BREAKING NEWS: Patty Gasso announces resignation and departure from Oklahoma softball team due to..- see more….

 

 

BREAKING NEWS: Patty Gasso announces resignation and departure from Oklahoma softball team due to..- see more….

 

 

The rise of Oklahoma softball to the pantheon of the college sport over the past decade has been perpetuated by an infusion of top talent that continues to pulse through the program like a well-oiled, high-powered machine.

 

 

 

 

It’s not by chance that Oklahoma has led or been near the very top in nearly every major statistical category the past three seasons and that that dominance has resulted in three consecutive national championship seasons. That’s the way the Sooners have been built.

 

 

 

 

The architect of this Oklahoma softball dynasty and the culture that nourishes and fuels it is head coach Patty Gasso. Gasso has been at OU for 29 years, but what her Sooner teams have accomplished over the past decade is unprecedented.

 

 

 

 

Oklahoma has won seven national championships in softball.

 

 

Five of those championships (2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023) have come in the last seven seasons, and in one of those years in which the Sooners did not come out on top (2019), they were the national runner-up.

 

 

 

 

A little over a week ago, Oklahoma finished off a record-tying third consecutive national title.

 

 

 

The Sooners did so in grand style, winning 61 of 62 games, including 53 in a row to end the season.

 

 

Both are NCAA records — one for winning percentage and the other for consecutive wins — and the win streak continues into the 2024 season.