Oklahoma softball star Jordy Bahl enters NCAA transfer portal
Oklahoma softball star Jordy Bahl has announced that she will enter the NCAA transfer portal. She intends to return closer to home to continue playing. Bahl was a key cog to the Sooners’ latest national championship.
Bahl was named the 2023 WCWS Most Outstanding Player. She finished the NCAA Tournament with an absurd stat line with a 7-0 record, a 0.18 ERA, 38 innings pitched, four walks and 49 strikeouts.
In the Women’s College World Series, Bahl finished 4-0, 24.2 innings pitched, zero earned runs and struck out 33 batters.
Shortly after Bahl announced that she would be leaving Oklahoma, she officially appeared in the NCAA transfer portal, according to On3’s Matt Zenitz.
Now that she’s in the portal, one school will get arguably the biggest fish in the pond for next softball season.
“She’s always wished that she could have this moment,” head coach Patty Gasso said to ESPN’s Holly Rowe on the broadcast after Oklahoma won the national title. “And she’s dreamed of it. It looked just like this or bigger than she expected it. I can’t tell you how proud I am of her and all the expectations that lay on her all the time … She is just one of the best pitchers I’ve ever seen.”
Bahl was also the 2022 National Freshman of the Year.
Oklahoma won its third straight national title and was 66-1 this season. It was a lot of pressure for a team that nearly went undefeated.
“What I would add is that I’m really just proud of this team for how we have stuck together this year,” Bahl said. “I think not a lot of other people would fully understand what it’s like to go through just the day to day from off-season during the summer to August, everything up until now. Everyone just sees what’s put on the field on game day.
“There’s a lot. I’m just proud of how we’ve stuck together through pressure, adversity, and just have ultimately been one strong, cohesive unit that has at the end of the day taken that pressure and giving the glory to the Lord and been able to still play free and play together and find joy in things outside of the playing field.”
Bahl acknowledged Oklahoma was the best possible situation for her coming out of high school.
“Man, I don’t know what junior-in-high-school Jordy was thinking (smiling),” Bahl said. “I knew that at Oklahoma I was going to be challenged day in and day out. There were going to be amazing players around you, pushing you every single day. Iron sharpens iron. I was going to have the opportunity to throw to the best lineup in the country at practice every day.”