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Indiana Hoosiers softball

College softball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ65089802 ↗
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The Indiana Hoosiers softball team represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I college softball. The team participates in the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers are currently led by head coach Shonda Stanton. The team plays its home games at Andy Mohr Field located on the university's campus.

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The public source identifies “Indiana Hoosiers softball” as college softball team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Indiana, Hoosiers and softball.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 48-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Indiana, Hoosiers and softball providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Indiana Hoosiers softball” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.