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World University Softball Championship

sports league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ301388 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World University Softball Championship is an under-28 softball tournament for women's national teams held by the International Softball Federation (ISF).

Softball Championships were held in 2004 and 2006; in 2007 it was an optional sport at the Summer Universiade. 2012 was to be the third rendition of the World University Softball Championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but was canceled due to a lack of entries. In 2020, the softball championship will be held together with men's baseball championship.

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“World University Softball Championship” enters the record as sports league. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, University and Softball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2006, 2007, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, University and Softball.
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“World University Softball Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, University and Softball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q301388. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “World University Softball Championship” 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.