The Oklahoma slugger—who was named SI’s 2022 Athlete of the Year, along with Aaron Judge—made her success feel automatic every time she stepped up to the plate.
To watch Jocelyn Alo at bat this year was to fall into a sort of magical thinking.
Maybe you knew the facts, everything that made her the best slugger in the history of college softball, with remarkable power on display in her fifth and final season at Oklahoma. Maybe you knew the statistics—numbers that seemed to push against the limits of possibility. Alo finished the 2022 season with a .