Ivy League - Softball

Ivy League Softball is the NCAA Division I conference competition administered by the Ivy League for Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. The official conference website provides schedules, standings, tournament coverage, statistics and All-Ivy honours. The 2026 regular season ended with Princeton winning a fifth consecutive league title at 30-13 overall and 18-3 in conference play, securing the top seed for the four-team Ivy League Tournament. Princeton then won the tournament at Cynthia Lynn Paul ’94 Field, defeating Columbia 8-0 in five innings in the final to earn the league's NCAA Tournament berth. Cassidy Shaw pitched a five-inning shutout in the championship game and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Cornell's Lauren Holt and Penn's Jade Montgomery were 2026 Co-Players of the Year. Holt led the league in batting average, slugging, on-base percentage, hits, runs and RBI, and set the Ivy League single-season record with 19 home runs. Columbia's Mads Lawson was both Pitcher and Rookie of the Year after a 13-7 season with a league-leading 2.39 ERA, while Princeton's coaching staff, led by Lisa Van Ackeren, received Coaching Staff of the Year recognition.