Jocelyn Alo is National Player of the Year AGAIN!

The Home run Queen Jocelyn Alo has won her second consecutive USA Softball National Player of the Year award.

She is the second Oklahoma player to do so, with Keilani Ricketts also accomplishing this historic feat in both 2011 and 2012.  Only Cat Osterman of Texas has won the award more times than Alo, who also joined UCLA’s Rachel Garcia, Washington’s Danielle Lawrie as the other two-time winners.

The difference is every player who has won the award multiple times before Alo was a pitcher. A pitcher can have a great impact on a game, much like a quarterback in football, because the ball starts in their hand before every pitch.

Alo was so dominate predominantly as hitter. The accomplishment is quite frankly unheard of. In fact, since the award began in 2002, before Alo only three non-pitchers had ever won the award. The reality is, the woman labeled the home run queen impacts a game more than any hitter EVER HAS IN THIS SPORT.

Sooner Nation will never forget the contributions made by Jocelyn Alo, and perhaps Joe Castiglione might consider putting a statue up outside of Love’s Field when it is finally completed. Alo is so dedicated to her craft she has been practicing her swing since she was just four years old, begging her dad for more reps and opportunities. Her family, dedicated to her dreams would fly her from Hawaii to California every summer to do travel ball.

All the memories, and more yet to be made. How can you forget this clutch play that engineered the comeback for the Sooners in last years WCWS? Down 2-1 and down 0-1 in the series, who would you rather have?

If you have been paying attention to Alo’s career at OU, none of this is a surprise. As a true freshman, she was already the Queen. It was just a matter of when she would break Sooner legend Lauren Chamberlain’s record.

They say records are made to be broken, but good luck getting to 117 home runs in a college career. For now, the record will likely be far more out of reach than that after the WCWS. Alo’s final official at-bat at Marita Hynes Field ended just like her first, with the ball leaving the field of play for a home run.