Southeastern Conference Softball Tournament

SEC Softball Tournament
Conference Softball Championship

SEC Softball Championship Tournament logo
Sport Softball
Conference Southeastern Conference
Number of teams 13
Format Single-elimination tournament (2006-present)
Double-elimination tournament (1997-2006)
Current stadium Nusez Park
Current location Starkville, Mississippi
Played 1997-present
Last contest 2016 - Nusez Park, Starkville, Mississippi
Current champion Auburn Tigers
Most championships LSU Tigers (5)
Alabama Crimson Tide (5)
Official website SECSports.com Softball

The SEC Softball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in college softball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a single-elimination (since 2006) tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.

Tournament

The SEC Softball tournament is a single-elimination tournament held each year at various SEC-conference campus stadiums. Twelve of the 13 teams in the SEC make the tournament each year (Vanderbilt does not sponsor a softball team).

History

The tournament has been held since 1997, when the SEC began sponsoring softball. In 1997 it was an eight-team, double-elimination tournament with byes for the top two seeds. From 1998 until 2005 it was an eight-team, double-elimination tournament with no byes. In 2006 it became an eight-team, single-elimination tournament. In 2013, with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M into the SEC, the tournament moved to a ten-team, single-elimination tournament with the top 6 teams earning first round byes.

Champions

Year-by-year

Year School Venue
1997 South Carolina Columbus, Georgia
1998 Alabama Columbus, Georgia
1999 LSU Columbus, Georgia
2000 South Carolina Columbus, Georgia
2001 LSU Jim Frost Stadium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2002 LSU Jim Frost Stadium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2003 Alabama Plant City Stadium, Plant City, Florida
2004 LSU University of Alabama Softball Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2005 Alabama Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium, Gainesville, Florida
2006 Tennessee Jack Turner Stadium, Athens, Georgia
2007 LSU Jane B. Moore Field, Auburn, Alabama
2008 Florida Tiger Park, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2009 Florida Sherri Parker Lee Softball Stadium, Knoxville, Tennessee
2010 Alabama Bogle Park, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2011 Tennessee Ole Miss Softball Complex, Oxford, Mississippi
2012 Alabama Rhoads Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2013 Florida John Cropp Stadium, Lexington, Kentucky
2014 Georgia South Carolina Softball Stadium, Columbia, South Carolina
2015 Auburn Tiger Park, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2016 Auburn Nusez Park, Starkville, Mississippi

By school

School Championships Years
Alabama 5 1998, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012
LSU 5 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007
Florida 3 2008, 2009, 2013
Auburn 2 2015, 2016
Tennessee 2 2006, 2011
South Carolina 2 1997, 2000
Georgia 1 2014
Mississippi State 0
Ole Miss 0
Kentucky 0
Arkansas 0
Texas A&M 0
Missouri 0
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