The No. 4-ranked Georgia Gwinnett College softball program is scheduled to play more than half of its games on its home diamond, including hosting the Continental Athletic Conference championship tournament, in a 2024 season filled with several challenging opponents and high expectations.

A total of 27 games are slated at the Grizzly Softball Complex, along with the season-ending CAC tournament. Another 20 road games are scheduled, including the team playing in the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Georgia site of the 2024 NAIA World Series.

2024 Schedule

That's where the Grizzlies, led by Head Coach Kat Ihlenburg, hope to be playing in the postseason after having a 45-12 record, winning the CAC title, and advancing to the World Series last spring.

GGC opens the spring campaign February 9-10 by hosting Lindsey Wilson College (Kentucky) and Taylor University (Indiana), a 2023 NAIA Opening Round participant.

Then the team returns to the NAIA World Series site for six games against challenging opponents from California, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan in the NFCA Leadoff Classic on February 16-18.

A 12-game home stand begins against No. 3-ranked University of the Cumberlands (Kentucky) on February 24 before a pair of in-state doubleheaders February 27-28 against No. 16 Middle Georgia State University and Truett-McConnell University (Georgia), a team receiving votes in the preseason Top 25 poll.

Home games in March will have the Grizzlies facing University of Rio Grande (Ohio), March 1-2; No. 24 Saint Xavier University (Illinois), March 5; Tennessee Wesleyan University, a 2023 Opening Round participant, March 16; No. 21 Reinhardt University (Georgia), March 26;

April games at the Grizzly Softball Complex include a doubleheader against No. 12 University of Mobile (Alabama) on April 2 and a three-game series April 5-6 facing NCAA Division II USC Beaufort, which took runner-up honors in the CAC tournament in its final year of NAIA competition. A home doubleheader is set April 13 against Thomas University (Georgia).

Georgia Gwinnett College has once again been selected to host the CAC tournament on May 2-4.