18 WCWS Appearances

2021 National Champions

With five straight NCAA regional championships from 2000-04, OU became the first team east of Pac-12 country to make five straight appearances in the Women's College World Series. Oklahoma returned to the pinnacle of college softball again each year from 2011-14 and 2016-25 (tournament not played in 2020). With titles in 2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Sooners are the only program in softball history to win four straight NCAA Championships, one of three in history to win more than two national titles, one of four programs to go back-to-back and one of three to accomplish the feat twice.

The following is a look back at each of Oklahoma's 18 trips to the WCWS in Oklahoma City.

2025 WCWS

OU reached its ninth consecutive trip to the WCWS and 18th overall after sweeping the Norman Regional as well as Norman Super Regional. The Sooners won four of their five games in regional and super regional play by way of run-rule, including a 13-2 win against No. 15 Alabama to clinch the latest trip to the WCWS. With the ninth straight trip to OKC, the Sooners continued the longest active streak of WCWS appearances in the country. The Sooners did this all with 14 newcomers.

The Sooners' 2025 in OKC will be remembered with dramatic home runs, one of which was a walk-off. The Sooners went 2-2 in the WCWS, advancing to their ninth straight WCWS Semifinals. In the opening round, Ella Parker hit a walk-off three-run home run down 0-1 in the count off No. 7 Tennessee's Karlyn Pickens, giving the Sooners a 4-3 win. After dropping the 1-0 game to No. 6 Texas, OU bounced back with a 4-1 win against No. 16 Oregon, getting two home runs from Cydney Sanders and another from Isabela Emerling. Oklahoma faced No. 12 Texas Tech in the semifinals, going up against Nijaree Canady. Trailing 2-0 with two outs in the top of the seventh, junior Abigale Dayton connected on an 0-2 pitch to hit a dramatic two-run home run to tie the game up. Tech would walk off in the bottom of the seventh as OU concluded the season 52-9.

Ella Parker and Sam Landry were named to the WCWS All-Tournament Team as the Sooners capped off a stretch of four-straight national championships, the only such stretch in the history of the game.

2025 marked OU's first season as a member of the Southeastern Conference, and it was a memorable one. The Sooners went 17-7 in league play, winning the SEC Regular Season Championship while earning a share of the tournament title. Gabbie Garcia hit another thrilling walk-off home run for the Sooners in the SEC Tournament Semifinals, ending the game with a three-run home run to help OU to an 8-6 win against No. 6/7 Arkansas. The championship game against Texas A&M was canceled due to poor weather, bringing the two teams to a share of the title.

Oklahoma had four NFCA All-Americans, two CSC Academic All-Americans and a gold glove winner in 2025. Ella Parker and Kasidi Pickering were both named NFCA First Team All-Americans, Sam Landry was named to the second team and Gabbie Garcia earned third team recognition. Ailana Agbayani won the program's second ever Rawlings Gold Glove, committing only three errors all year at second base. Agbayani and Pickering were both named to the CSC Academic All-American teams.

2024 WCWS

Oklahoma is the only softball program to win four straight NCAA Championships, capping its historic run with a pair of victories (8-3, 8-4) over Texas at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. The Sooners finished the season 59-7 (.893).

OU has won six of the last eight national crowns, seven of the last 11 and eight overall (all since 2000), tying Arizona (8) for the second most all-time. Only UCLA (12) owns more championships

2023 WCWS

The 2023 Sooners finished with a 61-1 record and now own the highest final winning percentage (.984) in Division I history, surpassing UCLA's 1992 squad that finished 54-2 (.964). OU beat No. 3-seed Florida State in two games (5-0, 3-1) in the championship series to cap off a postseason sweep.

OU finished the 2023 campaign with a NCAA Division I record 53-game winning streak.

The Sooners are national champs for the third straight season, joining UCLA (1988-90) as the only other school to three-peat.

The Sooners made the season look easy – leading the nation in 10 statistical team categories, posting 35 shutouts and suffering only one loss (4-3 in a non-conference game at Baylor on Feb. 19).

2022 WCWS

A ridiculously remarkable, record-setting season ended with the Sooners clutching the program's sixth NCAA championship trophy.

Such an achievement came as no surprise given OU spent every week atop the national rankings while leading Division I teams in a gaggle of categories both at the plate and in the pitcher's circle.

The title clincher came with a 10-5 victory over Red River rival and fellow Big 12 rep Texas before an appreciative crowd of 12,257 at USA Softball Stadium. The Sooners have now won four of the last six championships staged (COVID canceled the 2020 tournament) and their six crowns trail only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) all-time.

OU finished 59-3 (.952) overall.

As that record suggests, the Sooners disposed of opponents in an authoritative manner that included 41 run-rule victories, 33 shutouts, eight no-hitters, holding opponents to one run or fewer 49 times, hitting home runs in 56 of 62 games, plus numerous other mind-boggling superlatives.

These type things tend to happen when your team has five first-team All-Americans, a group led by super senior Jocelyn Alo, the sport's new career home run queen (122) who also became the first player in history to hit 30 home runs and bat .500 in the same season, finishing with a .512 average.

Fellow All-Americans Jayda Coleman (.419), Tiare Jennings (.400) and Grace Lyons (.400) all hit .400 or better while true freshman pitcher Jordy Bahl finished with a 22-1 record and a 1.16 ERA with 207 strikeouts in 145 1/3 innings.

All things considered, a strong argument can be made this might be the greatest collegiate softball team ever assembled.

2021 WCWS

Rewriting the Division I softball record book in 2021 would have meant nothing had Oklahoma failed to win the national title in the final chapter. The top-seeded Sooners indeed closed the book at the Women's College World Series by claiming their third national crown in the last five seasons with a 5-1 triumph over 10th-seeded Florida State before a crowd of 10,830 at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium.

En route to winning their fifth championship, the Sooners set multiple single-season NCAA records, including team batting average, team slugging percentage, on-base percentage, home runs and runs scored, among others. After much ado about the OU offense the entire season – and understandably so – it was the overwhelmingly reliable pitching of senior lefthander Giselle Juarez that stabilized the Sooners (56-4).

Voted the WCWS Most Outstanding Player, Juarez (23-1) pushed her record to 5-0 in the tournament by allowing just one run on two hits, striking out seven and walking two for her second complete game in roughly 20 hours.
The season's final conquest began with Alo adding to her single-season school record by swatting her 34th home run of the season with a solo shot to left field in the bottom of the first inning.

Freshman centerfielder Jayda Coleman followed with a solo blast of her own to left in the second inning. It was the 45th multi-home run game of the season for the Sooners, who hit homers in 58 of their 60 games. They also set WCWS records for home runs (15), runs scored (49) and hits (67).

Not only did the Sooners set Division I single-season records for most home runs and runs scored, they achieved this in far fewer games than previous record-setters. Hawaii set the home run record of 158 in 2010 after playing 66 games, while Arizona's record of 629 runs scored in 1995 came in 72 games.

2019 WCWS

The Sooners battled through Oklahoma State and Alabama to advance to the 2019 WCWS Championship Series. After dropping the first game to second-seeded UCLA, the top-ranked, top-seeded Sooners were one out away from forcing extra innings in Game 2, but a two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning scored the game-winning run in UCLA's 5-4 title victory.

OU senior Shay Knighten drilled a two-out solo home run just over the wall in left-center with two outs in the top of the seventh inning to tie the score at 4 before UCLA walked it off with an RBI from Kinsley Washington.

The sequence brought an end to the most successful senior class in OU softball history (232-27). The group won national titles their freshman and sophomore seasons, finished fourth as juniors and second as seniors.

The Sooners (57-6), who rank third in all-time national titles behind UCLA (12) and Arizona (eight), were looking for their fifth national championship. Instead, OU finished as national runner-up for the second time, matching 2012 when Alabama edged the Sooners by the same 5-4 score in the deciding game.

Sydney Romero, Nicole Mendes and Jocelyn Alo were named to the all-tournament team.

2018 WCWS

Oklahoma's quest to become only the second team in history to win three straight NCAA crowns came to an end at the WCWS. After an opening-round 2-0 loss to Washinton, Oklahoma fought back through the loser's bracket with a pair of 2-0 wins over Arizona State and Florida, only to fall to Washington again in the semifinals, 3-0.

The 2018 Sooners finish with a 57-5 record, good for a .919 winning percentage that ranks second in school annals. The senior class concluded its OU career with a 224-31 record over four years.

2017 WCWS

Back-to-Back National Titles

Tenth-seeded Oklahoma took the hard route out of the Norman Regional after losing its opening game with North Dakota State, 3-2, in nine innings. From there, OU survived elimination games with Arkansas and NDSU to reach the finals with Tulsa. Oklahoma was down 4-2 entering the 10th against the Golden Hurricane but Caleigh Clifton hit a game-tying two-run home run and Sydney Romero followed later with a walk-off, two-run shot to extend OU's season. Oklahoma came back the next day and advanced with a 3-0 win over Tulsa.According to ESPN research, the Sooners became just the eighth team out of 416 since 2005 to advance to the Super Regionals after losing their opening game of the postseason.

The Sooners then visited No. 7 Auburn in the Super Regional. In Game One, Paige Parker struck out 14 in a 4-0 shutout, while Oklahoma punched their ticket to the WCWS with a 5-2 win in game two.

In the WCWS opener, Nicole Pendley's three-run homer highlighted a four-run first inning as the Sooners held off Big 12 foe and 15th-seeded Baylor, 6-3. The win matched the Sooners up with No. 6 Washington and OU prevailed with a 3-1 win as Sydney Romero homered and Paige Parker and Paige Lowary combined to give up just one run on three hits. OU then reached the WCWS Championship Series behind a 4-2 win over Oregon. The Ducks led 2-0 after the top of the fifth, but the Sooners became the first team in the 2017 WCWS to take the lead after trailing behind a four-run fifth inning.

Game one of the WCWS Championship Series was an instant classic as the Sooners prevailed 7-5 in 17 innings, the longest game in Finals history (since 2005). Twice Oklahoma had Florida down to its final out, but the Gators rallied in the bottom of the seventh and bottom of the 12th to prolong the game. In the top of the 17th, Shay Knighten hit a three-run homer to put the Sooners up for good. Paige Lowary threw a career-high 10.1 innings to earn the win for OU.

Oklahoma swept the WCWS Championship Series with a 5-4 win in game two. Mendes hit a solo home run to lead off the game, only to see Florida pull ahead 3-1 going to the bottom of the second. Knighten was again the hero as she hit a bases-loaded double, turning a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead. Four pitchers combined on the win as the Sooners won their second straight title, third in the last five years and fourth overall.

2016 WCWS

Oklahoma Takes Home Third National Title

Third-seeded Oklahoma breezed through the Norman Regional as it went 3-0 with a win over Wichita State and a pair of victories against Ole Miss. OU outscored the opposition, 19-3.

The Sooners then hosted No. 14 Louisiana-Lafayette in the Super Regional. The Ragin' Cajuns entered as the nation's leading team in homers per game, but OU emerged with an 8-2 win in game one before holding off ULL in game two, 7-6, to reach its 10th Women's College World Series.

In the WCWS opener, Oklahoma went to extra innings with No. 6 Alabama before Shay Knighten's three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth. OU starter Paige Parker struck out seven while throwing a four-hit shutout. Oklahoma moved on to face the tournament's highest remaining seed, No. 2 Michigan. The Sooners jumped out to a 4-0 lead after 3.5 innings, but had to hold off a Wolverines' rally that saw Michigan put the winning run on base in a 7-5 win. To reach the WCWS Finals, OU used a three-run fourth inning to pull away from No. 10 LSU en route to a 7-3 victory.

In game one of the WCWS Finals against No. 4 Auburn, freshman Sydney Romero's three-run homer in the third inning proved the difference in a 3-2 victory for OU. Auburn hit a two-run homer in the seventh and threatened to tie the game or take the lead with two in scoring position and one out, but freshman Shay Knighten knocked down a grounder at first base and threw home as sophomore catcher Lea Wodach applied the tag to nail the tying run. A pop up then ended the game.

Oklahoma jumped out to a 7-0 lead after the top of the second in game two, but Auburn answered with 11 unanswered runs to force a decisive game three with an 11-7 victory in eight innings.

In the final game of the WCWS Finals, OU scored twice in the first inning and Parker threw a complete game with just one run allowed to post a 2-1 victory and the team's third national title. An Auburn error and infield single from freshman Fale Aviu accounted for all of the Sooner runs in the first, while Parker retired the last 12 batters of the game.

2014 WCWS

Seventh-seeded Oklahoma went undefeated through the Regionals before facing Tennessee in a rematch of the 2013 national title series. It took three games but OU defeated the Lady Vols to reach its fourth straight WCWS. After an opening-round loss to Alabama, the Sooners stayed alive by topping Louisiana-Lafayette. Ultimately, the season ended with a loss to top-seeded Oregon.

2013 WCWS

Oklahoma Wins Second National Title

Top-seeded Oklahoma made quick work of its opponents en route to a third-straight trip to the Women's College World Series. Hosting the Norman Regional, OU went 3-0 with a combined score of 41-6 in a win over Marist and two over Arkansas.

The Sooners then hosted No. 16 Texas A&M in the Super Regional but easily bested the Aggies, winning each game by run-rule and outscoring A&M 18-2.

Keilani Ricketts opened the 2013 WCWS with a 7-1 no-hitter against eighth-seeded Michigan, the 17th in history. From there, OU took down Big 12-rival No. 10 Texas with a 10-2, five-inning win and then defeated 11th-ranked Washington, 6-2, to earn a date with No. 7 Tennessee in the Championship Series.

Game one featured 10 scoreless innings before Tennessee hit a three-run home run in the 11th. OU responded with three runs of its own in the bottom, including a pair of run-producing hits with the Sooners down to their final strike. In the 12th inning, Lauren Chamberlain hit a two-run, walk-off home run to get the win.

In game two, Ricketts drove in all four runs, while Michelle Gascoigne struck out 12 in a three-hit shutout to give Oklahoma its second national title.

2012 WCWS

Oklahoma made consecutive WCWS appearances for the first time since 2003-04 with a dominant run through its Regional and Super Regional in Norman. The fourth-seeded Sooners swept five straight games by a combined score of 45-5.

The winning continued in Oklahoma City as OU knocked off South Florida (5-1), No. 1 Cal (3-0) and No. 3 Arizona State (5-3) to advance to the championship series vs. No. 2 Alabama.

The Sooners and Crimson Tide split the first two games to send the series to a winner-take-all final. In a game delayed nearly three hours due to rain, Alabama rallied from a 3-0 deficit by scoring four runs in the fourth inning and ultimately held on, 5-4, to become the first SEC team to win an NCAA softball title.

2011 WCWS

Oklahoma made its 18th straight postseason appearance and opened at home as the nation's No. 9 seed. OU got past Iona (7-1) and Tulsa (6-0) before the Golden Hurricane forced the "if necessary" game with a 4-3, nine-inning win. OU responded from the loss by winning 5-0 to advance to the NCAA Super Regional against eighth-seeded Arizona in Tucson.

OU fired all on all cylinders throughout the weekend, downing the Wildcats in two straight games (6-0 and 5-2) to wins its first Super Regional and return to the WCWS for the first time since 2004. The Sooners fell to No. 1 Arizona State 3-1 in the opening round before being eliminated by Missouri 4-1.

2004 WCWS

OU faced another daunting task when it learned of its NCAA Regional schedule as it was headed to No. 1 Arizona as the No. 2 seed in the toughest regional in the tournament.

Oklahoma faced the No. 1 Wildcats in the winner's bracket and upset Arizona, 3-2. The top-ranked Wildcats were knocked out by Louisiana-Lafayette in the loser's bracket final. The Rajin' Cajuns, who had to beat the Sooners twice, topped OU in the first game but Oklahoma responded with a 15-0 run rule to advance to its fifth WCWS.

Facing all Pac-10 schools, Oklahoma opened with a win in Oklahoma City by topping Washington, 6-2. That would prove to be OU's lone win at the WCWS as Cal (2-1) and Stanford (3-2) each earned wins to eliminate OU.

2003 WCWS

Different from their first three WCWS appearances, the Sooners had to do it on the road as they were sent to Gainesville, Fla., for the NCAA Regional.

It didn't phase the Sooners as OU swept through the regional with the closest margin of victory being four runs. Oklahoma knocked off Bethune Cookman, South Florida, Texas-Arlington and Oregon State on its way to its fourth consecutive Women's College World Series appearance.

After a 3-1 loss in the opener to Washington, Oklahoma snapped its five-game WCWS losing streak with a 6-3 win in nine innings over Alabama. The Sooners' run came to an end later in the day, however, when they were sent home by Cal, 5-2.

2002 WCWS

The Sooners faced a tough task as they hosted top-seeded Texas in the Norman Regional.

Oklahoma opened the regional with victories over Utah and Texas A&M before facing Texas and Olympic pitcher Cat Osterman. The Sooners avenged a loss to the Longhorns in the Big 12 Tournament as they scored four runs and advanced to the regional finals with a 4-1 win.

Texas A&M knocked off Texas again and OU topped the Aggies 4-1 in the final to advance to its third straight Women's College World Series.

The Sooners went 0-2 in Oklahoma City, though. After losing 4-2 to eventual national champion Cal, OU was eliminated with a 2-0 loss to UCLA.

2001 WCWS

A year after winning the national title and becoming only the second non-west coast team to win a softball national championship, the Sooners were back in the title hunt again.

Once again, OU swept through its home regional after beating Lehigh, North Carolina and No. 12 Washington (twice) to advance to its second straight WCWS.

The Sooners carried the nation's longest winning streak into the World Series, but went 1-2 and were eliminated by LSU in a heartbreaking 2-1, 13-inning game.

2000 WCWS

OU Wins First National Title

The Sooners swept through their home regional as they defeated Harvard, Cal State-Northridge and beat Oregon State twice to make their first ever appearance in the World Series.

The Sooner magic continued in Oklahoma City as Oklahoma opened the series with a 2-1 win over California and knocked off Southern Mississippi and perennial powerhouse Arizona to advance to the title game against UCLA.

Using a 3-1 win over the Bruins, OU claimed its first national title in program history.

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