After delaying the ceremony for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Albertville High School honored four of its former students by inducting them into the Distinguished Alumni Hall of
Mar 17, 2021
Sherri Coale, who saved the Oklahoma women’s basketball program when she was hired in 1996 and then took it to unforeseen heights announced her retirement on Wednesday.
Coale, 56, won 513 career victories in her 25 seasons at the OU helm, a figure that ranks 72nd all-time among Division I coaches, and is tied for 31st among active coaches.
Coale, 56, has coached 28 of the 37 players in OU’s 1,000-point club.
Three straight years of poor basketball and three straight years outside the NCAA Tournament eventually caught up. Her last game was an overtime loss to Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Tournament on Friday night, and Coale, perhaps knowing it was the end, answered several questions with a tear in her eye.