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UMHB media guide 2015 CONTENTS AND QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS UMHB QUICK FACTS Crusader Stadium .........................Inside Cover Location: Belton, TX Contents & Quick Facts ..................................1 Enrollment: 3,920 Media Information ...........................................2 Founded: 1845 UMHB Administration ....................................3 Stadium (Capacity): Crusader Stadium (8,766) Head Coach Pete Fredenburg ..................... 4-5 Nickname: The Cru Assistant Coaches ......................................... 6-8 Colors: Purple, Gold & White Football Support Staff .....................................9 President: Dr. Randy O’Rear Returnee Roster........................................ 10-11 Vice-President for Athletics: Randy Mann Returnee Bios & Photos ........................... 12-22 Athletic Dept. Phone: (254) 295-4618 2014 Postseason Honors ................................23 Press Box Phone: (254) 295-8866 The Cru In The Pros ......................................23 Head Coach: Pete Fredenburg 2015 Recruiting Class .............................. 24-25 Alma Mater: Southwest TX State ’70 Sports Medicine Staff ....................................26 Overall/UMHB Record (Yrs): 170-36 (17) 2014 Game-By-Game ............................... 27-32 2014 Record: 11-1 Overall, 5-0 ASC Crusader Stadium ..........................................33 Lettermen Returning: 50 2014 UMHB Statistics .............................. 34-35 Lettermen Lost: 26 2014 ASC Wrap-Up ................................. 36-37 Starters Returning: 7 off., 5 def. All-Time vs. Opponents .................................38 Starters Lost: 4 off., 6 def. Cru Football By The Numbers .....................38 Coaching Staff: Larry Harmon ASC Composite Schedule ..............................39 Cody Fredenburg 2015 Opponents Information .................. 40-44 Nathaniel Hogge UMHB Football Records ......................... 45-48 Luke Howard All-Time Results ....................................... 49-50 Jack Johnson This is UMHB ........................................... 51-52 Marvin Agnew Momentum Campaign ................................IBC Kieth Mullins 2015 Varsity & JV Schedules .........Back Cover Mike Dail Josh Gonzales ON THE COVER: Defensive End Teidrick Smith enters the Baron Cotharn 2015 season as the ASC Preseason Defensive Player of the Teran Mawhinney Year after winning ASC Defensive Player and Defensive Lineman of the Year honors following the 2014 campaign. Michael Barainyak Stanton Holland CREDITS Jamaul Ross The UMHB football media guide is a publication of J.D. Perkins the UMHB Sports Information Office: Jon Wallin, Direc- Ryan Cantrell tor. Design and layout by Jon Wallin with assistance from Sarah Minton and Randy Yandell. Individual player photos Sports Information Director: Jon Wallin and cover action photos are courtesy of David Morris and CenTexphoto.com. The 2015 UMHB football media guide SID Phone: (254) 295-4611 was printed by Gatesville Printing. SID Fax: (254) 295-4274 SID Address: UMHB Box 8010 Belton, TX 76513 1 MEDIA INFORMATION Local Outlets Contact Phone Fax Website Temple Daily Telegram Eric Drennan (254) 778-4444 (254) 778-0634 www.tdtnews.com Killeen Daily Herald Allan Mandell (254) 501-7560 (254) 200-7640 www.kdhnews.com Belton Journal Tony Adams (254) 939-5754 (254) 939-2333 www.beltonjournal.com KCEN-TV (NBC) Nick Canizales (254) 773-6868 (254) 859-5831 www.kcentv.com KXXV-TV (ABC) Tim O’Donnell (254) 754-2525 (254) 757-0331 www.kxxv.com KWTX-TV (CBS) Sean Giggy (254) 741-5833 (254) 776-4010 www.kwtx.com Townsquare Media (Radio) Aaron Savage (254) 773-5252 (254) 773-0115 www.k1017fm.com KRZI-FM Radio David Smoak (254) 772-0930 N/A www.1660espn.com State-Wide Outlets Contact Phone Fax Website Associated Press Skyler Dixon (800) 442-7189 (972) 991-7207 www.ap.org Austin American-Statesman College Sports (512) 445-3600 (512) 445-3868 www.austin360.com Dallas Morning News Mark Konradi (800) 431-0010 (800) 651-0580 www.dallasnews.com Ft. Worth Star-Telegram College Sports (817) 390-7760 (817) 390-7210 www.star-telegram.com Houston Chronicle College Sports (713) 220-7891 (713) 220-7866 www.chron.com San Antonio Express-News College Sports (210) 225-7411 (210) 250-3351 www.express-news.net Waco Tribune Herald College Sports (254) 757-5710 (254) 756-7803 www.wacotrib.com COVERING THE CRU The UMHB Office of Sports Information generates all official information concerningThe Cru football team. All media inquiries should be directed through the UMHB Office of Sports Information. No player or coach interviews will be granted without prior arrangement through the sports information director. Media guides, game programs, statis- tics, game notes, flip cards and a pregame meal will be available to working media in the press box on game days. Only credential media will be allowed access to press box seating. Seats will be reserved for media requesting credentials with priority given to outlets regularly covering UMHB and its opponents. Game statistics will be provided to working media and coaching staffs at halftime and the end of the game. Complete stat packages, including play-by-play will be available approximately 15 minutes after the end of the game. There are phone lines available at Crusader Stadium, but prior arrangement should be made by media needing use of those phone lines. Visiting radio is encouraged to call the UMHB Office of Sports Information two weeks ahead of time to make arrangements. A member of the sports information staff will escort members of the media to the interview room for interviews following the game. UMHB coaches and requested players are available in the interview room following the 10-minute cooling off period. Visiting players and coaches will also be available for interviews with the visiting SID typically handling those requests. Special requests for postgame interviews should be addressed to the UMHB sports information staff ahead of time. During the week, UMHB players and coaches are available for interviews prior to group meetings before prac- tice on Tuesday and Wednesday. All interviews will be conducted at the Andersen Field House and should be arranged through the UMHB Office of Sports Information at least 24 hours in advance. Special interview requests, including phone interviews, must be arranged through the sports information director. Requests for Game Day credentials should be addressed to Jon Wallin, UMHB Sports Information Director. They may be faxed on company letterhead to (254) 295-4274 or mailed to UMHB Sports Information Office, UMHB Box 8010, 900 College Street, Belton, TX 76513. Requests should be made at least one week in advance. THE CRU ON THE RADIO All UMHB football games during the 2015 season will be broadcast on KLTD 101.7 FM. KLTD is a part of the Townsquare network of stations in Central Texas. Jon Wallin is in his third season as play-by-play voice of The Cru. Wallin is in his 17th year as the Sports Information Direc- tor at UMHB and will also continue to handle the day-to-day operations of the UMHB Sports Information Office.W allin was voted ASC Sports Information Director of the Year for the 2009-10 school year. He has also provided play-by-play for UMHB men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball during his career. The Baylor graduate also spent nearly eight years at KXXV-TV in Waco, working in sports, news and weather. He was the weeknight sports anchor for his last three years in television. Wallin is joined in the booth by former UMHB offensive coordinator George Haffner. Haffner spent seven years as the Cru’s offensive coordinator before retiring in 2006. UMHB set every major school offensive record during Haffner’s tenure. Coach Haffner also spent 31 years in Division I, including stops at Georgia, Pittsburgh, Florida State, Iowa State, LSU and Texas A&M. He coached Herschel Walker during Walker’s Heisman Trophy season at Georgia. 2 UMHB ADMINISTRATION DR. RANDY O’REAR, UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Randy O’Rear became the 22nd president of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor when he assumed the office on June 1, 2009. O’Rear was named President and CEO of the university in a unanimous decision by the school’s Board of Trustees in September 2008. Dr. O’Rear is the first of president of UMHB who is also an alumnus of the university. He graduated from UMHB with a bachelor’s degree in business administation in 1988 and earned an MBA from UMHB in 1997. O’Rear earned a doctoral degree in Higher Education from Baylor University in 2004. O’Rear has served at UMHB since 1988, most recently as executive vice president and chief operating officer. For more than 18 years, O’Rear has been actively involved in fundraising for the university. Under his leadership, gifts and grants dramatically increased, numerous endowed scholarships were established and major capital projects were completed, including the construction of the Parker Academic Center, the Mayborn Campus Center, the Meyer Christian Studies Center and the Crusader Stadium Complex. O’Rear has also strong ties to the UMHB athletic department. He was also a two-year letterman for the UMHB baseball program as a righthanded pitcher. O’Rear held the school record for wins in a season for five years before that mark was broken in 1992. He also spent one year as a student assistant coach and two years as a full-time assistant coach for the Cru baseball team. Originally from Waco, O’Rear is a graduate of Robinson High School. He and his wife, Julie, have three children, Ryan, Taylor and Reed.