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Tiare Jennings

University of Oklahoma '24

Hometown: San Pedro, California

Four-Time NCAA Champion

Personal: Jennings is the daughter of Maria and Ignacio Jennings and is one of three children in her family. Her cousin, Tiare Jennings, was a three-time All-Western Athletic Conference softball player at New Mexico State. Another cousin, Keilani Jennings, played softball at UC Santa Barbara from 2010-13 and earned All-Big West Conference honors three times. Tiare Jennings was named the 2020 California Gatorade Player of the Year after batting .710 with six home runs and 19 runs batted in during the COVID-shortened season for St. Anthony’s High School.

2024 Championship Season: Jennings was one of 15 players selected in the 2024 Athletes Unlimited Pro Softball College Draft.


Other Professional Experience: Jennings competed for the Oklahoma City Spark during the 2024 Association of Fastpitch Professionals season.


International Experience: Jennings helped guide the United States to a Silver medal at the 2024 WBSC World Cup, hitting .333 (2-for-6) with one run batted in. She also competed with Team USA during the 2022 Japan All-Star Series.

College Experience: Jennings was a four-year letter winner at Oklahoma, starting 249-of-250 career games from 2021-24. She helped lead the Sooners to four consecutive NCAA Division I titles and three Big 12 Conference championships. Jennings is one of only 21 players in NCAA Division I history to receive four NFCA First-Team All-America citations. She was a four-time First-Team All-Big 12 Conference performer and posted a .412 career batting average with 314 hits, including 64 doubles, one triple, and 98 home runs. Over four seasons, she drove in 314 runs and scored 277 runs. Jennings was honored as the 2021 NFCA and Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was named to the NCAA Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team four times. As a senior, she posted a .370 batting average while starting all 66 games, compiling 74 hits, including 15 doubles and 25 home runs, while driving in 69 runs and scoring 56 times. Jennings had 17 multi-hit games and helped guide the Sooners to their fourth straight NCAA title. As a junior, she started 61-of-62 games, leading Oklahoma in batting average (.415), hits (76), runs batted in (66), and total bases (143). She also tied for the team lead with 17 home runs and committed just one error, finishing with a .992 fielding percentage. During her sophomore season in 2022, Jennings started all 62 games at second base, leading NCAA Division I with 87 runs batted in and ranking second in the country with 29 home runs. She compiled a .401 batting average with 38 extra-base hits and hit multiple home runs in a game six times. Jennings opened her college career in 2021 by starting all 60 games and guiding the Sooners to the NCAA championship. She ranked second in the country with 27 home runs and her .462 batting average was seventh in NCAA Division I. Additionally, she led the nation with 27 doubles.

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Highlights

Oklahoma’s Tiare Jennings Signs with the AUSL for 2025 Season

Middle infielder Tiare Jennings has signed with the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) for its inaugural season. The AUSL is a professional women’s softball league featuring four teams playing in a traditional format. The league will begin play this summer. Jennings, a four-time NCAA Women’s College World Series champion, was a starter for four seasons […]

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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

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