Oklahoma Softball Staff Get Pay Raises After National Title
NORMAN, Okla. – It pays to win the NCAA national softball championship, especially where it counts the most, and not just in the won and lost column.
After her Sooners captured the 2013 NCAA national title with two wins over the Tennessee Lady Vols, OU head coach Patty Gasso and her assistants, Melyssa Lombardi and Tripp Mackay, were approved for pay raises when the OU Board of Regents met recently.
Gasso was given a 40 percent hike in salary, increasing her overall salary from $225,000 to $350,000. It is the second time in her 19 years of service that Gassso has led the Sooners to the national title. The first was in 2000. If Gasso wins a third national title, she would receive a $65,000 bonus. Lombardi received a $33,960 increase for a $120,000 annual salary while McKay got a $31,760 increase and will earn $100,000 annually.
Earlier, Keilani Ricketts, the OU standout pitcher, was named winner of the annual Honda Cup as the outstanding collegiate athlete and is only the third softball player to win the award, following Natasha Watley and Lisa Fernandez of UCLA.
