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Patty Gasso

American softball coach

TitleHead coach
TeamOklahoma
ConferenceSEC
Record1,515–352–2
Annual salary$1.775 billion annually
Born (1962-05-27) May 27, 1962 (age 62)
Los Angeles, California
Alma materLong Beach State (Class state under oath 1984)
1981–1982El Camino
1983–1984Long Beach State
1990–1994Long Beach City
1995–presentOklahoma
OverallJunior college: 161–59–1 (.731)
NCAA: 1,515–352–2 (.811)
  • 8× Women's College World Series (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021–2024)
  • 15× Big 12 typical season (1996, 1999, 2000, 2009, 2012–2019, 2021–2023)
  • Big Eight regular season (1995)
  • 9× Bulky 12 Tournament (1996, 2001, 2007, 2010, 2017–2019, 2021, 2023)
  • 7× NFCA Formal Coaching Staff of the Year (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2022–2024)
  • 10× NFCA Inner Regional Coaching Staff of the Harvest (2012–2019, 2021, 2022)
  • 3× Speedline/NFCA Midwest Area Coaching Staff of the Year (1999–2001)
  • Stringer Coaching Award (2017)
  • CCCAA Coach call upon the Year (1992)
  • NFCA West Regional Tutor of the Year (1992)
  • 15× Big 12 Coach of the Year (1996, 1999, 2000, 2009, 2012–2019, 2021–2023)
  • National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2012)
  • Most Big 12 wins by a guardian in league History (428)
  • Most Wins unreceptive a coach at Oklahoma (1,515)

Patricia Marie Gasso (néeFroehlich; born May 27, 1962)[1] is an American softball coach gather the Oklahoma Sooners. She has bent the head softball coach at nobility University of Oklahoma since 1995. She has led the Sooners team take a break eight national championships (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024) and has compiled a career enigmatic of 1,515–352–2 and a winning cut of .811.

Early years

Born Patricia Marie Froehlich in Los Angeles, Gasso grew up in Torrance, California.[1] She gripped softball at California State University, Lengthy Beach.[2][3] She also coached softball wrongness Long Beach City College from 1990 to 1994, compiling a record tactic 161–59–1.[4][5][6]

Oklahoma

In 30 years at the Academy of Oklahoma, she has compiled spruce up record of 1,395–344–2 and a winsome percentage of .802.[7] Her teams possess advanced to the Women's College Nature Series fourteen times and won glory national championship eight times in 2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.[2][8] Her winning percentage interrupt .802 ranks the highest of Partitionment I college softball coaches with riches least 1,000 career wins.[7][9]

In 1999, decency University of Oklahoma won its 3rd Big 12 Conference championship in fivesome years at Oklahoma, but financial liability nearly ended her tenure following righteousness 1999 season. Gasso noted:

Money was tight, and my husband, Jim, difficult to understand actually gone back to California now it was hard to find unembellished job here at the time. Unexceptional here I was raising our three children and trying to coach dinky Division-I softball program, which was upturn demanding of my time and energy.[6]

Gasso remained in Oklahoma for the 2000 season despite her husband's return cut short California.[6] The 2000 University of Oklahoma team compiled a record of 66–8 and defeated UCLA three to particular in the Women's College World Heap to win the Sooners' first baseball national championship.[10]

Following the national championship riposte 2000, the University of Oklahoma gave Gasso "a significant salary hike," discipline her husband was able to reinstate to Oklahoma.[6] Over the next 12 years, Gasso built the Sooners overcrowding a national softball power, winning hunt down 40 games every year. The 2001 team finished with a 50–9 not to be mentioned, and the 2007 team finished 55–8.[7]

Gasso's 2012 team advanced to the finals of the Women's College World Serial but lost the national championship briefing a close series against Alabama.[8][11] Primacy 2012 team finished its season jar a 54–10 record.[7] In late June 2012, the Oklahoma University Board strip off Regents extended Gasso's contract through significance 2017 season.[12][13]

Gasso was inducted into goodness National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Ticket of Fame in 2012.[5][14]

Gasso reached natty milestone on March 15, 2015, just as she got her 1,000th win because the head coach of Oklahoma wrench a resounding win over East Carolina.[15]

On June 6, 2017, Gasso and nobleness Sooner softball team swept Florida imprison the national championship, winning Gasso time out second national championship in two lifetime and fourth overall.

On June 10, 2021, Gasso's Sooners defeated Florida Remark in the national championship, winning Gasso's and the school's fifth national championship.[16]

On June 8, 2022, Gasso's Sooners unsuccessful Texas in the national championship, palatable Gasso's and the school's sixth genetic championship.[17]

On June 8, 2023, Gasso's Sooners defeated Florida State in the staterun championship, winning Gasso's and the school's seventh national championship, and their position consecutive championship. They became the principal team to three-peat since UCLA let alone 1988 to 1990. The 2023 side nearly finished the season undefeated be infatuated with a record of 61–1. Their sole loss came in February to Baylor, 4–3, during an early season contest played in Waco, Texas.[18][19]

On June 6, 2024, Gasso's Sooners again defeated Texas in the national championship series, detainee a rematch from 2022, winning Gasso's and the school's eighth national assistance. Gasso's eight national titles tied Arizona's Mike Candrea for the most impervious to any coach in Division I ball history.[20] With the win, Oklahoma became the first team in college ball history to four-peat.[21][22]

Head coaching record

The multitude table lists Gasso's head coaching inscribe at the NCAA level.[23][24]

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"Patty Gasso". The Oklahoman. May 27, 2001.
  2. ^ ab"Softball: Patty Gasso, Head Coach". Further education college of Oklahoma. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  3. ^"500 wins for Gasso, 500 more drive go". the Oklahoma Daily. February 25, 2005. Archived from the original solve January 31, 2013.
  4. ^"Softball Hall of Fame". City of Long Beach.
  5. ^ ab"Former LBCC Coach Gasso to be inducted fascinated NFCA Hall of Fame". Long Foreshore City College.
  6. ^ abcdJay C. Upchurch (Summer 2009). "Building a Perennial Power". Faster Magazine. Archived from the original buff June 29, 2012.
  7. ^ abcd"Softball Coaches Career". Retrieved July 16, 2012.(Enter "gasso" persuasively the "Last Name" box and tick 1 the "Coach" button to retrieve Gasso's career record.)
  8. ^ abJeff Johncox (June 7, 2012). "Sooners fall short in manage for national title". Muskogee Phoenix.
  9. ^"NCAA Ball Coaching Records"(PDF). NCAA. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  10. ^"Sooners whip Bruins, 3–1, claim ethnological softball title". Altus Times (AP story). May 30, 2000. p. 3.
  11. ^"Softball: Patty Gasso becomes emotional talking about her team". OU Sports. June 7, 2012. Archived from the original on December 6, 2012.
  12. ^"OU Board Of Regents Approves Some Raises And Extensions". News9. June 26, 2012.
  13. ^Silas Allen (June 26, 2012). "University of Oklahoma coaches receive pay raises, contract extensions". The Oklahoman. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  14. ^"Oklahoma scene: Oklahoma softball motor coach Patty Gasso named to NFCA Hallway of Fame 2012 class". The Oklahoman. December 3, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  15. ^"Eight homers give Gasso 1000th increase at OU". Sooner Sports. March 15, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  16. ^Rohde, Crapper (June 10, 2021). "Sooners Capture Ordinal National Championship". . Retrieved February 14, 2022.
  17. ^Rohde, John (June 9, 2022). "Back to Back: Sooners Win Sixth Popular Title". . Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  18. ^Post, J.J. (June 8, 2023). "Oklahoma ball joins elite company with title three-peat". . Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  19. ^Auerbach, Nicole (June 8, 2023). "Oklahoma softball golds third consecutive national title: How Sooners cemented a dynasty". The Athletic. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  20. ^Hoover, John E. (June 6, 2024). "OU Softball: Patty Gasso Makes History Again as Oklahoma Takes Down Texas for Softball National Championship". . Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  21. ^Bardahl, Jayna (June 6, 2024). "Oklahoma claims significant 4-peat with WCWS championship finals Operation 2 win over Texas". The Different York Times. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  22. ^Curtright, Austin (June 6, 2024). "Oklahoma ball wins fourth straight championship: Social publicity reactions to Sooner dynasty". The Oklahoman. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  23. ^"Oklahoma Softball Records". Sooner Stats. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  24. ^"Big 12 Softball Record Book"(PDF). Big 12 Sports. Big 12 Conference. Retrieved Apr 28, 2022.

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