Fall & Winter Highlights
2015-2016 By Jeff Kelly, Sports Information Coordinator The Austin College football team completed a solid season in 2015, going 5-5 behind the strong play of running back Madison Ross ’16,…
News from the Football Field
Football to Make Switch to Southern Athletic Association Beginning in 2017, the Austin College football team will compete as an affiliate member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA). Both Austin…
Kangaroo Honors
For the Record Two long-standing Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) records were broken by Austin College student-athletes during 2014-2015. Andrew Celio ’15, a three-year starter at goalkeeper on the ’Roo…
Exceptional Players
Outstanding Athletes Football player Madison Ross ’16 and swimmer Lauren Wheeler ’16 are the 2015 Pete Cawthon Outstanding Male Athlete and Gene Day Outstanding Female Athlete. The awards confirm the…
Top Awards for Top Athletes
Outstanding Senior Athlete Awards Excellence and leadership come with experience and two Kangaroos have exhibited all aspects of team leadership. Winner of the Pete Cawthon Outstanding Male Athlete Award was…
For the Record Books
1,000 Points and Counting Only 18 players in the history of Austin College men’s basketball have reached the 1,000-point career-scoring mark. Ransom Okpala ’14 is the latest to make the…
Still Got Game
Alumni basketball players returned to Hughey Gym in February, some to take the court, others for a chance to visit with teammates, athletics director David Norman ’83, and ’Roo basketball…
A New Look on the Soccer Field
When the Austin College men’s and women’s soccer teams take the field this fall, they’ll do so on an improved North Field, if alumni donations allow scheduled renovations. Already, a…
“A” Run for ‘Roos
The Athletics “A” Association’s second annual “A” Run for ’Roos brought out 64 runners May 10 in McKinney, Texas, raising $9,500 for Athletics Enrichment, according to coordinator Kirk Hughes ’95.…
Remembering Our Own
Verde V. Dickey Verde V. Dickey of Phoenix, Arizona, died February 15. He provided funding for the Dickey Fitness Pavilion in honor of his father, the late Verde Dickey ’27.…