{"id":320398,"date":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320398\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","slug":"texas-softball-player-eats-ladybugs-for-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320398\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas softball player eats ladybugs for good luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longhorns freshman Hannah Wells has an unusual superstition that she still continues as the team advances to the Women&#8217;s College World Series Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>This softball player actually eats ladybugs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Yep, we&#8217;re talking about Hannah Wells, a freshman softball player from Texas Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since she was a kid, she&#8217;s had one unusual superstition.<\/p>\n<p>If she finds a ladybug, she swallows it whole for good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no chewing, just straight down.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it works.<\/p>\n<p>During the SEC tournament, she ate a ladybug and then crushed a home run.<\/p>\n<p>As Texas chases another national title, a few more lucky ladybugs might be on the scouting report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longhorns freshman Hannah Wells has an unusual superstition that she still continues as the team advances to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111193,114837,114836,114835,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-320398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-hannah-wells","tag-ladybug","tag-ladybugs","tag-softball-player","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320398","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=320398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}