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J u l y 17 - 2 3 , 2 0 1 3
L&A: Local film-making duo directs new Pixies’ music video
4p.News: OU professor develops new physic theory
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Sports: Kruger, Rowing team were two successes last year
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On the cover: OU student Jesse High and co-director Nik Harper direct the Pixies new music video, “Bagboy.”
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CITY OF NORMAN
City urges residents to partake in odd, even day watering plans
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OU’s Unity Garden floods after rainfall over the weekend. City of Norman officials urge water conservation despite recent rainfall in the area.
Rainfall decreased water usage by 30%
BENNETT HALLCampus Reporter
City of Norman officials are urging residents to ad-here to an odd/even yard irrigation plan in response to ongoing regional water shortages.
The generous rains that fell in Norman this past weekend were a welcome sight, reducing the city-wide water usage by 30 percent, from the summer average of 20,000,000 gal-lons per day to 14,000,000 gallons, said Ken Komiske, Norman director of utilities.
But an odd/even irriga-tion schedule for the entire city would ease pressures on the city’s water utilities, he said.
“It doesn’t take water away from anyone; it just spreads everyone’s usage out,” Komiske said.
U n d e r t h e o d d / e v e n day irrigation plan, which neighbors like Oklahoma City already have mandat-ed, Norman residents with even-numbered home ad-dresses would use their i r r i g a t i o n s y s t e m s o n even-numbered days, and vice-a-versa for odd-num-bered homes, Komiske said.
Norman was on a man-datory odd/even watering schedule prior to the stormy weather earlier this sum-mer. The mandatory con-servation ended June 5.
With the 21,000,000-gal-lon daily water utility limit
being pushed during these h o t s u m m e r m o n t h s , Norman’s water situation is dire enough that city of-ficials are looking into buy-ing water from Oklahoma City utilities in the near fu-ture, Komiske said.
“This weekend helped fill up Norman’s water reser-voirs, but we still have trou-ble during water peaks,” he said.
During peak watering periods each day, the high number of people using the utilities not only leads to high demand for usable water, but it also lowers the
water pressure in the sys-tems and makes gadgets like sprinklers less effec-tive, Komiske said.
There has been discus-sion within the Norman City Council that an odd/even watering requirement s h o u l d b e i m p l e m e n t-ed year-round, but as of now, any sort of city irriga-tion schedule is optional, Komiske said.
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This weekend helped fill up
Norman’s water reservoirs, but we still have trouble
during water peaks.”KEN KOMISKE,
NORMAN DIRECTOR OF UTILITIES
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3 • July 17-23, 2013
PHYSICS
OU professor shares physics theory called ‘supersymmetry’
JOSEPH LYONCampus Reporter
On July 4, 2012, a scientific breakthrough occurred below the ground in Geneva, Switzerland.
There, at European Organization for Nuclear Research known as CERN, deep in the tunnels of a new kind of particle accel-erator known as the Large Hadron Collider, the Higgs boson particle was discovered after four years of smashing protons togeth-er at high energy levels. Physicists found the last subatomic particle needed to describe the laws of physics.
However, the laws of physics still seemed to be mathematically unstable, said Howard Baer, OU professor of high energy physics.
What could be the next step for particle
theory? Baer has an answer for that.“The mathematical fix needed is known
as supersymmetry,” Baer said. “It predicts a host of new matter states that should exist. The [Large Hadron Collider] has been look-ing for those matter states, but it hasn’t
found any yet.”Physicists face the prob-
lem of how the Higgs boson particle can exist if it does not have any supersymmetric particles necessary to stabi-lize the mass with this model of physics. The issue is one Baer hopes to resolve with his updated theory of parti-cle physics.
His theory, known as natural supersym-metry, was developed in response to this scientific conundrum. In this framework, the only supersymmetric particle needed is the Higgsino, Baer said.
But this particle would be very difficult to see at the Large Hadron Collider where the Higgs boson particle was found and thus Baer is pointing to a new development in particle accelerator technology, Baer said.
The International Linear Collider, a proposed particle accelerator, is an electron-pos-itron collider worth $10 bil-lion. Proposed to be housed in a Japanese city, this ma-chine would be able to see the Higgsino quite well and it would be a veritable Higgs boson factory, measuring the properties of the Higgs boson with even greater detail, Baer said.
The machine would achieve this result by colliding tens of billions of electrons and oppositely-charged positrons at nearly the
speed of light, according to the International Linear Collider’s website.
Having done the calcula-tions, Baer thinks the future of physics is looking good, in light of the International Linear Collider’s proposed development.
“If supersymmetry is discov-ered, that would be revolution-ary for the laws of physics as we know them,” he said. “This would lead to impacts in string theory, grand unified theories, dark matter research and so on.”
But when can we expect for these fundamental results
about the nature of nature itself to start roll-ing in?
Baer expects this will take place in the next 10 to 12 years.
Baer expects fundamental results to take place in 10 to 12 years
HOWARDBAER
“If supersymmetry is discovered, that would be revolutionary for the laws of physics as we know them.”
HOWARD BAER, OU PROFESSOR OF HIGH
ENERGY PHYSICS
MEGAN DEATONLife & Arts Editor
An OU student and his co-directors are getting atten-tion from music news outlets like Rolling Stone with their self-produced music video for Boston-based alternative rock band, the Pixies.
The video for the band’s new single “Bagboy” — shot in Norman — features a mis-chievous boy who spends his day causing trouble in a house with everything from colored smoke bombs to a baseball bat. The project has gotten attention from TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, Billboard and more.
Jesse High, broadcast and electronic media senior, and his co-partner Nik Harper make up LAMAR+NIK. The two friends started directing together about three years ago.
“Before that, we were just filming skateboarding mon-tages, ended up working on a couple small projects togeth-er, and we wanted to do more,” Harper said. “Soon after that, we both started going to the [Oklahoma City Community College] film program.”
LAMAR+NIK’s website dis-plays many examples of their past work, including music videos for Samantha Crain
and Lushlife.The duo’s previous work
caught the attention of the Pixies’ manager. He sent the filmmakers an email about di-recting a video for the Pixies.
“The whole process was really secretive,” High said. “We had to keep it really quiet since it was their first release in nine years.”
High and Harper accept-ed the project and pulled it off with the help of Spenser Sakurai, director of photogra-phy for the video.
Contrary to popular belief, a band often has little influ-ence over the concept of its own videos, Harper said.
“It’s fun to think that Lady G a g a c o m e s u p w i t h t h e ideas for her videos, but she doesn’t,” Harper said. “The reason why one director is preferred over another in the
music video world is because of their ideas.”
T h e v i d e o w a s s h o t i n Norman, with the majority
of the scenes taking place in High’s mother’s house. Locals may also recognize the Homeland on Lindsey Street and glimpses of Norman’s Main Street area.
The directors faced a chal-lenge when trying to find a place to film their project, Harper said.
“Well, two main problems were finding a house we could trash and finding a kid that didn’t have to check in with his parents all day,” Harper said.
They decided to use High’s mother’s home and Harper’s little brother as the setting and star of the video, Harper said.
From the looks of the video, Harper’s brother got to have quite a bit of fun during the process. The kid smashes dishware, fills the house with
thousands of bubbles and even takes a Froot Loops ce-real and milk bath.
“We’ve had that idea for a while now so it was great to finally do it,” Harper said. “When the Froot Loops were added, it was a nice touch that we hadn’t originally planned on.”
High has some advice for anyone with big aspirations.
“If you want to make some-thing then go make it,” High said. “Don’t ask permission, don’t wait until you have money. If you want something bad enough, you’ll make it happen.”
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LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST
PHOTO PROVIDED
Jesse High, broadcast and electronic media senior and co-director of the Pixies music video, films a scene from the “Bagboy” music video, which includes colored smoke bombs, a playground and a Froot Loops cereal and milk bath, among many other colorful scenes.
An OU student and his filmmaking friends direct a music video for alternative rock band, the Pixies.
The whole process was really secretive. We had to keep it really quiet since it
was their first release in nine years.”
JESSE HIGH, MUSIC VIDEO CO-DIRECTOR
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PHOTO PROVIDED
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Music fans re-joice. Brady Arts District
patrons stock your pan-tries. A music festival is coming.
Over 70 bands are expected to play July 19-20 in the Brady Arts District in downtown Tulsa for the Center of the Universe Festival. Headliners include OneRepublic and OK Go.
“Getting big names like our headliners isn’t easy,” said festival spokeswoman Ashley Fuller. “Sponsors make the world go ‘round. We are so grateful to the partners who have jumped on board this year. Also, 60 percent of the festival is funded by upgraded ticket sales.”
This is the first year of the music festival, which made it challenging for the coordinators, but well worth the stress.
No bother for Phil Kaiser, festival co-or-ganizer and owner of Cosmo Café in Brookside and Laffa Medi-Eastern Restaurant & Bar in the
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OK Go is just one of the bands that will be headlining the Center of the Universe Festival in Tulsa. The festival is free to all.
Brady Arts District who said that the festival will be a huge help to the Brady Arts District and will bring lots of revenue to Tulsa.
“Research shows that as many as 40,000 people could turn out over the course of the weekend,” Fuller said. “We’re the only show in that part of town this weekend, so there will be ample parking in the surrounding area, and as long as people come
prepared for summer tem-peratures, drink plenty of water and are ready to have a good time, this will be a great festival.”
The festival is free, and bands will be playing on outdoor stages all week-end. For those of you who prefer exclusive access (or free beer) consider pur-chasing a VIP or BOK Pass, which will gain you access to different venues around the festival.
The VIP pass will get you a parking pass, upfront ac-cess to the outdoor stages and most notably, access to Cain’s Ballroom, which is providing free beer. The BOK pass will get you up-front access to the stages in the BOK Zone and access to The Yeti and SoundPony. The cost is $245 and $135 respectively.
If you’re less interested in the music scene, there will also be a pop-up water park and an art market. Not only that, but you’re in the Brady Arts District which should keep you busy enough for the weekend.
Although, my guess is that if you take the time to attend the music festival, you’ll be jamming to the great bands—not playing on a slip-n-slide.
Luke Reynolds is a University College freshman.
GO AND DOCenter of the Universe FestivalWhen: July 19-20
Where: Brady Arts District, downtown Tulsa
Price: free, VIP tickets available
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Free music fest brings big name artists to Tulsa
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acclimatized 6 Knives, in
prison 11 “I’m
impressed!” 14 Old school
machine 15 Sen. Marco
of Florida 16 Frequent
gold medalist in Olympic basketball
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part 20 Common
verb 21 He used to
“sting like a bee”
22 Shelter in the wild
23 Player in the string section
27 Portuguese fortified wine
29 Down Under bird
30 Halt 32 They
are often “propped” up
33 Gangster’s gun
34 Rock music genre
36 Like a ___ a trap
39 Eagerly anticipating
41 Ignited anew 43 Feature
of many a bodice
44 Bulgaria’s capital
46 Office reminders
48 Born
49 Fuzzy image 51 Cleanser
target 52 Bovine chew 53 Mexican
blankets (var.) 56 “Three-
headed” muscle
58 Shipment to a smeltery
59 What the maid loses to be mad?
60 ___-con-ceived
61 Grazing place
62 Pleasing to Emily Post
68 Six-legged hauler
69 Coated with hoarfrost
70 “Captain Blood” star Flynn
71 Cheering section?
72 Entrap, as an animal
73 God or goddess
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2 Tumultuous noise
3 Org. that does patient work
4 Type of colony or system
5 Big Hawaiian industry
6 Fourth-yr. students
7 “Come again?”
8 Construction bar
9 Country estates
10 Less likely to break
11 Beat in a cross-country race
12 Wickerwork willow
13 Barbera’s cartoon-production partner
18 Bottle at the perfume counter
23 Presley’s “Viva Las ___”
24 Insect in its final stage
25 Gasping for air
26 Carved family emblem
28 List-ending words
31 ___ in com-parison
35 One per cus-tomer, e.g.
37 Freeze, like a road
38 Required things
40 “Monster” that’s really a lizard
42 Much more than warm
45 Childcare workers
47 Unnatural-sounding
50 Enzyme in milk
53 Kind of battery
54 Fight-card venue
55 Letter in some fraternity names
57 County north of Limerick
63 “ ___ the ramparts ...”
64 Keats wrote one to autumn
65 ___ Lanka 66 Wee kid 67 Cathedral
city of Eng-land
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Success in a variety of important areas is indicated for you in the year ahead. Of course, much will depend upon the methods you use. Never give less than your best.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- There is a strong probability that a new arrival will show you how to circumvent a problem that has been blocking your path for far too long. It’s about time!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You’re likely to get an opportunity to help a good friend by showing him or her how to see the good in people instead of just the bad. It’s counsel your pal has long needed.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’ll be adept at handling your personal affairs as well as good at advising friends and associates on how to handle their own complicated lives. Don’t hide your light under a bushel.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You are likely to get an opportunity to develop a relationship with someone whom you’ve long desired to know. This person will be able to open doors for you that are currently locked.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Through an unusual set of circumstances, something might transpire that will stimulate your ambitions. You’re likely to realize that you can follow someone’s example and achieve something big.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- The main reason companions give credence to what you say is that you clearly follow your own advice, and it works. Keep doing what you’re doing.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Much-needed changes in your domestic life will at last take place. Even though things may not end up exactly as you wished, it’ll be close enough. Don’t sweat the details.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- A friendly interaction with a knowledgeable person should turn out to your liking. This person will have a steadying effect that will be extremely constructive.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Generally speaking, you should be rather lucky when it comes to matters pertaining to money. This will include not only your primary earnings, but income from a second source as well.
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SPORTS REPORTER
Jono [email protected]
SPORTS EDITOR
Th e f a c t t h e Oklahoma rowing team had a season
featuring two conference titles is not too surprising — the team has shown im-provements recently — but how quickly the team rose to success is surprising, espe-cially to those who were on campus when the sport was added in 2009.
During the rowing team’s infancy, the team would take anyone who wanted to be part of it. Experience was not an issue, just the passion to be part of the team and build a new program within OU athletics.
Their initial recruiting attempt wasn’t fruitful, as OU wasn’t able to field a full team.
The team saw borderline success after being able to fill a full team in 2010, fin-ishing second in the Big 12 — a finish the Sooners ac-complished in 2011 and 2012, too — and fourth in the Conference USA in 2010. OU saw improvement in Conference USA play as it im-proved to a third place finish in 2011 and 2012.
For a young team, those are great finishes, especially when rowing is a novel con-cept to the state.
Now, Oklahoma’s rowing
team has made a name for itself not just within the area but around the nation.
Coach Leeanne Crain, who has been the program’s only coach in its history, built up a program that brought home a Big 12 title and a Conference USA title, as well as a trip to the NCAA Championships.
The Sooners had to win two conference titles be-cause the Big 12 is not a big enough conference to send a representative to the national championship. So OU joined Conference USA to make a run at its first championship appearance.
And that appearance came in the program’s fifth year.
Like in football, a coach shouldn’t be judged until his third or fourth year — if the coach lasts that long. For an entirely new sport that once had to gain members by handing out fliers, the five-year mark is a good point to start to judge the program’s success.
A n d t h e j u d g m e n t i s favorable.
The S ooners won not only its first conference title in 2013, they won two
conference titles and fin-ished 17th in the NCAA Championships.
The fact the rowing team has become a national contender in its fifth year is a testament to that coach-ing staff and the rowers who devote so many hours of their lives to a sport.
Although the Sooners didn’t bring home a na-tional title or even finish in the top 10, the fact the pro-gram has accomplished so much in its fifth year of ex-istence not only is surpris-ing, but impressive.
Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student.
Let ’s b e real for a minute. Once Blake Griffin finished his
time with the Oklahoma basketball team, things got a little rough. From 2009-2012 the Sooners couldn’t put together a w inning season.
Enter coach Lon Kruger. In his second year with
the Sooners he brought them back to their former glory, winning 20 games and making an appearance in the NCAA tournament.
Sooner Nation got a lit-tle spoiled. They fell back so quickly into their win-ning ways, they forgot to be thankful for the successes. Even more, they forgot suc-cesses doesn’t always come this fast.
B u t e v e n t h o s e f a n s couldn’t have predicted this
COLUMN
OU rowing team reaches success at impressive speed
COLUMN
Kruger brings basketball team back to Oklahoma’s former glory
outcome at the beginning of the season. Yes, Kruger had a reputation of rebuilding teams before he came to Oklahoma; and after land-ing transfer forward Amath M’Baye, things began falling into place. But realistically, nobody was thinking about the NCAA tournament be-fore the season started.
Two years is a pretty quick turnaround for a program in distress.
Leadership from senior forward Romero Osby pro-pelled the team forward,
b u t y o u n g talent from a slew of fresh-men was the b i g g e s t s u r-prise of all.
F r e s h m e n guards Buddy Heild, Isaiah C o u s i n s a n d J e ’ l o n
H o r n b e a k w e r e s o m e of Kruger’s first recruits t o s t e p o nt o t h e c o u r t . Unpredictably, the contri-butions from these three f r e s h m e n m i g h t h a v e held the key to this team’s success.
H e i l d , C o u s i n s a n d
Hornbeak played beyond their years, but they still made mistakes.
The magic was in the formula. Kruger surround-ed the freshman with older players on the court. Not only were the three great learners, but they had great teachers.
Plenty of Sooner bas-ketball fans will tell you O klahoma should have made it much farther into the NCAA championship. And maybe that’s true.
But making it into the tournament in the f irst place was an even bigger obstacle than winning the game. Making the tourna-ment signified Oklahoma was back on the national radar.
The Sooners came out on top in the perception war. Even after an underwhelm-ing showing in the Big 12 Tournament, they managed to snag a 10 seed. And that might have been the biggest surprise of all.
Julia Nelson is a journalism senior.
AT A GLANCEOU Rowing
• OU won the Big 12 and Conference USA
• They fi nished 17th at NCAA championships
Source: soonersports.com
LON KRU-GER
8 • July 17-23, 2013
SPORTS
Sooners make Team USA debut
DEMETRIUS KEARNEY/THE DAILY
Lauren Chamberlain and Destinee Martinez represented OU in the World Cup of Softball. Though she started, Chamberlain had an RBI doulbe against Puerto Rico and saw action at first base. Martinez started againt Puerto Rico and had the game-winning run.
DEMETRIUS KEARNEYThe Oklahoma Daily
Team USA embarked on a mission to claim its sev-enth straight World Cup of Softball championship. Unfortunately, Team USA fell short to Japan in the championship game losing 6-3 and claiming the silver in the tournament, ending a streak of six straight World Cup Championships.
Two OU softball play-ers had the honor of rep-resenting the Sooners and America as members of that team. Junior infielder Lauren Chamberlain and senior outfielder Destinee Martinez.
The California natives, coming fresh off of a nation-al championship victory with the Sooners made their Team USA debut to much adulation from an enthusi-astic crowd.
Both Chamberlain and M a r t i z e z m a d e p o s -i t i v e c o n -t r i b u t i o n s to the team throughout the tourna-ment, even though nei-ther started i n t h e t i t l e
game, both saw acton at their respective positions.
Chamberlain, the NCAA leader in home runs this past season saw action in four of the five games and made several plays from the first base position. The first baseman was also active in the batting rotation for Team
USA, going 1 for 8 including an RBI double in the third inning against Puerto Rico.
Martinez a valuable con-tributor, playing in all five games, making a start in the game against Puerto Rico. The Center fielder made sev-eral key plays for Team USA, including a run at the bot-tom of the fifth that would prove to be the game win-ner in a run-rule victory over Puerto Rico.
Te a m U S A f i n i s h e d t h e t o u r n a m e n t w i t h a 3 - 2 r e c o r d , w i t h b o t h
losses coming to Japan. The Oklahoma standouts played well when given their oppor-tunity to perform;However, Team USA had several play-ers who also made key plays in their silver medal winning effort.
F o r m e r T e n n e s s e e Volunteer, Lauren Gibson played an excellent tourna-ment, in the opening game against Canada, Gibson, who stole 46 career bases while at Tennessee, was 3 for 3 in stolen bases and hit a two run home run over the
center field fence to cap off the win.
F o r m e r M i c h i g a n All American Amanda Chidester was also a key contributor for team USA batting 5 for 15 with two RBI’s and a home run. Former Mizzou standouts Rhea Taylor and Nicole Hudson also performed well. Hudson was 2 for 4 with two RBI’s and Taylor was 4 for 9 with two runs scored.
E v e n t h o u g h U S A claimed silver in the tour-nament, the team looks solid and fully prepared to dominate as they prepare for the Canadian Open Fastpitch Invitational in Surrey, British Columbia, July 16-22.
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Chamberlain, Martinez help team win silver
LAUREN CHAMBERLAIN
Led by OU women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale, Team USA defeated Russia 90-71 to win gold the World University Games Championship Final in Kazan, Russia.
It was the third consecutive and ninth overall World University Games Title for USA Women’s basketball.
“I’m so proud of them,” Coale said. “This is such a dif� cult thing. You can say, ‘Look how good these players are,’ and they are, they are very, very talented, but � tting all that together in a short amount of times against these teams that have years of experience together is a real challenge. I think our success speaks to the sel� essness of these guys on this team who were willing to play roles, whatever those roles might be, different roles on different nights.”
Joining Coale on Team USA was Oklahoma standout guard Aaryn Ellenberg. Though she only scored two points in the � nal, she averaged 9.2 points for the entire tourna-ment and tied the team high with nine 3-pointers.
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SPORTS BRIEFS
Sooners acquire transfer pitcher Softball head coach Patty Gasso
announced Tuesday that the Sooners will add a new pitcher to their lineup.
Kelsey Stevens just � nished her fresh-man year at Stanford and has transferred to Oklahoma. She will have three years of eli-gibility left beginning in the spring of 2014.
This past season at Stanford, Stevens � nished 15-7 with a 2.99 ERA and a team-high 163 strikeouts in 136 innings. In her 21 career starts, seven of those were shutouts. She was also named to the All-Pac 12 Freshman team in 2013.
“We’ve watched Kelsey since she was in high school and were impressed with her skills,” Gasso said in a press release. “She re� ned those skills at Stanford and was very tough against us when we faced her last season. We look forward to her joining our pitching staff.”
Against Oklahoma last season, Stevens struck out seven batters and limited the Sooners to just one run and two hits after entering the game in the second inning.
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Coale-lead Team USA wins gold
SHERRI COALE
KELSEY STEVENS
SOFTBALL
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
.458 Chamberlain’s batting average
60 Homeruns hit by Chamberlain
53 Total career hits for Martinez
.429 Martinez’s team-high
batting average during the WCWS
Source: soonersports.com
BY THE NUMBERS This season at OU