The Oklahoma Sooners softball team is aiming for an unprecedented four-peat this year. The Sooners have gone on a torrid run through the sport of college softball over the past few years, and their annual dominance every June is expected at this point. Slugger Tiare Jennings homered in Wednesday night’s victory over arch-rival Texas and set a new standard for herself in the process.
Jennings has 11 career home runs in the Women’s College World Series. That sizable power has created magic in the past, and has shown off her incredible abilities.
Wouldn’t you know it too: Her family has kept every home run ball of hers.
Jennings revealed this during media availability ahead of Thursday night’s potential series-clincher. She said she does remember all of her home runs, and says, “I remember all of them just because I see my family in the stands going to get the ball.”
“Their joy. It’s so much faith in me, I love to see them out there with the ball. So I don’t know what they’re going to do with them, I don’t know where they are. But all of them are special,” Jennings said. “It just means the world to me just to do anything I can to help this team. But having my family get the home run balls is how I remember it.”
A big assist to the Jennings family there, as those memories are surely worth preserving.
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