Sooners to host multiple future NCAA postseason events
By Chip Rouse
The Oklahoma Sooners will serve as the host site for four future NCAA postseason events.
The Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, home course for both men’s and women’s Oklahoma golf, will host one of the NCAA men’s regionals in 2023 and a women’s regional two years later, in 2025. In addition, the Lloyd Noble Center will serve as a regional location for an NCAA women’s gymnastics regional in 2023.
The Jimmie Austin Golf Club hosted an NCAA women’s regional just a year ago. Oklahoma sophomore Kaitlin Milligan tied for the individual championship in that event. That was her first collegiate victory.
Jimmie Austin last hosted a men’s regional in 2018. The Par 72, 7,452 yard layout hosted one of the 2018 men’s regional tournaments. The Sooner men finished fourth in the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship that season, held at Karsten Creek Golf club in nearby Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The Sooners’ home golf course is rated No. 6 on Golfweek’s “Best Campus Courses” list.
When the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Regional event comes to Norman in 2023, it will be the sixth time the Sooners have served as one of the regional sites. Oklahoma was slated to host one of the regional competitions in 2020, but that event was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The OU women have won 10 consecutive regional championships, including the last three held in Norman (2015, 2013, 2011).
The Sooners have been crowned NCAA women’s champions four times, including three of the past four seasons.
Oklahoma was already scheduled to host the NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championships in 2022.
The Women’s College World Series is held every year in Oklahoma City. The Sooner softball squad has appeared in eight of the last nine WCWS, winning three national championships (2013, 2016 and 2017).