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Here's the press release from the school announcing the 2025 inductees into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor: AUSTIN, Texas — Ten former University of Texas student-athletes will be inducted this September into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor. These 10 individuals will be recognized as the Class of 2025 in an induction ceremony on Friday, Sept. 12. The ceremony will start at 7 p.m. Central (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) 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 following link: https://texaslonghorns.evenue.net/events/HOH. The 71st Men’s Hall of Honor class includes: Nate Dusing (Swimming & Diving, 1998-2001), a two-time Olympian, two-time Olympic medalist, two-time NCAA individual champion, nine-time NCAA relay champion and 27-time All-American who helped the Longhorns to back-to-back NCAA team championships in 2000 and 2001; Royal Ivey (Basketball, 2001-04), a four-year starter and one of the top one-on-one perimeter defenders in program history who led the Longhorns to three consecutive trips to the Sweet 16 including a run to the 2003 Final Four before moving on to a 10-year playing stint and a successful coaching career in the NBA; Kyle Russell (Baseball, 2006-08), a first-team All-American and Big 12 Conference Player of the Year in 2007 who led Texas to back-to-back Big 12 regular-season titles in 2006 and 2007 and still holds the program’s career home runs record (57); Rodrique Wright (Football, 2002-05), a four-year starter at defensive tackle who earned first-team All-America honors and was a finalist for the Lombardi Award while helping the Longhorns win the 2005 National Championship; and Vintage Selection Bobby Mitchell (Football, 1968-70), a three-year letterwinner at offensive guard who helped anchor one of the most prolific offenses in college football history while leading Texas to a 30-2-1 overall record, including a school-record 30-game winning streak, two National Championships and three Southwest Conference titles. The 26th Women’s Hall of Honor class includes: Kirsten Wengler Burton (Swimming & Diving, 1983-86), a 21-time All-American, five-time NCAA relay champion and 11-time SWC champion who led Texas to three-consecutive NCAA team titles in 1984, 1985 and 1986; Haley Eckerman (Volleyball, 2011-14), a two-time National Player of the Year, four-time All-American, three-time Big 12 Conference Player of the Year who paced Texas to the 2012 NCAA Championship;Nicole Devonish Gilmore (Track & Field, 1994-97), an eight-time All-American and eight-time Southwest Conference champion in the long and triple jump who led the Longhorns to four runner-up and three third-place team finishes at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships; Tiffany Jackson (Basketball, 2004-07), one of just three Women’s Basketball players in program history to earn All-America honors three times and the only individual in school history to achieve the combination of 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 300 steals and 150 blocks; and Nancy Ledbetter Ramsbottom (Golf, 1981-84), the 1984 Southwest Conference individual champion and SWC Player of the Year who went on to a 16-year career on the LPGA Tour. Jackson will be inducted posthumously, as she passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer in October 2022 at the age of 37. The newest members of the Hall will receive a special salute during the Texas Football game versus UTEP on Saturday, Sept. 13.

The big problem with him is he has a ton of swing and miss. Even in AAA it was off the charts compared to league average. If he could figure that out, he could be amazing. If he can't, he could still have a Jose Hernandez/Rob Deer kind of output.

Who is this Gerry Hamilton guy? Does he even know what he is talking about? Lol

I love Texas baseball but for a person like myself it is harder to keep up with the what we got, how good are they stuff until the season gets underway. Great to see someone who knows thinks we are top 5.

Hearing a tiny bit of smoke relating to us and brayden dowd, is there a real chance we snag him? @Jeff Howe

Are we still looking for portal upgrades?

BTW, six of BA’s top seven teams are from the SEC.

Cover 3, 3rd & Longhorn, a crime podcast with my wife that she likes, and than usually during game week I find a podcast from the other team to listen to

Roddrick Muckelroy is one of the most underrated Longhorns from the Mack Brown era, IMO.

Agreed and I cant say I thought that when we drafted him. Luckly over the years I have learned that they know way more about drafting baseball players than I do.

What kind of fishing? Bass fishing wise LFG is one of the best

I'm all for it, but we need to be sure that the committee doesn't have win/loss column bias, which I don't have a lot of confidence in right now after how we saw them handle SMU and Indiana last year. A 9-3 Texas with an out-of-conference loss to Ohio State should be treated differently than a 10-2 team that played Ball State, Akron, and Western Michigan in non-conference.

I know it’s early, but he’s hitting .200. That’s Mendoza line.

Listened to that episode while at the beach during my anniversary trip. Wife had mixed feelings about that.

I like it. Huge JRE fan, along with Theo Von. I need to find me a good fishing channel.

Only time I need subscription TV is when the Longhorns football season comes around. Baseball and NASCAR can be watched other ways.

I told my wife the other day we need to cancel Hulu because 90% of the time we watch YT on the tv outside of a few shows on Discovery/History (and her Hallmark Christmas movie crap).

I don't follow all the MLB games or such, but the talent of Brice Matthews is easy to see Astros have something with this dude from Atascocita High and Nebraska https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/4838117

The Why Files guy was on JRE the other day and it was a really, really good episode. I, too, love the conspiracy/aliens/paranormal stuff.

I've never watched Outdoor Boys, but I saw they recently decided to call it quits. That's crazy because they had to be making a fortune.

Agreed on both. We watch the 50 in 50 every single day. It's an amazing idea and just fun entertainment. He's now raised 8.7 million for St Jude's. I look at the up to date tracker every day as well... https://50-states-in-50-days.experience.stjude.org/ So cool to see so many people and companies across the world step up.