Oklahoma's Skylar Vann Lands Big 12 Honor

The Sooner sophomore stuffed the stat sheet against Baylor, including a career-high 22 points, and was integral in OU's jump up the polls this week.

John E. Hoover|

Oklahoma sophomore Skylar Vann was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Monday for her heroics in two Sooner victories last week.

Vann, from Edmond, OK, came off the bench twice and produced 22 and 20 points in victories over No. 14 Baylor and TCU.

Her productivity all over the floor helped the Sooners beat the Bears for the first time since 2016 and elevated OU to No. 14 in this week’s AP Top 25.

Vann had a career-high 22 points, seven rebounds, four steals, three assists and four blocked shots in the Sooners’ watershed triumph.

She had 20 points and six rebounds in the Sooners’ 100-71 victory over the Horned Frogs on Saturday.

It’s Vann’s first Big 12 Player of the Week honor, but she’s the third Sooner to win the award, joining Taylor Robertson and Ana Llanusa.

OU’s next game is Wednesday at West Virginia.

Published Jan 17, 2022

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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