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===Softball=== {{main|Nebraska Cornhuskers softball}} Nebraska's softball program was sanctioned as a varsity sport in 1977 and reached the inaugural [[Women's College World Series]] five years later. Though the team was often surrounded by controversy, NU was highly successful through the 1980s, advancing to the WCWS four more times and finishing national runner-up in 1985 under head coach Wayne Daigle.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn96080312/1983-09-09/ed-1/seq-13.pdf|title=New women's softball coach revives team's hopes and spirits|author=Jack Denker|publisher=[[The Daily Nebraskan]]|date=9 September 1983|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-05-21-sp-6307-story.html|title=University of Nebraska softball team disqualified from NCAA playoffs|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=21 May 1986|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref> [[Rhonda Revelle]] was hired in 1993 and turned Nebraska into a postseason regular and fixture in the national top twenty-five. In 1998, Nebraska completed the first undefeated season in Big 12 history and returned to the Women's College World Series β Revelle became the third person to reach the WCWS as a player and a head coach, and the first to do it at the same school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/softball_wcws_stats/1982/neb.htm|title=Nebraska WCWS Stats|website=[[NCAA]]|access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref> NU reached a third WCWS under Revelle in 2013, the same year she won her 768th game to pass former baseball coach John Sanders for the most victories by any coach at the university. Nebraska has played at [[Bowlin Stadium]], part of the [[Haymarket Park]] complex, since 2002. *Conference championships (10): 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2014 *Conference tournament championships (9): 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2000, 2004 *[[Women's College World Series]] appearances (8): 1982, 1984, ''1985'',{{efn|Nebraska's 1985 [[Women's College World Series]] runner-up finish was vacated by the NCAA in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/21/sports/sports-people-nebraska-penalized.html|title=Sports People; Nebraska Penalized|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 October 1986|access-date=30 March 2022}}</ref>}} 1987, 1988, 1998, 2002, 2013
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