July 27, 2025
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OKLAHOMA CITY – OU softball head coach Patty Gasso and her program have had plenty of incredible moments at Devon Park.

But Tuesday? That definitely felt different. Because now we’re going beyond OU, beyond college softball. Gasso, the coach of the eight-time national champions and four-time defending champs, was named the Team USA head coach last week for the next four years. Yes, that includes the 2028 Olympics.

Gasso finally had a chance to address what all of this means Tuesday afternoon in Oklahoma City.

The Olympics are in Los Angeles, but it’s been proposed that softball is contested in OKC right at Devon Park.

OU, Team USA Head Coach Patty Gasso

A wow moment right here, right now. A lot of familiar faces. Thank you all for coming out. This moment is truly special in my career, and it feels like a dream come true to be appointed as a coach of Team USA. There’s a lot of responsibility to that, and I honor all the coaches in the past and watched their work from afar, and to be handed the baton means a lot to me.

Being chosen for this role is the highest honor a coach could ever receive, and I am both humbled and grateful for the confidence that USA softball has in me. My goal is to make Team USA the best it can be during my tenure, and I firmly believe that we will put in – I don’t firmly believe, I know we will put in the hard work necessary to earn a gold medal in L.A. 28 and that has been the goal for since the Olympics has been a part of softball.

I was able to attend the first USA Olympic Games in Atlanta, and I was just a very young coach at OU and I watched that, and watched Dot Richardson just celebrating like crazy, and it was some really amazing moments, and I felt so honored to be there. But never in a million years would I tell you that I thought that I would be sitting here right now.

I just always kind of stayed in the background until I thought it might be the right time for me. So I’m really excited to get started, especially with the Pan American championships in Colombia and the World Games in China. We hope to take our first steps in that journey. The style that I have at OU is going to be tweaked a little bit, because these are seasoned veterans and women. So it’s going to be a collaboration together of how we’re going to work.

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