“Athletes learn and earn the valuable life skills taught by playing sports. These skills are ingrained in the players heart by coaches who teach that success requires a teammate mentality, a work ethic in tow, and self-reliance as the goal. Coach Dana LeDuc taught those lessons well. ” — Billy Dale When the 2005 team…
Below is the oral history podcast featuring Jody Conradt, the former Head coach of the Longhorn women’s basketball team. The Texas Legacy Sports Network (TLSN) aims to document the history of Horn sports through the “Eyes Of Texas” as told by those who have built the Longhorn brand. Coach Conradt’s influence extended far beyond basketball….
The oral history podcast, text, and photos of College Baseball Hall of Fame Longhorn inductee – Jim Gideon are sponsored by: ABEL Engineering responded to the First Gulf War when Saddam Hussein set the Kuwait Oil Field (about 1000 wells) on fire in an environmental terrorist act. ABEL provides project management and engineering for out-of-control…
Women’s volleyball coach Longhorn Mick Haley is a Winner. Haley, a two-time All-Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association choice, was named MIVA Most Valuable Player in 1965. From 1973 to 1980, Haley coached both the men’s and women’s volleyball teams at Kellogg Community College, leading the men to four national championships and the women to two. In…
Roy Jones says, “The best job I ever had didn’t pay a penny but was worth millions in memories. It was the experiences, lessons learned and the people I met that made it special.” “I’m grateful for every opportunity, dear friends, colleagues, and, of course, the students and student/athletes I worked with! We’ve all got…
TLSN Chairwoman Beth Coblenz is A pioneer in high school a national champion in volleyball and a proven winner in leadership roles in business. Beth’s Oral history is below, with text and photos added to tell her story. Sponsored by MBFC contact John Carsey at jcarsey@mbfc.com Beth’s oral history captures the formative years of Title…
SPANKY STEPHENS (Athletic Trainer 1970-1999) Spanky’s podcast is below: SPANKY STEPHENS LONGHORN TRAINER FROM 1967- 1999 AND A HALL OF HONOR INDUCTEE The photo to the right was taken in 1994 when Spanky was inducted into the Southwest Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame. It is a significant photo because there are no other photos…
In the book Bleeding Orange by Kirk Bohls and John Maher there is a quote from Journalist Robert Heard. He says “the first thing I would do is fire DeLoss Dodds and put Donna Lopiano in there, and she’d take it. She is not from Texas and neither is DKR but at least they bleed…
A Taco Flats Love Story by Randy McEachern Hector The first time I met Jenna was in 1974, at a bar off of North Lamar called Hector’s Taco Flats. She was a Texas cheerleader, and I was a lowly freshman quarterback. Jenna saw me sitting in the corner, nursing a beer, and told the owner,…
Sherryl Hauglum 1980’s women’s basketball Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Sherryl and her teammates were trailblazers setting the bar high for future Longhorn women athletes. Sherryl’s oral history starts in Victoria, Texas, playing high school basketball, followed…