Pattie Ruth Taylor

Biography

Pattie Ruth Taylor enters her third season on staff at Texas prior to the 2026 season. In 2025, Taylor was part of a Texas coaching staff that earned the ATEC/NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year after guiding Texas to the program's first WCWS National Championship. The Longhorns finished the season 56-12 - capturing a program-record 56 victories. Taylor spearheaded a dominant pitching staff that ranked 10th in the nation in shutouts with 15, 12th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.07), 15th in ERA (2.55) and 15th in WHIP (1.18). She helped sophomore RHP Teagan Kavan earn Most Outstanding Player at the Women's College World Series, setting a WCWS record after not allowing an earned run across 31.2 innings of work while compiling four wins and a save. Kavan landed on the NFCA's All-America Second Team. Handling the pitching duties in her first season on the Forty Acres in 2024, Taylor guided true freshman right-hander Teagan Kavan to unprecedented heights in her first season of collegiate softball. Kavan led all Longhorn pithcers with 20 wins and 135 strikeouts in a team-high 130.2 innings pitched en route to being named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Softball America Freshman All-American and D1Softball Freshman All-American. Kavan, a two-time Big 12 Pitcher of the Week throughout the 2024 campaign, became the first Texas player to toss a complete game shutout in their Women's College World Series (WCWS) debut and the first freshman Texas pitcher in program history to toss a