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Baker Mayfield Donating to Cleveland, Norman Charities

Sooners' 2017 Heisman winner will give to food banks in both cities.
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Baker Mayfield Donating to Cleveland, Norman Charities
Baker Mayfield Donating to Cleveland, Norman Charities

Former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield is donating to hunger relief in both Norman and his new hometown of Cleveland, he announced on Twitter Friday.

Mayfield is donating more than 3,500 meals to Meals on Wheels of Norman and is teaming up with TownHall in Cleveland to provide another 8,000 meals for St. Augustine Hunger Center.

“Especially right now with the COVID-19 crisis going on,” Mayfield said in a video posted to Twitter.

Mayfield struck up a relationship with Meals on Wheels of Norman as part of his community service following his 2017 arrest in Fayetteville, Ark.

“I just want to say I’m donating just to help them with the resources that they can keep pushing forward and doing the right thing within the area,” he said. “You guys can help, too. They need canned items, disposable gloves for the volunteers so they can protect themselves as well as the clients that Meals on Wheels has.”

“Norman, the Sooner Nation, the community that has impacted my life, let’s give back to a right cause, and, as always, Boomer Sooner.”

Mayfield and his wife Emily announced Thursday that they would match donations up to $50,000 to the Great Cleveland Food Bank.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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