As February approaches, the countdown clock on the Tracy Beard College Classic website is clicking closer and closer to zero-hour.

For the ninth consecutive year, Oklahoma has been chosen as the favorite in the 2021 Big 12 softball preseason poll in a vote by the league’s head coaches. This marks the 12th occurrence in the last 13 years the Sooners have collected the honor.

During a recent staff meeting, Oklahoma State Director of Athletics Mike Holder was discussing the school’s spring season and the uncertainty that’s expected to come with it. At one point, he said something that particularly resonated with head softball coach Kenny Gajewski and his assistant coaches.

Who will wear the crown of the best-dressed Division I softball team of 2020? 

2021 Tracy Beard College Classic on FloSoftball featuring Texas, Oklahoma State, Kansas, North Texas, Lamar, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Tarleton, South Dakota State is now canceled.

Haidyn Sokoloski was nine years old when she hit her first home run, a high fly ball that just managed to clear the fence on a field designed more for baseball than softball. That was seven years ago, but she remembers the scene like it was yesterday.