SAN ANTONIO – While the UTSA softball program picked up 24 wins for the most since the 2015 campaign, the Roadrunners reached new attendance heights with 12, 266 total fans passing through the turnstiles for a new program record and a 23.5% increase from 2025.
UTSA had 25 sellouts over 32 home games, averaging 383 fans per game. The Roadrunners’ home slate featured five top-25 opponents, including three Women’s College World Series teams in Texas, Nebraska and Texas Tech. The Roadrunners finished with the eighth-highest capacity percentage in the NCAA at 127.8%, and UTSA had the second-highest total attendance in the American Conference.
The Roadrunners hosted the UTSA Invitational to kickstart the campaign, running one of the nation's premier events in 2026, with then-No. 1 Texas, No. 9 Nebraska and No. 25 Washington all visiting San Antonio. Roadrunner Field capacity increased from 300 fans to more than 1,000 for the tournament, as 6,734 fans attended nine games. The Texas/Nebraska game on Feb. 8, 2026, marked the highest-attended event in stadium history, with 1,023 spectators and 959 fans watched UTSA/Texas on Feb. 8, 2026, for a UTSA single-game record.
Excluding the UTSA Invitational, records still would have been broken, with 9,936 attendees, up from 7,777 a season ago, for an average of 342, improving upon 262 from 2024.
Before the season began, UTSA sold out of both reserved and general admission season tickets for the first time in program history, and it was the third consecutive season that reserved season tickets sold out. In total, season ticket purchases increased 77.6 percent year-over-year from the 2025 season. The school also set new records with 1,236 group and 6,589 single-game tickets.
In three years of the Vann Stuedeman era, total attendance was 24,199, with an average of 306, representing the highest-attended three-year period in program history across both categories.
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