Keilani Ricketts

Ricketts is of Samoan and European descent. She has three siblings that include Richard, a former Air Force Falcons football player, Stephanie, a former All-American Hawaii Rainbow Wahine softball player, and Samantha, a former All-American Oklahoma Sooners softball player and current Head Softball Coach for Mississippi State University. In December 2017, Ricketts married Sean Tumanuvao in San Jose, California.

February 9, 2013 she won her 100th game, no-hitting the Oregon Ducks. Beginning on March 27-June 3, she had a career best 21 game win streak. Ricketts led her team to a No. 1 seed and culminated in winning the National Championship by besting the Tennessee Lady Vols in a 12-inning game one and then driving in all the runs, three of them the winning runs coming via her 50th career home run off Ivy Renfroe, in game two to seal the title. This would give her the Most Outstanding Player Award and her second All-Tournament recognition.

As a junior, Ricketts again earned First-Team honors from both the NFCA and the conference, this time being named 2012 Big 12 Player of The Year while also achieving a pitching Triple Crown. She was also chosen USA Softball National Collegiate Player of The Year and recognized with the Honda Sports Award for softball. She would break her own strikeout record with a career and school best total, while her career high in wins ranks second all-time for the Sooners; Ricketts also had her best ERA and WHIP. Ricketts would also lead the team in batting average and doubles with career highs, which she also tallied in home runs , RBIs, hits, triples and slugging percentage.

On April 16, 2011, Ricketts lost a 9-inning contest vs. the Missouri Tigers and combined with Tiger pitcher Chelsea Thomas to record 33 strikeouts, an NCAA top-10 record. In the NCAA tournament, the Sooners opened up that year against the Iona Gaels and Ricketts set a career and school high with 19 strikeouts in regulation, winning 7-1 on May 20. The Sooners made the Women's College World Series that year by defeating the Arizona Wildcats but did not win a game.

Ricketts would also become one of the most prolific and winning pitchers in WCWS history going 8-4 with 112 strikeouts and allowing 19 earned runs in 80.1 inning for a 1.00 WHIP in three trips. For her career she holds the school records in wins, strikeouts, shutouts, innings pitched and strikeout ratio. In the Big 12 she ranks second in career wins, strikeouts and shutouts, third in strikeout ratio, fourth in innings and 7th in ERA; offensively she stands third in walks, fifth in home runs and 10th in slugging percentage. In all of the NCAA she is 7th in wins all-time.

Ricketts debuted on February 10, 2010 tossing three scoreless innings to beat the Florida Atlantic Owls. She was named Second-Team National Fastpitch Coaches' Association All-American along with First-Team All-Big 12 honors. As a freshman, she would break the record for strikeout ratio and then rank second for strikeouts overall at the school. Ricketts would lead the team into a Super Regional with the Washington Huskies and opened the series by beating National Player of The Year Danielle Lawrie before dropping the next two to be eliminated that year.

Keilani Johanna Ricketts Tumanuvao (born September 1, 1991) is an American, former collegiate All-American, pro All-Star left-handed hitting softball pitcher originally from San Jose, California. She attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, and attended the University of Oklahoma from 2010-2013, where she was the starting pitcher and helped to lead the Sooners to the 2013 NCAA Division I national softball title. As a member of the United States women's national softball team she won 2011 World Cup of Softball. Ricketts currently plays for the USSSA Pride in the National Pro Fastpitch. She is the Sooners career leader in wins and strikeouts. She also ranks for career records in both the Big 12 Conference and the NCAA Division I, where she is one three players to win 100 games with 1,000 strikeouts and hit 50 home runs.