The Boston University Terriers softball team represents

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. The team participates in the

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(PL), having joined in 2014. From 1988 until 2013, the team was a member of the North Atlantic Conference (NAC), later known as the

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(AEC). The Terriers are currently led by head coach Ashley Waters. The team plays its home games at BU Softball Field located on the university's campus.

History

The Terriers have had consistent success since 1988, having won 12 regular season championships and 15 conference tournament championships. In addition to the conference tournament wins, the team has qualified for the

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12 times. In Boston University's first appearance in the NCAA tournament in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, the Terriers advanced as far as the regional finals after defeating

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and UMass before losing to

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by a score of 3–1. The Terriers appearances in the

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and

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

tournaments were not as successful, going winless in both. The

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

tournament saw the team return to winning form, with the program advancing to the regional finals for the second time ever after defeating

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and Auburn. They were eliminated from the tournament by

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. In the

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

, and

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tournaments, Boston University advanced to the second round of the tournament before being eliminated. During their tenure in the

, the Terriers won 10 Player of the Year awards, winning in 1993 and 1995 with Michelle White, 1997 with Beth Iwamoto, 1999 with Laruen Mark, 2002, 2003, and 2005 with Jamie Haas, 2007 with Christy Leath, and 2010 and 2011 with April Setterlund. Coaches Deb Solfaro and Shawn Rychcik won Coach of the Year awards, with Solfaro winning in 2000 and Rychcik in 2007 and 2010–2012. Since joining the Patriot League in 2014, the team has won numerous individual awards. The Terriers have won the PL Player of the Year award five times, doing so in 2017 with Jilee Schanda, 2018 and 2019 with Alex Heinen, 2021 with Caitlin Coker, and 2022 and 2023 with Kayla Roncin. Head coach Ashley Waters has won PL Coach of the Year four times, doing so in 2018 and each year from 2021–2023. In the 2023 season, the Terriers set a

record by winning 28 consecutive games in a row. The team also set a record for most wins in a season in program history, having won 52 games.

Coaching history

Roster

Season by season results

Season cut short due to

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