There were questions entering the 2025 season about what Pace softball could do.
Fresh off a state championship over Bartow, the Patriots were without some of its household names – such as Jayden Heavener, Shelby McKenzie and Mallory Baker, among others – after graduating a stellar senior class that went to four consecutive Final Fours.
"I think some of them were upset with people saying, ‘We lost our studs the years before,'" Pace head coach Lexi Alexander said. "We still have some of those studs – and we got some more, obviously.