NJCAA Division 1 Softball Week 1 Poll | NJCAA Division 2 Softball Week 1 Poll

CHARLOTTE, NC – After a month of play in the 2026 NJCAA softball season, the first regular-season NJCAA Division 1 and Division 2 softball polls have been released and feature a total of four teams from the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference holding rankings in the polls released on Monday, February 23rd.

Of the four teams that are ranked in the poll, three teams remain ranked after being featured in the preseason polls, while newcomer Hutchinson finds itself ranked for the first time this year following a 10-2 start to their season.    

With ranked teams having played anywhere from zero games to as many as 23 games in the opening month of play, the highest-ranked KJCCC team in the week one poll is Johnson County Community College after seeing the Cavaliers open their season with four games in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and going 2-2 with wins over Enterprise State and Coastal Alabama-South. The next highest-ranked team from the conference in the NJCAA Division 2 poll is Cowley with the number 18 ranking after splitting each of their first six games of the season, which included matchups with Division 1-ranked foes Paris Junior College and Temple College. Kansas City Kansas Community College has yet to start its season and remains ranked number 19 in the first poll of the season, which is unchanged from its preseason ranking.

Within the NJCAA Division 1 Softball poll, Hutchinson has swept five of their opening six doubleheaders of the season, with the lone defeats coming to NJCAA Division 2 top-ranked Murray State College, to move the Blue Dragons into the rankings at number 25 in the rankings. Four of HCC’s 10 wins have come by run rule, with four of the remaining six wins coming by two or more runs.

Softball action across the conference is in full force throughout the upcoming week, with Dodge City kicking off the week on Monday for the league before seeing 12 conference teams take part in a total of 20 games on Tuesday. Action continues throughout the rest of the week, with eight games scheduled for Wednesday before seeing an additional 55 games set to take place throughout the rest of the week.