2026 Softball Schedule

OU Softball: Stanford's NiJaree Canady intends to enter the transfer portal per reports

(by John Williams) One of the biggest names in the sport of softball is on the move. According to multiple reports, Stanford’s NiJaree Canady is expected to be in the transfer portal. According to Landon Reinhardt of NBC News outlet KSNT in Topeka, Kan., Canady will enter the transfer portal. WIBW’s Vince Lovergine is also reporting that Canady is in...read more from the Sooners Wire

Gasso's Core 5: Jayda Coleman's Impact Will Resonate for the Next Generation of Oklahoma Softball

(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — A leadoff walk energizes any lineup. But Jayda Coleman’s leadoff exploits hit a little different for Oklahoma. OU’s star outfielder was must-see for all four of her years in Norman, as she was always a threat to rob a home run in the field or hit one at the plate. Her walks, however, would ring out over any game...read more from AllSooners

What does OU softball need to do in transfer portal? Here are Sooners' top areas of need

(by Ryan Aber, Colton Sulley) With 10 departing seniors off this season’s Women’s College World Series championship squad, there are plenty of holes to fill for OU softball. The Sooners are bringing in a large group of signees, headlined by middle infielders Tia Milloy of Redmond, Washington, and Caddo’s Kadey McKay. The Sooners figure to be...read more from The Oklahoman

Why OU softball's Ella Parker, Kasidi Pickering give plenty of hope for Sooners' future

(by Ryan Aber) NORMAN — It wasn’t long after OU softball won its fourth consecutive Women’s College World Series title that Sooners coach Patty Gasso turned her attention toward the future. “I love what has happened with our freshmen,” Gasso said. “Oh, my goodness. I did not anticipate that. So the future is very, very bright.” It was hard not to...read more from The Oklahoman

Why this OU softball senior class will 'never, ever be forgotten' by Patty Gasso, Sooners

(by Ryan Aber) Patty Gasso found the video of Jayda Coleman recently. Coleman, then 13 but already committed to the OU softball program, is talking in an interview how she expects to continue her winning ways through high school and beyond. “Now that I’m going to OU, we’re going to win it all there,” Coleman said. “I’m going to win it every year.”...read more from The Oklahoman

OU softball celebrates the historic four-peat, brings out real goats

(by Bob Przybylo) When you talk OU softball, you hear a lot of goat talk. GOAT, of course, meaning the Greatest Of All Time. That could be head coach Patty Gasso, who just earned national championship No. 8. Or it could be the senior class, that just finished going back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Four seasons, four national championships...read more from the SoonerScoop

Sooners to celebrate national title at Love's Field

(by Tarik Masri) Oklahoma will celebrate the program’s eighth national championship on Saturday at Love’s Field. The event will be free to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. The gates will open at 5 p.m. and fans will have an opportunity to take photos with the national championship trophy from 5-6 p.m. when the program officially starts...read more from The Norman Transcript

WCWS championship games average 2 million viewers for most-watched finals

(by Jenna West, Richard Deitsch and Jayna Bardahl) This year’s Women’s College World Series championship finals between Oklahoma and Texas set a new record for the most-watched title series, averaging two million viewers. Viewership for Game 2 of the WCWS finals rose 24 percent from 2023 and three percent from the previous all-time high...read more from The Athletic

Mussatto: OU softball four-peats as national champions. 'We just did the impossible.'

(by Joe Mussatto) Not one, not two, not three … Four. And for the Sooners, the fourth was the hardest. Division-I college softball had never seen a four-peat national champion. Not until Thursday night in Oklahoma City, when OU beat Texas 8-4 to sweep the championship series. “People say, ‘Let’s go win one,’” OU coach Patty Gasso said...read more from The Oklahoman

OU Softball: Oklahoma's 'Invincible' Core 5 Close Their Careers as Softball Icons

(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — Tiare Jennings, Jayda Coleman, Rylie Boone, Kinzie Hansen and Nicole May arrived in Norman as bright-eyed freshmen with a dream. They’ll depart Norman as living softball legends. Thursday night they accomplished the unthinkable. Patty Gasso’s Core 5, along with their 16 other teammates, closed out the most...read more from AllSooners

NCAA Softball: 2024 WCWS - OU-Texas postgame


Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso and Sooners Kelly Maxwell, Tiare Jennings, Jayda Coleman, Kinzie Hansen and Rylie Boone meet the press after OU's 8-4 win over Texas in the Women’s College World Series championship series on Thursday, June 6, 2024...from John Hoover Media

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From a polarizing decision to transfer to the WCWS Most Outstanding Player, a Kelly Maxwell story

(by James D. Jackson) Maxwell threw just 14 pitches on Thursday. But it was what she had accomplished throughout the season and the WCWS that made her final performance seem all the more dominant. After her remarkable run through the WCWS, Maxwell was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament...read more from Sooners Illustrated

2024 WCWS: Oklahoma Wins 8th National Championship! | Defeats Texas 8-4


...from onikuno

Sooners beat Texas, claim program's fourth straight national championship

(by Jesse Crittenden) OKLAHOMA CITY — It's over. Patty Gasso and the Sooners are back on the mountain top. The Sooners secured the program's fourth consecutive national championship on Thursday, defeating arch-rival Texas 8-4 to secure a sweep in the Women's College World Series Championship Series. The Sooners become the first...read more from the OUInsider

OU softball makes history, earns fourth straight national championship

(by Bob Przybylo) OKLAHOMA CITY – The four-peat is real for OU softball. It happened. In one of the unlikelier ways in the championship clincher, it happened. Head coach Patty Gasso has always said her club is able to win without one of the players. But it will only win because of all of them. The army of 21. That army showed up in so many different...read more from the SoonerScoop

OU Softball: Patty Gasso Makes History Again as Oklahoma Takes Down Texas for Softball National Championship

(by John E. Hoover) OKLAHOMA CITY — Patty Gasso always seems to push the right buttons. Sometimes those buttons might not even be on the board, but the Oklahoma coach still finds a way to make them work. Thursday night against Texas, Gasso pulled off an all-timer. The Sooners and their Hall of Fame coach won their eighth national championship...read more from AllSooners

Oklahoma's Patty Gasso, Texas' Mike White Now Battle the Mental 'Chess Match'

(by John E. Hoover) OKLAHOMA CITY — The importance of the mental game at work now at the Women’s College World Series must feel immense. But that’s why Oklahoma and Texas pay Patty Gasso and Mike White the big bucks. As the No. 2-seed Sooners and the No. 1 Longhorns get together again tonight at Devon Park to decide college softball’s...read more from AllSooners

OU Softball: Not 'Over-jubilant', Oklahoma Knows There's 'Work to do' to Close Out Texas

(by Ryan Chapman) OKLAHOMA CITY — The job’s not done — well not yet anyways. Oklahoma pounced on Texas on Wednesday to race out to a 1-0 lead in the Championship Series at the 2024 Women’s College World Series. Mike White’s top-seeded Longhorns have another chance, of course, to battle back. Texas dropped the first contest of the year to...read more from AllSooners

2024 WCWS: Oklahoma Beats Texas 8-3 in Game!


...from onikuno

OU softball one win away from fourth straight national championship, downs No. 1 Texas

(by Bob Przybylo) OKLAHOMA CITY – So much for the fatigue factor for OU softball. So much for the emotional drain of getting to the Women’s College World Series championship series. And so much for Texas being the fresher team. You can rest this weekend, there’s work to do now. And OU did just that, going to work early and often and sending a...read more from the SoonerScoop

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