2026 SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference schedule
Here is the schedule of events for the eighth annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, which will be held virtually on Zoom on October 9–11, 2026. The conference is open to all baseball fans.
Note: All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Friday, October 9 | Saturday, October 10 | Sunday, October 11
Friday, October 9
- 6:30-7:00 PM: Welcome Remarks and Introduction
- 7:00-7:45 PM: Special Presentation by Gabrielle Augustine, Curator, National Baseball Hall of Fame
Saturday, October 10
- 10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Cecilia Tan, “Women Players Go Bananas in 2026”
- 10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Maeve Willis, “From the Weight Room to the Dugout: Building Credibility as a Woman in Baseball Performance”
- 11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Women’s Professional Baseball League panel with Paloma Benach, Beth Greenwood and Brittany Apgar, moderated by Lorene Kennard
- 12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Sam Kauffman, “How the New Women’s Pro Baseball League Stacks Up Against All-Time Female Players”
- 2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Joelle Milholm, “Jean Fruth and the Importance of Storytelling in Growing Women’s Baseball”
- 2:30 PM-2:45 PM: Break
- 2:45 PM-3:55 PM: Special Presentation
- 4:00 PM-4:30 PM: Nicole Yost, “Belle of the (Base)Ball: Performing Gender Identity in Women’s Baseball”
- 4:30 PM-5:00 PM: Sheena Yap Chan, “When Women in Baseball Stay Invisible: The Human Readiness Gap”
- 5:00 PM-6:45 PM: Break
- 6:45 PM-8:00 PM: Keynote Panel: Past, Present, and Future, with moderator C.J. Silas
- 8:00 PM-8:10 PM: Pylon Unveil
- 8:10 PM-8:20 PM: Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award announcement
Sunday, October 11
- 11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Qingyi “Red” Li, “Diving Catch: Documenting the Lived Experiences of Women in Baseball in China through Multimedia Storytelling”
- 12:00 PM-12:30 PM: Gabrielle Augustine and Alyssa Frysinger, “Tags and Alterations: Diving Into the Structure of AAGPBL Uniforms”
- 12:30 PM-1:00 PM: Katie Woods, “Ninety Years Before Her Time: The National Baseball Congress as a Proving Ground for Women in Baseball”
- 1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Callie Maddox and Amanda Kaufman, “’I didn’t even know this was a thing!’: The Educational Value of Women’s Baseball Inside and Outside the Classroom”
- 1:30 PM-2:15 PM: “Final Celebration of the 2026 Women’s Baseball Year,” including a special presentation by Becky Brouse Davis of This is Women’s Baseball
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