Oklahoma's Jocelyn Alo Earns National Award

College softball's all-time home queen hit five more bombs last week but also displayed her short game skills to earn NFCA national player of the week.

John E. Hoover|

Oklahoma's Jocelyn Alo Earns National Award

Oklahoma senior Jocelyn Alo’s unforgettable season continues.

The all-time NCAA home run queen, who helped lead the No. 1-ranked Sooners to four run-rule victories last week, was named Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I Player of the Week.

Alo, the 2021 national player of the year, batted .615 (8-for-13) with five home runs and eight RBIs as the Sooners rolled Tulsa in a non-conference game and Texas Tech in a three-game Big 12 series in Lubbock.

It’s Alo’s third NFCA weekly award this season and the fourth of her career.

She totaled six extra-base hits for a 1.846 slugging percentage, including a career-best three home runs in an 11-0 victory over the Red Raiders on Friday and two more bombs on Sunday.

Alo leads the NCAA this season with 21 home runs and now has a record 109 in her career — the most ever hit by a collegiate athlete in either softball or baseball.

Against Tulsa, with the wind blowing in, Alo displayed a skill few had seen: she laid down a perfect squeeze bunt as the Sooners cruised to another run-rule victory.

The Sooners are off to an historic 36-0 start — the best record in the history of the college game — and visits Texas for a three-game Big 12 series Thursday through Saturday in Austin.

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Published Apr 12, 2022

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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