On Thursday, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced that Texas softball\u2019s Pattie Ruth Taylor is the latest recipient of the NFCA\u2019s Assistant Coach of the Year Award.<\/p>\n
Taylor has been with the Longhorns since 2024. That includes the program\u2019s consecutive national championship-winning seasons and Women\u2019s College World Series finals wins over Texas Tech.<\/p>\n
She played an instrumental role in the development and guidance of right-handed pitcher Teagan Kavan, who became the first player to win the WCWS Most Outstanding Player honor two seasons in a row earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaylor coached three Longhorn pitchers to All-SEC honors (Kavan, Citlaly Gutierrez, and Hannah Wells) and shepherded a staff that posted the lowest ERA (1.71) at the 2026 WCWS, the only program with a sub-2.00 ERA. Wells aided in the development of freshman pitcher\/utility Hannah Wells, who earned Freshman All-America recognition from D1Softball. Texas\u2019 pitching staff recorded the second-lowest ERA by an SEC team this year (2.55). Texas registered the second-most strikeouts with 414. During conference-only play, Texas also had the second-lowest ERA at 4.44.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor is the first Texas staff member to win the NFCA Assistant Coach of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced that Texas softball\u2019s Pattie Ruth Taylor is the latest recipient…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,110251,10018,28703,28],"class_list":["post-378267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns-news","tag-texas-longhorns-recruiting","tag-texas-longhorns-softball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378267","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=378267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}