Montana Fouts, a four-time first-team All-SEC selection and former NFCA Pitcher of the Year winner, will return to Rhoads Stadium with the Athletes Unlimited Softball League as a member of the Talons ...

When she returned to Tuscaloosa for a week of Athletes Unlimited Softball League games, Montana Fouts was a rock star.

The first-year softball circuit has four teams – the Bandits, Blaze, Talons and Volts – that barnstormed through 24 games apiece in the league’s first season.

Alabama returns 13 players from last season while also adding six freshmen and two strong transfer additions, which landed it No.11 on Softball America’s transfer class rankings.

Montana Fouts committed to Alabama softball at age 12. And Ryan Iamurri, Alabama softball's coordinator of player development, remembers exactly what Crimson Tide coach Patrick Murphy's pitch ...