OU Baseball: Oklahoma OF John Spikerman Lands Big 12 Award

The Sooners have been red hot since Spikerman's return from injury, and are already outright Big 12 regular season champs with a week left in the regular season.

John E. Hoover | May 13, 2024

Oklahoma outfielder John Spikerman / NATHAN J. FISH/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY

By OU Media Relations

Oklahoma junior John Spikerman has been named the Big 12 Player of the Week for his performance in OU’s three-game sweep of Baylor, the conference announced the weekly honors Monday.

Spikerman led the Sooners to their first Big 12 regular season title in sweep fashion, going 9-for-14 (.643) with five extra base hits, including his first career grand slam.

The Sooner leadoff hitter had 10 RBIs, 17 bases and nine runs scored on the weekend, slugging 1.214. The centerfielder also made nine putouts in the field.

Spikerman is batting .407 on the season and .391 in league play, hitting three homers and plating 27 runs in just 29 starts due to a hand injury throughout the months of March and April.

The weekly accolade is Spikerman’s first career Big 12 weekly award and OU’s seventh of the season.

OU heads to Cincinnati for the final week of the regular season, playing at Xavier Tuesday at 11 a.m. CT before a three-game Big 12 set at Cincinnati Thursday-Saturday.

Published May 13, 2024

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.