2026 WOMEN'S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

May 31, 2026

Rhonda Revelle

Jordy Frahm

Nebraska Cornhuskers

Postgame Press Conference

Texas 3, Nebraska 1

THE MODERATOR: We are joined by Nebraska. We will start with an opening statement from Coach.

RHONDA REVELLE: Yeah, I'll make an opening statement about the game, because everything else is not going to be about the game.

I thought it was a hard-fought game. I thought it was really two very good pitchers going at each other and two really good teams. That was Nebraska softball today, more indicative of what we have played like all season. I've talked about how consistent we've been all season. You saw that consistency, that fight, that grit.

There were six teams left standing at the start of this day. Everybody's really good. I couldn't be more proud of our fight today. Tip of the hat to Texas. I'm so proud of this team.

THE MODERATOR: We'll start with questions.

Q. Jordy, it didn't end the way you wanted, but tell us about just the journey that brought you here and the three years which you lead Nebraska back to the college World Series for the first time in 13 years.

JORDY FRAHM: I would just say the whole journey has been, I mean, not what I expected obviously. Starting out at 0U, then transferring back home to Nebraska, getting hurt, all of that.

But one thing that we talked about in the locker room, somebody said, Jordy, thank you for coming home and changing this program.

I said, I didn't come home and change this program. No one person can do that. It was the girls that were already here that bought into what this program can do, all of the transfers coming in with the goal of knowing what this program could do. It was everybody the last three years putting in their work to make this team what it was this year.

So, yeah, God's fingerprints were all over this team, all over my story, all over my career. I do truly believe that the way today ended is a part of that story, as well. The fruits that will come from it later on are things that will be revealed down the road.

It really hurts right now. Just so thankful for the journey and to finish it with this team.

Q. Rhonda, what has it been like having a team that genuinely loves one another?

RHONDA REVELLE: Well, that's why it took us so long to come out of the locker room, because there were a lot of people expressing that genuinely. This is my 40th year in coaching. This is my 40th day of this. It was really special. It is really special.

But I will tell you one of the things that Kacie Hoffmann said in that room just now is she said, The joy that came back in my life - and she wasn't even talking about softball - through this team.

And we made a pact, read a book this year called "The Carpenter." There are three tenets to "The Carpenter." It's about love, serving and caring for one another. We didn't talk about softball in that.

When that became our mission, softball and the way we played the game was a by-product of what we were trying to be and do as human beings with each other, for each other. Everybody that traveled in our path.

This team did a remarkable job of that because of, number one, who they foundationally are at their core, but number two, how they nurtured all of those things.

It's an incredible story. I wish we had a documentary about how to love and serve and care for one another because it's beautiful. If that's all we have, if that's all we had, we weren't even worried about games, we just won the national championship.

Q. Jordy, what do you hope this team will be remembered for?

JORDY FRAHM: I hope this team's remembered for all the things that Coach just talked about. I hope that we're remembered for the way that people who watched our game saw that genuine love for one another, but the joy we played with, the tenacity we played with. Those are the biggest things, more the character of this team more than anything.

Q. Jordy, had a no-hitter going to the sixth. Take us through the sixth inning from your perspective.

JORDY FRAHM: Yeah, I mean, we were coming through the lineup for the third time there. Good hitters make adjustments. As a pitcher, you put in a ton of work to execute the perfect pitch every single time that. Just doesn't happen, unfortunately.

They definitely got some momentum, put some good swings on tough pitches. Ultimately one of their most clutch hitters blew it open.

Q. Talk about Jordy's bounceback from a rough day yesterday in less than 24 hours and putting in the performance she did today.

RHONDA REVELLE: Well, I said yesterday in our press conference that Jordy cares so deeply, I was just hoping that she would sleep last night.

She and I spoke before she went to sleep, I don't know how well she slept, I didn't ask this morning, but here's the thing. She's an ultimately competitor. She's an ultimate teammate. She is so proud to wear this jersey. You put those three things together and you're going to get a performance like that.

Q. Rhonda, when people get a chance to look back at Jordy's career in the future, what was her impact on college softball?

RHONDA REVELLE: I think honestly it's too early to say that. Jordy is the most humble person I know. She's correct in what she said about it's taken everyone. However, just her person, it's big. It's big not because she's trying to make it big. It's big because everything she does, she's trying to do it to the very best of her ability. She just so happens to be very talented, too.

She's physically talented. She's athletically gifted. What maybe people don't understand is her emotional intelligence is off the charts. Her ability to feel and read her teammates and know what they need something, that's the stuff that hasn't been talked about enough.

That's what makes her such an impactful leader. She leads all. The people that are the highest performers to the people that serve in a reserve role. She leads them all and does it really well.

Q. Jordy, I know you don't like to talk about yourself and impact, but did you ever feel the weight of the softball world on your shoulders being the face of the sport?

JORDY FRAHM: No. I mean, I absolutely never thought about it like that. I mean, really the biggest thing for me was just whenever there's an opportunity to interact with the little girls, trying to, having been that little girl. I feel as far as the softball world goes, having an impact, they were always my primary focus.

The cool thing about that is just because I'm done playing now, that doesn't have to be over, that doesn't have to end. Growing the game will now just look different. It will still be the same love for wanting to grow the sport, especially in the state of Nebraska, but all over the country.

Just the way I go about that will look a little different now.

Q. Rhonda, given everything Jordy has meant to the program, how you spoke about her the last night, giving her the go in the circle, as the innings went on, did you feel you were going to run with her win or lose and let this finish it out?

RHONDA REVELLE: You mean this particular game?

Q. Yes.

RHONDA REVELLE: Like we said, she had a perfect game going in the fifth. A no-hitter going in the sixth. I didn't see any reason to make a change, yeah.

But I felt like it was going to take all of our pitching staff, and we've got a good one, to advance farther.

Q. Rhonda, what has this group of 12 seniors meant to this program and to you? How do you hope to replenish after losing quite a bit for next year?

RHONDA REVELLE: Yeah, let me begin with that second question.

It's so interesting to me because one year we graduated 76% of our extra base hits, the next year we actually broke an offensive record. I'm not saying we're going to do that next year.

One thing, if you were in that room, the returners were talking about is they feel a lot of responsibility. They're encouraged by what this senior class did, where this senior class has positioned this program. They take a lot of pride in it not doing this. I love that. I love that they spoke out and spoke up like that.

We've got a freshmen group that we are super excited about. I think they're very athletic. I think they're spicy. I think they're fun. We've got several, a handful, of our seniors that are going to be around to help infiltrate, just keep loving and serving and caring for Nebraska softball.

The future is still bright. I've heard a lot of people think, Fire Revelle after this because they'll never win again, all the things (smiling). It's like, Okay, people.

True story. The season's over. I can say a little more (laughter).

The senior class, you made me cry the week of senior week. I didn't know you were going to ask me that question that day. What came out, felt like I had divine inspiration just flowed out of me. I can't tell you enough about what this senior class has meant for this program.

I do want to say this. This might put some context to it:

Many of these seniors that came back and returned to Nebraska weren't originally on the roster because we went through a really tough time. So there's a variety of reasons they weren't originally on the roster.

But I actually said to the three that went to Arkansas the night before we played Arkansas, I said, You understand - and Courtney and I had this conversation - had that 2019 incident never happened, you would have been always a Husker and you're always a Husker.

I think that, the fact that they returned once they knew things were in a different place, it's like their love never wavered, it never left, and they came back and they were so committed. The commitment, the commitment of native Nebraskans and others, to know what they've known about this program for so many years. They're like, We're going to restore it.

They've left it in a beautiful place for us to build on. I couldn't be more grateful.

Q. Jordy, with Coach talking about the future, what's your confidence level that the girls that are returning can build on this?

JORDY FRAHM: So confident. It was confident before the talk we just had in the locker room. But having girls stand up with such passion for the things that they were saying about this program, I truly believe that this is a steppingstone. This is just a steppingstone for the higher places this program's going to continue to go.

I think we have great leaders. One thing that we also talked about in there was, like Coach said, the place our culture is at now, not letting that waver.

We are losing a lot of girls and we are going to have a lot of new people coming in next year, whether it's freshmen transfers, whatever. The culture that we have right now is set in a great place to continue growing and to continue building. My confidence is through the roof with our returners.

Q. How do you feel your team handled better pitching in the post-season?

RHONDA REVELLE: Their ERAs are what they are for a reason. You get into post-season, all teams' runs are going to run down. We faced an All-American the other night. We faced an All-American...

You face All-Americans, they're All-Americans for a reason. It's usually because people don't score a bunch of runs off of them. We expect that.

I mean, you could go back to even the Big Ten tournament, I think Jordy was saying, We're going to be in these close games, they're going to get a lot closer now. That speaks to the point that runs are going to reduce.

The fact that that was a 1-0 ballgame with two teams that have had almost a hundred home runs, it says a lot.

THE MODERATOR: Thank you.