Argyle softball star Maya Bland signs with six-time national champion Oklahoma

Argyle’s Maya Bland has received a number of national championships in membership softball.

Now she can have a fantastic probability to win a number of national titles in faculty.

Six-time national champion Oklahoma, which has received the final two Women’s College World Series championships, introduced Wednesday evening that it has signed Bland to a national letter of intent. Bland is rated the Eleventh-best participant within the nation within the Class of 2023 by Extra Inning Softball, and he or she received the Alliance Fastpitch, Top Club and Triple Crown national championships in 2022 with the Batbusters-Stith choose staff from Anaheim, Calif., in keeping with a press launch from OU.

“Maya is a versatile utility player, a left-handed hitter that can do it all,” OU coach Patty Gasso mentioned within the college’s press launch. “I relate her to a Rylie Boone-style player. She can hit it over the fence, but can lay down a bunt and slap when called upon. She will primarily be working in the outfield with us and will be exceptional at the plate with her situational hitting.”

Bland hit .506, ranked second within the Dallas space with 16 dwelling runs and had 61 RBIs and scored 59 runs as a junior whereas main Argyle to the Class 4A Region I remaining. The first-team all-area outfielder joins an OU staff that owns the third-most national titles in NCAA historical past, trailing solely UCLA and Arizona.

OU’s different national titles got here in 2000, 2013, 2016 and 2017.

“When I visited Oklahoma it was clear to me and my family that OU was the best fit for me,” Bland mentioned within the press launch. “It started with the city of Norman. I realized that I prefer a small town and the people were so inviting and nice. The players and university made me feel welcomed and they represented many of the same qualities that my own family live by: Faith, Family and Softball.”

OU already has one famous person from the Dallas space on its roster — Jayda Coleman from The Colony. Coleman, who was the No. 1 recruit within the nation within the Class of 2020 and the 2020 Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year, was named a first-team All-American for OU as a sophomore in 2022 and made the all-tournament staff on the Women’s College World Series.

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