University of Oklahoma Athletics
2021 Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year Candidates
June 09, 2021 | Football, Athletics, Women's Tennis
NORMAN – University of Oklahoma women's tennis student-athlete Ivana Corley and football student-athlete Pat Fields have been announced as candidates for the Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year Awards, the conference office announced Wednesday.
Corley, a rising senior from Albuquerque, N.M., created the "Corley Cup" tennis tournament in her hometown for high schoolers unable to play their 2020 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She developed the tournament with the hopes of filling a void for graduating seniors and varsity tennis players in New Mexico left by the cancellation of the state tennis tournaments. The charity event raised more than $30,000, with proceeds going to the winners of the tournament (to be applied toward college) and to three charities in the state.
A member of OU's Student-Athlete Innovative Leaders group for three years, Corley will serve as SAIL president for the 2021-22 year. She was an Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree in 2020 and '21, has twice been selected to the OU Dean's Honor Roll and has been named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll all six semesters. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in entrepreneurship and venture management.
Fields, a rising senior and 2020 football team captain, founded "Town Business," a financial literacy seminar that teaches high school football student-athletes about budgeting, money management, credit and personal branding. Along with other collegiate student-athletes and former NFL players, he conducted the first seminar in May in his hometown of Tulsa, Okla. He has worked as part of the leadership team of OU athletes that promoted social justice initiatives, voting education and registration and helped develop the Sooners for Humanity patch featured on all OU athletics uniforms for the 2020-21 athletics year.
Fields recently completed a two-year term as one of two student-athletes nationally serving on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight and Competition Committee. He was an Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree in 2019 and '20, and was a recipient of the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, OU's Dan Gibbons Outstanding Scholar Athlete of the Year Award and the 2020 Cotton Bowl's Dan S. Petty Scholarship Award. He is simultaneously pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and a master's degree in accounting, and is projected to complete both in December 2021.
The Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year Awards began in 2000-01 to annually recognize student-athletes who display an extraordinary degree of sportsmanship, community service and academic achievement. A 10-person media panel selects the male and female honorees. The award winners will be announced Thursday, June 17.
Corley, a rising senior from Albuquerque, N.M., created the "Corley Cup" tennis tournament in her hometown for high schoolers unable to play their 2020 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She developed the tournament with the hopes of filling a void for graduating seniors and varsity tennis players in New Mexico left by the cancellation of the state tennis tournaments. The charity event raised more than $30,000, with proceeds going to the winners of the tournament (to be applied toward college) and to three charities in the state.
A member of OU's Student-Athlete Innovative Leaders group for three years, Corley will serve as SAIL president for the 2021-22 year. She was an Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree in 2020 and '21, has twice been selected to the OU Dean's Honor Roll and has been named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll all six semesters. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in entrepreneurship and venture management.
Fields, a rising senior and 2020 football team captain, founded "Town Business," a financial literacy seminar that teaches high school football student-athletes about budgeting, money management, credit and personal branding. Along with other collegiate student-athletes and former NFL players, he conducted the first seminar in May in his hometown of Tulsa, Okla. He has worked as part of the leadership team of OU athletes that promoted social justice initiatives, voting education and registration and helped develop the Sooners for Humanity patch featured on all OU athletics uniforms for the 2020-21 athletics year.
Fields recently completed a two-year term as one of two student-athletes nationally serving on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight and Competition Committee. He was an Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree in 2019 and '20, and was a recipient of the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, OU's Dan Gibbons Outstanding Scholar Athlete of the Year Award and the 2020 Cotton Bowl's Dan S. Petty Scholarship Award. He is simultaneously pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and a master's degree in accounting, and is projected to complete both in December 2021.
The Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year Awards began in 2000-01 to annually recognize student-athletes who display an extraordinary degree of sportsmanship, community service and academic achievement. A 10-person media panel selects the male and female honorees. The award winners will be announced Thursday, June 17.
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