Oklahoma's Haley Lee Lands Big 12 Award

Lee was on fire last week against Texas Tech, batting .571 with three home runs.

John E. Hoover | Apr 11, 2023

Haley Lee's big week last week has produced a big award this week.

Lee on Tuesday was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Week for her performance in OU’s three-game sweep of Texas Tech.

It's OU’s fourth straight player of the week honor of 2023, marking the first time in league history a school has captured Player of the Week four straight times in one season.

Lee led OU to the conference sweep by batting .571 (4-for-7) on the weekend with three home runs, four RBIs and four runs scored. The Texas A&M transfer slugged 1.857 and also drew a pair of walks for a .667 on-base percentage.

In Saturday’s series finale, Lee was 2-for-3 at the plate with two home runs and three RBIs. It was the her first multi-home run game as a Sooner and seventh of her career. Lee is tied for the team lead with 11 home runs and is second on the team with 36 runs batted in.

It's the graduate transfer’s first career Big 12 weekly honor.

The Sooners face No. 12-ranked LSU on Tuesday night in Baton Rouge on ESPN2. The game is set for a 6 p.m. start at Tiger Park.

Published Apr 11, 2023

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.