OU Women's Basketball News

Women's Hoops: Ellenberg Makes World University Games Team

(by OU Media Relations) Oklahoma senior-to-be Aaryn Ellenberg earned one of 12 spots for the 2013 USA Basketball World University Games Team, the organization's selection committee announced Sunday. Ellenberg was selected from 33 players invited to a three-day tryout at the...Read more

Women's Hoops: USA Tryout Gains a Familiar Face

(by OU Media Relations) Sherri Coale will have a familiar face on the court when World University Games team tryouts begin.Oklahoma senior-to-be Aaryn Ellenberg has received an invitation to attend the USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team trials, the...Read more

Tulsa OU Caravan: Tidbits from Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale

(by Jason Kersey) TULSA -- Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale visited with reporters Monday evening before her OU Caravan appearance. Here's a few highlights from her interview session: * Coale again praised last season’s team, which overcame lots of potentially...Read more

RSU Athletic banquet: Sooner speaks

University of Oklahoma women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale (left), shown with Rogers State University President Dr. Larry Rice during a meet and greet, was the keynote speaker for RSU’s annual athletic banquet on Wednesday in the Centennia...Read more

Women's Hoops: Aggies get a Little surprise, guard opts to transfer to Oklahoma

Women's basketball player Peyton Little is leaving Texas A&M for the University of Oklahoma. OU coach Sherri Coale said Monday that Little will transfer to Oklahoma for the fall semester. Little will sit out next season and have three seasons of eligibility remaining...Read more

Women's basketball: Texas A&M guard Peyton Little transferring to Oklahoma

(by Jason Kersey) NORMAN -- Texas A&M guard Peyton Little will transfer to OU for the fall 2013 semester, Sooners coach Sherri Coale announced Monday. Little averaged 15 minutes in 35 games last season as a true freshman for the Aggies, averaging 4.5...Read more

Women's Hoops: Little Transfers to Oklahoma

(by OU Media Relations) Texas A&M guard Peyton Little will transfer to the University of Oklahoma for the fall 2013 semester and has signed a financial aid agreement with the Sooners, head women's basketball coach Sherri Coale announced Monday. Little, who averaged 15...Read more

OU women sign OKC hoops star

(by Guerin Emig) NORMAN - Sherri Coale has gone local for the latest addition to her Oklahoma team, signing Oklahoma City Northeast guard T'ona Edwards on Thursday. "T'ona is a terrific athlete who gives us immediate depth at the point-guard position," Coale said...Read more

Sherri Coale signs OKC standout

(by Clay Horning) T'ona Edwards did not simply lead her high school team to a state championship. Guiding Oklahoma City's Class 2A Northeast Academy to a 30-0 mark, she played a big role in the Vikings, making a case as the state's best team in any class...Read more

Women's Hoops: Oklahoma Adds Local Flavor

(by OU Media Relations) Following a dramatic run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team boosted its incoming class Thursday. T'ona Edwards, a 5-foot-5 guard from Northeast Academy in Oklahoma City, filed a...Read more

Former Oklahoma guard Whitney Hand could join WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars in 2014

(by Jason Kersey) NORMAN -- Whitney Hand thought her basketball playing career might be finished for good last December, when a second ACL tear ended her senior season at Oklahoma. But Hand could have a professional hoops future after all...Read more

Women's Hoops: Sooners Honor Their Own

(by OU Media Relations) NORMAN, Okla. -- The University of Oklahoma women's basketball team honored its own at its annual postseason banquet Monday night at the NCED Conference Center and Hotel. The Sooners distributed team awards and relived an improbable season...Read more w/video

Whitney Hand a Surprise Pick of WNBA Draft

(by OU Media Relations) University of Oklahoma guard Whitney Hand was selected by the San Antonio Silver Stars in the third round of Monday's WNBA Draft. Hand, who averaged 11.1 points and 7.2 rebounds before missing the final 26 games of Oklahoma's season due to injury...Read more

Basketball: Coale to speak at RSU

Oklahoma head women's coach Sherri Coale will be the keynote speaker at the fifth annual Rogers State Athletics Banquet scheduled for Wednesday, April 24 inside the Centennial Center Ballroom on RSU's Claremore campus. The event will honor the achievements of the Hillcat...Read more

OU’s Sherri Coale to speak at RSU banquet

CLAREMORE — University of Oklahoma Head Women’s Basketball Coach Sherri Coale will be the keynote speaker at the fifth annual Rogers State University Athletics Banquet scheduled for April 24 inside the Centennial Center Ballroom on RSU’s Claremore campus...Read more

Coale: As Good as it Gets

(by OU Media Relations) Day after day, week after week, our kids just kept showing up. Injured players stayed immersed, despite their gaping emotional wounds. Healthy players gave themselves permission to be more than they once imagined they could be. And courage oozed at...Read more

John E. Hoover: OU's Ross has new outlook after beating cancer

AFTER YOU'VE crushed cancer, the Sweet Sixteen feels just a little bit sweeter. The Great Barrier Reef is a little bit greater. Even knee injuries hurt a little bit less. The Oklahoma Sooners' season ended last week with a loss to Tennessee in the Oklahoma City...Read more

Oklahoma women's basketball: Sooners return three starting guards next season

(by Jason Kersey) NORMAN — The Oklahoma women's basketball team fought through four season-ending injuries to make a surprising run in the NCAA Tournament, losing Sunday's Sweet 16 contest to Tennessee. The Sooners finished with a 24-11 record...Read more

Women's Hoops: Northeast Academy's T'ona Edwards commits to play basketball at OU

(by Jason Kersey) NORMAN — Northeast Academy senior guard T'ona Edwards verbally committed to Sherri Coale's Oklahoma squad and will sign with the Sooners for next season, Vikings coach Londaryl Perry told The Oklahoman. Perry said Coale called Tuesday to offer Edwards...Read more

Women's Hoops: Cards easiest team to root for

(by Clay Horning) OKLAHOMA CITY — If you’re an Oklahoma fan, you may have been rooting for Tennessee, because losing tends to feel a little better when the team that beat you keeps going and going and going. If so, that’s unfortunate, because you should have been rooting...Read more

Ellenberg All-America Honorable Mention

(by OU Media Relations) Oklahoma's Aaryn Ellenberg was an honorable mention to the 2013 Associated Press Women's Basketball All-America Team released Tuesday. Ellenberg was the Sooners' leading scorer, averaging 18.7 points, and set the program's single-season (115) and...Read more

Future bright for women's basketball in Norman

(by Guerin Emig) NORMAN - Before bidding farewell to her basketball career and hello to pharmacy school, Oklahoma forward Joanna McFarland was asked about the 2013-14 Sooners. "They could win the league, I think," she said after OU's season-ending loss to Tennessee Sunday...Read more

Sooner women fought the good fight this season

(by Clay Horning) NORMAN — You have to hand it to the Oklahoma women. Though the ride is sometimes bumpy, the Sooners always seem to save their best for last. It happened again this season, as the No. 6-seed Sooners returned to the Sweet 16 after topping Central Michigan and...Read more

Coale represents best in state pride

(by Bruce Campbell) ENID, Okla. — Forget Sunday’s 74-59 loss to Tennessee Sunday. Here’s a vote for Sherri Coale as the best coach on the University of Oklahoma campus. Nothing against football coach Bob Stoops, or softball coach Patty Gasso or...Read more

John E. Hoover: This OU team was special, even in defeat

OKLAHOMA CITY - When your best player is 5-of-21 from the floor and your tallest player hardly touches the ball and your best post player becomes your only 3-point threat and your starting point guard is waylaid with a concussion, you know it's not your day...Read more

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