JT Gasso Bio

JT Gasso
Assistant Coach

Softball Coaching Staff

Former Oklahoma softball graduate assistant JT Gasso is returning to the program as the team's assistant coach, OU head coach Patty Gasso announced July 23. His primary responsibilities will be focused on working with OU's outfielders and the Sooner offense.

"I am excited to bring JT back to the program he has grown up with, and I know he is ready and qualified to accept this challenge," Patty Gasso said. "He is considered one of the hot new coaches on the softball scene with creative ideas and has a background in a variety of areas that will help our team reach new heights.

"He is a relentless recruiter and has a deep love and respect for our program. He brings a fresh and youthful energy to this program, and I am looking forward to this new era in OU Softball history.”

JT Gasso joins Oklahoma after spending one season as an assistant at Michigan State. While working with the Spartans, his primary responsibilities were focused on defensive play in the infield and hitting, while being heavily involved in recruiting and overall player development.

“I'm extremely excited and grateful for this opportunity,” said JT Gasso, who is Patty's son. “I've grown up being a part of this program and have tremendous pride in it and in the direction it is going. I'm looking forward to contributing to the program's history and its high level of success.

“I also want to thank Jacquie Joseph and Shelley Appelbaum for the opportunity at Michigan State. It was an experience I'm very proud of and moving on from that opportunity is hard, but I'm excited for what the future holds.”

While with the Spartans, he helped the program record its best offensive season since 2007. The team improved its win total by almost 60 percent from 2014 to 2015, while the offense improved greatly in nearly every offensive category.

Michigan State's home run total grew by 90 percent, while the batting average jumped 60 points to represent the fifth best improvement in the country in that category. Additionally, the team's slugging percentage went up over 100 points, while on-base percentage jumped almost 50 points.

Like the Spartans' batting average growth, the team's run production improved by over 90 percent from 2014 to 2015, and their amount of extra-base hits increased by over 70 percent.

The Gasso File
Hometown	Norman, Okla.
High School	CCS
College	East Central, 2011
Family	Fiance, Andrea Harrison

Coaching History

2015-Pres., Oklahoma Assistant Coach

2015, Michigan State Assistant Coach

2014, Purdue Assistant Coach

2012-13, Oklahoma Graduate Assistant

Prior to Michigan State, JT Gasso was a part of a first-year coaching staff which helped guide Purdue to a spot in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals in 2014. The program placed five players on the All-Big Ten postseason teams and a program-record six Boilers earned All-Region honors.

JT Gasso spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma, where he was responsible for compiling scouting reports, game day and practice set up and assisting in hitting instruction and game planning for the team, including its 2013 national championship and 2012 national runner-up seasons. His coaching pedigree also includes time as a camp coach with national championship programs at LSU and UCLA, and at the IntenCity Sports Training Academy in Norman.

A collegiate baseball player at Eastern Oklahoma State and East Central University, Gasso has been a lead instructor for the Sooner Softball camps the last 10 years. He is certified as a level 1 coach in Crossfit and has trained various athletes, including those at IntenCity, for which he has been a hitting instructor and strength and conditioning coach since 2008. In his time as a private instructor, he has tutored five athletes who have gone on to play Division I softball.

In addition to his experience at Oklahoma and at IntenCity, the East Central University alum coached the Sulphur Orioles 18-and-under baseball team in 2010 and was the head instructor at the Chickasaw Nation softball camp in 2007.

Gasso holds an associate's degree from Eastern Oklahoma State College, a bachelor's degree in exercise science from East Central University and a master's degree in administrative leadership from the University of Oklahoma.

University of Oklahoma Athletics

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