Sydney Romero - Oklahoma Sooners All-American Softball Player

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Episode 465

Sydney Romero played four seasons with the Oklahoma Sooners softball team from 2016-2019. Her storied career at OU featured two Women's College World Seres championships and four consecutive Women's College World Series appearances.

In 2019, she was the Big 12 Player of the Year and was named National Fastpitch Coaches Association First-Team All-American in helping the Sooners to within one game of another championship before losing to UCLA in the WCWS finals. She also won the Big 12 Triple Crown hitting .427 with 20 HR’s and 56 RBI’s. She led the nation in total bases with 176.

Following her OU journey, Romero was selected third overall in the National Pro Fastpitch League by the USSSA Pride and played her first professional season in the summer of 2019.

In the spring of 2020, Romero returned to Oklahoma as a student assistant with the softball team.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Sydney about her incredible softball career, where the softball journey began, what her coach Patty Gasso means to her, how she came to faith in Jesus and her favorite moment as an OU Softball player.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.9	This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast with Sidney Romero, former Oklahoma Sooner softball player,
0:26.4	is brought to you by Compassion International.
0:29.4	They are the most trusted child development ministry in the world.
0:33.4	Recently, I was at a conference out in California, and I got to hear a first person story from someone who had went through the compassion program.
0:43.7	And this was real life.
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0:50.9	It literally released this kid from poverty and allowed him to go pursue his
0:55.3	dreams, to have hope. And he's now doing amazing things in the business world for Jesus and for
1:02.1	others. And that all started because someone took a chance to sponsor this kid and provide him a way
1:09.0	out from poverty for $38 a month. And you can make that difference
1:14.3	as well. Check out the website, compassion.com slash sports spectrum. Compassion.com slash sports spectrum.
1:22.2	And in a little while, I'll tell you how you can help release a child from poverty today.
1:29.0	Really excited to welcome Sidney Romero, former Oklahoma Sooner Softball Player,
1:34.3	joining us here on the podcast.
1:36.1	Sydney, one of the more decorated softball players in OU history and certainly just
1:40.8	in all of softball the last few years, a two-time women's college World Series champion in 2016 and 2017,
1:48.4	a two-time Women's College World Series all-tournament team member,
1:52.6	a two-time NFCA first team All-American in 2018 and 2019,
1:58.4	and played in four consecutive Women's college world series from 2016 to 2019.
2:05.7	She was selected third overall by the U-Triple-S-A Pride and now playing pro softball with the U-Triple-SA Pride,
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