Fresno State Bulldogs softball , Fresno State University

Conference: WAC
Location: Fresno, CA
Head Coach: Margie Wright
Home Stadium: Bulldog Diamond Stadium
Nickname: Bulldogs
Colors: Cardinal and Blue

The perennial national power Bulldog women’s softball team has had a lengthy tradition of winning since the inception of the sport. The softball team owns the distinction of winning the school’s first team NCAA National Championship in 1998. Fresno State defeated then-top ranked Arizona 1-0 in the 1998 NCAA championship game in Oklahoma City thanks to the strong arm of All-American pitcher Amanda Scott and the bat of All-American Nina Lindenberg, who scored the game’s only run on a solo home run. The Bulldogs finished the season with a 52-11 record and ranked No. 1 in the nation. Arizona entered the 1998 national championship game against Fresno State with a 67-3 overall record.

Through the 2009 season, Fresno State continues to be the nation’s only softball team to have earned bids to all 28 NCAA Division I championship tournaments. In addition to Fresno State’s 1998 NCAA championship, the Bulldogs have reached the NCAA championship game four other times (1984, 1988, 1989, 1990), and the College World Series 12 times. The Bulldogs are coached by Margie Wright, the nation’s winningest Division I coach in the sport. Wright, who has led Fresno State to 10 Western Athletic Conference championships in the last 12 years and 18 league crowns overall, enters her 25th season as head coach of the Lady Bulldogs in 2010. She entered the 2009 season having won 1,307 games in her career.