By Joseph Marcades As the weather warms up and the grass turns green, the Rawls Golf Course at Texas Tech University is preparing for another busy spring season. With an estimated 35,000 rounds of golf played on the Rawls every year, the staff is always working to maintain a tournament-level course, ranked by Golfweek as the […]
The Comeback Kid
March 18, 2016 by
By Kaylon Jackson Justin Gray, sophomore forward, is making his mark on the Texas Tech Red Raiders men’s basketball team. Having played basketball since the age of 3, Gray has worked many years, practicing his craft. Given the opportunity to play on the varsity team in seventh grade, Gray feels he has been challenged from the […]
Closing the Gender Gap in Athletic Scholarships
December 14, 2015 by
By Preston Derrick and Abby Aldrich When Texas Tech University opened in the fall of 1925, it boasted a total enrollment of 910 students, almost three-quarters of whom were men. Fast-forward to this fall, when Tech registered a total enrollment of almost 36,000 students. In 2015, men and women attend Tech in almost equal numbers, […]
Thanksgiving Tradition: Football with Family
November 25, 2015 by
By Preston Derrick Red Raider fans are excited to add tomorrow’s Texas Tech game against the University of Texas to their football watching schedules. The Thanksgiving game, at 6 p.m. in Austin, is only the second time Tech has played on Turkey Day. The Raiders will be seeking their 7th win of the season, as well as their […]
COMC Student-Athletes Raising Standards
November 19, 2015 by
Toddrick Gotcher, a guard for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team, often faced the “dumb jock” stereotype when he started his academic and sports career. “Coming into college, that is what everyone thinks,” he said. Since then, he has proven to many that he is more than just an athlete. The exercise and sports science graduate is now pursing […]
Young Guns: Tech Baseball Implements New Key Players
November 11, 2015 by
By Everett Corder The Texas Tech baseball team finished its fall schedule Tuesday with the Red team defeating the Black team three games to two in the Red & Black Series. Dividing the overall roster creates some holes on each team, Tech coach Tim Tadlock said, but having 11 total freshmen bodes well for the future of […]
Intramurals Draw Out Competitive Edge
November 8, 2015 by
By Caitlyn Nix At Texas Tech’s new West Rec Turf Fields, students can be seen playing flag football on most weeknights. Many students look forward to intramurals each year and take the games very seriously, causing emotions to run high, said Jared McCauley, assistant director for intramurals at Tech. Fights may break out, but very rarely. Rec Sports hosts […]
OSU, OU Students React to Homecoming Tragedy
November 4, 2015 by
By Preston Derrick What should have been a day of celebration turned tragic when 25-year-old Adacia Chambers drove her car into a crowd of people at the annual Sea of Orange homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University on Oct. 24. Four people were killed and over 45 were injured. Lacy Cox, a sophomore biochemistry and molecular biology […]
Experience Counts? The Lady Raiders Sure Hope So
November 3, 2015 by
By Everett Corder and Hannah Hipp With only three new players this upcoming season, Texas Tech Women’s Basketball Coach Candi Whitaker hopes to regain the dominance the team had in the 1990s through experience. Check out some highlights in Lady Raider history on this Hub@TTU timeline! Having players who have been together for two or […]
Tech Fandom Power Said To Be One of A Kind
October 28, 2015 by
by Megan Reyna and Preston Derrick One thing Sue Derrick recalls about the 1988 game between Texas Tech and Oklahoma State, held in Tokyo, Japan, was that Tech’s fans seemed less passionate than usual. “Out of the Japanese fans, half had Tech flags and half had OSU flags, and they would wave the flags real fast […]
