1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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3 RESOLUTION 37 By: McCortney
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 A Resolution congratulating OU Softball and Coach
7 Patty Gasso; and expressing appreciation for their
8 representation of the university and state.
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11 WHEREAS, the 2022 University of Oklahoma (OU) softball team,
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12 under the direction of head coach Patty Gasso, swept rival
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13 University of Texas in the Women’s College World Series finals, to
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14 win its second consecutive national title; and
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15 WHEREAS, the 2023 OU softball team swept Florida State in the
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16 Women’s College World Series finals to claim the program’s third
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17 straight national championship; and
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18 WHEREAS, the Sooners, over the forty-nine-year history of the
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19 University of Oklahoma softball program, have won seven national
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20 championships, including five in the past seven years and six in the
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21 past ten; and have competed in sixteen Women’s College World Series,
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22 including eleven of the last twelve; and
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23 WHEREAS, the 2023 team set the NCAA Division I record for
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24 longest winning streak, registering fifty-three victories in a row
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 1 to break a twenty-six-year-old record previously held by the
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2 University of Arizona at forty-seven straight; and
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3 WHEREAS, a nation-leading five Sooners were named 2023 National
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4 Fastpitch Coaches Association First-Team All-Americans; and
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5 WHEREAS, OU went undefeated in 2023 conference play for just the
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6 fourth time in the league’s history, finishing eighteen to zero and
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7 winning the program’s eleventh consecutive Big 12 regular season
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8 title and fifteenth overall; and
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9 WHEREAS, the Sooners completed the Big 12 title sweep by winning
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10 the 2023 Big 12 Softball Championship in Oklahoma City, the
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11 program’s eighth conference tournament crown; and
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12 WHEREAS, Coach Gasso was named Big 12 Coach of the Year for the
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13 eleventh consecutive season in 2023 and fifteenth time overall; and
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14 WHEREAS, OU placed eight student-athletes on the 2023 All-Big 12
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15 teams, including a league-high seven on the first team; and
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16 WHEREAS, OU student-athletes took home three 2023 conference
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17 individual awards in Big 12 Player of the Year Jayda Coleman, Big 12
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18 Pitcher of the Year Jordy Bahl, and Big 12 Defensive Player of the
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19 Year Grace Lyons; and
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20 WHEREAS, the 2023 team went undefeated at home in the twenty-
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21 fifth and final campaign at Marita Hynes Field, finishing nineteen
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22 to zero to extend OU’s home-field winning streak to sixty-five
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 1 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE 2ND SESSION
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2 OF THE 59TH OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE:
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3 THAT the Oklahoma State Senate congratulates the OU women’s
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4 softball team and Coach Patty Gasso for their third straight
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5 national championship win.
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6 THAT the Oklahoma State Senate expresses appreciation for Coach
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7 Patty Gasso and the 2022 and 2023 University of Oklahoma softball
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8 teams for the exemplary manner in which they represented the
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9 University of Oklahoma and the State of Oklahoma.
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