Ogle Collects First All-America Honor

June 15, 2011

NORMAN, Okla. - Junior catcher Tyler Ogle was the third Sooner to collect All-America honors in 2011 after Baseball America named him a third team selection. Ogle joins Michael Rocha (Louisville Slugger second team) and Dillon Overton (Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American) as the three Sooners honored so far after the 2011 campaign.

The All-America selection is a career first for Ogle, who has started 161 career games in a Sooner uniform, including over 100 behind the plate where he was a semifinalist for the 2011 Johnny Bench Award, an honor presented to the nation's top catcher. Ogle led Oklahoma with nine homers in 2011 and hit .343 with 45 RBI while starting 56 of the Sooners' 60 games behind the plate. The 2011 first team All-Big selection by the league's coaches threw out 22 out of 62 potential base stealers and posted a .980 fielding percentage.

Ogle is the latest Sooner catcher to thrive behind the plate. He is the third OU catcher to collect All-America honors and the second in the last three years. In 2009, J.T. Wise was named a consensus All-American and the Johnny Bench Award winner and Javier Flores was a three-time All-American behind the plate in 1995, 1996 and 1997.

On June 7, Ogle was the first Sooner taken off the board in the 2011 MLB Draft on Tuesday as he was taken in the ninth round (284th overall) by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ogle is the 12th Sooner drafted in the first 10 rounds under current OU Head Coach Sunny Golloway.

The San Antonio, Texas, native was voted by his teammates as one of four team captains for this season after leading OU in the 2010 postseason with a .452 batting average that culminated in the program's 10th College World Series appearance and first since 1995.

Ogle had another strong finish this season as he hit .365 over the final 32 games with 28 RBI and six homers, including a .444 clip in the three games played in the Big 12 Championship. He currently ranks second in the Big 12 with 53 runs and a .464 on-base percentage, while posting the league's fourth-best slugging percentage (.552) and fifth-best batting average, while also ranking sixth with nine homers and 45 RBI and eighth with 34 walks.

Ogle is also a standout in the classroom after being named a first team Academic All-Big 12 member in 2011 and a second team honoree in 2010. He is a career .330 hitter with 21 homers, 108 RBI and 110 runs scored.

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