A Championship
Change of Heart
Kaydee Bennett of Caddo Mills helps lead Lady Longhorns’ title drive
Though she ' d earned all-state honors in softball at both Sunnvyale and Caddo Mills high schools, Kaydee Bennett gave up the sport her senior season with the Lady Foxes.
" I decided against playing softball and turned down a $ 138,000 scholarship to Oklahoma State University after a cometo-Jesus( moment) with myself and my family," Bennett wrote on social media. " I decided I wanted to pursue my major in landscape architecture while studying abroad and being a part of Oklahoma State ' s honors program as well as being a part of a Live and Learning program to fully immerse myself in the college life.”
But Bennett, who ' d played several other sports at both high schools, just couldn ' t leave softball behind. And only three years later she found herself playing infield and outfield on a national college championship team at the University of Texas.
" Words can ' t describe how this feels," Bennett wrote underneath a photo of her holding up the national championship trophy.
Bennett singled and scored a run as Texas beat Texas Tech 10-4 in the finals of the women ' s College World Series before a crowd of 12,269 fans at Devon Park in Oklahoma City and a national television audience. That win gave the 56-12 Longhorns their first national championship in softball.
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