Jon Littell didn’t initially want to move to Stillwater, but when given the opportunity to leave, he stayed.
Then 9, Littell waited at his grandparents’ house as his parents returned from Stillwater. Littell had grown up in Liberal, Kansas, a town of about 20,000. Littell’s father, Jim Littell, was in Stillwater interviewing for an assistant coaching position with the Oklahoma State women’s basketball team. Jim Littell got the job, and the family moved nearly 260 miles to a place Littell, a senior on the OSU baseball team, would grow to call home.
“To be honest, I wasn’t (a fan of the move),” Littell said.