Texas Tech Home to Student Champions

April 5, 2019

From meat judging and cheer to debate and communications, Texas Tech students showcase the university’s spirit of excellence by shining in a variety of areas. Here are just a few examples.

Texas Tech Spirit Squads Win Big in Pom and Cheer National Championships

The Texas Tech Pom and Co-Ed Cheer squads earned first-place wins at the NCA & NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships in Daytona Beach, Florida. Read more>>

Texas Tech Chapter of Mortar Board Earns Prestigious National Award

Texas Tech University's Mortar Board was recognized with the Ruth Weimer Mount Chapter Excellence Award, the highest honor in chapter achievement, by the National Mortar Board. Read more>>

Golden Key Chapter Awarded Organization's Highest Honor

Of the more than 400 chapters worldwide, Texas Tech was one of just 33 chapters to receive the award, and the only chapter among those in the Big 12 Conference to receive the honor and a gold-standing ranking. Read more>>

Personal Financial Planning Team Wins Financial Planning Challenge

In February 1999, a meeting between Texas Tech University's Personal Financial Planning faculty and American Express executives resulted in the creation of a financial planning competition – the American Express Planning Invitational. Now, for the first time, Texas Tech's FPA Challenge Team has come out on top, bringing first place back to the competition's home. Read more>>

Parliamentary Debate Team Wins National Round Robin Championship

As an unlikely pair, they never thought they would be national champions. Max Groznik and Fiker Tesfaye are members of the Texas Tech University Parliamentary Debate Team through the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Media & Communication. Read more>>

Meat Judging Team Picks Up First Victory of the Spring

On the strength of four individual top 10 finishes, the Texas Tech University Meat Judging Team in the Department of Animal & Food Sciences earned its first competition victory of the spring at the American Meat Science Association Southwestern Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest recently in Fort Worth. Read more>>

Agricultural Communications Students Claim National Awards

Ariana Bigham received the Outstanding Master's Thesis Award for “The Effect of Gender and Source Credibility on Message Persuasiveness,” and Laura Gorham Fischer won the Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Examining the Role of Motivational Salience, Issue Involvement and Pre-existing Attitudes on Selective Attention and Attitude Strength to Advertisement.” Read more>>

Toreador Media Publications Named Finalists for ACP Pacemaker and CSPA Crown Awards

This is the first time all three Texas Tech student-run publications, The Daily Toreador newspaper, website and La Ventana yearbook, have been nominated for top national awards in same year. Read more>>

tags: College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Media and Communication, Feature Stories, Graduate School, Spirit, Stories, college of human sciences

Texas Tech University

A new era of excellence is dawning at Texas Tech University as it stands on the cusp of being one of the nation's premier research institutions.

Research and enrollment numbers are at record levels, which cement Texas Tech's commitment to attracting and retaining quality students. In fall 2020, the university achieved a goal more than a decade in the making, reaching a total student population of more than 40,000. In 2018, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education again placed Texas Tech among its top doctoral universities in the nation in the “Very High Research Activity” category. Texas Tech is one of 94 public institutions nationally and 131 overall to achieve this prestigious recognition.

Quality students need top-notch faculty. Texas Tech is home to a diverse, highly revered pool of educators who excel in teaching, research and service. The university strives to foster an environment that celebrates student accomplishment above all else. Texas Tech is large enough to provide the best in facilities and academics but prides itself on being able to focus on each student individually.

The momentum for excellence at Texas Tech has never been greater.

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