Patty Gasso

Softball Coach for the University of Oklahoma; Eight-Time National Champion

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Patty Gasso Biography

Patty Gasso, a NFCA Hall of Fame head coach, is entering her 31st season at the University of Oklahoma in 2025. She has molded the OU softball program into a national power and permanently placed herself among the elite college softball coaches in the country.

Oklahoma has won eight national championships, is the only NCAA softball program to win four consecutive national championships and is one of just three programs in NCAA history to win more than two national titles. Gasso has reached the Women’s College World Series 17 times during her tenure, and has advanced to the postseason in each one of her 30 seasons.

With 34 seasons as a head coach to her name, Gasso has a career collegiate coaching record of 1,676-411-3 (.802) and holds a record of 1,515-352-2 (.811) at OU.

She closed her time in the Big 12 as the winningest coach, men's or women's, in the league’s history and has more than twice as many overall wins as any other coach in OU annals. The Sooners claimed 15 Big 12 regular season titles, including an unprecedented 11 straight from the 2012 season through 2023, and nine conference tournament titles under her direction. Gasso’s teams finished second or higher 24 times in the 28 years since the inception of the Big 12 in 1996.

Numerous Sooner players have prospered under Gasso’s tutelage and garnered national, regional and conference recognition. Most recently, Jocelyn Alo helped lead the Sooners to back-to-back titles en route to winning consecutive USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year awards in 2021 and 2022. Keilani Ricketts was also a two-time USA Softball Player of the Year in 2012 and 2013. Gasso has recruited and coached 84 All-Americans, 153 All-Region honors and 201 all-conference selections at OU.

In the Big 12 era, Sooners have been named Big 12 Player of the Year a total of 16 times and Big 12 Pitcher of the Year nine times, while nine have been selected as Big 12 Freshman of the Year and one as Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. In 2010, Amber Flores became the first player in league history to earn player-of-the-year honors twice, Shelby Pendley joined her in 2015 before Alo claimed the honor in consecutive seasons in 2021 and 2022.

The OU softball success under Gasso has also spilled over into the classroom where the Sooners have been honored with 170 academic all-conference honors. Twenty of those have gone on to become Academic All-Americans, including Lana Moran, the 2000 Academic All-American of the Year.

Gasso and her staff have consistently been recognized for their efforts on and off the field. The staff was awarded three consecutive Speedline/NFCA Midwest Region Coaching Staff of the Year awards from 1999-2001 and received the national honor in 2000, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2023. Gasso and staff have claimed the regional honor in 15 of their 29 seasons, with the most recent award coming in 2023. In addition, Gasso has been named the Big 12 Coach of the Year 15 times.

Patty Gasso Videos

  • Conversations with Coach | Patty Gasso
    Patty Gasso and Bob Stoops won their first national championships the same year — 2000. Gasso kept going and has never stopped. Seven national...
  • The Softball America Podcast - Oklahoma Head Coach Patty Gasso
    Tara Henry kicks off the 2024 season of the Softball America Podcast with Patty Gasso, the head coach of the three-time defending national champions...

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