No program in nearly five decades of CIAA softball has ever won four consecutive championships. Bowie State , the HBCU softball dynasty, is about to try.
The Bulldogs enter the 2026 CIAA Softball Championship as the conference’s most dominant force. And with a chance to do something the record books have never seen. In fast pitch or slow pitch, going back to 1979, no CIAA program has strung together four straight titles. Not once. Yet Bowie State University is now three wins away from changing that forever.
Head coach Ed Powell’s squad locked up the Northern Division’s No. 1 seed after going a perfect 10-0 in divisional play and 16-0 across all CIAA games. In a conference that has crowned a different champion in nearly every era, the Bulldogs have made winning the expectation.
Bowie State Softball Is Chasing Its Own CIAA Record
The history here runs deeper than the current dynasty. Bowie State won three consecutive CIAA titles before — from 2006 to 2009. That run stood as the longest in conference history. Now the Bulldogs have matched it, and they have a chance to break their own record…