You know what’s better than having one phenomenal pitcher who has displayed incredible athleticism and the ability to swing a bat proficiently? Having two phenomenal pitchers who display incredible athleticism and the ability to swing a bat proficiently. And that’s exactly what Gerry Glasco and the Texas Tech softball team have in NiJaree Canady and Kaitlyn Terry.
We saw it from Canady with Texas Tech’s miraculous run to the Women’s College World Series finals a season ago.
During the 2025 season, Canady dominated in the circle (she had a 1.11 ERA and a win-loss record of 34-7, that’s scary good) and also managed to do some real damage at the plate. Last season, Canady was hitting with a .278 batting average and in 108 at-bats, she hit 11 home runs.
This season, Kaitlyn Terry is doing some very similar things. Except she’s probably a considerably better hitter than Canady. Terry has a 1.80 ERA and a 24-2 win-loss record in the circle. While at the plate, Terry has managed to hit with a .438 batting average and has hit 10 home runs so far this season.
That rare combination in having two players that good at just about everything has given Gerry Glasco a lot of flexibility in the way he approaches substitutions and a lineup. And he certainly seems grateful and enthused for that.
Ahead of matchup with Texas, Glasco is impressed with Texas Tech’s pitching tandem of Canady and Terry
“KT and NiJa were just so outstanding and then to share the ball the way they do, it’s amazing,” Glasco said after Texas Tech took two games away from the Alabama Crimson Tide on Sunday. “NiJa had 57 pitches at the end of the first game and I thought, you know, I can get four or five out of her and then we can go back to KT, who had 70.”
We’ve seen Glasco turn to this strategy on a handful of occasions and it really seems to be working. Texas Tech has the ability to outmaneuver some teams thanks to the way Terry and Canady can just swap back and forth and give the Red Raiders a great shot at winning.
“KT, equally amazing,” Glasco continued. “She’s just been such a competitor here the last two days and such a great teammate. When I flip them, she’s cheering for NiJa so loud in the dugout and doing whatever her team needs.”
Now, Texas Tech stuck with Canady in Game 2 and she delivered a complete game shutout, but the Red Raiders needed both pitchers in Game 1 to be able to force that elimination matchup against the Crimson Tide.
“And then her bat’s been pretty awful good, really good as well,” Glasco said of Terry.
Which is accurate. She’s a fantastic hitter that gives the Red Raiders yet another dangerous hitter in the lineup. Even if she wasn’t able to pitch for the Red Raiders, having her at the plate is such an advantage for Texas Tech as she has a .708 slugging percentage on the season.
Oh, and she’s stolen 13 bases this year.
So, as Texas Tech heads for a best-of-three series with the Texas Longhorns and the Red Raiders try to come away with a national title, having two pitchers this good and who are this versatile can really boost their chances of winning in three days.
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