Football
CBS Sports ranked all 68 coaches of the Power 4 conferences, dropping Florida State head coach Mike Norvell to No. 42 — a 17-spot drop from last season:
I predict Florida State fans will see this ranking and be angry for two reasons. The first will be that they think we’ve ranked Norvell too high, and the other will be that he’s still eligible to be ranked at all. It’s been a tough couple of seasons since The Great Screw Job of 2023, as the Noles are only 7-17 and 3-13 in ACC play in that span. Norvell enters
2026 in one of the hottest seats in the country, and it’s hard to find anybody who’s optimistic that Norvell will be able to put out the fire.
ESPN, meanwhile, ranked all 138 FBS starting quarterbacks, putting Ashton Daniels at on tier 14 of 25:
Betting on Daniels saving Mike Norvell at FSU or Lagway reviving Dave Aranda’s tenure at Baylor? Maybe reconsider. But squint hard enough, and it’s possible to see the rough contours of how a magical season — a revival of the promise that once surrounded these QBs — could happen in 2026.
Softball
Isa Torres and Ashtyn Danley have been named D1Softball All-Americans — Torres on the first team, Danley on the second:
Torres put together one of the greatest seasons in NCAA history this season. The junior shortstop hit .530 which was a new FSU record and will be top 15 mark in NCAA history. Torres broke the school record for slugging percentage (.978) and on-base percentage (.591) and recorded the second-most hits in school history with 98. The Georgetown, Texas, native also slammed 16 home runs and drove in 56 RBI. Torres broke the NCAA record with 16-consecutive hits and reached base in 23-consecutive plate appearances which was the third-longest streak in NCAA history. Defensively, Torres was nails at shortstop as she did not record an error in her first 164 chances this season. Torres ended the year with just two errors in 184 chances.
Danley continued her success in the circle but added a breakout season offensively to her resume. In the circle, Danley finished the season with a 13-1 record and a 2.09 ERA in 100.1 innings. Danley added five saves in the circle and had 89 strikeouts compared to just 46 walks. Offensively, Danley had a career season as the junior hit .353 with 12 home runs and 57 RBI, both career highs.
In addition, Torres Jazzy Francik, Kennedy Harp and Shelby McKenzie were named to the CSC Academic All-District Team:
Francik led the way with a 3.92 GPA as a sport management major. Francik led the way for the Noles in the circle as the sophomore posted a 1.86 ERA in a team-high 154 innings. Francik was named the ACC Pitcher of the Year and posted a 24-3 record this season to become the first Seminole to have 20+ wins since Kathryn Sandercock in 2023.
Harp played in 49 games this season and posted a .289 batting average with six home runs and 31 RBI. In the classroom, Harp posted a 3.85 GPA as she works towards a degree in media communication studies.
McKenzie had a 3.73 GPA as an interdisciplinary social science major. McKenzie made 46 starts this season and hit seven home runs with 27 RBI.
Torres put together her record-breaking season along with a solid year in the classroom. The ACC Player of the Year and ACC Defensive Player of the Year had a 3.61 GPA as media communication studies major.
Mimi Gooden has entered the transfer portal, she announced today on X.
Baseball
All Sports
31 track and field athletes have qualified for the NCAA East First Round, and the team will play in this tournament starting today:
Last year, Florida State crowned two regional champions and sent 21 athletes to the NCAA Outdoor National Championship at Hayward Field, marking the most since the 2022 season.
To qualify for the first round of the NCAA Championships, student-athletes must have finished the season ranked within the top 48 of their individual events or as a member of a top 24 relay team on their respective regional qualifying list (East or West), which was released by the NCAA on Thursday. The top 12 athletes in the men’s decathlon and women’s heptathlon in the East and West automatically receive entry to the national meet.
From there, the top 12 finishers in each event at each regional meet advance to the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships, which this year returns to the University of Oregon at Hayward Field on June 10-13.
The FSU women’s team will be highlighted by senior two-seed Shenese Walker, who was named the Women’s MVP for the second straight year after scoring 28 individual points behind two wins and one silver medal finish at the ACC Outdoor Championships on May 16. Walker competed in the women’s 100 placing first with a time of 11.07, before helping the women’s 4×100-meter to a second-place finish and fourth-fastest time in FSU history at 42.96. The Saint Thomas native concluded her night in the women’s 200 with a winning personal-best and sixth-fastest time in program history of 22.65.
Rylee Blade will have her eyes set on qualifying for her first NCAA Outdoor National Championship in the women’s 10,000. The true freshman captured gold on opening day of the ACC Outdoor Championships, setting a new meet record and second-fastest time in program history at 32:35.72. Blade became the second person in program history to secure gold in the event and the first freshman in FSU history to be crowned the 10k champion.
Shamar Reid enters the meet as the top seed in the men’s discus and has been a key competitor in the field on the men’s side. Reid is coming off a historic performance in the event after being crowned the ACC Champion and breaking a 47-year-old school record that was set by Bradley Cooper in 1979 with a new personal best of 65.87 meters. Reid became the first champion in the event since 2023 and the fifth-overall in program history.
Despiro Wray notched gold in the men’s shotput with a new personal best and the sixth-furthest throw in program history at 18.58 meters. Wray became the first shotput champion since 2018 and was just the second freshman in program history to win the event. Reid followed up with a fifth-place finish at 18.12 meters.
Neo Mosebi is returning to Lexington for the second time in his career, seeded fifth in the men’s 100. Mosebi was victorious in the event at the ACC Outdoor Championship for the second straight year, marking the fifth consecutive year Florida State has won gold in the event for both the men and women. Mosebi tied the sixth-fastest time in FSU history with a time of 9.98, which ranks him the 11th fastest South African to record a wind legal sub-10 time. The junior also placed second in the men’s 4×100, before ending his night in the 200 in third with a time of 20.80.
Florida State women’s golf sophomore Sophia Fullbrook advanced to the final round of stroke play at the NCAA Championship on Monday:
After the Seminoles finished tied for 23rd place on Sunday, Fullbrook was one of the nine individuals to qualify for the final round on Monday.
Starting from the 10th tee in the afternoon and tied for 15th place, Fullbrook finished the front nine 1-under, moving up into the top 10 after a big birdie on the 17th.
The course conditions played a factor on the back nine, as she finished the round 4-over, 76 to turn in a tournament score of even par, 288.
Florida State has had at least one player finish in the top 20 in each of the last eight NCAA Championships.
Fullbrook was named to the Curtis Cup team for the R&A, which will take place June 12-14 at the Bel-Air Country Club.
