Gasso Named to Oklahoma Hall of Fame 2022 Class

NORMAN — Oklahoma head softball coach Patty Gasso was selected as one of eight inductees to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame as part of the 2022 Class. The Hall of Fame announced the class on Thursday.

Gasso, already inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2019 and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2012, has become a staple for not only women's sports, but collegiate sports, in the state of Oklahoma.

In her 28th season at the University of Oklahoma, Gasso has molded the OU softball program into a national powerhouse and permanently placed herself among the elite college softball coaches in the country.

Under her leadership, the Sooners have won five national championships and are one of only three programs in NCAA history to win more than two national titles. She's led the Sooners to the Women's College World Series 14 times during her tenure and, in the process, advanced to the postseason in each of her 28 seasons.

With 31 seasons as a head coach to her name, Gasso has a career collegiate coaching record of 1546-402-3 and holds an overall record of 1,385-343-2 at the University of Oklahoma—both winning percentages at nearly 80%. She has more Big 12 wins, 376, than any coach in the league's history and has more than twice as many overall wins as any other coach in OU history.

The Sooners have claimed fourteen Big 12 regular season titles, including an unprecedented ten straight since 2012, and seven championship titles under her direction. And, the high standards she sets for her athletes is evident in the classroom, with more than 150 earning academic all-conference honors and nine becoming Academic All-Americans.

The 2022 Class will be formally inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame on Thursday, November 17 at the Cox Business Convention Center in Tulsa. Since the Oklahoma Hall of Fame's establishment in 1927, 722 accomplished individuals have received the highest honor the state can bestow.

Oklahoma Hall of Fame Class of 2022

Sue Ann Arnall, Poteau
Bob Blackburn, Oklahoma City
Chet Cadieux, Tulsa
Patty Gasso, Norman
F. Roger Hardesty, Tulsa
Joy Harjo, Tulsa
Pamela McCauley, Oklahoma City
Leon Russell (posthumous), Tulsa

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Gasso Named to Oklahoma Hall of Fame 2022 Class

Oklahoma Hall of Fame Class of 2022

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