Oklahoma Softball: Jocelyn Alo Named Finalist for USA Softball Player of the Year

Jocelyn Alo is as soon as once more a finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Participant of the 12 months.

After taking residence the award in 2021, the Sooner slugger has an opportunity to go back-to-back as she options alongside Washington’s Baylee Klingler and South Florida’s Georgina Corrick.

Alo’s historic residence run chase took heart stage in the course of the first act of the faculty softball season, and it led to storybook trend for the tremendous senior.

Returning to her residence in Hawaii, Alo eclipsed former OU star Lauren Chamberlain because the House Run Queen within the sport.

Her explosive season for the Sooners didn’t cease there, nevertheless.

Alo enters the NCAA Event main the nation in slugging proportion (1.128) and on-base proportion (.622), and is second within the nation in batting common (.481), whereas additionally launching 25 residence runs, the third finest mark within the nation.

The Hawaiian was additionally named the Large 12 Participant of the 12 months, and he or she’s led her workforce again to the No. 1-overall seed within the NCAA Event.

Alo isn’t the one finalist with game-changing energy at her disposal.

This season, Klingler has rocketed 22 residence runs and has pushed in 65 RBIs, each of that are ok to land within the prime 5 nationally.

Klingler received the Pac-12 Participant of the 12 months, and has solely struck out six instances all season on the plate.

South Florida’s Corrick is the one pitcher within the last three, however she’s been a key piece in firing her workforce into postseason play.

Corrick leads the nation in innings pitched (266 1/3), strikeouts (407), shutouts (20) and wins (36). Regardless of throwing greater than any pitcher within the nation, Corrick has additionally maintained an impressive 0.53 ERA, which ranks third within the nation.

The winner of the 2022 USA Softball Collegiate Participant of the 12 months will probably be introduced on Might 31 forward of the Ladies’s School World Sequence at a team-only banquet in Oklahoma Metropolis. 

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