Liberty softball finishes season with highest ever ranking

Following the best season in program history, the Liberty softball team finished the year ranked in the Top 25 of all major national polls.

The Lady Flames were ranked No. 15 in both the Softball America and D1Softball Top 25. The Flames were voted No. 16 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 and 17th in the NFCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. These end of season rankings are the best in program history in all four major national polls. This also marks the first time in program history Liberty has been ranked in the Top 25 in all four major polls during the same week.

This is the fourth time in program history that Liberty has appeared in at least one Top 25 poll to end a season, also finishing ranked inside the Top 25 in 2021, 2023, and 2024. The Lady Flames spent much of the 2025 season ranked, 13 different weeks being ranked in the Top 25.

Liberty finished the season with a 50-15 record, setting a new program record for single-season victories. Liberty swept both the Conference USA regular season and tournament titles for the second year in a row. The team made history and grabbed headlines across the country at the 2025 NCAA Bryan-College Station Regional, winning two of three games against the No. 1 overall seed and Regional host Texas A&M. With those victories, the Lady Flames advanced to the program’s first ever Super Regional. In doing so, Liberty became the first team in the current NCAA Tournament fo that to knock out the No. 1 national seed in the Regional rounds. The Lady Flames advanced to Oregon to complete in the Eugene Super Regional, falling to the Ducks in two games.