Part II -Jim Bayless – Game, Set, Match  Coach  Snyder

Part II -Jim Bayless – Game, Set, Match Coach Snyder

Jim Bayless celebrates the history of Men’s Longhorn tennis in the podcast below. Fall 1972: The Coach Dave Snyder Era at UT Begins Longhorn Tennis Player and Coach Extraordinaire Dave Snyder 1950s 1958 2000 2000 I well remember my first encounter with Dave Snyder as our new coach. Dan Nelson and I had been practicing…

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Spanky Stephens who put together the team who wrote Natasha’s Law says “many do not realize that if a student continues to play with a concussion and receives a second head injury, there is a greater chance of severe brain damage or even death. “ Concussions in high school athletes may be a risk factor…

1934 Hondo Crouch

1934 Hondo Crouch

Hondo Crouch was country strange but genuine. He grew a beard and wore unfashionable clothes before the hippies, and had a knack for converting his “liabilities” into assets. Intentionally, he looked like an ignorant sheepherder. Hondo was a marketing genius and used his counter-culture persona to break bread with some of the most influential people…

Tennis-Stewart Keller’s Longhorn sports lineage- football, diving, and tennis 1

Tennis-Stewart Keller’s Longhorn sports lineage- football, diving, and tennis 1

While all Dorothy had to do was follow the yellow brick road, The Longhorns had to follow a confusing Rainbow of brick roads and many false starts that ended nowhere. It has been said that “what starts here changes the world”. If that is so, Texas created the full spectrum of the color palette for…

Tex Robertson’s

Tex Robertson’s

Coach Tex Robertson was a risk-taker who used personality, energy, creativity, politics, contacts, recruiting, promotion, discipline, strong will, and Business Savvy to forever change the swimming landscape for Longhorn swimmers. TEX- The Father of Texas Swimming by Ross LuckSinger Coach Tex Robertson tells his new swimmers “Go Swim a mile and your body teaches you”…