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Riley Boone gives back

The Osage left-field powerhouse who helped OU Women’s Softball win their third consecutive National Championship, hosted three softball camps for Osage youth

Rylie Boone, the left-field powerhouse who has helped Sooner softball rack up three national titles in a row, held three training camps for girls of all ages in Osage County.

About 120 girls took part in the camps, which were sponsored by the Osage Nation’s Child Care Department, at Woodland, Hominy and Pawhuska.

At the Hominy camp on July 18, Boone was her usual self: Bursting with joy, relating easily to kids of all sizes and demeanors – and being just a little bit sassy.

“I’ve got nails on today, girl!” she cheerfully chided one girl who tossed her a ball rather than rolling it to her on the ground.

The ball players went through a lot of paces at different stations during the camps: Boone gave them the University of Oklahoma workouts on drop steps, catching fly balls and intercepting ricochets off the outfield fence, and calling out “ball, ball, ball” when one is coming at them.

When an argument broke out about which trio of girls had caught the most fly balls that Boone tossed rapid-fire into each group (they had to catch more than one in quick succession), she laughed: “I don’t know who to believe!” A rematch resulted in four of the six balls being dropped. “Girls!” she said. “You’ve got to catch them!”

Boone, 22, of Owasso, is Osage from the Grayhorse District and has built up a large and enthusiastic fan base within the Nation. She’s heading into her senior year at OU with an eye to helping the Sooners rack up their fourth consecutive national championship in 2024, which would be a historical first for the sport. The Sooners join UCLA (1988-90) as the only other school to three-peat.

Boone is the daughter of Gayla Boone-Carnagey. Her brother, Trevor Boone, is also an accomplished athlete: He plays outfield for the Albuquerque Isotopes and had a stellar career in college baseball at Oklahoma State University.  

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    Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

    After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

    When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

    In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

    Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

    Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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Louise Red Cornhttps://osagenews.org
Title: Freelance Author
Twitter: @louiseredcorn
Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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