If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. Add Karlyn Pickens and her mother, Rebecca Pickens, to that list. When the ...

How Karlyn Pickens' parents keep pressure off Tennessee's ace The Pickens family didn't make it far on their walk before Karlyn was spotted. They were heading to the Myriad Botanical Gardens after ...

Pickens (24-9), the back-to-back SEC Pitcher of the Year, leads Tennessee's staff with a 1.00 ERA. She has thrown 280 strikeouts in 204 innings, and opponents have hit .168 against her.

Any discussion of returning talent begins with pitcher Karlyn Pickens. The Lady Vols rode her fastball – clocked at an NCAA record of 79.4 miles per hour – into the WCWS.

The second-seeded Sooners will open on Thursday against hard-throwing Karlyn Pickens and No. 7 seed Tennessee. In the second game of super regional play, Pickens unleashed a pitch that traveled an ...

Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens (23) celebrates after an inning in a Women's College World Series softball game between the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Tennessee Volunteers at Devon Park in Oklahoma ...

Tennessee is losing five seniors to graduation. Laura Mealer started at shortstop, Sophia Nugent started at catcher, McKenna Gibson started at first base and Kinsey Fiedler started in center field.