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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Softball To Be Honored For National Championship Season
March 02, 2001 | Softball
March 2, 2001
NORMAN, Okla. - White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer just announced that the University of Oklahoma's 2000 National Champion softball team and National Champion football team will be honored at The White House Monday. President George W. Bush extended the invitation to the University's two national championship teams.
Both teams will be honored at a White House Rose Garden ceremony Monday afternoon with President Bush. OU President David L. Boren and Oklahoma Athletic Director Joe Castiglione will accompany the team and make special presentations to President Bush. President Bush also has invited the team on a special White House tour. In addition, the teams will tour the U.S. Capitol and be recognized on the Senate floor. They also will be the guests of honor at a Congressional Reception hosted by Oklahoma's senior Senator Don Nickles and Oklahoma Fourth District Congressman J.C. Watts.
"I very much appreciate the strong personal interest taken by the President in extending this invitation to our national championship teams," said Boren. "He has been extremely gracious in extending this special hospitality. I also want to thank our Congressional Delegation, especially Sen. Nickles and Congressman Watts for arranging to have the teams hosted at the Capitol building."
The Oklahoma softball team captured its first-ever national championship by beating UCLA, 3-1, at the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. The title was the first by a women's athletic program at OU. The Sooners finished the season with the best record in the country at 66-8. OU became just the second non-West Coast team to win a softball national championship. OU Head Softball Coach Patty Gasso was named Big 12 and National Coach of the Year.
Finishing as the nation's only unbeaten team, the Oklahoma football team claimed their seventh national title with a 13-2 victory over Florida State in the Orange Bowl. The Sooners were the unanimous winners of The Associated Press media poll, and they were automatically crowned national champs in the coaches' poll under the Bowl Championship Series format. OU Head Football Coach Bob Stoops was the consensus national Coach of the Year, sweeping every coach of the year award.
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