UND Softball 2025

[forksandspoons]

The softball team is off to a good start at 3-2 with both losses coming by one run. They play a ranked Oregon team and Arizona State today. 
 

The new field and facilities must already be making a difference in recruiting. 
 

Here’s a look into their new locker rooms from yesterday: 

 

 

[F'n Hawks]

12 hours ago, forksandspoons said:

The softball team is off to a good start at 3-2 with both losses coming by one run. They play a ranked Oregon team and Arizona State today. 
 

The new field and facilities must already be making a difference in recruiting. 
 

Here’s a look into their new locker rooms from yesterday: 

 

 

Big win today! 

[forksandspoons]

Awesome win today!!

[UND-FB-FAN]

Pretty darn exciting. New facilities already paying off.

Excited to see what the new facilities do for football, cross country, and track & field also …

[forksandspoons]

Improved to 5-3 this afternoon! Game vs GCU tonight appears to be on ESPN+ at 7:30.

[fightingsioux4life]

Maybe softball will get better.

[Teeder11]

UND Softball has as many wins (14) on March 11 than it had all of last season (14-42). The Hawks completed a two-game sweep of Tennessee Tech today in the Volunteer State. 

[fightingsioux4life]

1 hour ago, Teeder11 said:

UND Softball has as many wins (14) on March 11 than it had all of last season (14-42). The Hawks completed a two-game sweep of Tennessee Tech today in the Volunteer State. 

Good news. 🙂

[iramurphy]

Best D1 start and best overall start since 2000. Great going girls!

[petey23]

12 hours ago, Teeder11 said:

UND Softball has as many wins (14) on March 11 than it had all of last season (14-42). The Hawks completed a two-game sweep of Tennessee Tech today in the Volunteer State. 

So Coaching with no contract beyond this year seems to have lit a fire. 

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, petey23 said:

So Coaching with no contract beyond this year seems to have lit a fire. 

Interesting concept 

[Teeder11]

3 hours ago, petey23 said:

So Coaching with no contract beyond this year seems to have lit a fire. 

Combined with better facilities. 

[HockeyHawk]

6 hours ago, Teeder11 said:

Combined with better facilities. 

I’m surprised that Stevens has made it even this far. He has been pretty vocal that the administrative don’t support softball and there are title 9 issues, and that Chaves has nothing to do with the new facility he actually had all the influence. Maybe calling Chaves out is another way to an extension. 

[gfhockey]

Is Albrecht running the show

[jdub27]

1 hour ago, HockeyHawk said:

He has been pretty vocal that the administrative don’t support softball and there are title 9 issues, and that Chaves has nothing to do with the new facility he actually had all the influence. 

I don't think there was any argument that facilities were well below where they should be. Pretty sure financial support was more than adequate though.

However the lead gift for the new facility, while incredibly generous, still left a lot of work to do for the athletic department/alumni association to get done. And to raise the the remainder of funds to get it done in the timeframe necessary to keep the lead gift and actually pulling off the construction goes well beyond the scope of the coach. 

[HockeyHawk]

5 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

I don't think there was any argument that facilities were well below where they should be. Pretty sure financial support was more than adequate though.

However the lead gift for the new facility, while incredibly generous, still left a lot of work to do for the athletic department/alumni association to get done. And to raise the the remainder of funds to get it done in the timeframe necessary to keep the lead gift and actually pulling off the construction goes well beyond the scope of the coach. 

The facility had everything to do with the donor and their pushing it through I know Stevens has said this for his part. The administration giving themselves credit for the work of a donor though is UND athletics through and through taking credit for the work of others.

[gfhockey]

7 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

I don't think there was any argument that facilities were well below where they should be. Pretty sure financial support was more than adequate though.

However the lead gift for the new facility, while incredibly generous, still left a lot of work to do for the athletic department/alumni association to get done. And to raise the the remainder of funds to get it done in the timeframe necessary to keep the lead gift and actually pulling off the construction goes well beyond the scope of the coach. 

How? They took out a 2.5 million loan from the city?

[gfhockey]

Just now, HockeyHawk said:

The facility had everything to do with the donor and their pushing it through I know Stevens has said this for his part. The administration giving themselves credit for the work of a donor though is UND athletics through and through taking credit for the work of others.

Didn’t Albrecht say he walked up to uncle Andy at a softball game at Apollo and wanted to change the game? It was hardly the und dept

[fightingsioux4life]

1 minute ago, gfhockey said:

Didn’t Albrecht say he walked up to uncle Andy at a softball game at Apollo and wanted to change the game? It was hardly the und dept

Doesn't surprise me at all.

[jdub27]

11 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Didn’t Albrecht say he walked up to uncle Andy at a softball game at Apollo and wanted to change the game? It was hardly the und dept

It was an incredible gift and spurred the change to move forward. I also believe there was significant funds that still needed to be raised (well over half, depending on what you include in the cost) and UND had to do a hell of a lot behind the scenes to get the remainder of the money to get it done to meet the donors deadline, including bringing the city in on it. 

It is OK to give credit to multiple people/groups for getting something done. This wasn't a REA deal where everything was covered. 

EDIT: Now seeing conflicting info on what was from the lead donor and what the total cost was. Regardless, generous gift, great job by UND to capitalize on it and get it complete.

[FSSD]

49 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

It was an incredible gift and spurred the change to move forward. I also believe it was less than 15% of the project total and UND had to do a hell of a lot behind the scenes to get the remainder of the money to get it done to meet the donors deadline. 

It is OK to give credit to multiple people/groups for getting something done. This wasn't a REA deal where everything was covered. 

 

I believe that it was a City/School/Donor project.  It looks like it was a great project and I truly hope all parities get to use the facility.

[iramurphy]

Discussions and plans at the location for a softball field at the present site started before the generous Albrecht gift. What that did was fast track the facility. 
The Albrecht family gift this essentially got this done quickly, and  it likely would have taken quite a few more years otherwise. Not sure why anyone is looking to find fault. 
The College of Business Building was in the plans but came to fruition after the generous Nistler family gift. 
That is not atypical for many campus projects at UND and campuses around the country. 

[The Sicatoka]

5 minutes ago, iramurphy said:

That is not atypical for many campus projects at UND and campuses around the country. 

Few donors just show up. 
Most attach to something concepted already.
See: Albrecht, Nistler.

Engelstad is a glaring exception. 

[jdub27]

11 hours ago, gfhockey said:

Didn’t Albrecht say he walked up to uncle Andy at a softball game at Apollo and wanted to change the game? It was hardly the und dept

 

38 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Few donors just show up. 
Most attach to something concepted already.
See: Albrecht, Nistler.

Engelstad is a glaring exception. 

 

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At the field that fall night was UND President Andrew Armacost, who was greeting players and parents when Albrecht approached him.

“The question I had for him was, ‘What are the plans for it?’” Albrecht said. “He said there's a master plan that shows it on campus, but we've got other priorities we need to finish first. I just said, ‘Let’s see if we can change that.’”

Armacost, after his first interaction with Albrecht, connected Albrecht and Mike Mannausau of the UND Foundation. That started the Albrechts’ involvement in the construction of the new softball field — though the original intent wasn’t to be the lead donors on the project.

“We felt like we could help provide some energy and momentum,” Dave Albrecht said. “Not necessarily to be so involved in funding or the design, but just be an impetus for change to get things moving. Lo and behold, it all came together and we were able to be a big part of it funding-wise to make it happen.”

 

[HockeyHawk]

2 hours ago, jdub27 said:

It was an incredible gift and spurred the change to move forward. I also believe there was significant funds that still needed to be raised (well over half, depending on what you include in the cost) and UND had to do a hell of a lot behind the scenes to get the remainder of the money to get it done to meet the donors deadline, including bringing the city in on it. 

It is OK to give credit to multiple people/groups for getting something done. This wasn't a REA deal where everything was covered. 

EDIT: Now seeing conflicting info on what was from the lead donor and what the total cost was. Regardless, generous gift, great job by UND to capitalize on it and get it complete.

Albrecht told UND that if the project wasn’t completed by last fall the funding would be pulled so they had to get it done in a timely manner since he basically paid for the whole thing. UND did not have to do much.