SAN ANTONIO – When fans watch an ESPN+ broadcast of a UTSA Softball game this season, they’ll be treated to one of the nation’s top softball announcing duos.
The ESPN tandem of Alex Loeb (play-by-play) and Cat Osterman (analyst) will call the Roadrunners’ home games in 2025. It is Osterman’s second season in the UTSA broadcast booth and Loeb’s first. Loeb and Osterman work together on national ESPN linear broadcasts, called dozens of games together for ESPN’s Longhorn Network and have been selected to announce multiple NCAA Regionals for ESPN.
“It gives us respect,” UTSA head softball coach Vann Stuedeman said. “I am very appreciative to have both of them here this year. The investment by our athletics department to bring in top talent like that says we are important to UTSA. It brings a lot of value and it should say to the softball players out there that UTSA is moving in the right direction in softball.”
Osterman is one of the most decorated softball players in the history of the sport. She is a former three-time collegiate National Player of the Year and four-time All-American at the University of Texas. Osterman helped lead the Longhorns to the Women’s College World Series in 2003, 2005 and 2006. She became the only softball player to win USA Softball’s National Player of the Year honors three times. Osterman led the United States Women’s National Team to the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games and the silver medal at the 2008 and 2020 Olympic Games. She served as an assistant coach at Texas State from 2015-20.
Loeb has been a play-by-play announcer and host for ESPN since August 2015. He served as a play-by-play announcer for many of the Longhorn Network’s 175 live events per year. He’s also called numerous sports for ESPN linear networks, including men’s and women’s college basketball, volleyball and softball. In 2023, Loeb was one of six nominees nationally in the Golden Mic Awards’ Best Softball Play-by-Play category. He has also previously served as an anchor at WPLG in Miami and was the Sports Director at KSAN in San Angelo, Texas.
You can catch Loeb and Osterman next on the air this Thursday when UTSA Softball plays host to Akron at 5 p.m. on ESPN+.