NORMAN — College of Oklahoma head softball coach Patty Gasso was named USA Softball Ladies’s Nationwide Staff (WNT) head coach, USA Softball introduced Monday. Gasso was chosen by the USA Softball Choice Evaluate panel and can lead the U.S. Olympic Staff by the 2025-28 quadrennial cycle, which incorporates the LA28 Olympic Video games.
“It’s actually a outstanding second in my profession and a dream come true to be requested to teach Staff USA,” stated Gasso, who turns into the seventh feminine head coach of the WNT. “That is the very best honor I might ever obtain, and I am humbled by and grateful for the arrogance USA Softball has in me. I’ve an intense ardour to make Staff USA one of the best it may be to assist win the gold medal in 2028.”
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Gasso has been concerned with the USA Softball Ladies’s Nationwide Staff program since 2018, teaching the U.S. Ladies’s Elite Staff through the World Cup of Softball. She additionally contributed to quite a few USA Softball coaching camps and choice trials, additional demonstrating her dedication to fostering excellence throughout the sport and contributing to the event of aspiring athletes.
A Nationwide Fastpitch Coaches Affiliation Corridor of Fame inductee, Gasso begins her thirty first season as the pinnacle coach of the OU softball program this week. In 2024 she led the Sooners to a record-setting fourth straight nationwide championship, which served as OU’s eighth underneath her course in 17 journeys to the Ladies’s Faculty World Sequence. Gasso owns a 1,515-352-2 report at Oklahoma and is the Huge 12 Convention’s all-time winningest coach in any sport. Her OU groups have gained 15 common season and 9 postseason league titles.
“USA Softball is proud to announce that Coach Gasso will lead our Ladies’s Nationwide Staff for the 2025-2028 quad,” stated Craig Cress, Chief Government Officer of USA Softball. “All through her profession, Coach Gasso has made a major affect on the softball group and has vastly contributed to the event of the game. We’re assured that her abilities, information, and expertise will improve our program and we look ahead to supporting Coach Gasso and the Ladies’s Nationwide Staff as they try to symbolize the U.S. with delight on the very best stage within the coming years.”
At OU, Gasso has produced 84 All-Individuals, 153 all-region honorees and 201 all-conference picks, in addition to 16 Huge 12 Participant of the 12 months honorees and 9 Huge 12 Pitcher of the 12 months picks. The on-field success has translated to the classroom underneath Gasso, because the Sooners have been honored with 180 educational all-conference and 23 Educational All-America picks underneath her course.
Gasso’s Sooners open the 2025 season this Thursday, Feb. 6 after they play towards CSUN in San Diego at 6:30 p.m. ET.
