Catching Up With Oklahoma Softball Commit Kadey McKay

One of the top softball prospects in the state continues to work on her game and hone her craft ahead of the upcoming season.

John E. Hoover | Aug 21, 2023

Catching Up With Oklahoma Softball Commit Kadey McKay /

Caddo softball star Kadey McKay has committed to play for Patty Gasso and Oklahoma, but she’s not satisfied with that.

Caddo is riding a string of four straight state championships under coach Dustin McKay — Kadey’s dad — and went 41-1 in fastpitch ball last spring.

At OU last year, the Sooners were 61-1 and won their third straight national championship.

“OU has played on the same field as I’ve played on,” she said. That’s what is crazy to me. I just want to go out there in that OU uniform and see what I can do out there. I’m going to have to work for it. For sure. But I’m excited and ready.”

VYPE Plus caught up with the McKays as they were beginning preparation for the upcoming fall season:

By Jim Reagan

With the mid-morning Oklahoma summer heat already beating down, Caddo softball coach Dustin McKay and his shortstop Kadey Lee McKay were at the field mowing, raking and manicuring it to perfection.

“Let’s go up to my office out of the heat,” said Dustin, who went and grabbed us all a bottle of water before we made our way to his office which is one flight of stairs above field level beyond a fence down the right field line.

“We’ve got six more fields to mow before Kadey and I have to go to travel ball later today.”

Against that backdrop, I started my talk with the highly successful Lady Bruins softball coach and his daughter, who has verbally committed to play softball at the University of Oklahoma following her senior year.

Caddo has evolved into something of a juggernaut in Oklahoma high school softball, winning four state titles in a row. That’s two straight in fastpitch and slowpitch. During that run, the Lady Bruins have compiled an impressive 156-13 record including a 41-1 mark during their 2022 state title run in fastpitch.

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Published Aug 21, 2023

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.