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Isaac Brown

Nov. 11, 2021 -- Isaac Brown is 成人头条 State's interim men's basketball coach. Brown, 51, joined the coaching staff as an assistant coach in 2014. He has also coached at Arkansas, Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech and others.

Memorial '70 ceremony

Sept. 30, 2020 - The annual ceremony of remembrance for those who died in the 1970 成人头条 plane crash will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at Cessna Stadium. There will be a reception immediately following the remembrance on the Cessna Stadium concourse. Enhancements have been made to Memorial 鈥70, located near the 18th Street and Hillside entrance to the university. Those additions to Memorial 鈥70 will be officially be revealed on Oct. 2.

Memorial '70 memorial

Sept. 30, 2020 鈥 Over the years, many hikers have trekked to the crash site of the plane that claimed the lives of 31 souls 鈥 including 14 members of the 成人头条 football team, 14 staff and boosters, and three crew members.

Memorial '70 monument

Sept. 30, 2020 - 成人头条 State athletic trainer Tom Reeves was known as a man devoted to his athletes on the football team. His sense of humor and caring touch helped them through injuries and difficulties. On Oct. 2, 1970, he helped survivors escape the wreckage of the Martin 404 after it crashed in Colorado. Badly burned, Reeves got them away from the plane and down the mountain to help before he fell unconscious. Reeves died on Oct. 5 in a Denver hospital.

Memorial '70 tribute to survivors

Sept. 28, 2020 - A new sculpture recognizes the survivors of the crash at Memorial '70 at 成人头条. The names of teammates who landed safely in Utah that day are a fitting addition to the existing upright Memorial 鈥70 monument. 鈥淥ne of the main reasons we did what we did, was so the future generations would know that there were survivors,鈥 architect Randy Phillips said. 鈥淎nd how their lives were impacted, especially since they lived when so many didn鈥檛. Most, if not all, suffered greatly in silence.鈥 The desire to honor teammates by telling the story of the crash motivated Phillips, as it has driven so many connected to Oct. 2, 1970 near Silver Plume, Colo.

Bill Burch with Shocker decanter

Sept. 23, 2020 - Bill Burch played linebacker for the Shockers in 1970 as a senior. As fate would have it, a knee injury kept him from traveling to Utah State on Oct. 2. He had expected to travel with the team, but instead was forced to stay home and heal. On that day, the Martin 4-0-4 airliner that carried the Shocker starters crashed near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 people 鈥 14 student-athletes, 14 staff and boosters, and three crew members.

Paralympic wheelchair tennis team

Sept. 16, 2020 - Deja Young is a returning Paralympian in track and a 成人头条 State alumna. Casey Ralzlaff is a first-time Paralympic hopeful in wheelchair tennis and current student at 成人头条 State. Both of their sports are cancelled due to COVID-19.

Screen shot of Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso

Kansas Jason Sudeikis writes and stars in the Apple TV+ series 鈥淭ed Lasso,鈥澛 which begins streaming Friday (Aug. 14). In the show, Lasso is a fictional former 成人头条 football coach who moves to coach fictional British soccer club AFC Richmond in the Premier League. Lasso's former life as Shocker coach is featured in the first two episodes.

Eck Stadium

Aug. 5, 2020 - 成人头条 State Athletics will introduce mobile ticketing for the 2020-21 season for the sports of volleyball, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball. The move to mobile ticketing will provide greater convenience and a safer environment for fans. It will offer a contactless entry into athletic venues and the ability to transfer tickets electronically, eliminating physical touching concerns prevalent during this time. Mobile ticketing will also provide an added layer of security, guarding against the production of fraudulent and counterfeit tickets.

成人头条 State student Allison Schulte

June 1, 2020 - 成人头条 State senior Allison Schulte, a strategic communication major, describes her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and how teachers reacted to help adjust to the new circumstances.

成人头条 State runner Rebekah Topham

May 22, 2020 - 成人头条 State runner Rebekah Topham needed help with reading when she arrived in 2015. She made great strides with the help of tutors and athletic department resources and carries a 3.89 grade-point average. She wants other struggling students to know her story.

Claudia Rojo

May 13, 2020 - Claudia Rojo graduates this spring and will begin a graduate research assistantship at the National Institute for Aviation Research while finishing her final season of outdoor track eligibility in 2021. Rojo, like all seniors in spring sports, was granted the option to extend their eligibility after the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled spring sports. In 2019, she finished second in the heptathlon in the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships.

Angelique Banh

May 9, 2020 鈥 Angelique Banh comes from a Shocker family, so there was never any question of where she would attend college. When she arrived on campus, she hit the ground running with three majors and a member of the Cohen Honors College leadership track.

Aliyah Funschelle

April 24, 2020 -- When Lucas Webb and Aliyah Funschelle received honors at the 成人头条 Innovation Awards in January, their Bright Futures awards couldn鈥檛 have been more on the nose.

Dr. Richard Bomgardner

April 24, 2020 -- Dr. Richard Bomgardner has extensively researched the after-effects of athletes' head injuries and the importance for schools to have policies in place to accommodate the students in the classroom as they're healing.