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Oklahoma Lands Commitment, Adds to 2024 Recruiting Class

Liam Evans grew up going to OU games and now has given his commitment to play for the Sooners.
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Oklahoma Lands Commitment, Adds to 2024 Recruiting Class
Oklahoma Lands Commitment, Adds to 2024 Recruiting Class

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A local product has decided to stay home.

Liam Evans, a senior kicker at Moore High School, announced Tuesday that he’ll begin his college football career at Oklahoma.

“Sooner born, Sooner bred,” Evans wrote on a tweet that also showed him at an OU game as a small boy. "Staying home."

Evans is a 5-foot-8, 160-pound member of the 2024 recruiting class.

According to his bio on the Kohl’s Kicking Camps website, he “dominated the National Scholarship Camp in July” by making 35 of 36 extra points and was strong on kickoffs.

Evans’ best attribute might be his powerful leg on kickoffs, according to Kohl’s.

“His compact and fast leg swing allow him to be consistent on field goals,” according to his evaluation.

Kohl's ranked Evans No. 7 among kickers nationally.

At a showcase in Texas in 2022, Evans won the field goal competition with a 56-yard kick into a 10 mph wind.

Evans received his scholarship offer — his first, he said — from OU on July 24.

The Sooners’ current placekicker, returning starter Zach Schmit, is a junior. Schmit handles field goals and kickoffs and will be a senior in 2024.

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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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