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OU Softball: Four Oklahoma Players Selected in Athletes Unlimited Draft

Among the 15 players picked in Tuesday's draft, four played for the Sooners this season.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma's Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings
Oklahoma's Jayda Coleman and Tiare Jennings / Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun / USA TODAY

Four Oklahoma players were selected Tuesday in the Athletes Unlimited professional softball draft.

Shortstop Tiare Jennings (No. 3 overall), center fielder Jayda Coleman (No. 4), catcher Kenzie Hansen (No. 9) and left-handed pitcher Kelly Maxwell (No. 12) were among the 15 players drafted.

OU led all schools with four players picked.

The No. 1 pick was used to select Clemson pitcher Valerie Cagle. UCLA star Maya Brady went No. 2.

Hansen and Jennings were voted co-captains this season. Coleman is a former Gatorade National High School Player of the Year. Maxwell is a transfer from Oklahoma State.Β 

Jennings is a senior from San Pedro, CA. Coleman is a senior from The Colony, TX. Hansen is a fifth-year senior from Norco, CA. Maxwell is a sixth-year graduate student from Friendswood, TX.Β 

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John E. Hoover

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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