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- ↑ "Melyssa Lombardi". SoonerSports.com. Oklahoma Athletics. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ↑ "Oregon taps OU's Lombardi as softball coach". ESPN.com. ESPN. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ↑ "Oregon Softball's Transfer Epidemic: Maggie Balint Discusses How the Ducks Roster Crumbled Under a New Regime". 28 January 2019.