University of Oklahoma Athletics

No. 1 Sooners Open WCWS Thursday
May 31, 2023 | Softball


WEEKEND BASICS
⢠Two-time defending national champion Oklahoma makes its seventh straight and 16th overall appearance at the Women's College World Series in 2023. Oklahoma is vying to become just the second program to win three straight national titles, looking to join the 1988-90 UCLA Bruins. An OU title would be the program's fifth in the last seven seasons and the program's seventh all-time.
⢠The top-seeded Sooners meet No. 9-seed Stanford Thursday in the WCWS opener, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. CT on ESPN with Kevin Brown and Amanda Scarborough on the call. Courtney Lyle will serve as sideline reporter.
⢠All games can be heard via 107.7 The Franchise in Oklahoma or nationwide on The Varsity Network app with Chris Plank and alum DJ Sanchez on the call.
⢠2023 marks OU's 11th trip in the last 12 years to OKC. No other program in the country has made as many trips to the WCWS as OU since the 2011 season.
⢠OU is on an NCAA record 48-game win streak, recently surpassing 1996-97 Arizona's 47-game streak.
MAYHEM
⢠Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament 29 straight seasons and every year of head coach Patty Gasso's tenure since 1995 (tournament was not played in 2020). The Sooners are tied with Washington for the longest active postseason run.
⢠Oklahoma has been a national seed for each of the past 16 seasons. This is the fifth time in program history and fourth straight season that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013, 2019, 2021 and 2022.
⢠In 2023, OU reaches its 16th WCWS in program history. The Sooners have won four of the past six WCWS crowns.
⢠With six national titles (2000, '13, '16, '17, '21, '22) Oklahoma trails only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) for most in NCAA history, and no other team has more than two.Ā
LAST TIME OUT
ā¢Ā OU swept 16-seed Clemson in the NCAA Norman Super Regional to advance to OKC, beating the Tigers 9-2 in Game 1 before a dramatic 8-7, nine-inning victory in Game 2.
ā¢Ā In the final postseason games played at Marita Hynes Field, celebrating 25 years as home to OU Softball, the Sooners went out with a bang. Haley Lee blasted a grand slam in Game 1 and in Game 2, after trailing 7-4 in the seventh inning, Kinzie Hansen hit a three-run, game-tying home run in the top of the seventh before Tiare Jennings led off the ninth with a solo shot to put OU in front for good. Jordy Bahl entered in relief and closed the game with three scoreless innings.
ā¢Ā On the weekend, Hansen paced the Sooners with a .429 batting average, while Brito and Jennings each hit two homers, Jennings' registering a two-homer game on Saturday for the second time this postseason.
ā¢Ā Sooner Nation set a single-game Marita Hynes Field attendance record in the final postseason game at the field, with 2,127 fans in attendance and hundreds more in Home Run Village beyond the left field gates Saturday.
SEASON STORYLINES
ā¢Ā The Sooners went 20-0 in ranked matchups in the regular season, highlighted by wins over then-No. 1 UCLA, No. 6 FSU, sweep of No. 9/8 Texas and No. 6/7 OSU and a midweek win over No.13/12 LSU in Baton Rouge. The Sooners closed the regular season first in the NCAA RPI.
ā¢Ā OU is outscoring its opponents by a combined score of 478-56 on the season, surrendering an average of 0.9 runs/game. The pitching staff has been exceptional, tossing shutouts in 32 of OU's 57 games to lead the country and are one shutout away from the program record (33, 2022).
ā¢Ā The pitching staff has thrown four no-hitters on the season: Junior Nicole May and sophomore Jordy Bahl combined on the staff's first no-hitter of the season on Feb. 18 vs. Army before Alex Storako threw an individual no-no vs. No. 17/16 Kentucky on March 3. Bahl completed a perfect game March 10 vs. SELA and most recently, May and Deal combined to no-hit Kansas on April 29. The staff has thrown seven games where an opponent had just one hit.
ā¢Ā May leads the pitching staff with a 0.82 ERA, while all four pitchers hold ERAs under 1.15, including two in May and Deal (0.78) with earned run averages under 1.00 (Bahl [1.08], Storako [1.13])
ā¢Ā As a team, OU is batting a nation-best .372 with 112 home runs. Five Sooners have double-digit homers and nine have hit six or more home runs, paced by Alyssa Brito's 17. Jennings leads the team with 60 RBIs while eight other Sooners have 30-plus runs batted in.
OPPONENT HISTORY VS. WCWSĀ FIELD
⢠OU has faced five of the seven other WCWS teams already in 2023, going a combined 7-0 against their OKC counterparts and outscoring the foes by a combined score of 47-18.
⢠Stanford: The Sooners and Cardinal are all square at 3-3 in the all-time series, with No. 1 OU beating then No. 17/14 Stanford 10-1 in six innings on season-opening weekend at the Mark Campbell Collegiate Invitational in Irvine, Calif. The teams met in the 2004 WCWS with Stanford beating OU, 3-2, to knock OU out of the tournament.
⢠Alabama: The Crimson Tide hold a 10-8 edge over OU all-time, although the Sooners have won four of the last five meetings. Most recently, the teams met twice in the 2019 WCWS, with OU winning the last matchup 7-3 to advance to the Champ Series. OU's 0-1 loss in 8 innings earlier in the day on June 2, 2019 was the last time OU has been shut out, having scored in 206 games since.Ā
⢠Tennessee: OU leads the series 6-5 over the Vols, most recently taking a dramatic 9-8 win in 10 innings at the 2022 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic on a Jayda Coleman walk-off home run. The teams met in the 2013 WCWS Champ Series with the Sooners winning their then-second national title in two games, highlighted by a game one walk off home run from Lauren Chamberlain.
⢠Florida State: OU holds a 9-8 edge over the Seminoles courtesy a 5-4 win in Norman on March 14 of this season in Norman. The Sooners beat FSU in the 2021 WCWS Champ Series in three games for their then-fifth national title, marking the first time the programs have met at the WCWS.
⢠Oklahoma State: OU holds a 102-72 record all-time vs. Bedlam rival OSU, most recently sweeping the Cowgirls in Stillwater to end the regular season. The teams have met once at the WCWS, a 6-1 OU win in 2019.
⢠Utah: The Sooners hold a 21-5 all-time lead over the Utes, most recently beating Utah 10-3 at this year's Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic. The teams have met twice in the NCAA postseason with OU winning two regional matchups in 1995 (7-1 in Stillwater) and 2002 (6-0 in Norman). The Utes staff has plenty of OU connections in associate head coach DJ Gasso (son of OU HC Patty Gasso) and pitching coach Paige Parker (2018 OU Alum & two-time national champ). Also on the Utes roster is Kendall Lundberg, sister of 2019 OU alum and current OU Softball office manager, Kylie Lundberg.
⢠Washington: OU leads 15-13 all-time over the Huskies, most recently winning a 5-4 battle at this year's Mark Campbell Collegiate Invitational on Feb. 11. The teams have met six times at the WCWS, with the series even at 3-3. The most recent meetings in OKC came in 2018, with Washington beating the Sooners twice (2-0, 3-0) to end OU's hopes of a three-peat.
SEVEN NAMED NFCA ALL-REGION
ā¢Ā Oklahoma Softball had seven student-athletes named to the NFCA All-Region Central team, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced the honors May 18.
ā¢Ā Collecting First Team honors was sophomore pitcher Jordy Bahl, catcher Kinzie Hansen, second baseman Tiare Jennings, third baseman Alyssa Brito and centerfielder Jayda Coleman. Senior utility player Haley Lee and senior shortstop Grace Lyons were both named Second Team All-Region.
ā¢Ā Overall, this marks the eighth time in nine seasons that OU has had at least seven nominees selected.
ā¢Ā The awards honor softball student-athletes from the Association's 10 regions with first, second and third teams selected for each region. The all-region teams were voted on by NFCA member coaches from each respective region, and all the honorees now become eligible for selection to one of three 2023 NFCA Division I All-American teams.
ā¢Ā For clarification, position players must play 50% of a team's total games (60% of nominee's total games at the nominated position). Pitchers must accumulate 100 innings pitched or 30% of team's total innings pitched throughout the regular season.
ā¢Ā The 2023 NFCA Division I All-America teams, voted on by the NFCA DI All-American Committee, will be announced May 31.Ā Ā
SOONERS PACE CONFERENCE IN YEARLY AWARDS
ā¢Ā Oklahoma softball collected or earned a share of four of the five Big 12 yearly awards and placed eight across the All-Big 12 First and Second Teams, including a league-best seven on the first team. The conference announced the honors May 10.
ā¢Ā Junior Jayda Coleman was named Big 12 Player of the Year, while sophomore Jordy Bahl was named Pitcher of the Year and super senior shortstop Grace Lyons earned her third consecutive Defensive Player of the Year award. OU head coach Patty Gasso was named Co-Coach of the Year, sharing the honor with Baylor head coach Glenn Moore. It marks Gasso's 11th straight Big 12 Coach of the Year honor.
ā¢Ā Coleman collects OU's 16th Big 12 Player of the Year award, including fourth consecutive and seventh in the last eight seasons.
ā¢Ā The highlight reel centerfielder has started every game for No. 1 OU and led the team throughout the season in batting, on-base and slugging percentages, as well as hits and home runs. She has consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country in batting, on-base and slugging percentages. The speedster has stolen a team-high 15 bases on 15 attempts and been exceptional again in center field for OU with a 1.000 FLD%. Coleman led the conference in on-base and slugging percentages, runs per game and total bases.
ā¢Ā Bahl earned her second straight Big 12 Pitcher of the Year honor, winning the award outright in 2023 after sharing the accolade a season ago. The honor is OU's ninth in school annals.
ā¢Ā Bahl has followed an All-America and National Freshman of the Year season with an equally as dominant sophomore campaign, holding a 1.13 ERA that ranks in the top 10 in the country with six individual shutouts, one perfect game and two combined no-hitters. The Papillion, Neb., product is 18-1 in the circle and has allowed just 12 extra-base hits in 2023. Bahl has 159 strikeouts to just 34 walks and 19 earned runs, while opponents are batting just .164 against the sophomore. In conference play, Bahl led the league in wins (7-0) while holding a 0.70 ERA and allowing just four runs. She joins the elite company of Texas' Cat Osterman and OU alum Paige Parker in winning Pitcher of the Year accolades in their freshman and sophomore seasons.
ā¢Ā OU's defensive anchor, Lyons, wins her third consecutive Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year award and OU's fifth in the last six years. Lyons becomes the first player in conference history to win three DPOY honors.
ā¢Ā The Peoria, Ariz., product and two-time All-American has yet again been exceptional in the field for the nation's best defense with 49 putouts and 69 assists to just three errors for a .975 fielding percentage. The middle infielder has helped turn 11 double plays. At the plate, Lyons is batting .331 with eight home runs, six doubles, a triple and 33 RBIs.
ā¢Ā The NFCA Hall of Fame head coach, Gasso, wins an unprecedented 11th consecutive Big 12 Coach of the Year award and 15th overall in her 29 seasons at the helm in Norman.
ā¢Ā Gasso guided the top-ranked Sooners to a program-best 49-1 regular season record in 2022 and 11th consecutive Big 12 regular season title. The Sooners are on a NCAA-record 48-game win streak, while the team has outscored opponents 478-56 on the year and 124-17 in conference play.
ā¢Ā Of the 12 student-athletes that made up the All-Big 12 First Team, seven of the selections are Sooners. The seven choices are the most by a team under the Big 12's 12-member format that started in 2013.
ā¢Ā OU's league-best seven selections are a program best and outpaces the next-highest school by five. Claiming First Team honors was Coleman, Bahl, Lyons, redshirt senior Haley Lee, senior Kinzie Hansen and juniors Tiare Jennings and Nicole May. Bahl, Coleman and Jennings were unanimous choices.
ā¢Ā Redshirt senior Alex Storako brought OU's All-Big 12 total to eight with a selection to the All-Big 12 Second Team.
ā¢Ā Coleman, Jennings and Lyons all earn their third First Team nod while Bahl collects her second in as many years. Hansen, May, Lee and Storako all garnered their first All-Big 12 honors of their respective careers.
COLE WORLD
⢠Oklahoma centerfielder Jayda Coleman has showcased her versatility for the Sooners since she stepped on campus as a freshman in 2021 and her productivity from the leadoff spot for OU has been pivotal to the Sooners success.
⢠Coleman has started every game for the Sooners since 2021, 179 straight, and batted leadoff in 98 of those 179, including 62 straight contests and 73 of OU's last 74 games. In those 98 games when Coleman has started in the leadoff position, OU is 96-2.
⢠The triple threat has shown her power in 2023 with 16 home runs, 15 doubles and a triple, her home run count is T2 on the team, hit (68) count is second, among other team-best categories. For comparison, Coleman hit nine homers as a freshman in 2021 and eight total last season.
⢠Of Coleman's 33 career home runs, nine of those have been leadoff blasts. Additionally, five have been in the first OU at-bat of the game.
⢠The two-time NFCA First Team All-American paces OU in OB% (.543), runs (66), walks (38) and stolen bases (15-15) and is second in HR (16), doubles (15) and hits (68). She ranks in the top 20 nationally in on-base, batting, slugging and runs/game.
BAHLER
⢠Oklahoma sophomore right-handed pitcher Jordy Bahl has followed up a First Team All-American and National Freshman of the Year season with arguably just as good of a sophomore campaign.
⢠The Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and Top-10 Finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, Bahl has paced OU's nation-leading pitching staff with 159 strikeouts and a 1.08 ERA, allowing opponents to bat just .159. Bahl has a team-best six individual shutouts in 2023 and has combined on 11. The Papillion, Neb., product has also thrown one perfect game on the year, combined on two no-hitters and made three saves.
⢠After an arm injury limited Bahl's 2022 postseason, Bahl has regained confidence after an uncharacteristic start to 2023. In her first five appearances of this season: 2.58 ERA with 8 earned runs allowed on 15 hits with 28 strikeouts and 11 walks. In her 28 appearances since: 0.76 ERA with only 11 ER allowed on 54 hits with 131 strikeouts and 23 walks. Coincidentally, those 28 appearances have all come since Oklahoma's sole loss of the season on Feb. 19 at Baylor where Bahl gave up four runs and took the loss.
⢠Furthermore, in Bahl's last 16 appearances (9-0, 56.2 IP), she's allowed four earned runs, 31 hits with 79 K's to 10 BB.
⢠The statistical leader of OU's dominant staff, Bahl already holds second in program history for career opponent batting average (.154) and third in K/7 IP (9.65) and ERA (1.09).
⢠The Papillion, Neb., product has exhibited her athleticism in 2023, batting .406 in 32 at-bats on the year, scoring 11 runs and stealing four bases on five attempts. She's started in the batting order 15 times and been inserted as a pinch runner in six games.
⢠In the Big 12 championship game win over Texas, she scored two runs, had a hit, a stolen base and picked up the save in the circle, tossing a final three scoreless innings.
TIA TIME
⢠Oklahoma junior and two-time unanimous NFCA First Team All-American Tiare Jennings paced the country in runs batted in her freshman (2021) and sophomore (2022) seasons and sits in the top 15 as a junior with a team-best 60 to go with 16 home runs.
⢠A three-time All-Big 12 First Team selection, Jennings burst onto the scene in 2021 with a nation-high and NCAA freshman record 92 runs batted in. The RBI total ranked 10th in NCAA history. She also hit 27 home runs, three shy of the NCAA frosh record, and a single-season program record 25 doubles.
⢠She followed suit a season ago with an NCAA-best 89 RBIs, two ahead of teammate and NCAA career home run record holder Jocelyn Alo. Jennings hit a career single-season best 29 homers in 2022 and has 16 in 2023.
⢠Jennings already ranks third in program history with 72 career home runs, 23 shy of Lauren Chamberlain's No. 2-spot in both program and NCAA history, 95.
⢠The San Pedro, Calif., product sits in the top 10 in school history with 48 doubles, just 10 shy of program record holder Sydney Romero's 58.
HOMER HAPPY
⢠As OU paced the country in home runs each of the past three seasons: NCAA-record 161 in 2021; 155 in 2022; 112 in 2023. OU also ranks first in HR/game (1.96) this season.
⢠In 2023, the Sooners have homered in 50 of 57 games, including 26 of their last 28 and 29 games with multiple home runs. OU hit single-season high six blasts vs. No. 1/1 UCLA (Feb. 26), No. 17/16 Kentucky (March 3), Iowa State (March 25) and most recently vs. Cal in the regional final. The Sooners have hit two-plus in 29 games, three-plus in 15 games, four-plus in eight contests, five-plus in five and six four times in a game this season.
⢠Individually, 13 Sooners have already hit a long ball in 2023 out of the 16 active non-pitchers on the roster. Of those 13, 12 have multiple homers, including nine with three-plus and nine with five or more, paced by Brito's 17. Five Sooners have double-digit long balls on the year.
⢠Brito, Coleman, Hansen, Jennings and Lee all have multi-homer games on the season (Brito, Jennings and Hansen twice).
⢠Additionally, OU has hit five homers in one inning once this year (vs. Kentucky, 3/3), hit four in an inning three times, three-plus in four, and two-plus in 10.
⢠The Sooners have hit back-to-back blasts 10 times this season and three consecutive twice.
⢠219 of OU's 478 runs on the season have come via home run (45.8%).
OUT OF THIS WORLD OFFENSE
⢠Since 2021, Oklahoma has paced the country offensively in several categories. OU led the nation in home runs in 2021 (161) and 2022 (155) and hold the nation's lead with 112 in the 2023 season. Their 2021 mark broke an 11-year NCAA record for single-season home runs.
⢠In OU's recent span of offensive domination, the team has led the country in batting average for three straight seasons: 2021 ā NCAA-record .405; 2022 ā .371; 2023 ā .372
⢠Additionally, the team has paced the country in runs, runs per game and slugging each of the past three seasons. The 2021 team's 638 runs, 10.63 runs/game and .778 SLG % all stand as NCAA records.
⢠In 2023, OU paces the country with:
Ā Ā Ā Ā ā¢Ā 8.39 runs/game
Ā Ā Ā Ā ā¢Ā 1.92 home runs/game
    ⢠.372 batting average
    ⢠.683 slugging percentage
    ⢠.462 on-base percentage
ELITE IN THE CIRCLE
⢠OU's pitching staff has been equally as dominant as the offense the past three seasons. The staff has led the country in shutouts the last two seasons (23 in 2021, school-record 33 in 2022) and are first in 2023 with 32 in OU's 57 games, just one shy of the program record.
⢠The Sooner arms led the country in ERA a season ago with an exceptional 1.05 mark and are on a dominant pace in 2023, ranking first with a 1.00 earned run average.
⢠The staff has four no-hitters in 2023 and one perfect game. Nicole May and Jordy Bahl combined to no-hit Army on Feb. 18 before Alex Storako threw her second career individual no-no vs. Kentucky on March 3. Bahl completed a perfect contest March 10 vs. SELA and most recently May and Deal combined to no-hit Kansas (4/29). These come a year after the staff had six no-hitters and two perfect games.
⢠All four of OU's pitchers hold ERA's less than 1.15, led by May's third-nationally 0.82 average, Bahl's six-spot 1.08 and Storako's eighth-place 1.13.
⢠The quartet has fanned a combined 422 batters in 2023 to go with 89 walks. Bahl leads the group with 159 K's to May's 127 and Storako's 106. The four have allowed opponents to bat just .163 against them and surrendered 50 earned runs (56 R), an average of 0.9/game. In OU's 25 games that they've allowed a run across, the staff has limited the damage with no opponent scoring more than seven runs in 2023 (done once, next highest is four runs, done three times).
MORE NOTES & NUMBERS
⢠OU currently holds the nation's longest active win streak at 48 games (NCAA DI record).
⢠OU's 40+ game win streak marks the fourth consecutive season that's been completed where the Sooners have had a 30+ game win streak: 2019 ā 41; 2021 ā 33; 2022 ā 38; 2023 ā 48 and counting. The Sooners hold the No. 1, 3, 4 and 5 spots in the NCAA record books for longest winning streak, with this season's streak ranking first.
⢠Oklahoma has won 171 of its last 179 games (.955 win %) dating back to the start of the 2021 season.Ā
⢠Of those 179 games, 102 have been run-rule victories (57%).
⢠OU has scored in 206 straight games dating back to a 0-1 shutout at the hands of Alabama on June June 2, 2019 at the WCWS.
⢠Of OU's 20 games against top-25 competition in the regular season, five were run-rule wins. Furthermore, in those 20 ranked victories, the Sooners outscored opponents 147-25.
⢠OU's defense ranks first in the country with an exceptional .988 fielding percentage, committing just 16 errors on the season. The defense has turned 21 double plays in 2023.
⢠Oklahoma looks to be the first team in NCAA Division I history to finish a season first in the country in batting average (.372), fielding percentage (.988) and ERA (1.00), ranking first in all three throughout 2023.
⢠Oklahoma has outhit its opponent in 51 of 57 games on the season, and in the three games they didn't outhit the opposition (at LSU, 4/12; vs. Texas A&M, 2/24), the Sooners won 3-0 and 8-0 in run-rule fashion, respectively. The other four games the hits were tied with OU winning 2-1 over Northwestern, 3-0 over Texas Tech, 4-2 over OSU and 9-2 vs. Clemson.
⢠The Sooners have been dominant across all innings in 2023, but specifically the second inning, outscoring teams 114-3 in the second.
⢠Oklahoma starts fast, scoring in the first inning in 34 of 57 games, including every postseason game this season.
⢠OU has been an exceptional two-out hitting team in 2023 with 194 of 478 (40.5%) runs coming with a pair of outs. The team is batting .367 with two outs, led by Tiare Jennings' .471 average with two away and Jayda Coleman's 24 RBIs with two outs.
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARITA HYNES FIELD
⢠2023 marked the 25th anniversary of historic Marita Hynes Field in Norman. The iconic field that has housed the nation's premier program opened its gates in 1998 and the Sooners have since gone 548-62-1 (.896).
⢠The field, named for former softball coach and senior woman administrator Marita Hynes on April 24, 2004, has a current capacity of 1,378 with standing room for over 2,000. The fan base set a single-game attendance record in the presumed last postseason game at MHF on May 27 vs. Clemson with 2,127 in attendance.
⢠Oklahoma has gone undefeated on its home field four seasons since 1998, including each of the past three years, for a home winning streak of 65 straight. The Sooners last home loss was Feb. 29, 2020, a narrow 4-3 decision to North Texas. Over the past five seasons, OU holds a 113-2 mark at MHF.
⢠2023 is anticipated to be the final season played at Marita Hynes as OU looks to open the state-of-the-art Love's Field in 2024.
CONFERENCE DOMINANCEĀ
⢠After an undefeated 18-0 run in regular season Big 12 play, the Sooners clinched their 11th straight conference regular season crown and eighth Big 12 Tournament title in 2023, the fifth title sweep in program history.
ā¢Ā OU outscored conference foes 124-17 while hitting 34 home runs and surrendering just six. The pitching staff held a 0.72 ERA in conference play and tossed shutouts in nine of OU's 18 league games.
ā¢Ā The Sooners have won 94 of their last 96 Big 12 regular season games and are currently on a 27-game win streak in Big 12 play dating back to April 19, 2022.
ā¢Ā OU has won 54 consecutive conference series (46 sweeps in that span), is unbeaten in their last 72 (68-0-4 in that span) and have not lost a conference series since 2011.
ā¢Ā OU has finished first in the Big 12 over the past 11 seasons with a combined record of 179-15. Prior to OU's current run of 11 straight regular season titles, no team had ever won more than two consecutive.Ā
ā¢Ā Overall, the Sooners have 23 Big 12 titles with 15 regular season crowns and eight Big 12 tournament championships, all under head coach Patty Gasso.
CHAMPIONSHIP MINDSET SERIES STREAMING NOW
⢠The University of Oklahoma Athletics DepartmentĀ and its multimedia rightsholder, LEARFIELD, launched in January "Championship Mindset"Ā āĀ a brand-new original content series exclusively featuring Oklahoma softball.
⢠As the 2023 OU softball team prepares its competitive journey to a third straight national championship, the five-part series delivers authentic, behind-the-scenes access for fans.
⢠"Championship Mindset" will feature never-before-seen interviews with the team's coaches and student-athletes, giving fans a special and unique look into the legacy that is Oklahoma softball.
⢠All five episodes can be viewed on ESPN+, YouTube and on a dedicated page within SoonerSports.com, including snippets on Oklahoma softball's official social platforms.
⢠LEARFIELD's dedicated content team, LEARFIELD Studios, produced and directed the series in complete collaboration with Oklahoma's athletics administration.
LOVE'S FIELD SEAT SELECTION PROCESS COMING IN JUNE
⢠The University of Oklahoma Athletics Department announced Wednesday information on the seat-selection process for Love's Field, OU's new softball stadium that is scheduled to open in spring 2024.
⢠Starting the week of June 12, three priority groups will have the first opportunity to view and select seats via an interactive online Love's Field map, mirroring the platform used for the home-seat upgrade process for football and men's basketball. All three priority groups will be assigned a time in which they can view available inventory and make selections. The assigned selection time and instructions will be provided via email from updates@go.soonersports.com to the address on the OU Athletics account prior to the start of the selection process.
⢠Supporters in each group will be ranked via Sooner Points associated with their OU Athletics account. Sooner Points accumulate for OU Athletics lifetime season ticket purchases, seat-related giving history and attendance.
⢠Click here for more information and to find your group number.
THE TROPHY CLUB
⢠The Oklahoma softball program has announced the launch of its restructured booster club under a new name, The Trophy Club.
⢠The Trophy Club replaces the former Diamond Club as the program's premier booster initiative to continue to enhance the student-athlete experience at Oklahoma, both on and off the field.
⢠Softball fans can join now and take part in exclusive events, including the annual golf tournament, coaches luncheon and more.
For membership details and how donations will be utilized, visit The Trophy Club landing page on SoonerSports.com.
⢠Gifts to the Trophy Club and Oklahoma softball will be utilized for: resources for the development of our student-athletes, facility upgrades to enhance recruiting and student-athlete experiences and improved quality of travel to increase academic participation by our student-athletes.
For updates and more information on Oklahoma softball, follow the Sooners on Twitter and Instagram (@OU_Softball) and likeĀ Oklahoma SoftballĀ on Facebook.