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The Oklahoma Sooners completed their first season in the SEC, winning the regular season title and earning their first SEC tournament win on Thursday over No. 9 LSU. It’s been a year of transition after Oklahoma lost several seniors after last season. But Patty Gasso reloaded through the transfer portal and the high school ranks to help Oklahoma to first place and stay within the top five of the nation all season long.
After a successful first season in the SEC, six Oklahoma Sooners earned SEC honors led by Patty Gasso’s 16th Conference Coach of the Year award.
Sam Landry, who transferred to Oklahoma for her senior year, won SEC Newcomer of the Year after going 18-4 during the regular season and leading the Sooners pitching staff. Landry was named SEC Pitcher of the Week three times. She’s thrown 15 complete games, including a one-hit effort in the win over LSU on Wednesday.
Selected to the All-SEC first team were Landry, third baseman Nelly McEnroe-Marinas, and outfielder Kasidi Pickering. Pickering is second on the Sooners in batting average, home runs, and RBIs this season and has played stellar defense in the outfield. McEnroe-Marinas is in her second year with the Sooners but her first year as a starter and has been fantastic at the plate and in the field. She’s hit .340 with 14 home runs and 45 RBIs.
True freshman Gabbie Garcia was named to the All-SEC second team after hitting .354 and leading the Sooners in home runs with 15 and RBIs with 47. During the year, she had a run of five straight games with a home run, something that hasn’t been done by a freshman since Jocelyn Alo.
Garcia was also named to the All-SEC defensive team for her work at shortstop. She had just three errors on 152 chances and recorded 58 putouts and 91 assists this season. Along with Garcia on the All-SEC defensive team was transfer second baseman Ailana Agbayani. Agbayani recorded a .993 fielding percentage, with just one error on 153 chances in 2025.
The Oklahoma Sooners will take on Arkansas in the SEC Softball Tournament semifinals on Friday at 3 p.m. CT.
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