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Getting to know OU softball 2025: Corri Hicks

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Patty Gasso, Oklahoma
Patty Gasso, Oklahoma - © SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK

The OU softball season is almost here. Almost. The four-time defending national champions, obviously, have a very different look in 2025.

So many of the names OU fans had grown to love like Jayda Coleman, Tiare Jennings, among a bevy of others, have moved on.

Only eight returning players from the four-peat squad. That means a whole new crop for head coach Patty Gasso and staff to try to get playing at a championship level.

Whether it’s through recruiting or the transfer portal, nobody is crying for OU. And Gasso landed some of the best of the best.

Now? Let’s get to know them. Before the season is underway, SoonerScoop is going to let the freshmen and transfers introduce themselves.

Corri Hicks (C/1B, Fr., No. 99)

Biggest adjustment so far?

I would definitely say for me, it’s just the level that you have to be thinking at all times. As you guys know, coach’s expectations are very, very high so she never lowers them for anybody and I really appreciate that because I feel like it makes everyone the best they can be every single day and just make it such (a) competitive environment. So definitely just being able to think at a level 10 every single day — no days off.

The OU-Cali connection?

I think it’s great because it shows A.) the travel ball circuit and how it is in California so that was a blessing to live there and be able to compete against amazing people every weekend on and off and then on top of that, I feel like it shows a sense of community. There’s a lot of people on the team wo are from California, and we’re all so far away from home, so it’s just like we all know and miss home a good amount so it’s just finding community in that and we’re all from California.

OU just kept winning and winning?

It made me really excited because I was just anticipating the day where I’d be able to step on the field and be able to come and learn like I do every single day here and work with JT and just perfect my hitting to a point where all the other people who came before me, they were just amazing so I just want to be able to get to that level too.

Love’s Field is real?

I would say because our first visit was junior year and they hadn’t — I think they had just started construction so we saw just like the dirt field and everything. ‘Oh, this is going to be great.’ Then our senior year on official, everyone was here and we came and saw the concrete bones. ‘Oh, this is gonna be amazing.’ And then we get here and it’s all done and you’re like, ‘Wow.’ There’s nothing like this so it was just amazing to see the progression and every time you come out for a camp you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, they’re making progress.’ It was very exciting.

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