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Oklahoma softball: Sooner assistant coach wins national award

Oklahoma softball associate head coach Jennifer Rocha joins a host of Sooners receiving national honors this season as the winner of the 2023 Easton/NFCA Division I Assistant Coach of the Year award.

Rocha, who played at Oklahoma from 1996-98 and was a graduate assistant there for three season after her playing career ended, has been on head coach Patty Gasso’s staff since 2019.

This is the second time Rocha has been so honored. She won the award previously while at Florida in 2015.

As the Sooners’ pitching coach, Rocha led a 2023 Oklahoma staff that led the nation with a collective ERA of 0.