HILO, Hawai'i – Hawai'i Hilo Vulcans Softball will have a 49-game slate for the upcoming 2025 season, including 18 home contests at the on-campus Vulcan Softball Field.
The addition of three new members to the PacWest Conference (Jessup, Menlo and Vanguard) at the beginning of the 2024-25 school year has dawned an altered conference lineup with all PacWest series now three games instead of four for the three Hawai'i schools. Hawai'i Hilo, Chaminade and HPU will play one another six teams during conference play.
After opening the season with the annual Alumni Game on Jan. 25 (of which fourth-year head coach Aisha Sueda '13 is a regular participant), the Vulcans will take a trip up to Irvine, California for the Concordia Kickoff Classic (Jan. 31 - Feb. 2).
The first home game is set for Feb. 26-27 against HPU, but Hawai'i Hilo will have 11 contests on O'ahu through most of the month of February taking part of the Ulili Softball Invitational (Feb. 6-7) with other non-conference matchups set against Cal Poly Humboldt (Feb. 8) and Western Washington (Feb. 15). Eight of the Vulcans' non-conference foes enter the season having a wealth of postseason experience in 2024, highlighted by Western Washington's NCAA National Championship Runner-Up finish along with deep runs by Cal State Dominguez Hills, Lewis University (Illinois) and Cal State San Marcos. Newcomer Jessup is also coming off a NAIA World Series Runner-Up finish.
The Vulcans will host three-game PacWest Conference series against HPU, defending PacWest Champion Concordia (March 1-2), Azusa Pacific (March 7-8), Vanguard (April 4-5), Biola (April 11-12) and Chaminade (April 18-19). Hawai'i Hilo will travel to Northern California to take on Academy of Art (March 14-15), Jessup (March 17-18), Dominican (March 21-22) and Menlo (March 24-25) before closing out the regular season on O'ahu against HPU (April 25-26).
The four-team PacWest Championships postseason tournament is set for April 30 - May 2 in Irvine, California.
Hawai'i Hilo posted a 26-17 record in 2024 with a third-place finish in the PacWest Tournament.
Admission to Vulcans home games are free of charge.
2025 Softball Opponents
| SCHOOL |
2024 RECORD |
POSTSEASON |
| Western Oregon |
21-26 (No. 5 GNAC) |
- |
| Cal State San Marcos |
37-22 (No. 2 CCAA) |
CCAA Tournament Champion
NCAA West Regional Runner-Up |
| Cal State Dominguez Hills |
39-21 NAIA (No. 3 CCAA) |
CCAA Tournament Third Place
NCAA West Super Regional Runner-Up |
| Sonoma State |
30-18 (No. 1 CCAA) |
CCAA Regular Season Champion
CCAA Tournament Fourth Place |
| Cal State East Bay |
29-24 (No. 5 CCAA) |
CCAA Tournament First Round
NCAA West Regional |
| Hillsdale |
34-14 (No. 2 G-MAC) |
G-MAC Tournament First Round |
| Lewis |
40-17 (No. 2 GLVC) |
GLVC Tournament Fourth Place
NCAA Midwest Regional Runner-Up |
| Ferris State |
25-27-1 (No. 4 GLIAC) |
GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinals |
| Nebraska-Kearney |
18-31 (No. 12 MIAA) |
- |
| Cal Poly Humboldt |
24-25 (No. 7 CCAA) |
- |
| Western Washington |
52-12 (No. 2 GNAC) |
GNAC Tournament Champion
NCAA National Championship Runner-Up |
| Chaminade |
15-21 (No. 6 PacWest) |
- |
| HPU |
9-31 (No. 8 PacWest) |
- |
| Concordia |
39-14 (No. 1 PacWest) |
PacWest Champion
NCAA West Regional |
| Azusa Pacific |
31-21 (No. 2 PacWest) |
PacWest Tournament Runner-Up
NCAA West Regional |
| Academy of Art |
12-32 (No. 7 PacWest) |
- |
| Jessup |
44-12 NAIA (No. 1 GSAC) |
GSAC Regular Season Champion
NAIA World Series Runner-Up |
| Dominican |
19-24 (No. 5 PacWest) |
- |
| Menlo |
14-30 NAIA (No. 6 GSAC) |
- |
| Vanguard |
42-13 NAIA (No. 2 GSAC) |
GSAC Tournament Champion
NAIA Opening Round |
| Biola |
18-26 (No. 4 PacWest) |
PacWest Tournament Fourth Place |
