The Oklahoma Sooners have already hit more home runs than any other SEC softball team ever. And we're just now getting started.
The No. 4 Sooners on Saturday broke the SEC record for most home runs by a team in a single season with 122 during their 10-0 run-rule road victory over Ole Miss in what was just OU's 32nd game of the season. That means OU set the full-season record with 23 games still left to pad the stat, and that's not even including the postseason, so the Sooners could put up a total that will never be touched again. OU got to this point so quickly after also getting to 100 homers faster than any other team in NCAA history.
Sooners break SEC single-season home run record
No. 122 📈@KendallWells__ | #ChampionshipMindset https://t.co/1cqiUdfCcV pic.twitter.com/N5mO8ZmRxs
— Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) March 22, 2026
OU broke the previous record of 121 that it set just last season in its first year in the conference. The Sooners are also on pace to shatter their own NCAA record for home runs in a season that they set at 161 in 2021. In 2021, OU averaged 2.7 homers a game. Through 32 games so far this season, the Sooners are averaging 3.8. That would easily surpass history if it holds steady at all.
Freshman sensation Kendall Wells has been the surprise leader of the Sooners' unbelievable home-run outburst. She leads all of college softball with 24 home runs, which is on track to notch her own personal record. Arizona's Laura Espinoza's mark of 37 homers in a season has held since 1995, but with at least 23 games still left on her schedule and only getting better, Wells could be the one to finally set a new record.
OU's Gabbie Garcia and Ella Parker also entered the weekend in the top 10 in the country for home runs with 14 apiece, which tied for the eighth-most. Kasidi Pickering was also tied for 16th with 12 as Sooners are scattered among college softball's best in nearly every offensive category.
These video-game numbers seem unreal, and early on through OU's nonconference schedule, it seemed impossible for the Sooners to continue at such a pace. But even as SEC play has started, the Sooners keep hitting balls over the fence historically well, with Wells tallying two more just on Saturday to obtain the latest record. At this point, these Sooners haven't given any reason to believe they're finished rewriting record books this season.