Oklahoma Senior Tanner Groves Lands Another Prestigious Award

Groves joins Alvan Adams as the Sooners' only two-time Academic All-Americans.

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By OU Media Relations

Oklahoma senior Tanner Groves was named on Tuesday to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Third Team, as announced by the organization.

Groves was a first-team honoree after his first season in the Crimson and Cream and joins Alvan Adams (1974, 1975) as two-time selections. It marks the third consecutive season a Sooner was named to one of the three teams, formerly presented by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Brady Manek was selected to the third team after the 2020-21 season.

Prior to his time with the Sooners, Groves graduated from Eastern Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies. The Spokane, WA, product is pursuing a Master of Arts in organizational leadership and has a 4.00 GPA.

Groves started 32 games and averaged 10.2 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds per outing. He recorded six double-doubles this season and led the Sooners in rebounds on 15 occasions.

Published Mar 14, 2023

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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