{"id":322810,"date":"2026-06-28T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322810\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:13:12","slug":"florida-softball-lands-all-american-tori-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322810\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Softball lands All-American Tori Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Former LSU infielder and utility player Tori Edwards has announced her commitment to join the Florida Gators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Edwards has been considered one of the top available names in the transfer portal since the two-week window officially opened on June 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As a redshirt freshman, Edwards put together one of the best rookie campaigns in LSU history, appearing and starting in all 58 games at first base. She set a single-season program record with an .802 slugging percentage. Her numbers dipping a little bit as a redshirt-sophomore in 2026, but still maintaining an above .400 on base percentage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/06\/15\/florida-softball-snags-duke-transfer-catcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/06\/15\/florida-softball-snags-duke-transfer-catcher\/\">Florida softball snags Duke transfer catcher<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Edwards was also an NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 10 Finalist and USA Softball Player of the Year Top 25 Finalist that season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch TV20 Sports daily for everything sports with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/authors\/JakeRongholt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/authors\/JakeRongholt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Rongholt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/authors\/OliviaEisenhauer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/authors\/OliviaEisenhauer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Eisenhauer<\/a> and Julianna Reichenbach in the 6 o\u2019clock and 11 o\u2019clock nightly newscasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Former LSU infielder and utility player Tori Edwards has announced her commitment to join&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-322810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}