{"id":331753,"date":"2026-06-11T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331753\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:43:18","slug":"samantha-swan-catcher-picks-texas-softball-in-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331753\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Swan: Catcher picks Texas softball in transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three days after the portal officially opened, the Longhorns reeled in a transfer commitment from Arizona State catcher Samantha Swan, who announced her decision on her social media accounts. A Central Texas native who graduated from Georgetown High School, Swan looks like a natural replacement for All-American catcher Reese Atwood<\/a>, who used up her eligibility after helping Texas win its second consecutive national championship last week by beating Texas Tech<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A three-year starter for Arizona State, Swan hit .383 with 12 home runs, 55 RBI and 39 runs while earning All-Big 12 player this past season. She had a .450 on-base percentage and a .700 slugging percentage while setting new career highs in every almost every offensive category.<\/p>\n

Swan, who is ranked as the No. 9 overall player and No. 1 catcher in the transfer portal by Softball America, is the first player this offseason that has pledged to Texas in the portal. She\u00a0has one remaining year of eligibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to Atwood, Texas lost starting outfielders Kaiah Altmeyer<\/a> and Ashton Maloney as well as starting second baseman Leighann Goode to graduation. Backup infielder Shylien Brister<\/a> and backup pitcher Cambria Salmon<\/a> have already entered the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three days after the portal officially opened, the Longhorns reeled in a transfer commitment from Arizona State catcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,46466,27,29,537,28703,28],"class_list":["post-331753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-softball","tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-softball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331753","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=331753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}