The Drake University softball team was set to begin Missouri Valley Conference play when its 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. On March 12, the MVC announced its spring sports were suspended until March 30, but the next day the Valley canceled all intercollegiate competitions, including MVC championships, through the end of the 2019-20 academic year. Drake was slated to start league action at Indiana State on March 15 and host its home opener against Bradley on March 28.
 
The cancellation of the season ended the careers early of the Bulldogs' talented senior trio of Abby Buie, Sarah Maddox and Mandi Roemmich. The three seniors helped Drake win 124 games, become the first MVC program to sweep back-to-back MVC regular season and tournament titles in 2018 and 2019 and earn consecutive NCAA Tournament berths for the first time in school history.
   
Buie played in 186 career games over her four seasons. She was named to the 2019 MVC All-Defensive Team and committed just two errors her entire career while primarily playing left field for the Bulldogs. Buie was one of the team's top running threats with 40 career stolen bases and she scored 75 runs.
  Maddox made 163 starts at first base for the Bulldogs, including not missing a game her first two seasons before injuries limited her 2019 campaign and the early part of 2020. However, she was a 2018 All-MVC First Team selection who slugged 19 career home runs and drove in 103 runs. Maddox's RBI total ranks sixth all-time at Drake while her 19 home runs are tied for seventh most in school history. Maddox earned 2019 MVC Scholar-Athlete Honorable Mention honors.
  Roemmich was the first Drake player to be named MVC Player of the Year when she won the top award in 2018. She was a three-time All-MVC choice, who made 186 starts at shortstop, and finished her career at or near the top of several all-time statistical categories. Roemmich leaves as the program's all-time leader in career doubles with 43 and was just six hits and six runs from tying the program's all-time mark in both categories, finishing with 215 hits and 132 runs scored. Her hits total ranks is third all-time and her runs total is second. She holds the single-season runs record mark with 54 in 2019 and is second all-time in career batting average with a .366 mark. An excellent student, she was named to the 2019 Academic All-America First Team, was voted the first-ever MVC Softball Scholar-Athlete of the Year this year and was selected to the MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team three times.