| Year: | 2024 |
| Conference: | Summit League |
| Shortconference: | Summit League |
| Division: | 1 |
| Teams: | 6 |
| Format: | Double-elimination |
| Ballpark: | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium |
| City: | Brookings, South Dakota |
| Champions: | Omaha |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Mike Heard |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Runnerup: | South Dakota State |
| Runnerupgamecount: | 5th |
| Mvp: | Kamryn Meyer |
| Mvpteam: | Omaha |
| Attendance: | 2,205 |
| Television: | MidcoSN, Summit League Network |
The 2024 Summit League softball tournament took place from May 8–11, 2024. All six eligible teams of the league's seven (St. Thomas is ineligible) met in the modified double-elimination tournament at Jackrabbit Softball Stadium on the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota.[1] Omaha was the defending champion and repeated as the champion,[2] earning the Summit League's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I softball tournament.
| Place | Seed | Team | Conference | Overall | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | % | W | L | % | ||||
| 1 | 1 | South Dakota State | 14 | 2 | 31 | 20 | |||
| 2 | 2 | Omaha | 14 | 4 | 36 | 12 | |||
| 3 | St. Thomas | 8 | 9 | 16 | 34 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | Kansas City | 8 | 10 | 21 | 30 | |||
| 5 | 4 | South Dakota | 7 | 10 | 22 | 28 | |||
| 6 | 5 | North Dakota | 6 | 12 | 14 | 41 | |||
| 7 | 6 | North Dakota State | 4 | 14 | 17 | 36 | |||
All eligible finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage during the conference's regular season. The tournament will play out as a modified double-elimination tournament, with the bottom four seeds playing each other in the single-elimination first round and the rest of the tournament as double-elimination. Due to their transition from Division III to Division I, St. Thomas is ineligible for the Summit League and NCAA tournaments until 2026.
| Game | Time* | Matchup# | Television | Location | Attendance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Round – Wednesday, May 8 | |||||||
| 1 | 1:00 PM | No. 4 South Dakota 6 vs. No. 5 North Dakota 5 | SLN | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium | 147 | ||
| 2 | 3:30 PM | No. 3 Kansas City 5 vs. No. 6 North Dakota State 2 | 179 | ||||
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, May 9 | |||||||
| 3 | 11:00 AM | No. 1 South Dakota State 7 vs. No. 4 South Dakota 0 | SLN | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium | 298 | ||
| 4 | 1:30 PM | No. 2 Omaha 1 (14) vs. No. 3 Kansas City 0 | 156 | ||||
| 5 | 4:00 PM | No. 4 South Dakota 3 vs. No. 3 Kansas City 7 | 156 | ||||
| Semifinals – Friday, May 10 | |||||||
| 6 | 1:00 PM | No. 1 South Dakota State 2 vs. No. 2 Omaha 1 | MidcoSN/SLN | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium | 360 | ||
| 7 | 3:30 PM | No. 2 Omaha 2 vs. No. 3 Kansas City 0 | 145 | ||||
| Finals – Saturday, May 11 | |||||||
| 8 | 1:00 PM | No. 1 South Dakota State 2 vs. No. 2 Omaha 5 | MidcoSN/SLN | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium | 382 | ||
| 9 | 3:30 PM | No. 2 Omaha 7 vs. No. 1 South Dakota State 0 | 382 | ||||
The following players were named to the All-Tournament team:[2]
| Player | School | |
|---|---|---|
| Kamryn Meyer (MVP) | Omaha | |
| Maggie O'Brien | ||
| Sydney Ross | ||
| Ava Rongisch | ||
| Lynsey Tucker | ||
| Emma Osmundson | South Dakota State | |
| Tori Kniesche | ||
| Mia Jarecki | ||
| Lindsey Culver | ||
| Camryn Stickel | Kansas City | |
| Sydney Nichols | ||
| Lexy Smith | ||
| Abi Brown | South Dakota | |
| Delaney White | ||
| Ella Claus | North Dakota State | |
| Mariah Peters | North Dakota |