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Oklahoma Slugger Jocelyn Alo Sees 'Limitless' NIL Opportunities to Inspire Future Players

The Sooners' national home run queen plans to "make an even bigger impact" with her NIL earning potential.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma softball queen Jocelyn Alo is ready to get paid — and so much more.

Alo, who led the nation in home runs and was the consensus national Player of the Year in powering OU to the national championship, announced her excitement Thursday over the NCAA’s sudden deregulation of student-athletes’ name, image and likeness rights.

“You have seen the hard work and dedication,” Alo wrote. “You have watched the record-setting home runs. You have witnessed the national championship.

“I am now excited to show you the true Jocelyn Alo.”

The timing couldn’t be better for Alo to take advantage of the new legislation, which allows college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness. Alo, one of many heroes of the Sooners’ title run — and the one who set the single-season school record for home runs in mid-June — has never been hotter. Possibilities are endless as athletes move forward into unprecedented territory.

“I am all encompassing, limitless and I can not wait to see what else the future has in store for me,” she wrote. “With NIL making an entrance into college sports, I plan to make an even bigger impact and utilize this platform to inspire future generations of girls to reach for the stars and become limitless too.”

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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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