Senior pitcher Paige Parker and freshman Jocelyn Alo finalists for the 2018 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year.
The fact that we are talking about a senior and a freshman underscores the depth and continuity that has made head coach Patty Gasso’s Sooner softball teams so successful over such an extended period.
Both Parker and Alo have played major contributing roles in Oklahoma’s 47-3 regular-season record and 18-0 conference season on the way to a seventh consecutive Big 12 championship.
Parker, a two-time finalist for Collegiate Player of the Year, is 24-2 this year as the pitching ace of the two-time defending national champions and ranks No, 4 in the country with an 0.