KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NAIA released the seeding and opponents on Wednesday afternoon for the 2025 NAIA Softball National Championship Opening Round. The Wildcats are making their tenth-tournament appearance under Coach
Steve Babinski and will be hosting four other teams here in Marion, Indiana.
Madonna (Mich.) is the 1-seed in the five team bracket, earning an automatic bid as the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference regular season and tournament champions.
IWU is hosting as the 2-seed, claiming an automatic bid as the Crossroads League Tournament Runner-Up. They come in to the opening round with a 43-9 record.
The 3-seed will be Rio Grande (Ohio). They earned their bid as the River States Conference tournament champions. They make their ninth appearance in the tournament after a 44-9 record this year.
The Coastal Georgia Mariners earned the 4-seed as an At-Large bid from the Sun Conference after finishing the season 35-17. They head into the Opening Round making their 5th appearance in the tournament.
The 5-seed in the Marion Bracket is also coming from Georgia, the Eagles of Reinhardt. They earned their bid as AAC regular season champions with a 28-10 record. They are making their ninth tournament appearance with their last appearance coming last season.
Ten sites and 48 teams have been announced as the 2025 NAIA Softball National Championship Opening Round gets underway May 12, ending May 15. Eight brackets with five teams and two more with four make up the 44th edition of the championship, with trips to the NAIA World Series in Columbus, Georgia on the line. The Columbus-bound teams will compete starting on May 22 and will finish with the final winner being crowned on May 28.
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