Master · 2024-present · right-handed
Teagan Kavan
Texas’s big-game ace — back-to-back national titles and the first two-time Most Outstanding Player in Women’s College World Series history.
Signature pitchRiseball
Some pitchers are defined by a season; Teagan Kavan is defined by Junes. The Texas ace threw the Longhorns to their first national championship in 2025 and right back to a second in 2026, and in both Junes she was the best pitcher on the field — the first player ever named Women’s College World Series Most Outstanding Player twice. The bigger the game, the smaller the strike zone got for everyone facing her.
The signature pitch
A five-pitch arsenal built on a commandable rise ball she throws to all four quadrants, tunneled off a drop that leaves her hand on the same plane — so the rise and the drop look identical until they split. A deceptive changeup mixes the speeds. "She can throw every pitch in every plane," which is why hitters cannot square her.
The five-pitch arsenal and the rise/drop same-plane tunnel are from her own account (BVM Sports) and The Daily Texan’s profile.
The mental edge
An October arm in a June sport. In the 2025 Women’s College World Series she threw 31 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings — a WCWS record, breaking a mark that had stood since 1994 — and in 2026 she closed it out again to become the first two-time WCWS Most Outstanding Player. Back-to-back rings on the strength of pitching her best with everything on the line.
The record
Back-to-back national championships — Texas’s first ever in 2025, then the repeat in 2026, both finals against Texas Tech, the same in-state showdown two Junes running. In the 2026 series she threw a complete game in the opener and came back in relief to close the clincher.
She is the first player ever named Women’s College World Series Most Outstanding Player twice.
The 2025 title run included a scoreless streak across Oklahoma City long enough to break a Series record that had stood since 1994 — and it started in a freshman year that had already produced more wins than any Texas freshman since 2010.
The numbers live with the record-keepers.
The record is told in prose, each claim confidence-labeled and one click from its source. Where a line is a teammate’s words rather than the pitcher’s own, it is labeled as such, not put in her mouth.