SAN MARCOS, Texas — It didn't take Ricci Woodard long to realize Jessica Spring was special.
Spring, after graduating from Edna High School, walked onto the then-Southwest Texas softball program in 2000; the year before Woodard took the reins of the Bobcat program.
One season. One adventure through the softball season. That's all the time Woodard needed. She rewarded Spring with a scholarship before her junior season.
"I remember the day Coach Woodard put me on scholarship, I was crying," Spring told the San Marcos Daily Record's Jason Gordon in 2003.