atty Gasso grew up high school level and then as Palongside her older brother head coach at Long Beach City and younger sister in a single- College. After attending the parent home in Torrance, Women’s College World Series California. From a young age as a fan, Oklahoma came calling she shared a love for sports and she accepted the position as with her mother. After school head coach for the University and on the weekends she spent of Oklahoma’s Sooners. With most of her time at the park husband Jim, son JT, and while next to her childhood home. It pregnant with son DJ, the was there that her passion as a Gassos moved to Oklahoma player, combined with the keen for the 1995 season. More ability to teach others at a young than 25 seasons later, Gasso’s age, set in motion a career that leadership and talent for player would break and set records in development have made OU’s collegiate sports. softball program a national A standout player at El powerhouse. Camino College, following The 2022 National graduation she began coaching Championship win was the the sport she loves, first at the sixth for Gasso and the Sooners, one of only three programs in NCAA history to win more PATTY GASSO than two national titles. The NORMAN Sooners previously had claimed the national title in 2000, 2013, followed by an invite to the White House by President Barack Obama, 2016 and 2017, the first back-to-back wins, and “Patty is the definition of hard in 2021. Gasso’s overall collegiate coaching record exceeds 1,500 work, dedicated to perfecting wins, with more than 1,300 at her craft and handles stressful the University of Oklahoma situations with poise and grace. alone, and she’s led the Sooners to the Women’s College World She is driven to succeed and Series over a dozen times. has the ability to bring Gasso knows well the commitment and sacrifice people together.” needed to remain on top, saying “This job is 365 days a year. I don’t feel like this is a job; my JIM GASSO family feels like this is a job because I am away from them significantly. But I try to keep them included in everything that we’re doing. But my attitude, I am such a competitor, and once you’re at the top, that’s all you Jim Gasso, left, presented want because it feels good to Patty Gasso for induction to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. 3838