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Oklahoma Announces SEC Media Days Attendees

Three Sooners will represent the 2025 team, and two former Sooners will also attend next week's preseason activities in Atlanta.
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Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer
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The leaders on Oklahoma’s football team are plentiful.

Even some of the new guys have already elevated their status to the front of the line.

Transfer quarterback John Mateer is among three Sooners who will represent OU next week at 2025 SEC Media Days in Atlanta.

Mateer will be joined by defensive back Robert Spears-Jennings and defensive end R Mason Thomas, as well as head coach Brent Venables.

This year’s SEC Media Day activities officially kick off next Monday, Aug. 14 and run through Thursday, Aug. 17. OU’s time in the spotlight will be Wednesday, Aug. 16, from the Omni Hotel at Centennial Park and the College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta.

Teams have just three player representatives, but there are more Sooners and former Sooners at the event than any other school.

Among other notable players scheduled to attend: Auburn quarterback (and former Sooner) Jackson Arnold, Mississippi State wide receiver (and former OU wideout) Brenen Thompson, LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier, Mississippi State QB (and former Baylor Bear) Blake Shapen, South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers, Texas QB Arch Manning and Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia.

The SEC welcomed OU and Texas to the league last year by staging Media Days in downtown Dallas.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN 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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