If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. Add Karlyn Pickens and her mother, Rebecca Pickens, to that list. When the family took a vacation in July, a traveling softball team saw Tennessee’s ace ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Tennessee softball plays Texas for a spot in the Women's College World Series, and junior ace Karlyn Pickens pitched a complete game in the Lady Vols' win over UCLA in extra ...

Any discussion of returning talent begins with pitcher Karlyn Pickens. The Lady Vols rode her fastball – clocked at an NCAA record of 79.4 miles per hour – into the WCWS.

How it felt to watch Karlyn Pickens break her own record Rebecca's phone started buzzing five minutes after Pickens threw a 79.4 mph pitch, breaking her own record during the NCAA super regionals.

Stars: Karlyn Pickens was the SEC Pitcher of the Year and set and broke the NCAA records for fastest pitch – 78.2 miles per hour against Arkansas in March and 79.4 miles per hour in the Super ...

Tennessee spread out most innings between three starters during Pickens' freshman season with Ashley Rogers and Payton Gottshall in 2023. Rogers led the team with 21 starts and 144 innings ...

Pickens boasts a 33.1% whiff rate, while Nuwer comes in just behind at 30.1%, putting both players among the nation's most dominant strikeout artists.

Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens (23) celebrates after an inning in a Women's College World Series softball game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Tennessee Volunteers at Devon Park in Oklahoma ...