A Post to Keep Track of the 2025 SB Roster as it Builds for 2025 (2024)

boomerblue said... (original post) LOVE THIS....please keep current with transfer options and commits

progsooner said... (original post) If I am reading the above right - it looks like we have 2 position players that have been on the team for at least 2 years (current year include...

If you are speaking of recruited players, there is 1 position player and 1 pitcher remaining. If you include transfers there are 1 more position player and 1 more pitcher. Then there are four freshman players. That makes eight players returning now. Then there are 8 incoming freshman.

The losses of Turiya Coleman, Sophia Nugent, Jocelyn Erickson, Jordy Bahl and others since 2021 have hurt. When younger players are disappointed in playing time either due to competition or due to transfers coming in it eventually affects the roster.

From the 2021 Class that should be seniors next year, OU lost Nugent, Coleman, Lilio, Bahl, Waitman, and Guthrie, only Coor remain from the class of 7 players
From the 2022 Class that should be juniors next year, OU lost Erickson, Hodge, and Geurin, only Deal remain from the class of 4 players
From the 2023 Class that should be sophom*ores next year, All 4 players are still on the team.

Overall, that is 6 out of 15 players still remaining at OU from those 3 classes.

2025 OU Softball - Hitting Stats for Returning Players
This is a summary of the offense returning in 2025.
Stats for the 2024 season are listed (sorted by most at-bats)
2024 Stats: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/soonersports.com/stats/softball/2024/pdf/cume.pdf

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AB/Hits ...... HR ..... RBI ..... (BA) .... Runs ..... Player / Position / 2025 Class

176/73 ......... 13 ....... 62 ..... (.415) ..... 60 ........ Ella Parker / DP / Sophom*ore
149/58 ......... 12 ....... 51 ..... (.389) ..... 45 ........ Kasidi Pickering / OF / Sophom*ore
124/30 ......... 15 ....... 50 .... (.242) ..... 24 ........ Cydney Sanders / 1B / Senior

38/8 ............... 1 ......... 8 ....... (.211) ....... 12 ........ Hanna Coor / OF / RS-Junior
15/5 ............... 0 ......... 4 ...... (.333) ...... 24 ........Maya Bland / OF / Sophom*ore

2024 Redshirt / Did Not Play ........................... Nelly McEnroe-Marinas / IF / RS-Freshman

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SLG% .......... OB% .......... Returning Player

(.722) .......... (.516) .......... Ella Parker
(.705) .......... (.513) .......... Kasidi Pickering
(.637) .......... (.451) .......... Cydney Sanders
(.467) .......... (.444) .......... Maya Bland
(.342) .......... (.256) .......... Hanna Coor

Sweet Baby Parker is a phenom. Can't wait to see how good she can ultimately be (the bar is really high after her frosh year).

EL Cyd, drove in a ton of runs in spite of her low BA. If she can get back to her days of performance in Arizona, and the most fantastic March I've seen, we'll be moving strongly in the right direction.

Incsooner said... (original post) Is Nellian McEnroe-Marinas healthy? If not, is she going to be ready to play next fall?

outopdog said... (original post) Are any of the freshmen coming in, true power hitters? I would definitely take more players like Pickering and Parker, but just wondering if any a...

Potentially the best power hitter in the freshman that arrives in August/September is Kady McKay (INF), from Caddo, Oklahoma. I would compare her LH Power to Nicole Pendley in Pendley's last two years at OU, but McKay could do that earlier in her career. Corri Hicks (C) has some impressive power as well. I think that six of the seven position players could all hit double-figure HRs as they all hit the ball well. i do not know that much about Riley Zache (C/UT) as the seventh player.

Of course it take the players the opportunity to play "full-time" to reach totals like that. I do not think OU is recruiting players these days that are 'just' singles hitters, they all can hit including hitting the ball over the fence.

NCJIM said... (original post) I saw a couple of posts suggesting that OU had some transfer portal visitors last weekend, if so, does anyone know who they were?

I would imagine that Patty is being cautious, particularly with portal pitchers. Given the hurlers in the '24 and '25 classes coming in (play '25 and '26), we should be flush with top notch pitchers then.

Think it makes sense to possibly bring in a couple of one-year hurlers and go light on position players.

If we have two frosh step up like Ella and Kasidi did, we'll be a tough team offensively considering Patty thinks everyone should hit. Infield and outfield D will need to begin sorting itself out in fall-ball and of course, catcher is a puzzle for next season.

Sure would be nice if Monticelli would advance her skills under Jen.

Then there's the unpredictability of the Portal. We know our portal outs but I'm sure there's some other team's players who have not yet declared but intend too. Hint, hint.

Anyone hearing anything on these two players in the portal?

Rylee Holtorf, SS from Washington will be a Senior. She batted .336 with a 1.052 OPS. Solid MIF option. Sixteen (16) errors in three years. Top 10 recruit in 2021 class. Good cultural fit.

Kailey Wycoff, C/OF from Texas Tech will be a Junior. Would be nice to have that .400 average and 1.131 OPS for two years. Enjoys being a utility player.