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Patty Gasso, Oklahoma earn NFCA National Coaching Staff of the Year

After another historic season, the Oklahoma Sooners earned the NFCA’s National Coaching Staff of the Year award.

It was another historic season for the Oklahoma Sooners, who earned their fourth consecutive national championship and eighth overall. After a 59-7 season, Big 12 tournament title, and national title, Patty Gasso and her staff were awarded the NFCA Coaching Staff of the Year award for 2024.

The award is voted on by member Division 1 NCAA coaches.

It is the third straight season and the seventh time Gasso and her coaching staff have received the award.

It was a masterful job by Gasso, associate head coaches Jennifer Rocha and J.T. Gasso, and assistant coach Falepolima Steele. In a year where they lost a conference series for the first time in more than a decade and missed out on the regular season title, Gasso and company helped the team rally during a postseason run in which they lost just one game.

Of their 59 wins, 27 came by way of run rule, and the Sooners’ pitching staff recorded 23 shutouts.

In addition to the successful completion of the sport’s first four-peat, Oklahoma opened the largest on-campus softball stadium at Love’s Field. With an expanded capacity, the Sooners averaged 4,328 fans per game for a record attendance of 108,156.

Oklahoma finished the season as the unanimous No. 1 team in the nation after sweeping the Texas Longhorns in the [autotag]Women’s College World Series[/autotag] Finals by a combined score of 16-7.

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Oklahoma Softball promotes J.T. Gasso to Associate Head Coach

Sooners Softball assistant J.T. Gasso was promoted to Associate Head Coach as Oklahoma prepares for the 2024 season.

The Oklahoma Sooners offense has become the most explosive lineup in the nation over the last decade.

Since joining the Sooners staff, Oklahoma has been downright dominant at the plate. One of the people that deserves a lot of credit for the Sooners’ success swinging the bat is J.T. Gasso. Gasso was elevated to associate head coach as the Sooners get ready for the 2024 campaign. He joins pitching coach Jennifer Rocha with associate head coach titles under Patty Gasso.

According to Oklahoma Softball, the Sooners have hit .350 with 800 home runs and have averaged 7.8 runs per game in eight seasons with Gasso on staff. In 2023, four Sooners hit over .400.

During Gasso’s tenure, Jocelyn Alo was a two-time national player of the year and became softball’s all-time leader in home runs.

A big reason the Sooners are expected to contend for a fourth-straight national championship is their offense. Despite the loss of Alo, Oklahoma led the nation in batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base percentage, each by more than 30 percentage points in front of the second place team. They were once again first in home runs per game at 1.89 and runs per game at 8.07.

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Oklahoma Sooners coaching staff receives big honor

The accolades for the Oklahoma Sooners softball team continue to pour in.

The accolades for the Oklahoma Sooners softball team continue to pour in after a historic season.

Grace Lyons (Softball America) and Jayda Coleman (D1Softball) earned defensive player of the year awards, and Jordy Bahl was recognized as D1Softball’s pitcher of the year, but the coaching staff was recognized as well.

They were named D1 National Coaching Staff of the Year by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

The staff consists of head coach Patty Gasso, associate head coach Jennifer Rocha, assistant coach JT Gasso and volunteer assistant Hannah Sparks.

Under the guidance of head coach Patty Gasso, along with associate head coach Jennifer Rocha, assistant coach JT Gasso and volunteer assistant Hannah Sparks, the Sooners (61-1) became just the second team to win three consecutive national titles (UCLA 1988-90) and finished 2023 with a program and NCAA Division I-record 53-game winning streak. They have won five of the last seven national championships and seven overall. Their .984 winning percentage also eclipsed UCLA’s Division I record of .964 (54-2), which stood since 1992. – NFCA

They helped lead the program to its third straight and seventh overall national title in 2023.

According to soonersports.com, this marks the second straight and sixth overall honor for Gasso and her staff. They also received the award in 2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2022.

They also claimed the NFCA’s regional honor for the 15th time in Gasso’s 29 years at the helm.

This comes after a record-breaking season that saw the Sooners go 61-1 and end the year on a 53-game winning streak. The dominant run included a nation-best and program-record 35 shutouts, 29 wins by run rule, and a 28-0 record versus ranked opponents.

It also resulted in the best win percentage in NCAA Division I softball history and Big 12 regular season and tournament titles.

They also led the country in a number of categories, including ERA, batting average, home runs per game, runs per game, and fielding percentage.

This comes after Gasso was named the Big 12 conference’s Co-Coach of the Year with Baylor Bears coach Glenn Moore.

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Oklahoma Softball named NFCA Coaching Staff of the Year

After another incredible run to the national title, led by Patty Gasso, the Sooners were awarded the NFCA Coaching Staff of the Year.

After another dominant run and a second-straight national championship, the Oklahoma Sooners softball program received another honor as the NFCA coaching staff of the year.

The Sooners coaching staff of head coach Patty Gasso, associate head coach Jennefer Rocha, assistant coach J.T. Gasso, and volunteer assistant Kristin Zaleski were instrumental in Oklahoma’s season-long run as the No. 1 team in the nation.

Known for their offensive prowess, the Sooners dominated from the circle in 2022 as well, leading the country in earned run average and shutouts. From the plate, the Sooners finished the season ranked first in home runs, batting average, slugging, on-base percentage, and runs per game according to SoonerSports.com.

They were simply dominant in every facet of the game as they jumped out to an NCAA-record 38-0 start to the 2022 season. Jordy Bahl, Hope Trautwein, and Nicole May combined for 33 shutouts and eight no-hitters on the season.

Oklahoma’s offense dominated leading the Sooners to 41 run-rule wins on their way to a 58-3 record and their sixth national championship.

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