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Tiare Jennings

University of Oklahoma '24

Hometown: San Pedro, California

Four-Time NCAA Champion

Tiare Jennings is a 5-foot-8 professional softball middle infielder from San Pedro, California. She was acquired in the 5th Round of the 2025 Inaugural Draft following a collegiate career at Oklahoma.

Personal Life

Background: Currently serving as a graduate assistant softball coach at Oklahoma while completing her master’s in human relations. Married Noah Estrem. Has two dogs, Wren and Boomer. Competed in Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby X Finals event in Salt Lake City in 2025.

Hobbies: Hobbies include spending time with her family, going to the beach in California and fishing in Oklahoma with her dog and her husband, Noah Estrem.

Family: Cousins Tiare and Keilani Jennings played Division I softball.

Professional Experience

Athletes Unlimited Softball League (2025–)

2026 AUSL Regular Season (Texas Volts): Jennings earned the starting assignment in 21 games, batting .279 with five home runs and 13 runs batted in. She compiled 17 hits, including five doubles, while scoring nine runs, and ranked 10th in the AUSL with a .607 slugging percentage. She closed out the season by hitting safely in six of her final eight games, posting four multi-hit games over the course of the year. Jennings belted a grand slam in the third inning against Oklahoma City in the season opener on June 9. The next day, June 10, she added a solo homer against the Spark, also in the third inning, propelling the Volts to an 8-5 victory. On June 18, in the home opener against Utah, she slugged a solo home run. On June 23, against Chicago, Jennings went 2-for-3 with a home run and a double. On July 13, against Carolina, she contributed a solo home run. She closed out the season on July 17, against Portland, logging two hits, including a double, with two runs batted in.

2025 AUSL All-Star Cup: Accumulated 550 leaderboard points. Tied for fifth in the league with five RBIs and hit .240 with two doubles and two home runs.

2025 AUSL Regular Season (Volts): Started 19-of-22 games during her first AUSL season with the Volts. Authored a .273 batting average with 18 hits, five home runs, and 16 RBIs.

Other Professional & International Experience (2024–)

WPF (2024): Competed for the Oklahoma City Spark.

Team USA: Member of the 2026 National Team pool. Named World Games MVP after hitting .400 with two home runs to lead Team USA to a Gold medal at the 2025 World Games. Guided the U.S. to a Silver medal at the 2024 WBSC World Cup.

College Experience: Oklahoma (2021–2024)

Jennings was a four-year letter winner at Oklahoma who started 249-of-250 career games. Guided the Sooners to four consecutive NCAA Division I titles.

Career Statistics: Authored a .412 career average with 314 hits, 64 doubles, and 98 home runs. Drove in 314 runs and scored 277 runs.

Senior Year (2024): Hit .370 while starting all 66 games, compiling 25 home runs and 69 RBIs.

Junior Year (2023): Paced Oklahoma in batting average (.415), hits (76), RBIs (66), and total bases (143).

Awards & Honors

All-America: One of 21 players in NCAA Division I history to receive four NFCA First-Team All-America citations.

National Honors: 2021 NFCA and Big 12 Freshman of the Year. Named to the WCWS All-Tournament Team four times.

YEAR	G	GS	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG%	OPS	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HP	SO	LOB	TB	SF	SH	SB	CS
2026 All-Star Cup	8	8	21	19	.105	.190	.105	.295	4	2	-	-	-	1	2	-	5	8	2	-	-	-	-
2026 Volts	21	21	69	61	.279	.348	.607	.955	9	17	5	-	5	13	7	-	9	19	37	1	-	-	-
2025 All-Star Cup	7	7	26	25	.240	.269	.440	.709	3	6	2	-	1	5	1	-	5	-	11	-	-	-	-
2025 Volts	22	19	70	66	.273	.314	.576	.890	10	18	3	1	5	16	4	-	17	18	38	-	-	-	-
Career Totals	57	54	183	168	.238	.295	.506	.801	25	40	10	1	11	34	14	-	36	109	85	1	-	-	-

*The AUSL All-Star Cup was known as the Championship season through 2024.

Splits

DATE	HOME TEAM	AWAY TEAM	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG%	OPS	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HP	SO	LOB	TB	SF	SH	SB	CS
8/29/2026	Team Kilfoyl	Team Flippen	3	2	-	.333	-	.333	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
8/28/2026	Team Flippen	Team Klingler	2	2	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
8/23/2026	Team Palacios	Team Klingler	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
8/21/2026	Team Landry	Team Palacios	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
8/16/2026	Team Brown	Team Ricketts	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
8/15/2026	Team Klingler	Team Brown	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
8/10/2026	Team Garcia	Team Ricketts	3	3	.333	.333	.333	.666	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
8/9/2026	Team Ricketts	Team Corrick	3	2	-	.333	-	.333	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-

*The AUSL All-Star Cup was known as the Championship season through 2024.

Highlights

4 Takeaways on Team USA from the WBSC Softball Group Stage Event

This time next year, Team USA will be finalizing the softball roster for the LA28 Olympics. That means the next 12 months of performance and competition are crucial for athletes to earn a spot on the U.S. Women’s National Team. Softball wasn’t included in the last 2024 Games, and it’s been over a decade since […]

Awards & Honors

Four-Time NCAA Champion

Three-Time Big 12 Conference Champion

Four-Time NFCA First-Team All-American

Four-Time First-Team All-Big 12 Conference

2021 NFCA and Big 12 Freshman of the Year

7/13/2026-
Tiare Jennings was reinstated from the temporary inactive list
7/11/2026-
Volts placed Tiare Jennings on the temporary inactive list
11/21/2025-
Initial Protected Player
1/30/2025Volts
Volts drafted Tiare Jennings in the inagural draft [Round 5, Pick 4(20)]

DATE	TEAM	TRANSACTION
7/13/2026		Tiare Jennings was reinstated from the temporary inactive list
7/11/2026		Volts placed Tiare Jennings on the temporary inactive list
11/21/2025		Initial Protected Player
1/30/2025	Volts	Volts drafted Tiare Jennings in the inagural draft [Round 5, Pick 4(20)]