COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri softball team will compete in the 2025 Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational Presented by EvoShield, ESPN announced Thursday. The sixth annual event will be held Feb. 13-16 at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater, Florida.
Missouri is a part of the 16-team field for the 2025 Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational Presented by EvoShield. Fourteen of those team qualified for the 2024 NCAA Tournament, including three teams that made the Women’s College World Series.
Missouri registered 48 wins in 2024 which is the fourth-most wins in program history and the most for Mizzou during its SEC era (2013 to current). The Tigers captured the 2024 NCAA Columbia Regional title and advanced to the Columbia Super Regional Championship Finals.
The 2025 event will be the sixth year that the City of Clearwater has teamed up with ESPN Events to host the elite invitational. Of the 16 teams that participated in the 2024 Invitational, 12 teams made this year’s NCAA Tournament field and four made the Women’s College World Series.
The event schedule for the 2025 Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational Presented by EvoShield will be released this fall, followed by the on-sale date for tickets. For more information, visit www.clearwaterinvitational.com. This past fall, 70 percent of tickets sold on the on-sale date, so fans are encouraged to purchase tickets early.
Shriners Children’s Hospital returns as the event’s title sponsor while EvoShield returns as the presenting sponsor and Visit St. Pete-Clearwater is back as the event’s civic sponsor for the sixth year.
2025 Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational
Presented by EvoShield Field
- Alabama
- Auburn
- Charlotte
- Clemson
- Florida State
- Kentucky
- Liberty
- Missouri
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma State
- San Diego State
- Texas A&M
- UCF
- UCLA
- Virginia
- Wichita State
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