Oregon State Beavers, Oregon State University

Conference: PAC 10
Location: Corvallis, OR
Head Coach: Kirk Walker
Home Stadium: OSU Softball Complex
Nickname: Beavers
Colors: Orange and Black

The Oregon State Beavers softball team represents Oregon State University in college softball. The team is currently coached by head coach Kirk Walker and play their home games at the OSU Softball Complex. The Beavers softball team ended their 2009 regular season campaign 25-30.

Kirk Walker entered 2009 in his 16th year as head coach of the Oregon State softball program, a program that has made a monumental turnaround under his direction. Walker reigns as Oregon State’s all-time winningest softball coach with a 515-408-3 career record. He earned his 500th career coaching victory on March 1, 2009,.
The Beavers have routinely beaten nationally-ranked teams and have shown improvement every season since Walker’s arrival. His teams have finished with 25-plus wins in the last 12 seasons and have won 40-plus games eight times. Despite leading another young squad in 2009, Walker led the Beavers to their 12th 25-plus win season, upsetting a handful of ranked teams along the way, including the defending national champion, Arizona State in the closing weekend.

Turning Oregon State into a perennial national contender, the Beavers best season was in 2006 when they made their first ever appearance in the NCAA Women’s College World Series. It was one of the best teams in Oregon State history, Walker’s 2006 squad reeled off a school record 28-game winning streak (the longest for any team in the nation on the season), catapulted to a program-best #5 national ranking, and won both the NCAA Regional and Super Regional to earn a WCWS berth. Oregon State faced a pair of Pacific-10 Conference opponents (eventual national champion Arizona and Arizona State) in the World Series before finishing the year with a 43-16 record.