The Pacific Coast Softball Conference will be in its sixth year of existence in 2008. The PCSC became an official conference in NCAA Division I competition and was approved by the NCAA Division I Management Council Administrative Committee on Oct. 17, 2002.
Since its inception, the conference has gone from simply a six-team conference that joined members from the Western Athletic Conference, Western Intercollegiate Softball League and the Big West Conference into a league that now earns an automatic qualifying bid into NCAA tournament play. The upcoming 2008 season will also mark the conference's fourth year that its regular-season champion will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Tournament. Last year, Loyola Marymount captured its third PCSC title, and second NCAA berth as the PCSC representative, and advanced to the Los Angeles Regional final.
The PCSC still consists of all six original members of the conference: Sacramento State, Loyola Marymount, Portland State, Saint Mary’s, Santa Clara and San Diego.
Loyola Marymount has won three of the five PCSC titles so far, earning conference championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Santa Clara and Portland State are the other two schools who have won conference titles with the Broncos winning in 2004 and the Vikings taking the championship in 2006.
Wendy Guthrie is currently the commissioner of the PCSC.