Oklahoma softball sets NCAA single-season HR record with 162 homers

With her home run on April 15, 2026, Oklahoma catcher Kendall Wells set the school single-season record for a player and the NCAA record for most team homers in a season. (Photo by Chad Hamilton/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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The same Oklahoma softball team that smashed a pair of grand slams in one inning back in February during a 34-0 clobbering of UTEP now owns the single-season NCAA Division I record for home runs.

The Sooners (44-6, 16-3 SEC) reset their own mark from 2021 on Friday with a record-breaking 162nd homer in an 10-2, six-inning win over Georgia (34-14, 10-9) at Love’s Field in Norman, Oklahoma. The program’s all-time mark is now 165 after Oklahoma hit four homers against the Bulldogs.

Oklahoma, a softball juggernaut with eight Women’s College World Series titles to its name, needed only one dinger to set a new power standard in the sport. Freshman catcher Kendall Wells delivered the milestone-reaching swing to lead off the second inning, taking Georgia pitcher Addisen Fisher deep to center field.

Wells’ home run was also her 35th of the season, setting an Oklahoma individual single-season record. She broke the mark originally set by Jocelyn Alo, who deposited 34 long balls over the wall in both the 2021 and 2022 campaigns. Wells is now three homers away from the NCAA record of 37 homers, set in 1995 by Arizona’s Laura Espinoza.

Espinosa accomplished that feat in 72 games, though. Miami (Ohio)’s Karli Spaid needed just 58 games to hit 36 homers in 2024.

Wells’ homer was one of four hit by the Sooners on Friday night. Gabbie Garcia hit two, going deep in the third and fifth innings, giving her 21 for the season. Abby Dayton followed with a two-run bomb in the fifth.

Longtime head coach Patty Gasso’s team entered the day having homered in 46 of their first 49 games this season. Not only that, but the Sooners came in with a 43-6 record, and, of those 43 victories, 31 were of the run-rule variety.

Seven Oklahoma players have piled up double-digit big flies this season, including a trio of freshmen. That group of first-year sluggers is headlined by Wells, who went into Friday with 34 home runs.