The Alyson Habetz era for the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns softball team has begun, and the excitement is really starting to build now that the 2025 roster was made public on Tuesday.
Games are hard to get to, but the first three weekends of the season are at Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park.
Louisiana has been in the NCAA for 25 years running. They will play Texas, Ole Miss, Houston, and LSU in non-conference games at Lamson Park. In Sun Belt Conference games, they will play James Madison and South Alabama.
The 39th Louisiana Classics will be held at Lamson Park from February 6–9 to start the season. Texas will take part in that game.
UL will host the Ragin’ Cajuns Invitational I (Feb. 14–16) and the Ragin’ Cajuns Invitational II (Feb. 21–23) over the next two weekends to finish off the first homestand of the season. The big teams in the 15 games at Lamson Park are Ole Miss and Houston.
Auburn (Feb. 28–March 2) and Alabama (March 7-8) are the last two non-conference playoff games that will be played away from home. There will be a week between those two trips. The first game will be at Mississippi State on March 5.
The first road stretch ends on March 11 when they go to Baton Rouge to start a home-and-home series with LSU in the middle of the week. The next weekend, March 14–16, they play Marshall in Huntington, West Virginia, as the first games of SBC play.
The rest of March has five home games, starting with McNeese on March 18. The SBC home opener is against ULM from March 22–23, and LSU comes to Lamson Park on March 25. Before they went on the road to Coastal Carolina from March 28th to 30th.
On April 2, Louisiana Tech plays at Lamson Park to start the month. The next three games are on the road in Troy, which is part of the SBC, from April 4–6, and then they go back to Ruston to play LA Tech on April 8.
During the last four weekends of the season, the Cajuns will be at Lamson Park three of those four times. It starts with James Madison’s Alumni Weekend, which runs from April 11–13, and then moves on to South Alabama’s Easter Weekend of April 17–19.
During Spring Break, the Cajuns go to Texas to play Texas A&M (April 22) and Texas State (April 25–27). They then play Southern Miss at Lamson Park from May 3–7 to end the regular season.
From May 7–10, the Sun Belt Conference Championships will be held in Troy, Alabama. On May 16, the NCAA Regionals will begin.
After Gerry Glasco leaves for Texas Tech as head coach, the 2025 Ragin’ Cajuns will look very different. Some of his players from the 2024 team moved on to play for other schools or followed him to Lubbock.
But the Cajuns will have some familiar names, like Laney Credeur, Kayla Falterman, and Maddie Hayden, who have all played for four years.
Another important player coming back is shortstop Cecilia Vasquez, who hit the most home runs in conference play last year, and All-Sun Belt star Sam Roe, who had career highs in average (.320), base hits (58), and RBI (39).
The eight newcomers that Habetz and her team brought in this summer stand out. They include veteran pitchers Sage Hoover and Tyra Clary, as well as Erin Ardoin and Brooke Otto, who transferred from McNeese and have postseason experience.
UL also got six first-year players, including Emily Smith, a shortstop who was ranked in the top 15 in the country for high school home runs and RBI last spring.