05-14-2026, 08:48 AM
Two separate articles from the Athletic
This article is about a young women who is one of the top pitchers in the country and who is battling Lupus. She attends Belmont College and they are playing in the tournament. What makes college sports special. This women wants to be a Nurse Practitioner.
"Johnson started a series of visits to some of the top softball programs in the country with one parent or another (they are divorced), and everyone was blown away by the resources on display. Some schools were eliminated because they did not have the kind of program Johnson needed to play and fulfill her goal of being a family nurse practitioner. Some had what she needed."
“And while all this is going on with these awesome opportunities, I’m sitting there missing Belmont,” Johnson said."
"Then came an Instagram notification that the Belmont doctoral nursing program would be offering hybrid learning. Johnson reached out to Blume and asked her to reach out to Matthews to see whether she would even consider taking Johnson back. Blume said to Johnson what Matthews would say to Blume: “You aren’t just getting my hopes up here, are you?”
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7277075...ournament/
The second article is a breakdown of each of the regionals in the tournament. They have Stanford winning at Ok. State, but losing to nebra$ka in the regional.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7275830...edictions/
This article is about a young women who is one of the top pitchers in the country and who is battling Lupus. She attends Belmont College and they are playing in the tournament. What makes college sports special. This women wants to be a Nurse Practitioner.
"Johnson started a series of visits to some of the top softball programs in the country with one parent or another (they are divorced), and everyone was blown away by the resources on display. Some schools were eliminated because they did not have the kind of program Johnson needed to play and fulfill her goal of being a family nurse practitioner. Some had what she needed."
“And while all this is going on with these awesome opportunities, I’m sitting there missing Belmont,” Johnson said."
"Then came an Instagram notification that the Belmont doctoral nursing program would be offering hybrid learning. Johnson reached out to Blume and asked her to reach out to Matthews to see whether she would even consider taking Johnson back. Blume said to Johnson what Matthews would say to Blume: “You aren’t just getting my hopes up here, are you?”
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7277075...ournament/
The second article is a breakdown of each of the regionals in the tournament. They have Stanford winning at Ok. State, but losing to nebra$ka in the regional.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7275830...edictions/