OU Softball: Four Oklahoma Players Chosen in Athletes Unlimited Draft

Four Oklahoma players were selected Tuesday in the Athletes Unlimited professional softball draft.

Shortstop Tiare Jennings (No. 3 overall), center fielder Jayda Coleman (No. 4), catcher Kenzie Hansen (No. 9), and left-handed pitcher Kelly Maxwell (No. 12) were among the 15 players drafted.

OU led all schools with four players picked.

The No. 1 pick was Clemson pitcher Valerie Cagle, and UCLA star Maya Brady went No. 2.

Hansen and Jennings were voted co-captains this season. Coleman is a former Gatorade National High School Player of the Year. Maxwell is a transfer from Oklahoma State.

Jennings is a senior from San Pedro, CA; Coleman is a senior from The Colony, TX; Hansen is a fifth-year senior from Norco, CA; and Maxwell is a sixth-year graduate student from Friendswood, TX.