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Despite ‘heartbreaking’ end to season shortened by coronavirus, Houston softballs sets expectations high for 2021

When the softball team got the news that its season had been canceled due to the rising concerns of COVID-19, the players felt all sorts of devastation, uncertainty and sadness.

After getting off to a promising 16-7 start and just a day away from heading to Norman, Oklahoma, for a tournament at OU, suddenly everything was just over.

“It was heartbreaking in a way just because of how we started,” head coach Kristin Vesely said on Thursday evening during a Coaches Caravan video call. “That was one of the best starts we’ve had … We were playing a lot of good competition, but when you start to get the confidence, that culture, that environment and then it stops.