NORMAN — The first recruiting trip Sherri Coale made after being hired as the Oklahoma women’s basketball coach was a memorable one, even if Coale missed out on the recruit.
Coale sold the player’s mom on the Sooners and Norman and nearly convinced the budding star to become the centerpiece of her rebuilding project at OU.
“She comes into my home and just blows it away,” the player said recently. “She was just a high school coach then, hadn’t coached a college game. I knew they’d almost got rid of the program. But that is the impact and power of her presence.