Editor’s note: This story was originally posted on June 5, 2025. With Texas Tech playing reaching Game 3 of the 2025 WCWS finals, we have updated it.
Texas Tech softball coach Gerry Glasco doesn’t fear much.
When Glasco watched Oklahoma’s Abigale Dayton blast a game-tying two-run homer in the top of the seventh inning on Monday night, “Sooner Magic” might have momentarily rattled him. But the Red Raiders rallied to finish off Oklahoma’s dynasty run in the bottom half of the inning.
On Wednesday, Texas Tech dropped the first game of the Women’s College World Series finals to Texas, a heart-wrenching 2-1 loss to the Longhorns in Game 1 of the best-of-three series (Game 3, 8 p.m. ET Friday, ESPN). But Glasco’s not the type to panic with his back against the wall. He has overcome much more than this.
“Nothing about softball is scary to me,” Glasco told ESPN in April.
Glasco has lived a colorful life and has taken a winding path to becoming one of the best coaches in college softball at 66, making a run at a national title in his first season at Texas Tech.
But he also has the kind of perspective that comes from…
