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SEC Softball Tournament Coming to Oklahoma

The Sooners will host the conference championship at new Love's Field, but fans will need to be patient as it's still a few years down the road.

John E. Hoover

The SEC is coming to Oklahoma. But Sooner softball fans will need to be patient.

Oklahoma has landed the 2032 Southeastern Conference softball tournament, according to business information distributed by the SEC on Friday.

The league is wrapping up its annual spring business meetings in Destin, FL.

The Sooners will have played at forthcoming Love’s Field for nearly a decade by the time the SEC rotation reaches Oklahoma. Love’s Field is scheduled to replace OU’s Marita Hynes Field for the 2024 softball season.

Fellow SEC newcomer Texas will also host the SEC Tournament in 2033, according to the data. 

At a price tag of $42 million, Love's Field is currently under construction and is said to be the finest home softball facility in the country. Currently, the SEC rotates its softball championships on campus sites. This year's event was played at Arkansas.

In the Big 12, OU plays the conference championship at Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.

OU will also host the women’s tennis championships in 2026 and men’s tennis in 2031.

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John E. Hoover
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.

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