New Pro Team Starts Up In Softball-Crazed Oklahoma City  

Skilled softball is coming to Oklahoma Metropolis.

A brand-new league known as Girls’s Skilled Fastpitch is increasing. In 2023, the Oklahoma Metropolis Spark will be part of the league.

The crew’s origins could be traced again to a neighborhood entrepreneur and former Sooner standout Lauren Chamberlain.

Chamberlain was as soon as the NCAA softball dwelling run document holder. Now, she serves as commissioner for WPF.

“It’s actually taking these ‘high of the highest’ gamers, and telling them they’re value investing in,” Chamberlain mentioned.  

Chamberlain mentioned she knew Oklahoma was a really perfect match to increase the league. She did so with the assistance of her buddy Tina Floyd.

“Realizing she was going to maneuver this sport ahead, I knew I wished to be concerned in a roundabout way,” Floyd mentioned.

Floyd is certainly one of only some feminine crew homeowners. She hopes to encourage different younger ladies who wish to do the identical.

Chamberlain, hoping to have a robust lady in her nook as commissioner, developed a friendship with Floyd. A dialog between the 2 about the place the league might go finally become far more.

“When issues got here to fruition, simply in search of an Oklahoma Metropolis proprietor, Tina (Floyd) was proper there and was able to go,” Chamberlain mentioned.

The 2 not solely share a love of the sport however a imaginative and prescient for its future. It’s an opportunity for these on the high of the sport to proceed their careers.

“There needs to be no endpoint,” Floyd mentioned. “In the event you’re nonetheless passionate and also you wish to play, let’s attempt to present that for these ladies.”

Chamberlain and Floyd mentioned it’s additionally a possibility for younger women to dream huge.

The Spark doesn’t have a spot to name dwelling but, however Chamberlain and Floyd are each assured — irrespective of the place they play the inaugural season – it is going to be profitable proper off the bat.