MIAMI (January 15. 2017) -- With the start of the spring semester on Monday, January 9, FIU softball wrapped up its first week of spring practice in anticipation of the 2017 campaign this weekend.
Three transfers and five freshman join 14 returning players from last season's 29-27 campaign, when the Panthers led Conference USA in batting, with a .325 average. FIU was the only team to strike out fewer than 200 times in the season, while recording the most amount of hits (479) and third-highest runs total (274) in the league. FIU was also third in the league in earned run average (3.