Here It Is: Our Extra Inning Softball Signing/Verbal List (2018-2024 Recruits)

Here’s our first posting of the Extra Inning Softball Signing/Verbal List (2018-2024 recruits)… starting tomorrow (Wednesday), it will be a searchable database!

When it comes to covering recruiting, the most basic feature is a list of who’s going where—something our own President & Executive Editor, Brentt Eads—started seven years ago and followed since the Class of 2014 when he first started doing player and team rankings (Jenna Lilley of Oregon was his first #1 ranked player, in case you’re interested!).

Eads started compiling verbals first in football in 2005 when working at Student Sports Inc, a high school-oriented company based in Torrance, California, that became notable for producing events like the Nike Football Training Camps and the Elite 11 QB Camps televised annually on ESPN.

“I was in charge of databases then,” he remembers “and it was more for tracking players at events. I soon learned that with database player fields and records it was easy to add what colleges they were committed to along with their basic info of team, grad year, position, etc.

“When I got into softball in 2006, it was easy to replicate it. I started with the Class of 2014 when they were younger and now the list we have is over 9,000 players.”

Today, Extra Inning Softball presents the list of active high school players who have signed or committed in the senior class (2018) and younger—almost 3,000 total pre-college players—as a free list sorted by “Club Team” first.

This “static list” will be posted free for a limited time and starting tomorrow, the list will be in a database format meaning subscribers can search by multiple categories—for example, 2019 grads to Florida State (note: there are currently eight of them!).

This is a growing, ever-evolving list and we would love to enlist your support to add players who may be missing or have need info changed (name spellings, team changes, decommits to remove off the list and, certainly, players not listed in our records, etc).

Here’s how to make sure players are included and the info is updated…

Forwarding Info to Us:

Extra Inning Softball is looking for current club players (Class of 2018) and younger so please send us any verbal info you have for the classes of 2018, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’22, etc to any college level: DI, DII, DIII, NAIA and Junior College.

• PLAYERS: go to our Contact Us page and fill out the info in “I Committed!” (2^nd tab down)
• COACHES: email [email protected] data to match the format below.

The list will updated weekly and we’ll highlight and do features on new commitments regularly.

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Extra Elite Signing/Verbal List (2018-2024 Recruits)

(Sorted alphabetically by “Club Team,” then “Year,” “Last Name” and “First Name”)