Category: TVCC

Trinity Valley Signs Recruits

The following players have signed to play with the Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals in 2014.

  • ATH Xavier Haley 6-0 185 Waco (Midway)
  • DB Chris Coby 6-0 170 Longview (Longview)
  • DB LaRoderick Evans 6-1 195 Winnfield, LA (Winnfield)
  • DB *Wesley Harris 6-0 175 Fort Worth (Southwest/Baylor)
  • DB Jamal Jones 5-10 190 Carrollton (Creekview)
  • DB Michael Sam 6-2 190 New Iberia, LA (New Iberia)
  • DB Dillon Thornton 6-2 180 San Antonio (Roosevelt)
  • DL Cardell Best 6-5 250 Little Elm (Little Elm)
  • DL Leroy Hardwell Jr. 6-1 275 Winnfield, LA (Winnfield)
  • DL Brahma Haugh 6-2 235 San Antonio (Warren)
  • DL *Josh McKinnies 6-1 280 Houston (Mayde Creek/Abilene Christian
  • DL Colby Priest 6-5 270 Belton (Belton)
  • DL Chance Rogins 6-4 255 Garland (Naaman Forest)
  • DL Rashad Williams 6-4 270 Marshall (Marshall)
  • LB DeAnthony Cuney 6-0 235 Jasper (Jasper)
  • LB Josh Ehambe 6-3 230 Arlington (Prime Prep)
  • LB Mar’Quaveon Jones 6-2 210 Dallas (Skyline)
  • LB Ashston Terrell 6-2 200 Dallas (Carter)
  • LB Marcel Thomas 5-10 205 Denton (Guyer)
  • LB Chris Jefferson 6-2 215 Athens (Athens)
  • OL Griffin Bankhead 6-3 300 Carthage (Carthage)
  • OL Arien Ferguson 6-3 315 Missouri City (Ridge Point)
  • OL T.J. Henson 6-4 280 Plano (East)
  • OL Lucas Morales 6-5 310 Waco (Reicher)
  • OL Jovan Pruitt 6-6 295 Dallas (Bishop Dunne)
  • OL Jordan Wright 6-3 305 Houston (Northshore)
  • QB Rayjohn Austin-Ramsey 6-1 180 Converse (Judson)
  • QB *Ford Childress 6-5 240 Houston (Kincaid/West Virginia)
  • QB Ryan Cottingame 6-5 210 Sunnyvale (Sunnyvale)
  • QB Lane Novy 6-0 215 Mesquite (Poteet)
  • RB Adam Berryman 5-9 185 Gainesville (Gainesville)
  • RB Darrell Breedlove 5-9 175 Denton (Guyer)
  • WR Phillip Baptiste 5-11 185 Copperas Cove (Copperas Cove)
  • WR Byron Daniels 6-0 170 San Antonio (Madison)
  • WR Emmanuel Harris 5-9 190 Dallas (Skyline)
  • WR *Alex Pina-Rhoden 6-2 185 Wylie (Wylie)
  • WR Dezmon Randle 6-2 180 San Augustine (San Augustine)
  • WR Andre Wilson 5-10 180 Converse Judson

TVCC Ranch Management Students Teach Local Students About Life on the Farm

Buck Monning, a TVCC Ranch Management student from Wills Point, helps Jaden Trigg learn how to calf rope on a practice dummy Monday at Eastern Hills Christian School in Athens.
Buck Monning, a TVCC Ranch Management student from Wills Point, helps Jaden Trigg learn how to calf rope on a practice dummy Monday at Eastern Hills Christian School in Athens.

By Jayson Larson/TVCC Public Information

Noah McCowan was just calling it like he saw it.

“I thought the little horse was a dog,” said McCowan, a first-grade student in Lindsay McCowan’s class at Eastern Hills Christian School in Athens.

“Well,” TVCC agriculture instructor and rodeo coach Brent Bratton said with a smile, “he kinda does look like a little dog, doesn’t he?”

McCowan and his classmates had a fun, hands-on experience Monday when Bratton brought a group of TVCC Ranch Management students to the school. McCowan’s class was learning about agriculture and rodeo – a lesson that included studies ranging from cowboys and cowgirls to cattle and spurs.

Bratton not only talked about those topics, but brought with him a pair of horses – a shaggy miniature horse and a paint horse, the latter of which the schoolchildren got to ride (with Bratton walking along and holding the reins, of course). The EHCS students also got to practice roping on a calf roping dummy.

Bratton said this was the second year he has brought his students to Eastern Hills. Last year they brought dairy calves to show the children.
“Doing this is always kind of neat,” Bratton said. “We really get more out of it than anybody.” Continue reading “TVCC Ranch Management Students Teach Local Students About Life on the Farm”

TVCC Offering Opportunity for a Fan Help Coach Lady Cardinals in a Game

Coach Elena Lovato
Coach Elena Lovato

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a coach for the most successful women’s basketball program in junior college history?
Wonder no more. Now you have an opportunity to find out.

Trinity Valley Community College, in conjunction with the annual Play 4Kay even to raise money for breast cancer awareness, is offering a fan a chance to help Elena Lovato coach the two-time defending national champion Lady Cardinals in game on Wednesday, Feb. 19 against Panola College at Cardinal Gym.

All it will take to become assistant coach for a day is a successful winning bid in an auction, which will benefit the Kay Yow Breast Cancer Fund.
The highest bidder will get to be in the locker room with the team before the game, on the bench during the game, participate during timeouts and be in the locker room after the game. The winning bidder will also be interviewed about the experience at halftime of the men’s game on the Cardinal Sports Network.

To submit a bid, e-mail your bid and name to [email protected]. Bids may also be submitted via phone. Call 903-674-6322 (leave a voice mail with bid and name).

Bids will be updated online at www.tvcc.edu, on Twitter at @TVCCsports and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Trinity Valley Community College.
The deadline for bids is noon on Wednesday, Feb. 19.

It’s Time To Play 4Kay

Play 4 Kay

TVCC press release

Trinity Valley Community College is again teaming up with the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association to raise awareness in the fight against breast cancer.

For a seventh straight year, TVCC is participating in the WBCA’s Play 4Kay initiative, which began as “Think Pink” in 2007. TVCC has designated the Wednesday, Feb. 19, game against Panola College at Cardinal Gym as its Play 4Kay event. Game time is 5:30 p.m.

The initiative is named in memory of former North Carolina State head women’s basketball coach Kay Yow, who died after a third recurrence of breast cancer in January 2009. The movement continues to grow and change lives, especially during February.

Yow recorded 737 victories during her coaching career while also guiding the United States Women’s Basketball team to the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In June 2002, Yow’s accomplishments earned her induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and in July of 2007. Yow was presented with the inaugural Jimmy V. ESPY Award for Perseverance.

To date, the fund has raised more than $7 million in support of women’s cancer research. Due its unique partnership with The V Foundation, the fund utilizes Scientific Advisory Board to ensure your donations support the cancer research projects with the most potential. Thus, grant recipients funded by the Kay Yow Cancer Fund have remarkable standing within the scientific community. Continue reading “It’s Time To Play 4Kay”