The CCHS players at the event included rising juniors and seniors: Hailee Hartsell, Meredith Grooms, Ceegee McNealy, Jansyn ...

How Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens became a complete pitcher and the hardest thrower in softball history.

If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. Add Karlyn Pickens and her mother, Rebecca Pickens, to that list. When the ...

Karlyn Pickens, the 2024 SEC Pitcher of the year, and three promising newcomers are giving Tennessee softball more depth than ever.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- More than a decade before Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens fired the fastest softball pitch ever recorded, Dana Fussetti discovered an elementary school-aged pitcher and foretold a ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- More than a decade before Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens fired the fastest softball pitch ever recorded, Dana Fussetti discovered an elementary school-aged pitcher and foretold a ...

Pickens explains how her mindset has shifted in the postseason and says she will give it her all to earn the right to play another game following the Tennessee win.

Karlyn Pickens tied the fastest pitch ever thrown at 77 mph, a record set by Tennessee softball legendary pitcher Monica ...

Tennessee softball is adding three more pitchers to its staff for the 2026 season, giving UT even more options to back up two-time SEC Pitcher of the Year Karlyn Pickens.

Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens (23) and teammates celebrate after Pickens struck out the final batter win the NCAA softball game against Arkansas on Monday, March 24, 2025, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Any discussion of returning talent begins with pitcher Karlyn Pickens. The Lady Vols rode her fastball – clocked at an NCAA record of 79.4 miles per hour – into the WCWS.

The second-seeded Sooners will open on Thursday against hard-throwing Karlyn Pickens and No. 7 seed Tennessee. In the second game of super regional play, Pickens unleashed a pitch that traveled an ...