A member of the Big Ten Conference, they play their home games on-campus at Husky Softball Stadium in Seattle, Washington.
[5] However, Wilson's tenure was cut short in late 2003, when the coach was implicated in a scandal involving dispensing drugs among her players.
After the 2004 season ended, interim Athletic Director Dick Thompson named UW alum Heather Tarr as Washington's new head coach.
Lawrie was named to Canadian National team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, meaning she'd have to miss the 2008 season to prepare.
The two dueled for 15 innings, before the Huskies finally broke through with five runs in the top of the 15th to win 6-1 and send them to the super regionals, where they'd face Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
[8] Washington made quick work of the Yellow Jackets, beating them 7–1 in the first game and 7–0 in the second to punch their ticket to Oklahoma City.
UW missed the WCWS for three straight seasons for the first time in program history from 2014 to 2016, though the Huskies did make the Super Regionals twice in that span.
Led by sophomore ace Taran Alvelo, the Huskies began their rise back to the highest levels of national prominence in 2017.
[13] In 2018, Washington opened up the season with a perfect 28-0 nonconference record, led by the pitching combination of Alvelo and freshman Gabbie Plain.
[14] Tarr repeated the strategy in Washington's next game against Oregon, with Plain going the first six innings and Alvelo slamming the door in the seventh in a 6–2 win over No.
[15] Come the semifinal, though, Tarr gave the ball to Alvelo to start, and the junior struck out six in a complete-game shutout to send UW to the championship series with a 3–0 win.
The Huskies lost their opening matchup to Arizona in extra innings, before winning a pair of loser-out games against Minnesota and Oklahoma State to advance to the semifinals, where they would have to beat UCLA twice.
Plain reentered the game in the bottom of the 10th inning and allowed a walk-off, three-run home run to Garcia to end the Huskies' season with a 3–0 loss.
The 2022 season continued the downward trend for the Huskies, who went 38-17 and failed to make it past regionals, losing twice at home to Texas.
Despite that, the Huskies had a bounce-back year, led on offense by fifth-year seniors Baylee Klingler and Sami Reynolds, finishing the regular season with a 37-11 record after taking two of three from No.
After winning its first two games by a combined score of 13-3, UW lost 1-0 to McNeese[24] on Sunday morning to set up a winner-take-all nightcap - Washington's third in three seasons.
[25] After shutting out Louisiana Lafayette 8-0 and 2-0 in the super regional, Washington returned to the Women's College World Series, where it opened with a 4-1 win over Utah but lost 3-1 to Florida State and 1-0 to Stanford to end the season.
In the offseason, UW's roster underwent substantial turnover, with four seniors from the 2024 team graduation and eight more players entering the transfer portal.
[27] Source[28] During their inaugural season of 1993, the Huskies' home field was across Lake Washington in Bellevue, at Hidden Valley Park (47°37′37″N 122°11′31″W / 47.627°N 122.192°W / 47.627; -122.192).
During the 2010 season, standing-room only tickets were sold before games, behind the main sections and along the walkways to the outfield general admission seating.
Beginning in 2017, UW began allowing fans onto the bleachers behind the end zone at Husky Stadium, overlooking the right-field line for postseason games.