The Women’s Pro Baseball League announced a May 7th deadline to register for tryouts for the 2026 Inaugural Season – the return of professional women’s baseball! Below is an excerpt from their announcement today. Please register at the WPBL site for updates if you or someone you know may be interested in more information.
Today, the Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) announced that player registration for the 2025 summer tryouts is now open to players around the world. Offering the best women’s baseball players an opportunity to showcase their talents and earn a spot to play in the League’s inaugural season, sign-ups are open until May 7th, 2025. Marking a historic moment in women’s sports, the WPBL tryouts will be the first held for women’s baseball in over 70 years.
Taking place in July and August of 2025, the WPBL’s tryouts will be held across the U.S. and internationally and will be by invitation for eligible players. Leading the tryouts will be women’s baseball superstar and WPBL Special Advisor, Alex Hugo, who is the only two-time USA Baseball Sportswoman of the Year Award Winner (2019, 2024) and Team USA Silver Medalist at the 2024 WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup where she was Team Captain. Additionally, Hugo has been a Homerun Derby X participant since 2022 and, in 2023, became a Minor League Roving Instructor for the Athletics (formerly Oakland Athletics).