresno State, Bethune-Cookman, Cal State Fullerton, San Diego State and UC Riverside by a combined score of 47-5.
âTexas Tech had a lot of teams that chose not to or elected to not play them, and a lot of it had to do with the transfer of players and other things,â said Kirk Walker, co-founder and owner of the Mary Nutter.
Glasco refuses to whine about it.
âThis isnât new. This has been happening to Patty Gasso and Oklahoma for 10 years,â Glasco said, referencing the Soonersâ dominant run through softball, which made scheduling challenging for a stretch. âWhen I was (coaching) at Louisiana (in 2024), she called me and said, âI canât get anyone to come to my tournament.â I said, âIâll be thereâ â and thatâs how we ended their 71-game win streak.â
Terry and Canady seemed nonplussed, too. The way they see it, the toughest games Tech could schedule have already happened several times this season: intrasquad scrimmages, when the Red Raiders play the Red Raiders. Terry joked that after numerous fall scrimmages, there were times during regular-season games when she thought to herself, âWow, this is so much easier than fall practice!â
Canady, whose 1.24 ERA is sixth best in the nation, agreed.
âIntrasquads were fun but so, so hard. The lineups we were facing were insane,â she said. âWhen I get in the circle, my attitude is, âThereâs no one I could face thatâs better than Mia or Taylor.ââ
She pitches to them â and strikes them out â regularly, so the way Canady sees it, sheâs ready for anything. No one intimidates her.
With Canady, itâs usually the other way around. The senior has a lethal arsenal of pitches led by her rise ball, which has fooled many of the sportâs best hitters. Her celebratory foot stomp â echoing far beyond Lubbock â has a history of making opponents wilt in the batterâs box. She is the main reason Tech, according to DraftKings, still has the second-best odds to win the 2026 WCWS (+300), just behind third-seeded Oklahoma (+200). Alabama and Texas, the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds, are both +500.
An improvement at the plate should bolster Techâs chances, too. A year after the Red Raidersâ bats went silent late in the postseason, they are leading the nation in batting average (.388) and rank third in home runs (125).
Canady and Terry are adamant that if you spend time around the Red Raiders, youâd never label them villains. Terry said theyâre âreally goofyâ anytime theyâre around each other. Canady said she knows itâs easy for people to assume the players are motivated only by money, but âweâre fighting for each other, we wanna win for each other.â
Glascoâs seen it, too.
âThis is one of the closest teams Iâve ever had,â he said. âItâs unbelievable how much they care about each other.â
He knew theyâd be loaded with talent, but the camaraderie caught him off guard â in a good way. And it has absolutely played a part in the teamâs 52-6 record.
âI feel great about where we are,â Glasco said. âIn softball, if youâve lost less than a third of your games, you have a special team.â
Special, Cinderella, scorned â none of the descriptions matter, the Red Raiders say. The only thing they care about being called, if they can get it done, is national champs.
Stewart Mandel contributed to this story.
This article originally appeared in The Athletic.
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