Oklahoma Softball: Grace Lyons Added to U.S. National Team Roster

One in all Oklahoma’s finest gamers will get a shot to play on a world stage. 

OU senior shortstop Grace Lyons was one in every of six new additions to the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Crew roster forward of the Japan All-Star Sequence, USA Softball introduced on Thursday.

Lyons joins fellow Sooners Jayda Coleman, Kinzie Hansen and Tiare Jennings for the three-game sequence in opposition to Japan set to happen August 6-9 in Fukushima/Yokohama, Japan. 

The occasion will function the nationwide staff debut for the OU veteran shortstop, including one other milestone to her prolific profession. 

After an amazing 2021 marketing campaign, Lyons adopted it up with an excellent larger 2022 season that noticed her bat .401 on the dish with 23 house runs and 70 RBIs, all whereas taking part in an elite defensive shortstop to assist the Sooners win one other nationwide title. 

Oklahoma’s 4 gamers on the 15-person roster has them as probably the most well-represented of any faculty on the staff. 

Coleman and Jennings, like Lyons, may even be making their nationwide staff debut after they had been chosen to the roster on the USA Softball Choice Trials final spring. 

The U.S. Nationwide Crew will head to Japan for observe classes August 2-5 earlier than starting video games on the sixth, with streaming data set to be launched at a later date by USA Softball.