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Oklahoma's Softball Championship Nominated for 'Best Team' ESPY

OU set multiple all-time records in dominating this year's field, but is up against some stiff competition.
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Oklahoma's Softball Championship Nominated for 'Best Team' ESPY
Oklahoma's Softball Championship Nominated for 'Best Team' ESPY

Oklahoma’s memorable national championship softball season is being recognized by ESPN’s ESPY Awards.

The Sooners are among this year’s nominees for “Best Team” and fans can cast their vote.

OU went 56-4 this season and won the program’s fifth national title with a record-setting offense and championship pitching.

The Sooners set all-time NCAA records for home runs, home runs per game, total runs scored and more, and also brought home the national player of the year (Jocelyn Alo) and national freshman of the year (Tiare Jennings), and former All-American Giselle Juarez sealed the crown with back-to-back complete game pitching performances against Florida State in the WCWS Championship Series.

OU is up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Stanford women’s basketball team, the Baylor men’s basketball team, the Alabama football team, and the WNBA’s Seattle Storm.

This year’s ESPY’s will be televised on July 10 at 7 p.m. CT on ABC.

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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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