The Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are the athletic teams representing Texas Tech University. Women's basketball teams use the name Lady Raiders, while other women's teams from school use the name "Red Raiders".
The university's athletic program consists of 17 university teams in 11 sports that have all joined to win 70 conference championships and 4 national championships. The Masked Rider and Red Raider serve as the mascot representing the team, and the red and black school colors. Texas Tech participates in the NCAA I Division and is a founding member of the 12th Big Conference.
From 1932 to 1956, the university belonged to the Association of Border Space Athletes. Texas Tech was accepted at the Southwest Conference on May 12, 1956. When the Southwest Conference broke up in 1995, Texas Tech, along with the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A & amp; M University, and Baylor University, joined all eight former members of the Eight Big Conference to form the 12th Big Conference.
The university's athletic director is the representative of the College Playoff Soccer committee, Kirby Hocutt. Bob Knight, the most successful trainer in men's Division I basketball history, coached the Red Raiders men's basketball team from 2001 to 2008. Following Bob Knight's retirement in 2008, his son Pat Knight took on the task of training the head. Red Raiders soccer team, trained by Mike Leach from 2000 to 2009, is a member of the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and has appeared in game bowls at most 19 from any team. Tommy Tuberville was appointed head coach in 2010 after Mike Leach's dismissal and remained in position until 2012 before resigning. He was replaced by former Texas Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury in 2013. In 1993, headed by coach Marsha Sharp, Lady Raiders basketball team won the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. After Sharp retired in 2006, Kristy Curry was named head coach of Lady Raiders. Red Raiders baseball coach Larry Hays, who is one of only four coaches in the NCAA baseball history to win 1,500 career games, retired in 2008.
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History
On February 24, 1925, an article published in Fort Worth Star-Telegram suggested a Tech athletics team called "Dogies" explaining that "Dogie is a calf whose mother died and was forced to look out for himself" and "If ever anyone has to rustle for themselves, it's West Texas and Tech College."
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Varsity sports
Baseball
Behind male soccer and basketball, baseball is the third oldest sport in Texas Tech. The first team that was organized in 1925 and the first game, an 18-9 victory over West Texas State Teachers College, was played in 1926. In the next game, the team suffered the first loss, 14-9 for the previously defeated team. The third game in team history - this one against Daniel Baker College - ends with a 3-3 tie after 11 innings.
E. Y. Freeland was the first Red Raiders coach, although the team was known as Matador at the time. He remained in position for three years before R. Grady Higginbotham took on the role. Higginbotham was trained for only two years. From 1930 to 1953, Tech did not field an inter-college baseball team. When the program returned in 1954, Beattie Feathers became head coach of Red Raiders and remained until 1960. He was followed by Berl Huffman (1961-1967), Kal Segrist (1968-1983), and Gary Ashby (1984-1986). After Ashby's departure, Larry Hays became the team's head coach. Texas Tech's baseball team played at Dan Law Field in Rip Griffin Park and trained by Dan Spencer. Larry Hays was head coach of Red Raider for 22 years earlier and collected more than 800 wins with Texas Tech. On April 2, 2008, Hays became the fourth coach in the NCAA baseball history to win 1,500 career games. The Red Raider's first victory came on 5 April 1926 against the New Mexico Military Institute. During the 1990s, the Tech players drew the attention of 17 major league organizations. Two Red Raiders were selected in the second round, respectively in the third, fourth, and fifth rounds. In 2002, 16 former Tech players have appeared in Major League Baseball.
Larry Hays took over the Red Raiders baseball team in 1987. Under Hays, Texas Tech suffered only two losing seasons, the first and last, and enjoyed their biggest success in baseball. Hays took Tech from having a losing tradition of being a national competitor. When Hays started with Red Raiders, the team's overall record was 550-576. By the time he left, he was the fourth coach to win the history of college baseball and the team's record had risen to 1,365-1,054-9. The Red Raiders achieved eight straight NCAA tournaments from 1995-2002 and again in 2004, three of which were held at Dan Law Field. They also won two conference championships, in 1995 (while still in Southwest Conference) and 1997, and two championship tournament competitions, in 1996 and 1998.
The team is currently coached by Tim Tadlock who was hired as associate head coach for Red Raiders under Dan Spencer. The following season saw Tadlock replace Spencer as head coach of the Red Raiders ninth after Spencer fired. Tadlock's first season saw the team finish 26-30, and 8 of 9 in Big 12 played. Before the 2014 season, Red Raiders elected to finish in 8th place in the Big 12 Conference in pre-season elections. In just their second season, Red Raiders won their first NCAA Regional Tournament Championship, beating the Columbia Lions and home team Miami Hurricanes to advance to the first Super Regional appearance of the program.
The team will host the College of Charleston in the Super Regional round before closing them twice in two games 1-0, earning the first place of the program in the College World Series behind the post season's 0.65 resulting average on assistant coaches Pitching staff Ray Hayward. [6]
Cross-Country and Track & amp; Cross-Country/Cross & Cross; Field
Texas Tech's cross country and indoor & outdoor tracks & amp; field team trained by Wes Kittley. Under his leadership, the program has reached new heights. At the Overseas National Championships of 2005, Tech qualified 31 male and female athletes, more than any other school in the country. Under Kittley's guidance, Texas Tech has produced 16 national champions, seven Olympic Medals, over 200 All-American and over 119 Big 12 Champions.
From 1990 to 2006, the men's team garnered 91 All-America awards, 20 Big 12 Championships, and one individual national title. At the same time period, the women's team won 32 All-America awards, 29 Big 12 championships, and five individual national titles. During the 2007/08 season, the women had a strong performance behind Sally Kipyego, who won four individual national titles (cross country, indoor 3000 m and 5000 m, outdoor 10,000 m) and finished second in his bid for the fifth title in one academic year (5000 m outside). Kipyego added three national titles (cross country, 5000 m indoor, 5000 m outside) and another second place win (outdoors 1500 m) during the 2007/08 season. Under the leadership of Kipyego, the women's team won the first title in 2008. Their success was followed by other national championships in 2009 and 2010.
Kennedy Kithuka followed up the success of his previous program by winning the NCAA 2012 Cross Country Championship, becoming the first in the men's program to do so. For his achievements, Kithuka was named the National Men's Athlete of the Year to cross the country. In 2015 the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, Jacorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins won first and second places respectively in the high jump event.
The men's team has won two Big 12 Champions (2005, 2014) and the women's team has won three (2008, 2009, 2010).
Football
Red Raiders soccer team is a member of the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A). Texas Tech played the first college football game on October 3, 1925. The contest, against McMurry University, ended in a controversial 0-0 tie. Tech Elson Archibald appeared to have kicked a 20-yard field goal that won the game but the referee ruled that the clock had run out before the score. He later reported that the referee made a call for revenge because he wanted to become the team's first head coach but the job was instead awarded to Ewing Y. Freeland.
Through the 2015 season, the Texas Tech Red Raider soccer team has garnered a record 551-429-32 in 91 seasons (1925-2015).
In 1932, the program joined the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Five years later, the team won the first conference championship and was invited to the Sun Bowl. The game was played on January 1, 1938, and resulted in a 6-7 loss to West Virginia. Texas Tech suffered four more bowl losses before earning their first postseason win at the Sun Bowl in 1952. Before retiring to the Inter-Border Athletics Association in 1956, Red Raiders won a total of eight conference championships and one co championship, the most titles held by the team Border Conference.
In 1960, Texas Tech was accepted at the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Red Raiders won a conference of co-championships in 1976 and 1994. The team remained at SWC until the conference ceased operations in 1996. Following the dissolution of the SWC, the university became a charter member of the 12th Great Conference.
In the Big 12 Conference, Red Raiders competed in the Southern Division from an athletic conference formation until the 2010 season when the division was disbanded.
The Red Raiders, coached by Mike Leach from 2000-09, produced 56 wins from 2000 to the 2006 season. During the same period, only three other 12 Greater teams had more wins - Oklahoma, Texas, and Nebraska. In the last fourteen of his last season Tech finished with a winning record, before suffering a losing season in 2011 under head coach-when Tommy Tuberville. Tuberville resigned his position and was replaced by Kliff Kingsbury in 2013. The Red Raiders have made 36 bowl appearances (14-21-1), which are the top 20 of all universities.
Golf
2007 saw the men's golf team compete in the first back-to-back National Championship tournament since 1960. The team, coached by Greg Sands, qualified for the tournament after finishing 7th at the NCAA Central Regional.
Soccer
Men's basket
Basketball came to Texas Tech just two years after school was founded and the program has won 18 conference titles, the last of which was in 1996, all of which have been won while Red Raiders are at their Southwest Frontier Conference and Conference conference. Her first game was a 37-25 loss to Daniel Baker College. Tech will lose two more games before finally reaching their first win - 35-21 at Sul Ross University.
Grady Higginbotham was the first coach, getting a 14-18 record for two seasons. At 0.438, Higgenbotham is the only Tech basketball trainer to collect a record overall loss during his stay. After the departure of Higgenbotham, Victor Payne led the Matadors (as a school team known until 1936) from 1927 to 1930. His final count reached 32 victories and 20 losses. W. L. Golightly only coached one season, bringing the 11-9 record. Dell Morgan held the head coaching job from 1931 to 1934, incised 42 wins to 29 losses. He was followed by Virgil Ballard. Although Ballard only coached one season, that's when his team won their 100th game, a one-point victory over House of David. Ballard went with a 15-9 record.
Berl Huffman is a two-time basketball head coach at Texas Tech - first from 1935 to 1942 and then from 1946 to 1947. For a total of eight seasons, he collected a record of 121-67. Polk Robison is the only other person who serves two different times as a basketball head coach at school. When Huffman left in 1942, Robison took the job. And, when Huffman left for the second time in 1947, it was Robison who refilled his position, this time until 1961. For a total of 18 seasons, his stay was the second longest of any Red Raiders basketball coach, behind Gerald Myers. He departed after leading his team to 254 wins, 195 losses, and two first NCAA tournaments in school history.
Gene Gibson follows Robison into that position. In eight seasons, he set the second worst record of a basketball head coach at Tech. However, at 100-92, there were eight more wins than losses. Bob Bass led the program to a 22-15 record for a season and a half before returning to professional basketball coaching.
Bob Knight became a men's basketball coach in 2001. He retired on February 4, 2008. On New Year's Day 2007, the 70-68 defeat of New Mexico by Tech marked the 880th win for Knight, making him the most qualified coach in college men's history of basketball. Knight also has several other differences, including being the only trainer to win the NCAA, NIT, Olympic Gold, and Pan-Am Gold, and have been awarded several awards. Knight was replaced by his son, Pat Knight. After the dismissal of Pat Knight, Billy Gillispie was appointed head coach on March 20, 2011 and then resigned for health reasons after a season following while also being in the midst of allegations of mistreated players. Chris Walker took over temporarily for the 2012 season and led the red pirates to a 11-20 record.
In March 2013, Tubby Smith was named the new male basketball coach and leads the team to upset the top 25 opponents since 2009. Texas Tech students broke school records and the Big 12 Conference for student attendance at United Spirit Arena over 25 February 2014 lost to Kansas State. Notes 6,086 students fell less than 2,000 less than the national record.
Softball
Red Raiders' softball program started in 1981 but the program was canceled after just five seasons. When Texas Tech joined the Big 12 Conference as a charter member, the program was raised in time for the first 1996 season. Shanon Hays, the head teacher coach of Lubbock Christian University first, turned the Red Raider softball team around from the 15-42 season under head coach Amy Suiter to 80-34 in just his first two seasons. Hays led the Red Raiders to three NCAA Regional appearances for five seasons at the helm. Adrian Gregory was appointed seventh head coach in Texas Tech history in June 2014.
Tennis
Siegel's team has been training at Tech for 15 years, helping the men's tennis team into many seasons of victory. Siegel was recently honored as the 12th Great Coach of 2008 2008. He has trained players who are now college coaches themselves.
Men's tennis team has a very successful 2008 season with the highest ranking # 17 in the country. The Red Raiders face 11 ranking teams and only lost two, # 31 TCU and # 11 Tulsa. Texas Tech ended the regular season at # 17. Recently, Red Raiders 2012 season resulted in the closing rank of ITA 19.
The Texas Tech tennis team won the Conference Border tennis championship in 1936, 1937, and 1950. The women's team, led by Todd Petty, won the Big 12 Conference in 2012.
Female Women's basket
From sports varsity, Texas Tech has achieved the greatest success in women's basketball with 13 conference titles and 1 national championship. Led by star players Sheryl Swoopes and head coach Marsha Sharp, Lady Raiders won the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 1993. In early 2006, Lady Raiders coach Marsha Sharp retired and was replaced on March 30, 2006 by Kristy Curry, who has been coach at Purdue. Curry received a similar position at The University of Alabama on May 11, 2013 and was replaced by Candace Whitaker, a former player for Texas Tech in the 1990s, who was named head coach on May 22, 2013.
Sports club
In addition to university sports, the University Sport Club Federation offers 30 recreational and competitive sports clubs, including polo, rugby union, lacrosse, fencing and soccer.
Ice Hockey
The Texas Tech Ice Hockey Team was founded in 1999. As a member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, Red Raiders competed with the Big XII Conference Teams as well as with colleges throughout the United States and Canada. Players are recruited from the United States, Canada, and abroad.
Polo
From sports clubs, the Texas Tech Polo Club team, coached by Clyde Waddell, has been the biggest hit ever. Regardless of having no previous experience, at the invitation of the students, Waddell took the job in 2000. Six years later, the team beat local rivals Texas A & amp; M to win the Inter National Police Association United States Championship.
Rodeo
The Texas Tech rodeo team team competed in the National Rodeo Association and won the 1955 championship at the National Finals Rodeo College.
Rugby
Texas Tech rugby played in Division 1-A at the Allied Rugby Conference, a conference consisting mainly of schools from Big 12 South, against traditional rivals like Texas and Texas A & amp; M. For 2011-12, Texas Tech also dropped teams to play in Division 2, where they won the Texas championship and qualified for the national playoffs.
Facilities
AT & amp; Jones Stadium T serves as home to the Red Raiders soccer team. The stadium, named for Clifford B. and Audrey Jones, opened in 1947. In 2000, the stadium was renamed SBC Jones Stadium after SBC Communications made a $ 30 million contribution to the university. After the acquisition of SBC Communications' AT & amp; T Corporation in 2006, the stadium was renamed Jones AT & amp; T Stadium. The original seating capacity of the stadium is 27,000, but expanded in 1959, 1972, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, and 2013 to current capacity of 60,862. Overall, from 1999 to 2009 schools spent more than $ 84 million on renovations and ongoing expansions to stadiums and football programs.
In January 2013 construction began adding another 368 seats in the northern endzone, alongside an observation deck that will hold 40. The $ 11 million project also includes a significantly improved jumbotron with a new sound system, Spanish themed Renaissance row, and a concourse of end zones north that connects the two parts of the stadium. Along with other additions, a 157-meter ribbon board will be added to the northern end zone, over 160 feet linear in the northeast corner and northwest of the stadium, and 94 linear feet in the southern end zone above the athletic office. All new features of AT & amp; Jones Stadium T was inaugurated on September 7, 2013.
Since 1999, home basketball has been played at the United Supermarkets Arena (originally United Spirit Arena), a 15,020-seat multi-purpose facility costing $ 62 million to build it. In addition to serving as a home for men's and women's basketball teams, this arena is used by the Red Raiders volleyball team.
- Baseball - And Law Field at Rip Griffin Park
- Basketball - United Supermarkets Arena
- Equestrian - Texas Equestrian Equity Center
- Soccer - AT & amp; Jones Stadium T
- Golf - Rawls Course
- Rodeo - Texas Tech Equestrian Center/Dub Park Memorial Park
- Football - John Walker Soccer Complex
- Softball - Rocky Johnson Field
- Tennis - Don & amp; Ethel McLeod Tennis Center
- Line and Field, Indoor - Athletic Training Center
- Tracks and Fields, Outdoor - R.P. Full Track
- Volley Ball - Supermarket Arena United
Championship
NCAA team championship
Texas Tech has won 1 NCAA national championship team.
- Women (1)
- Basketball (1): 1993
- see also:
- Hold the 12th National Team of the Great Conference
- List of NCAA schools with the NCAA Division I championships
Other national team championships
- Texas Tech Spirit Squad Texas Tech Pom Squad & amp; Coed Cheer won the National title in 2017 - 2018
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- Wall of Fame
Below are 3 National team titles not given by the NCAA:
- Man:
- Polo USPA National Intercollegiate Championship: 2006
- Rodeo NIRA College National Finals Rodeo: 1956
- Women:
- Rodeo NIRA College National Finals Rodeo: 2012
Conference Championships
Texas Tech has won 70 conference championships: 21 Big 12 Conference, 27 Southwest Conference (SWC) titles, and 22 titles of the Border Conference.
- Baseball
- Big 12 Regular Season: 1997, 2016, 2017
- Big Tournament 12: 1998
- Regular SWC Seasonal: 1995
- SWC Tournament: 1995
- The basketball
- Women's Ordinary Season 12: 1998, 1999, 2000
- Women's 12th Big Tournament: 1998, 1999
- Border Men's Regular Season: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1954, 1955, 1956
- Men's SWC Season: 1961, 1962, 1965, 1973, 1985, 1995, 1996
- SWC Men's Tournament: 1976, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1996
- SWC Women's Regular Season: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
- SWC Women's Tournament: 1992, 1993, 1995
- Cross Country
- The Great 12 Women's Championships: 2008, 2009, 2010
- Football
- Big 12 South Division: 2008
- Limit: 1937, 1942, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955
- SWC: 1976, 1994
- Golf
- Men's Border Championships: 1936, 1937, 1939, 1955
- SWC Men's Championship: 1959, 1971, 1996
- Track and Field
- Great Indoor Championship 12 Men: 2018
- Great Outdoors 12 Men: 2005, 2014, 2018
- Football
- Women's Big 12 Tournament: 2015
- Tennis
- Big 12 Men's Regular Season: 2016
- Women's 12th Great Season: 2012, 2013, 2017
- Women's Big 12 Tournament: 2017
- Limit: 1936, 1937, 1950
Culture
Nickname
The Red Raiders were originally known as "Matadors" from 1925-1936. Since the school was thinking of a proper nickname for its athletic team in 1925, the wife of the first football coach suggested "Matador" to reflect the influence of Renaissance Spanish architecture on campus. The students follow the advice, and then choose red and black as the school colors to represent a traditional matador's outfit. Coincidentally, the football team won the first match just after the name was adopted. The nickname and color of the school became official during an official meeting on March 15, 1926.
There are two main stories about how the name "Red Raiders" replaces its predecessor. In one story, soccer coach Pete Cawthon ordered an attractive red uniform to help the team's identity. The soccer team, dressed in their new clothes, defeated the much-loved Loyola in Los Angeles on October 26, 1934. A Los Angeles sports writer called Matadors "the red invaders". Other authors who covered Tech sports were interested in the term and successfully promoted the use of "Red Raiders". In another story, former Colbian Parris sports columnist Collier Parris, reported the 1932 Tech football game, writing: "The Red Raiders of Texas Tech, this year's Southwest terror, dived into the New University Camp Mexico today. "The name soon became popular afterward and in 1936, it was officially replaced" Matadors "at the same time Saddle Saddle appeared.
Spirit
The Red Raider spirit is led by organizations such as Saddle Saddle, High Rider, and spirit squad (consisting of cheerleaders and squad squads). In April 2010, Texas Tech's cheering army ranks third in the National Cheerleaders Association and the National Dance Association.
Mascots
The Masked Rider is Texas Tech University's oldest mascot. The tradition began in 1936, when "ghost riders" surrounded the field before a home football game. The Masked Rider became the official mascot in 1954, when Joe Kirk Fulton led the team to the field at Gator Bowl. According to reports from those present at the match, the audience sat silent as they watched Fulton and his horse, Blackie, rush to the football field, followed by the team. After a while, the silent crowd cheered. Ed Danforth, a writer for the Atlanta Journal who watched the event, later wrote, "No team in any bowl game ever made a more sensational entrance."
In 2000, The Masked Rider tradition was commemorated by the unveiling of a statue outside the Frazier Alumni Pavilion building. The statue, created by Grant Speed ​​artist, is 25% larger than life. Today Masked Riders, with guns, lead the team to the field for all home games. This mascot, which is decorated with a typical gaucho hat as worn by members of the marching band, is one of the most visible figures in Texas Tech. Ashley Wenzel, a second-year education major from Friendswood, Texas, will represent the university as a Masked Rider for 2012-13.
Another Texas Tech mascot, Raider Red, is a more recent creation. Beginning with the 1971 football season, the Southwest Conference banned the inclusion of live animal mascots into distant games unless the host school agrees. For situations where the host school does not want to let a Masked Rider horse, an alternative mascot is needed. Jim Gaspard, a member of the student organization Saddle Tramps, created original designs for the Red Raider costume, based on characters made by cartoonist Dirk West, a Texas Tech alumni and former mayor of Lubbock. Although the identity of The Masked Rider is common knowledge, it has always been a tradition that the Red Raider student alter ego is kept secret until the end of his tenure. Students who serve as Raider Red are members of Sadel's Saddle or High Riders.
Rivalry
Texas Tech's major athletic competitors are Texas Longhorns and Texas A & amp; M Aggies. It is common for people to camp in front of Jones Stadium AT & amp; T a few days before home football matches against Aggies, Longhorns, and Oklahoma Sooners.
In March 2009, Texas Tech and Baylor reached an agreement to move the next two football games to the Dallas metropolitan area. The schools played November 28, 2009, at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington with Tech claiming victory. The next game is scheduled for October 9, 2010, at the Cotton Bowl Stadium during the Texas State Fair, with Tech winning again. The arrangement was extended for two additional years.
People
Athletic director
- E. Y. Freeland, 1925-1927
- Grady Higgenbotham, 1927-1929
- Pete Cawthon, 1930-1940
- Morley Jennings, 1941-1951
- DeWitt Weaver, 1952-1960
- Polk Robison, 1960-1970
- J. T. King, 1970-1978
- Dick Tamburo, 1978-1980
- John Conley, 1980-1985
- T. Jones, 1985-1992
- Robert Bockrath, 1992-1995
- Gerald Myers, 1996-2011
- Kirby Hocutt, 2011-now
Head coach
Texas Tech team head coaches include:
- Baseball - The Tadlock Team
- Basketball, Men - Chris Beard
- Basketball, Woman - Candace Whitaker
- Cross Country - Jon Murray
- Soccer - Kliff Kingsbury
- Golf, Men - Greg Sands
- Golf, Women - JoJo Robertson
- Soccer - Tom Stone
- Softball - Adrian Gregory
- Tennis, Men - Team Siegel
- Tennis, Women - Todd Petty
- Indoor/Outdoor Tracks & amp; Field - Wes Kittley
- Volley - Don Flora
Alumni
Texas Tech Red Raiders Alumni have played in NFL, NBA, WNBA, Major League Baseball, and more. Current alumni appearances include NFL All-Pros Zach Thomas from Kansas City Chief, Wes Welker of Denver Broncos, Danny Amendola from New England Patriots, and Michael Crabtree from Oakland Raiders.
Note
References
External links
- Official website
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