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softball Honors
Texas is the only program in the NCAA with three USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year awards. UT’s Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-Americans Nikki Cockrell All – American Nikki Cockrell Second Base 1998, 1999. inducted into the Hall of Honor in 2006. NCAA Texas Woman of the Year CoSIDA Academic All-American 1998 and 1999 Autumn Estes…
Softball, Jungmann, Bat poop, Cotton Bowl heroes, Helping Hands
View in Browser Volume VIII Newsletter #10 04/28/2023 IMPORTANT – Click on the small white “VIEW IN BROWSER” above to enhance cell phone text, links, and photos. Larry Carlson says: In his final UT season, Jungmann won the Dick Howser Trophy, known as the hardball equivalent of the Heisman, delivered to the national player of…
Kirk Bohls
Best Cotton-Pickin’ Sportswriter In America by Larry Carlson https:// texaslsn.org Below are the oral history podcast, text, and photo links to Kirk Bohls. https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/kirk-bohls My buddy, Kirk, is pretty tough. He once played the second half of a late ’60s high school football game with a broken neck. That wasn’t gonna stop the 5-7 135-pound…
Men’s Hall of Honor
Jenna McEachern in her book “100 Things” says the Longhorn Hall of Honor is the academy Award of Longhorn athletics.” “Each evening before the final home game, inductees to the ‘award of Merit and Distinction’ entered the Longhorn Hall of Honor. The Hall of Honor is not the same as a Hall of Fame inductee….
Peter Gardere
Sponsored by MBFC contact John Carsey at jcarsey@mbfc.com Peter’s oral Longhorn sports history link is below https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/peter-gardere-1 PETER THE GREAT by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) There’s a word in the American lexicon that is more overused, abused — and certainly more misused — than even iconic, awesome, and incredible. That word is – “Unique.”…
Longhorn Men’s Basketball Honors
Olympian Jay Arnette You are probably already on it, but former Longhorn Jay Arnette was a member of the original Olympic basketball “Dream Team” In 1960. Jay went on to play both pro basketball and pro baseball before coming back to Austin and becoming an orthodontist. Here is a story from one of his teammates…