Portland Cascade 2026 Roster

Sam Landry spent three seasons at Louisiana before transferring to Oklahoma for her senior year. Across all four college seasons she went 88-25 with a 2.07 ERA, 646 strikeouts over 650.2 innings, 43 complete games, and 19 shutouts. In 2025 at Oklahoma she was 25-6, 1.94 ERA, 186 strikeouts in 191.2 innings, earned First-Team All-American honors from D1Softball and Softball America, was named 2025 SEC Newcomer of the Year and First-Team All-SEC, and helped lead the Sooners to the Women's College World Series. She was the #1 overall pick in the 2025 AUSL amateur draft by the Texas Volts, then selected by Portland with the second pick of Round 1 of the 2025 Expansion Draft. In the 2025 AUSL regular season she went 1-5 with a 4.85 ERA across 12 appearances (8 starts).

Kelly Maxwell pitched for Oklahoma State before transferring to Oklahoma for her final season. At Oklahoma State she threw both a perfect game (February 2020 vs Florida A&M) and a no-hitter (March 2020 vs Missouri State) in the same season. She was a two-time All-American, earning unanimous First-Team recognition as a redshirt junior in 2022 and top-ten finalist honors for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. At Oklahoma in 2024 she went 5-0 during the NCAA Tournament, came on in relief in Game 2 of the championship series to earn the save as Oklahoma won its fourth consecutive national championship, and was named the Women's College World Series Most Outstanding Player. Later that year she played for Team USA at the Women's Softball World Cup in Italy, Spain, and Ireland, winning a silver medal. She was the #1 overall selection in the AUSL Allocation Draft.

Carley Hoover is the veteran of the rotation. After a freshman year at Stanford she spent four years at LSU, finishing her career 73-30 with a 1.73 ERA, 780 strikeouts over 701 innings, 67 complete games, and 21 shutouts. She made three NCAA Women's College World Series appearances with the Tigers and earned NFCA Third-Team All-America honors twice. In 2018 she was selected 9th overall by the Cleveland Comets in the National Pro Fastpitch Draft. She went on to lead Japan's Diamond Softball League in 2022, pitching for Denso Bright Pegasus, where she was named the league's Player of the Year after leading the circuit in wins (18), strikeouts (198), and ERA (1.66). Before her pro career she was part of the 2008 Little League Softball World Series championship team from Waxhaw, North Carolina.

Payton Gottshall transferred from Bowling Green (where she was the 2022 MAC Pitcher of the Year) to Tennessee for her graduate season. In 2024 at Tennessee she went 20-5 with a 1.37 ERA, 164 strikeouts in 147.2 innings, and 8 complete games, earning First-Team All-American honors from Softball America and Second-Team from D1Softball. She was First-Team All-SEC and 2024 NFCA All-Southeast Region First Team. Her four-year college numbers: 94-37 record, 1.70 ERA, 1,078 strikeouts over 799.2 innings, three seasons with 20 or more wins, and four-time All-Conference selection.

Mia Davidson is one of the most decorated hitters in SEC softball history. At Mississippi State she became the all-time SEC career home run leader with 92 home runs, a number that tied her for third on the NCAA softball all-time list. A five-year letterwinner who started all 270 games of her career from 2018 to 2022, she holds MSU program records in games played, slugging percentage (.775), home runs (92), runs (219), RBIs (220), and total bases (610), among others. Her first year she was SEC Freshman of the Year. In 2022 she was named NFCA First-Team All-American and NFCA/Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year.

Paige Sinicki is the lone University of Oregon alumna on the roster. A four-year letterwinner who started all 219 career games from 2022 to 2025, she won the 2024 NFCA Rawlings Gold Glove at shortstop and was co-recipient of the 2024 Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year Award. She helped lead the Ducks to the Women's College World Series as a senior. Originally from Henderson, Nevada, she spent four years in Eugene and now plays roughly 90 minutes north.

Sis Bates is one of the most decorated defensive shortstops in college softball history. At Washington she closed her career as the program's all-time leader with 320 hits and was the three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, becoming only the second player in conference history to win the award three times. She was a three-time NFCA All-American, including First-Team recognition as a sophomore and junior, and was named Softball America's Defensive Player of the Year three consecutive years from 2019 to 2021. She later returned to Washington as Director of Player Development in 2023 while continuing to play professionally.

Tori Vidales is a Texas A&M all-time great and a current SEC Network softball analyst. At A&M she was a four-year starter (2015-2018) with a career .355 batting average, 65 home runs, and 219 RBI. She stands first all-time at A&M in runs scored (198), total bases (480), and RBI (219), second in home runs (65), and third in hits (246) and walks (164). Four-time NFCA All-Region. First-Team All-SEC and SEC All-Defensive Team in 2016 and 2018. She played for NPF's Cleveland Comets in 2019 and continues her pro playing career while working as a broadcast analyst.

Sierra Sacco-Ferrie (played at MSU as "Sierra Sacco") transferred to Mississippi State from Louisiana Tech and became a two-year starter. Over 227 career starts she hit .397 with 13 home runs, 99 RBI, and 99 stolen bases in 137 attempts. As a senior in 2025 she was a First-Team All-American (Softball America, NFCA), Second-Team D1Softball, and Top 25 Finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. Defensively she rode a 229-chance errorless streak in the outfield dating back to March 2023 and holds the MSU program record for career fielding percentage by an outfielder. She was a member of the 2025 AUSL champion Utah Talons before Portland selected her in the third round of the Expansion Draft.

Korbe Otis transferred from Louisville to Florida and became a program cornerstone. Over 242 career games (240 starts) she hit .366 with 258 hits, 39 doubles, 15 triples, 30 home runs, 168 RBI, 217 runs, and 49 stolen bases. Three-time NFCA All-Region. Two-time First-Team All-Conference. In 2025 she won the NCAA Division I Softball Elite 90 Award and became the first player in Florida program history to be named SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Ali Newland was the second SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in LSU program history. Career at LSU: .297 batting average, 161 hits, 24 home runs, 118 RBI, .977 fielding percentage. As a senior in 2024 she started all 61 games in left field, hit .304 with 56 hits, 41 RBI, and 9 home runs, earning First-Team All-SEC, SEC All-Defensive Team, and NFCA South All-Region First Team honors. Three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll. Three-time SEC Community Service Team. Two-time NFCA South All-Region.

Kendra Falby is a Canadian who became one of Florida's all-time greats. Over four years in Gainesville she was a .400+ career hitter, finishing with 337 hits (second in program history), 259 runs (tied for the school record), and 118 stolen bases (second in program history). As a freshman in 2022 she ranked third in the country with 85 hits. She is a two-time Rawlings/NFCA Gold Glove winner, NFCA All-American, and Softball America Defender of the Year. A USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top-10 finalist.