Shocking 🚨: As Ten former University of Texas student-athletes and two coaches are set to be inducted this September

AUSTIN, Texas — Ten former University of Texas student-athletes and two coaches will be inducted this September into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor. These 12 individuals will be recognized as the Class of 2024 in an induction ceremony on Friday, Sept. 20.

The ceremony will start at 7 p.m. Central in the LBJ Auditorium and Conference Center on the UT campus (2313 Red River St.). Tickets for this year’s Hall of Honor show will be general admission and are available for $25 per person at the link.

Texas Athletics Hall of Honor Inductees

JULIE COOPER BLIEMEL

REGGIE FREEMAN

MARQUISE GOODWIN

FARLEY TAYLOR LANSING

MIRA TOPIC LOSERT

COLT MCCOY

ALEX OKAFOR

OMAR QUINTANILLA

LEXY BENNETT SKAGGS

KAREN NELSON WALTERS

JOHN FIELDS — Special Selection

CARIE GRAVES — Special Selection

One of only three two-time winners of the prestigious Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF) National Player of the Year award, Colt McCoy (Football, 2006-09), whose number 12 is retired at Texas, is one of only three two-time winners of the prestigious Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF) National Player of the Year award, a two-time consensus first-team All-American, Heisman Trophy finalist, and Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year who finished his career as Julie Cooper Bliemel (Swimming & Diving, 1989-92), a 27-time All-American and seven-time NCAA Relay Champion who led Texas to two NCAA Championships in 1990 and 1991 and a runner-up finish in 1989 and 1992; Farley Taylor Lansing (Tennis, 1994-97), a three-time ITA All-American and 1996 Southwest Conference Player of the Year who clinched the deciding doubles match for UT’s 1995 NCAA Championship Olympic teams (1976, 1980, and 1984) and a coach who started from scratch the Texas Rowing program in the fall of 1998 and led the Longhorns to two NCAA Championship appearances and five conference titles. Graves will be inducted after her death because she died of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease complications of early-onsetAlzheimer’s disease in December 2021 at the age of 68.

The newest members of the Hall will receive a special salute during the Texas Football game versus ULM on Saturday, Sept. 21.