Overview
- Samantha Swan announced on social media on Wednesday, June 10, that she has signed with Texas after three years at Arizona State and will have one season of NCAA eligibility for the Longhorns.
- Swan finished the 2026 season with a .383 batting average, 12 home runs and 55 RBIs while earning All-Big 12 honors, and she hit .400 in the Austin Super Regional series against Texas (4-for-10, one homer, five RBIs).
- Softball America ranked Swan No. 9 overall and the No. 1 catcher in the transfer portal, marking her as the highest-rated player to commit to Texas so far this offseason.
- A Central Texas native from Georgetown, Swan is expected to step into the starting catcher role vacated by graduated All-American Reese Atwood and to provide veteran poise that delays the need to thrust a freshman into that job.
- Swan’s signing is Texas’s first confirmed portal addition in a wider roster turnover that includes several graduations and portal entries, a development that shapes the Longhorns’ short-term roster plans as they pursue a three-peat.