Not inspiring much confidence with this list. one comment from a coach who will remain nameless: it’s a bunch of SWAs (Senior Woman Administrator) who are trying to pad their resume so it leads to being on a better committee, like basketball.

The way you can look at it is there are very few reps or regions west of the mississippi, which would lead to the bias given Big Ten and Big 12. And no one who would really be paying attention at their school to the national picture IMHO.

Terry Gawlik, Wisconsin-Madison  chair Mideast

Beatrice Crane-Banford, Marshall Mideast

Cynthia Gannon, WE Missouri State Midwest

Jennifer Gilbert Miami (Ohio) Midwest

Keith Gill American Northeast

Colleen Lim, WCC Pacific

Sarah Reesman, Missouri  Central

Nona Richardson UC Davis  West

Diane Turnham, Middle Tennessee State  South

Barbara Walker, Wake Forest  East

Sorry, I may not be able to update the Pac-12 matches tonight. still having problems with the internet

but the pumpkin spice latte is very warming

#1 Nebraska def. #23 Ohio State 3-1
#2 California (H) lost  to. #6 UCLA 3-1
#3 Illinois (H) def. Wisconsin 3-1
#4 USC loses at. #5 Stanford 0-3
#8 Penn State (H) def. Iowa 3-1
#9 Texas (H) def.. #14 Iowa State 3-0
#10 Washington (H)def.  Arizona State 3-2
#11 Purdue def. #22 Michigan 3-2
#12 Northern Iowa def. Missouri State 3-2
#13 Florida lost to #20 Tennessee 1-3
#15 Minnesota lost to Northwestern 0-3
#16 Oregon (H) lost.. Utah tied 2-3
#19 Florida State (H) def. Virginia Tech 3-0
#24 Kentucky (H) def. South Carolina 3-0

Nice to see the WAC is recognizing Hawaii more this season.

Danielson named the player of the week today, 10th time in her career and second time this season.

She has 10 double-doubles so far.

Hawaii senior Traci Yoshikawa was named to the Women’s College World Series all-tournament team today.
The Rainbow Wahine second baseman hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning of UH’s 3-2 win over Missouri to open the WCWS last Thursday. She also hit a solo homer in a 5-1 loss to Arizona to close the season on Saturday.
UCLA captured the WCWS title today with a 15-9 win over Arizona to win the best-of-three championship series. UCLA’s Megan Langenfeld was named the WCWS Most Outstanding Player.

The Rainbow Wahine, who visited five states since leaving Honolulu on May 10, are spending their Sunday morning packing up one more time before heading home following their stay at the Women’s College World Series.

Seven players — Stephanie Ricketts, Kelly Majam, Jenna Rodriguez, Mikalemi Tagab-Cruz, Tara Anguiano, Kaia Parnaby and Brynne Buchanan) are heading to California tonight. The rest will check out of Oklahoma City today and spend the night in Tulsa. From there, the travel party will split among three flights bound for Honolulu on Monday. They’re scheduled to reunite at 3:15 p.m. Monday at HNL.