Javelina Hall of Fame
($25 per person includes T-shirt, tickets, reception and parking pass)
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Hall of Fame Weekend (Sep. 17-18, 2010)
- Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Friday
Social Hour: 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Inductions: Following dinner
- Hall of Fame Golf Tournament, Saturday
Registration: 8:00 a.m.
Tee-Time: 9:00 a.m.
4-person scramble
$100 per player or $400 per team
- Volleyball game versus Central Oklahoma at 2 p.m.
- 4:00 pm Hall of Fame Tailgate
4:05 pm Javelina Football Team Walk-(Football Team will walk through the Tailgate Area)
5:00 pm Hall of Fame Golf Tournament Awards
7:00 pm Javelina Football verse Texas A&M Commerce
During a 2nd Quarter Media Time Out- Introductions of Hall of Fame Inductees
The Javelina Hall of Fame is established to pay tribute and give recognition to former athletes, coaches and others making exceptional contributions and/or meritorious service to the advancement of Texas A&M-Kingsville/Texas A&I.
Membership consists of athletes, coaches and others making exceptional contributions and/or providing meritorious service to Javelina Athletics.
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The Javelina Hall of Fame was organized in 1972, long before many of the other colleges and universities had initiated such an honors court. Some of these newer Halls of Fame have been established, using the Javelina Hall of Fame as a model.
The Javelina Hall of Fame now has 134 members.
Class of 2009
Three individuals and the 1959 national football championship team are part of the 2009 Texas A&M-Kingsville Javelina Hall of Fame class.
It was the first time that a team has been inducted into the Hall since it was initiated in 1972. The individual inductees were George Harris, a track and field athlete in 1959 and 1960; Moses Horn, an All-America lineman in football in 1985-87, and Precious Thibodeaux, a basketball player and track and field athlete during her 1999-2001 career with the Javelinas.
Ten members of the 1959 team and coaching staff are members of the Javelina
Hall of Fame, having been inducted as individuals. This includes Gil Steinke, who was a member of the charter induction class in 1972. Others on the team who are members of the Hall are Barry Copenhaver, Willie Crafts, Gene Greene (coach), Jarrell Hayes, Harold Hees, Lupe Jaimes, Gerald Lambert, Butch Pressley and Dick Watson.
The 1959 team captured the first of seven national championships for Texas A&I and gained the South Texas campus nation-wide attention when it played the title game on CBS television. The Javelinas beat Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.), 20-6, in the title game in St. Petersburg, Fla., and had downed Hillsdale (Mich.), 20-0, in the semifinal contest in Javelina Stadium. The Javelinas posted a 12-1 record and
won the Lone Star Conference championship.
Harris, from Three Rivers, received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&I in 1960.
He was on the 1959 Javelina mile relay team in that won the Lone Star Conference
gold medal. Harris began his coaching career at Gregory-Portland High School in 1960 and he was at the school for 22 years. The Wildcats won 12 consecutive district football titles during that period. He was the head track and field coach
for 18 years and his teams took seven regional titles and 12 district championships.
Harris moved to Refugio in 1982 and was the defensive coordinator for 10 years. The team had a 99-19-4 record during that time and reached the state championship game in 1987. He was the girls head track and field coach for 12 years and the school won 12 district titles, eight regional championships and six state titles.
Harris became the head football coach and athletic director at Refugio in 1992 and through the 2000 season, his football teams posted a 106-17-1 record, won eight district titles, was a state quarterfinalist in 1996 and 1997 and reached the semifinals in 1995, 1999 and 2000. The Bobcats lost one district game during the span.
Harris returned to Gregory-Portland in 2001 and has a record of 70-30. The Wildcats reached the Class 4A semifinals in 2002, the state quarterfinals in 2004 and 2007, the regional finals in 2003 and 2008, and the bi-district level in 2001 and 2005.
In his 49 years of coaching, he has been associated with teams that have posted a 176-47-1 record and his playoff record is 38-16. Harris recently received the Tom Landry Award. He served on the Texas High School Coaches Association board of directors and the Coastal Bend Coaches Association board of directors. Harris received the South Texas AAU’s highest honor, the Past President’s Trophy, in 1992 and has been the Texas Girls Coaches Association track and field all-star
coach. He was the THSCA South All-Star head coach in 2006. Harris has been coach of the year 13 times in football and seven times in track and field. He is married and he and his wife Patsy have a son, Kent, and a daughter, Keri.
Horn was a member of two Lone Star Conference championship teams (1985 and
1987). The Javelinas had a 26-7 record during his three seasons with the squad.
Horn was Little All-America first team as a junior and senior and was Football News All-America as a senior. He was the LSC offensive lineman of the year in 1986 and 1987 and made the All-LSC first team as a junior and senior. He was named South Texas Sportsman of the Year in 1987. He was a member of the LSC’s Team of the Decade for the 1980s. Horn was elected a captain by his
teammates his senior year.
Horn is the loss prevention supervisor for HEB’s Houston manufacturing, warehousing and transportation facilities. He is accountable for providing physical security and safety for a half billion dollars of infrastructures and for more than seven thousand HEB employees, vendors and contract employees. He is a charter member of the HEB Houston diversity leadership council and is part of the council’s marketplace team that coordinates and participates in community events.
Horn, from Houston Willowridge High School, was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in high school and was on the 1982 Class 4A state championship football team. His jersey (70) has been retired and he was a charter inductee into the Willowridge High School Wall of Honor.
He was honored as HEB’s 2007 security partner of the year and received the David Ashworth Community Service Award in 2005. Horn was named to Who’s Who in Houston Black Leadership in 2007 and received an award of appreciation for initiating and coordinating a Ronald McDonald House event in 2005.
Horn is married to the former Denise Green, a Registered Nurse from Caldwell, and they have a 10-year-old son, Moses III. A brother, John, was a member of the Javelina football team in 1989-92.
Thibodeaux, who played at Van Vleck High School, was with the Javelina women’s basketball team during its most successful span ever. She joined the team in 1999-2000 after playing two seasons at Kilgore Junior College.
In her junior season, she led the Javelinas with a 16.1 scoring and 8.5 rebounding average. She shot .501 from the field and had 15 blocked shots. The team went 23-7 and won the LSC championship, the first for the program. The Javelinas advanced into the NCAA Division II national playoffs.
Her senior year, Thibodeaux led the team with a 15.9 scoring average and was on top of the rebounding stats with a 9.4 average. She had 18 blocked shots. The Javelinas went 27-7 and won the NCAA Division II South Central Region championship to earn their first trip to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. She was named to the All-South Region first team and was the most valuable player in the South Central Region as a senior. Thibodeaux was on the all-region tournament team as a junior. She was on the All-LSC first team in both of her seasons with the Javelinas.
Thibodeaux was an All-American in track and field, finishing fourth at the 2001 national meet. She won the LSC gold medal in the discus in 2001 and 2002. Thibodeaux received a bachelor’s degree in criminology in 2001.
She worked for Siemens Westinghouse Generation Services until 2005. She attended the police academy at Wharton College and was an officer in the Wharton Police Department until 2007. She started her own business in 2007 and also worked for Zachary Construction. She also serves as a deputy constable of a precinct in Matagorda County.
Thibodeaux is married to Adam Troy Pointer Jr. She has a stepson, Jayden Troy, who is two. She resides in Bay City.
