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The 2029 Line Drive HOT 100 Player Rankings Wrap Up This Week... Then What's Next? (April 5, 2025)

By Brentt Eads

April 5, 2025

The 2029 Line Drive HOT 100 Player Rankings Wrap Up This Week... Then What's Next? (April 5, 2025)

The players ranked 10-1 in the 2029 HOT 100 were announced on Friday (with Analiese Holmes, seen here sliding safely at home plate being one of them). So what's next? Here's where we go from here...

On Friday (April 4, 2025), Line Drive Softball announced the Top 10-1 players in the 2029 HOT 100….

You can see who made the complete ’29 HOT 100 in the list below (note. hyperlinked #’s will show the the players honored in these ranges)

  • #’s 100-91 (Mon., March 24, 2025)
  • #’s 90-81 (Tue., March 25, 2025)
  • #’s 80-71 (Wed., March 26, 2025)
  • #’s 70-61 (Thu., March 27, 2025)
  • #’s 60-51 (Fri. Marc 28, 2025)
  • #’s 50-41 (Mon., March 31 2025)
  • #’s 40-31 (Tue., April 1, 2025)
  • #’s 30-21 (Wed., April 2, 2025)
  • #’s 20-11 (Thu., April 3, 2025)
  • #’s 10-1 (Fri. April 4, 2025)

 

But we’re not done YET with the 2929’s… we also have coming up this week the following schedule to wrap up the class… for now!

  • PLAYERS on the BUBBLE: No.s 101+ (Mon., April 7, 2025)
  • 2029 POSITION Rankings (Thur, April 10, 2025)
  • 2029 REGIONAL Rankings (Fri., April 11, 2025)
  • Spotlight on 2029 No. 1: LG Goldin (Sat. April 12, 2025)

 

Once the 2029 class wraps up this, we’ll turn our full attention to the next class we’ll feature: the 2028’sClick HERE to find the Nomination Form for player info submission.

Here’s the schedule for the rest of the year (note that 2030’s were done earlier this year before the 2029’s):

  • 2028 Line Drive HOT 100: running May 12 to May 23, 2025
    • nominations officially OPEN NOW!!!
  • 2027 Line Drive HOT 100: running Aug. 18 to Aug. 29, 2025;
    • nominations officially open on July 28. 
  • 2026 Line Drive HOT 100: running Oct. 6 to Oct. 17, 2025
    • nominations officially open on Sept. 15

 

The Line Drive Hot 100 is spearheaded by Line Drive Softball Executive Editor Brentt Eads, who began the softball player and team rankings format almost 20 years ago and in that time has done over 40 grad class rankings.

Each class is updated several times leading up to the players’ high school graduation and transition into college.

To send in information including player updates and other news, e-mail:  Brentt.Eads@LineDriveMedia.com

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