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Oklahoma softball: Sooners’ record-shattering 2021 season no joke

By Chip Rouse

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA - JUNE 10: The Oklahoma Sooners celebrate with National Championship trophy after winning Game 3 of the Women's College World Series Championship against the Florida St. Seminoles at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium on June 10, 2021 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Sooners won 5-1. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA - JUNE 10: The Oklahoma Sooners celebrate with National Championship trophy after winning Game 3 of the Women's College World Series Championship against the Florida St. Seminoles at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium on June 10, 2021 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Sooners won 5-1. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) /
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Oklahoma softball in 2021 comprised a 60-game schedule and was a season like no other in program history — ending like one that highly celebrated should: in a national championship.

On the way to the school’s fifth national championship in softball, Oklahoma collected 56 wins with just four losses. The win total, which also included a ninth consecutive Big 12 championship and 13 overall, did not set a school record. It actually ranked seventh in program history.

But that was one of the few records this Oklahoma team did not set in what was truly an unprecedented championship season.\

In all, the 2021 Sooner softball team, in its 27th season under head coach Patty Gasso, broke or tied nearly 50 single season and all-time team, individual and NCAA records.

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These included eight NCAA single-season records, six Women’s College World Series records, 13 Oklahoma program records, six NCAA postseason records, six individual season program records, seven Big 12 team records and three NCAA single game program records.

You can review the entire list of Oklahoma and NCAA records equaled or broken by the Sooners in the 2021 season by clicking here.

The 2021 national champions broke NCAA single-season records for team batting average (.405), home runs (161), on-base percentage (.490), slugging percentage (.778), runs scored (638) and total bases (1,279).

The Sooners hit an NCAA-record 13 home runs in one game this season versus the University of Texas-El Paso.

Oklahoma’s 15 home runs and 49 runs scored in this year’s Women’s College World Series were both WCWS records.

On an individual level, Jocelyn Alo’s .475 batting average and 34 home runs set a new Oklahoma program record, and freshman Tiare Jennings’ 92 RBI was both a program record and an NCAA freshman record.

If this Oklahoma team wouldn’t have fought its way back from an opening-game WCWS loss, as well as an opening-game loss in the best-of-three championship series, and won the championship, it would have been a giant disappointment for a team that had accomplished so much along the journey.

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