WCWS Photo Gallery: Oklahoma's Championship Celebration

View the AllSooners photo gallery of Oklahoma's postgame championship celebration following OU's victory over Texas for the softball national title.

John E. Hoover | Jun 13, 2022

WCWS Photo Gallery: Oklahoma's Championship Celebration /

Levi Alo, Jen Rocha

Jocelyn Alo, Bobby Evans

Patty Gasso and her squad — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Patty Gasso and the squad

Grace Lyons and her squad — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Grace Lyons and the squad

Jocelyn Alo and the squad

Generic NCAA Softball Championship Trophy — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

The NCAA Championship Trophy

Jocelyn Alo

Generic softball confetti — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Confetti angels

Jocelyn Alo celebration — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Celebration on camera

Generic NCAA Softball Championship Confetti — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Confetti celebration

Jocelyn Alo confetti — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Jocelyn Alo makes a confetti angel

Confetti celebration

Jocelyn Alo makes another confetti angel

JT Gasso

Confetti cannon

Kinzie Hansen

Patty Gasso

JT Gasso

Jen Rocha

Hope Trautwein

Confetti cannon and championship trophy

Jayda Coleman

Jocelyn Alo and the Golden Visor

Patty Gasso

Patty Gasso, Hailey Dolcini

Patty Gasso, Janae Jefferson

Grace Lyons

JT Gasso

Patty Gasso, Alyssa Brito

Lynnsie Elam, Jordy Bahl

Hannah Coor, Emmy Guthrie — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Hanna Coor, Emmy Guthrie

Jocelyn Alo reps Hawaii

Jocelyn Alo's final at bat

Hope Trautwein, Lynnsie Elam

Jocelyn Alo final — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Jocelyn Alo's final at bat

Hope Trautwein, Nicole May

Grace Green

Jocelyn Alo makes the catch

Jocelyn Alo

Tiare Jennings makes the final out — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Tiare Jennings records the final out

Jocelyn Alo, Hope Trautwein — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Hope Trautwein reacts to Jocelyn Alo's new trophy

Patty Gasso, Jayda Coleman

Championship dogpile

Grace Lyons, Tiare Jennings

Alyssa Brito — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Championship celebration

Championship trophy

Kinzie Hansen, Jocelyn Alo — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Jocelyn Alo, Kinzie Hansen

Grace Lyons, Tiare Jennings start the celebration

Alyssa Brito and her squad

Championship dogpile

Jocelyn Alo, Rylie Boone

Published Jun 13, 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.