{"id":123510,"date":"2026-01-14T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123510\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:48:11","slug":"round-rock-lands-new-womens-pro-softball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123510\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Rock lands new women’s pro softball team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRound Rock\u2019s Dell Diamond will serve as the home to the Texas Volts, a new professional softball team part of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League<\/a>, according to a news release.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/p>\n

The Volts will join the six-team league that also includes the Carolina Blaze, Chicago Bandits, Oklahoma City Spark, Portland Cascade and Utah Talons, with play beginning June 9.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes as the AUSL wrapped up its inaugural season and completed a multiyear renewal of its media rights agreement<\/a> with ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is synonymous with softball excellence at every level, and the thousands of fans that came out to enjoy the AUSL last summer proved to us that this was a market that could support a full-time franchise,\u201d said Kim Ng, commissioner of the AUSL, in a news release. \u201cWith a world-class venue at Dell Diamond and a fast-growing sports community, this market gives the Volts the platform to thrive and connect with fans who already live and breathe the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diving deeper<\/p>\n

Cat Osterman, a four-time All American at The University of Texas will serve as the team\u2019s general manager. The team will be coached by Ricci Woodard<\/a>, who is also entering her 26th season as head coach for the Texas State University softball team.<\/p>\n

The roster will include UT standout Mia Scott<\/a>, former Oklahoma All-American Tiare Jennings, and national team veterans Rachel Garcia and Dejah Mulipola.<\/p>\n

The Texas Volts will play their first home game at Dell Diamond on June 18. To see the full schedule, visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round Rock\u2019s Dell Diamond will serve as the home to the Texas Volts, a new professional softball team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,53533,7000,53539,6240,53534,53532,53536,53538,53535,53537],"class_list":["post-123510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dell-diamond","tag-espn","tag-oklahoma-university-softball","tag-round-rock","tag-round-rock-professional-sports-team","tag-round-rock-softball","tag-texas-softball","tag-texas-state-softball","tag-texas-volts","tag-the-university-of-texas-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}