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Oklahoma's Jocelyn Alo Named National Player of the Week

The Sooner senior tied Lauren Chamberlain's NCAA career home run record last week and will look to set her self apart this weekend in California.

John E. Hoover

Oklahoma's Jocelyn Alo Named National Player of the Week
Oklahoma's Jocelyn Alo Named National Player of the Week /

After making national news for tying an NCAA record, Oklahoma senior Jocelyn Alo was recognized Tuesday by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association as this week’s National Player of the Week.

The award, presented by Louisville Slugger, goes to Alo after she hit five home runs last weekend in the Houston Classic and tied Sooners legend Lauren Chamberlain’s NCAA career home run record.

Also was also named Big 12 Conference player of the week.

Alo’s fifth blast at Cougar Stadium was the 95th of her career. She also took sole ownership of the Sooners’ career RBIs record, previously held by Chamberlain at 254.

Alo batted .600 last weekend with 11 RBIs and seven extra base hits, slugging 1.733 and registering 26 total bases and leading No. 1 OU to five run-rule victories. Alo was the national and Big 12 player of the year last year and helped lead the Sooners to the program’s fifth national championship.

Alo hit four home runs across two games on Saturday, including two in back-to-back games for the first time in her career.

This season, Alo has seven home runs and is batting .500 with 18 runs batted in.

Alo will try for No. 96 this weekend when Oklahoma return to California for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Palm Springs. The Sooners play Cal State-Fullerton, Long Beach State, No. 10 Arizona, No. 17 Tennessee and Utah.

FloSoftball will carry the broadcast, and all games can be heard or streamed on The Franchise 2 (103.3 FM/1560 AM/TheFranchiseOK.com).

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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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