Texas Athletics recognizes 2022 Hall of Honor Class
Eleven former University of Texas student-athletes were inducted on Friday night.
7/20/2022
AUSTIN, Texas — Eleven former University of Texas student-athletes were inducted Friday night into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor.
The ceremony was held in the LBJ Auditorium and Conference Center on the UT campus.
The 68th Men’s Hall of Honor class includes: Sam Acho (Football, 2007-10), a 2010 first-team All-American and two-time first-team Academic All-American who received both the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy and the Wuerffel Trophy and was selected as an NCAA Top VIII Award winner and the Big 12 Male Sportsperson of the Year; Kevin Durant (Basketball, 2006-07), one of the most decorated Longhorns ever who was a Collegiate National Player of the Year and had his jersey number 35 retired at Texas, three-time Olympic Gold Medalist, two-time NBA Champion and 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player, as well as a 12-time NBA All-Star; Jonny Levine (Tennis, 1982-84), one of Texas’ all-time winningest tennis players who earned ITA singles All-America honors in 1983 and 1984; Dustin Majewski (Baseball, 2002-03), a two-time All-American who was twice named MVP of the Big 12 Tournament and NCAA Austin Regional, earned College World Series All-Tournament team honors for the 2002 NCAA title team and was Team MVP of the 2003 squad that finished tied for third in the nation; and Kirk Stackle (Swimming & Diving 1987-90), a key member of the early days and one of the most dominant stretches of the Eddie Reese dynasty who won three NCAA individual titles in helping lead Texas to three-straight National Championships from 1988 to 1990. Vintage selection Ovie Dotson (Basketball, 1976-79), reserved for honorees that completed their eligibility at least 40 years prior to nomination, rounds out the men's class.
The 23rd Women’s Hall of Honor class includes: B.J. Bedford (Swimming & Diving, 1991-94), a 21-time All-American, two-time National Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist; Lindsay Gardner (Softball, 2000-03), a second-team All-American in 2000 who was a two-time All-Midwest Region and a three-time All-Big 12 and Big 12 All-Tournament selection; current women’s golf’s associate head coach, Kate Golden (Women’s Golf, 1986-89), a second-team All-American and three-time All-Southwest Conference first-team selection; Robyne Johnson (Track & Field, 1982-85), a three-time All-American triple jumper and member of the 1982 AIAW Outdoor National Championship squad who is currently Director of T&F/Cross Country at Cal; and Anne Grousbeck Matta (Women’s Tennis, 1985-88), a three-time ITA All-American in singles who helped lead the Longhorns to four-straight NCAA Championship tournaments and four Southwest Conference team titles.
The newest members of the Hall will receive a special salute during the Texas Football game versus UTSA on Saturday, Sept. 17.
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An All-American as well as an Academic All-American, NFL veteran, author, public speaker, humanitarian and broadcaster for ESPN, Sam Acho is one of Texas’ most-decorated letterwinners as a student and an athlete. As a senior in 2010, Acho capped off his Longhorn career in spectacular fashion by earning first-team All-America and first-team Academic All-America honors and winning the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy, which goes to a student-athlete that best combines academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership. That year, he also became the Longhorns’ first-ever winner of the Wuerffel Trophy, an honor bestowed upon an individual that best combines exemplary community service with leadership achievement on and off the football field. He also was a unanimous first-team All-Big 12 selection. During his career, the standout defensive end played in 50 games (26 starts) and tallied 148 tackles, 23.5 sacks, 37 TFL, 44 pressures, eight PBD and eight forced fumbles, while becoming one of UT’s all-time leaders in fumble recoveries with nine. His 19 sacks and 31 TFL in his final two seasons are among the best two-year totals in school history. A fall 2010 graduate of the McCombs School of Business with a Business Honors degree, he was one of eight extraordinary student-athletes nationwide in the 2010-11 academic year selected as winners of the NCAA Today’s Top VIII Award, which recognizes the premier student-athletes in all sports during an academic year. Due to his extraordinary work in the community, he was named the 2010-11 Male Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year and a member of the 2010 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team. One of a select group of Longhorns in all sports to earn both All-America and Academic All-America honors, he was a two-time first-team Academic All-American, three-time Academic All-District pick and three-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 selection. Acho was a two-time Longhorn Team MVP, and as a junior started at defensive end for the 2009 Big 12 Championship squad that played in the BCS National Championship. That team went 13-1 and finished the year ranked No. 2 nationally. He also saw significant action on the 2008 Texas squad that spent much of that season ranked No. 1 in the nation, went on to win the Fiesta Bowl, and completed the year 12-1 and ranked No. 3. Selected in the fourth round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals, he went on to play nine years in the NFL, logging 110 games and 57 starts. Acho played four seasons with the Chicago Bears and was his team’s nominee for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017. A leader on and off the field, he also was a Vice President of the NFL Players Association. The Longhorn who grew up in Dallas received his MBA in 2015 from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the No. 1-ranked International MBA program in the world. His impact on the world is special, too, as every year he joins his family on medical mission trips to Nigeria. He recently built a hospital there through Living Hope Christian Ministries, an organization in which he serves as Vice President. Acho authored his first book, “Let the World See You,” in 2020 and is the founder and president of Athletes for Justice, an organization that exists to unite professional athletes and everyday athletes to fight injustices around the world.
A versatile swimmer who had success in a number of different events during her standout career at Texas, B.J. Bedford was a 21-time All-American, two-time National Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist. She was a member of the Longhorns national title winning 200 Medley Relay team in 1991, helping Texas win the National Championship that year, and won gold with the Longhorns’ 200 Freestyle Relay team in 1992. On the conference level, Bedford won five Southwest Conference individual titles — 100-butterfly in 1991 and ’92, 100 and 200-back in 1994, and 200-IM in 1991 — and also was a member of six conference champion relay teams. A member of the USA Swimming National Team for a decade, she won eight U.S. national titles in her career, including six in the 100m back. Bedford also had great success on the international level, competing in a trio U.S. Olympic Trials and making the finals of the 100-back all three times. She finished seventh in the 100-back at the 1992 Olympic Trials and a heart-breaking third in 1996 before winning the event at the 2000 Olympic Trials to make her first Olympic team. That allowed her to close out her career in victorious fashion as a member of the 2000 Olympic team in Sydney. She made the finals in the 100-back individually, finishing sixth, and won a Gold Medal with the 400-medley relay team that set the world record in that event. At the 1998 FINA World Championships, she won a pair of gold medals, swimming a leg on Team USA’s victorious 400-freestyle and 400-medley relays. She also won numerous medals competing at virtually every possible international event during her career. Bedford made her first national team in 1991, competing at the World University Games and claiming a pair of gold medals in the 100-back and 400-medley relay. She won two more golds in those events at the 1993 World University Games. In 1993, she also won gold in the 200-back and silver in the 100-back at the Pan Pacific Championships, while 1994 saw her bring home three medals from the Goodwill Games (200-back, gold; 100-back & 400-medley relay, silver). At the FINA World Championships that year, Bedford was the bronze medalist in the 100-back. She won three gold medals at the 1995 Pan American Games (100 & 200-back; 400-medley relay) and a pair of medals (400-medley relay, gold; 100-back, bronze) at the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships. A native of Etna, N.H., she graduated from UT in 1994.
Ovie Dotson was one of the few who would be a pathfinder for many in the history of Texas Men’s Basketball. Recruited as an all-city and all-district selection out of San Antonio Sam Houston High School in 1975, Dotson helped lead the Longhorns to two Southwest Conference Championships. He also was a part of the Texas team that won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) title in 1978, when the significance of that event was far greater since the NCAA only took 32 teams in that era’s version of March Madness. One of only a handful of Black players at UT in the mid-1970s, Ovie’s leaping ability and super-human “dunks” were part of a golden age of Longhorn basketball. He was recruited and coached in his freshman season by Leon Black before being tutored by Hall of Fame coach Abe Lemons in his final three years. Dotson joined with teammates Johnny Moore, Jim Krivacs, Ron Baxter, Tyrone Branyan and Gary Goodner for a then-school record 26 wins en route to their magical ride to Madison Square Garden in New York City and the NIT Championship. The Horns bested a Final Four field that included North Carolina State, Georgetown and Rutgers on the way to that title. In the opening season of what would become the Frank Erwin Center, the team charmed sold-out crowds with its victories and its flash. And for the very popular fan favorite Dotson, the fun was just beginning. Dotson would go on to carry the banner of The University of Texas Longhorns with him as a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. Beginning in 1980, Dotson would lead the famed traveling ambassadors of goodwill on to the court for eight seasons, starting each game and playing in more than 100 countries around the world, while entertaining crowds with his spectacular soaring slam dunks. Before he retired following the 1987 season, Dotson was part of a Globetrotters legacy that featured as many as 400 games annually and appearances in 96 countries, plus TV commercials, movies, a TV series featuring the team, and audiences with world leaders, including the Pope. He, his teammates, and those who preceded him on the world’s stage transformed the image of the skills of Black basketball players of his era. He ended his career as a member of the Retired Basketball Association. The organization serves former professional basketball players, supporting them in life after their playing days, and helping them to leverage their inspirational influence to promote and teach basketball in their communities. Members of the Board of Directors include such NBA and WNBA legends such as Dave Cowens, Sam Perkins, Grant Hill, Robert Horry, Sheryl Swoopes, Caron Butler, Choo Brown, Shawn Marion and Thurl Bailey. Dotson now lives in the Houston area and serves as regional manager for an air-conditioning filter distributing company with outlets throughout Texas, including H-E-B stores.
A Collegiate National Player of the Year whose jersey number 35 is retired at Texas, three-time Olympic Gold Medalist, two-time NBA Champion and 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player as well as a 12-time NBA All-Star, Kevin Durant is one of the most decorated Longhorns ever. In his first and only season at Texas in 2006-07, he was the Consensus National Player of the Year, becoming the first freshman in NCAA history to win any of the major National Player of the Year Awards. Winner of the Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy and Adolph Rupp Trophy, he also earned National Player of the Year honors from The Associated Press, NABC, USBWA, CBS/Chevrolet and The Sporting News. A consensus first-team All-American, he ranked fourth nationally in both scoring (25.8 ppg) and rebounding (11.1 rpg) as a freshman. He also was the Big 12 Player of the Year and his 66 steals (2.1 pg) and 67 blocked shots (2.1 pg) helped him earn a spot on the Big 12 All-Defensive team as well. Durant declared for the 2007 NBA Draft following his freshman season and was the second-overall pick of the Seattle Supersonics, where he earned NBA Rookie of the Year honors in 2007-08. He averaged 21.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists as a rookie in the Sonics final year in Seattle. The Sonics moved to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder in 2008-09 and he played eight seasons there, leading that franchise to four Western Conference Finals, the NBA Finals in 2011-12 and winning league MVP honors in 2013-14. In three seasons with the Golden State Warriors, he averaged 27.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists and led that franchise to the NBA Finals three times, winning the World Championship twice and earning 2017 and 2018 NBA Finals MVP honors. Currently a member of the Brooklyn Nets, the four-time NBA Scoring Champion is averaging 29.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists in 13 NBA seasons. Durant helped lead Team USA to Olympic Gold Medals at the London (2012), Rio (2016) and Tokyo Games (2021). That’s the most Golds of any Longhorn in an Olympic team sport. He was honored with Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award in 2016, is very active in community service efforts, and donated $3 million to The University of Texas in 2018. His number 35 jersey was retired at Texas in 2009.
A 2000 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Second-Team and Easton Bell All-American, as well as a two-time NFCA All-Midwest Region (2000 & 2002 First Team) and a three-time All-Big 12 Conference (2000 First Team, 2002 & 2003 Second Team) and Big 12 All-Tournament selection, Lindsay Gardner helped lead the Longhorns to a combined 153-78-1 overall record, three NCAA Tournament appearances, including a third-place finish at the 2003 Women’s College World Series, and to a pair of Big 12 Regular Season and Tournament titles (2002 & 2003). During her stay on the Forty Acres, the Longhorns finished in the national rankings twice, with a then program-high No. 4 rating in the final 2003 Top 25. A product of Katy, Texas, Gardner completed her career as the program leader in numerous categories and continues to rank in the Texas all-time top 10 in at-bats (fifth – 673), batting average (sixth – .355), hits (sixth – 239), stolen bases (seventh – 60) and runs scored (eighth – 134). During a 2000 campaign that saw her earn Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Year honors, Gardner led the league with a .519 batting average (counting league games only) while setting then single-season Texas records for batting average (.421) and hits (83). Her single-season hit mark stood for 22 years until finally being broken by Longhorns four-time All-American Janae Jefferson in 2022. During her final Texas campaign in 2003, Gardner earned her third career All-Big 12 Conference honor by hitting .288 overall with 49 hits, 10 doubles, 11 steals, four HR’s and 20 RBIs while helping lead the Horns to a third-place national finish (No. 4 final national ranking) in the program’s second all-time visit to the WCWS. Internationally, Gardner played for the USA Softball Women’s National Team from 2001-2003, hitting .375 overall for the Red, White & Blue while playing second base and left field. She also played as a professional in National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) with both the Texas Thunder and the Rockford Thunder from 2004-08. A three-time NPF All-Star, Gardner was selected as the league’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2004 while helping power Rockford to the NPF regular season title. A 2004 graduate of The University of Texas with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology, Gardner spent time post-college as both an assistant (2007-08) and head coach (2012-16) at St. Edward’s University in Austin before starting “Just Dig In,” her very own baseball/softball training facility, in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2017. In conjunction with the Louisville Slugger Hitting Science Center, Gardner also became the first female coach in Atlantic League of Professional Baseball history by being named in 2022 as the Hitting Development Coordinator for both the Lexington Legends and the Wild Health Genomes.
One of the most accomplished golfers in University of Texas history and an 18-year LPGA veteran, Kate Golden was a four-year member of the women’s golf team under former Hall of Fame head coach Pat Weis. She earned second-team All-America honors in 1989 and was a three-time All-Southwest Conference first-team selection (1987-89). Golden was named to the Southwest Conference All-Decade Team for the 1980s and won three collegiate events during her career. The 1987 Southwest Conference individual champion, Golden is the daughter of Texas Ex Joe Bob Golden, the 1954 Southwest Conference men’s golf individual champion. The Goldens were the only father-daughter tandem in the history of the Southwest Conference to win individual conference titles in the same sport. Joe Bob Golden played at Texas for Harvey Penick from 1952-54 and served as his assistant while attending law school at UT. Golden competed on the LPGA Tour from 1992-2010 and her professional career included a victory at the 2001 State Farm Classic, appearances in more than 30 major championships and nearly $1.5 million in career earnings. En route to the State Farm Classic title, Golden set a then-tournament record of 21-under-par during the 72-hole event. She totaled eight top-five finishes and 14 top-10 showings. She’s had great success in coaching after her playing career and is in her 12th season on the women’s golf staff at UT, currently serving as associate head coach. Golden has helped return the Longhorns to among the nation’s elite programs. Together with head coach Ryan Murphy over the past eight seasons, Golden helped the Longhorns win four of the past five Big 12 Conference Championships, including three straight from 2017-19, and advance to each of the last six NCAA Championships. Texas advanced to match play at the NCAA Championships and posted back-to-back top-five finishes in 2019 and 2021. A fall 1989 University of Texas graduate with a degree in sociology, she’s a former member of the LPGA Board of Directors and the LPGA Player Committee. Golden is currently on the Board of Directors for the charitable organization Golfers Against Cancer.
A Track & Field All-American and member of the 1982 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Outdoor National Championship and 1985 Southwest Conference Championship squads, Robyne Johnson has continued to pour into the sport as a highly successful coach for the past 27 years. As a student-athlete, Johnson teamed with record-setting national champion Terri Turner to form one of the nation’s top jumping duos. A three-time All-American in the triple jump, she finished second only to Turner at the NCAA Outdoor Championship in 1984 and was fifth in both indoors and outdoors in 1985. She helped lead Texas to its first-ever Southwest Conference Championships in Track & Field, sweeping both the indoor and outdoor team titles in 1985. Johnson also scored points for a Longhorn team that was the NCAA Indoor Championship runner-up in 1985 and placed sixth outdoors that year, as well. Prior to NCAA competition, she was a freshman on the UT squad that won the AIAW national title and Southwest Conference Invitational in 1982, the prequel to the official conference championship that began in 1983. Johnson competed in the Olympic Trials four times from 1988-2000 and earned a bid to the 1991 World Championships in Seville, Spain, where she finished ninth in the triple jump. She ranked in the top-10 in the nation in the triple jump for 10 years and ranked seventh in the world in 1992. A 1986 UT graduate with a degree in history, she went on to earn a master’s in education from California State University-Hayward. After her days as a competitor, the native of Oakland, Calif., launched a distinguished coaching career in Track & Field, where she’s in her 18th year as a head coach. She’s currently entering her fourth season as Director of Track & Field/Cross Country at Cal, the place the former Berkeley High School prep All-American launched her career as an assistant coach from 1995-2003. In between, Johnson spent 14 years as the Director of Track & Field/Cross Country for Boston University. While leading the Terrier program, she won nine conference track & field titles, five conference cross country titles and was named Coach of the Year seven times by the America East Conference and three times by the Patriot League. She was also a three-time winner of the USTFCCCA Northeast Indoor Track & Field Women’s Coach of the Year award. Among the numerous international coaching selections Johnson has received, she served as an assistant coach for Team USA’s Olympic Women’s Track & Field squad, working with the multi-events and jumps, at the 2016 Games in Rio and the 2020 Tokyo Games. She also spent five years on the NCAA Division I Track & Field committee from 2006-11.
One of Texas’ all-time winningest Tennis players and a three-year letterman, Jonny Levine earned ITA singles All-America honors in 1983 and 1984, while helping Texas reach the Round of 16 at the NCAA Championships in both of those seasons. Levine was a singles semifinalist at the 1984 NCAA Championships, finishing the year at No. 2 in the NCAA rankings, and a singles quarterfinalist at the 1983 Championships, along with being the 1984 Southwest Conference singles champion. He is featured among UT’s all-time tennis greats in a number of categories, ranking No. 2 all-time at UT with 43 singles victories in a season, and No. 2 with 68 combined singles and doubles wins in a season. The Phoenix, Ariz. native ranks No. 5 all-time at Texas in singles winning percentage (.769) and career combined winning percentage (singles and doubles, .769). Levine’s career doubles winning percentage of .776 ranks eighth on the Texas all-time list. He ranks No. 22 on UT’s all-time singles wins list with 83. Levine also excelled in his sport outside of the collegiate ranks. He won a gold medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in doubles with Brad Gilbert. Levine also won a gold medal for the United States in men’s doubles with Eric Korita at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela. While still at UT in 1983, he reached the third round of the U.S. Open before losing to Ivan Lendl. He began a professional career in 1984 and went on to reach the doubles quarterfinals at the French Open and the U.S. Open in 1988, both times with Korita. He also competed at Wimbledon and the Australian Open during his professional career. He reached a career best of No. 41 in the ATP world doubles rankings in 1988 and No. 120 in the ATP world singles rankings in 1986.
Texas’ “Mr. Clutch” of the Longhorns 2002 National Championship squad, Majewski was one of college baseball's most dominant players in his two seasons after transferring from Blinn Junior College. A two-time All-American who was twice named MVP of the Big 12 Tournament and NCAA Austin Regional, Majewski led the Longhorns to the College World Series in each of his two seasons at Texas. In his two campaigns on the Forty Acres, the Longhorns posted an overall record of 107-35 and also claimed a pair of Big 12 Tournament Championships as well as a regular season league title. Texas swept its way to the 2002 National Title, winning all four games in Omaha, including the championship against South Carolina, 12-6. Selected to the CWS All-Tournament team that year, Majewski’s seventh-inning home run snapped a 5-5 tie with Stanford in the semifinal and sent the Horns to the national championship game. The Big 12 regular season and tournament champions finished that year with a 57-15 record. The Longhorns were 50-20 in 2003, advanced to Omaha for the CWS again, and came up just short with a tie for third-place at the NCAA Championship tourney. Texas also won the Big 12 tourney title that year. Majewski is the Horns’ all-time leading hitter, holding the school record for batting average with a .395 career mark. He’s also the most recent Longhorn to hit over .400 for a single season, batting .401 while earning third-team All-America honors for the 2002 National Championship squad. Additionally, the Longhorns outfielder had 10 home runs and 50 RBI, while 32 of his 85 hits went for extra bases that year. After being drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2002 draft (12th round), he decided to return to the Forty Acres for his senior season and led the team in hitting with a .391 average in 70 games, while his 12 home runs, 85 RBI (fifth-highest single-season RBI total in UT history) and 21 stolen bases all were team highs as well. Adding 22 doubles and six triples, 40 of his team-best 107 hits (tied for No. 3 on the UT all-time single-season list) went for extra bases in 2003. He earned first-team All-America, first-team All-Big 12 and first-team Academic All-Big 12 honors that year and was then selected in the third round by the Oakland Athletics in the 2003 draft. He played seven seasons and nearly 800 games in minor league baseball, advancing as high as AAA with the Texas Rangers organization before retiring in 2009. The 2003 Longhorn Team MVP graduated from UT with a degree in Kinesiology in the fall of 2003. He is currently in private business in his hometown of Brenham as the owner and instructor of a baseball and softball hitting complex.
One of the top players from an era that helped launch the rich and storied tradition of Texas Women’s Tennis, Anne Grousbeck Matta was a three-time ITA All-American in singles who helped lead the Longhorns to four-straight NCAA Championship tournaments and four Southwest Conference team titles. The four-year letterwinner from 1985-88 was one of the premier players from the early years of fellow Hall of Honor inductee and legendary Longhorn coach Jeff Moore. Grousbeck Matta reached the finals of the National Indoors tournament in singles and doubles (with partner and fellow Hall of Honor inductee Beverly Bowes) during her junior season in 1987. In the fall of her senior year, she claimed the singles title at the ITCA All-American tournament and achieved the No. 1 singles ranking in the country. Grousbeck Matta was the No. 5-ranked singles player in the ITCA final national rankings as a senior in 1988, ranked among the top-25 players in the country her final three years and also was part of the No. 33-ranked doubles duo with teammate Diana Dopson as a sophomore in 1986. She advanced to the quarterfinals of NCAA singles competition in 1988 and the round of 16 in 1986. Grousbeck Matta also led UT to four SWC Championships. That included regular season league titles in 1985 and 1987, a share of the crown in 1988, and the first-ever conference tournament championship in 1988. She helped the Longhorns post top-20 rankings in the final ITCA Poll all four years, including a No. 4 ranking as a freshman in 1984-85. UT posted a 24-3 record and was a perfect 8-0 in the SWC during her freshman campaign, and was 29-3 in conference matches during her career. Her first three seasons at Texas came during an era when only an elite group of the top-16 teams in the country made the NCAA Championship tournament, at which time, Grousbeck Matta helped the Longhorns make it to the national postseason all three years. UT would finish each of those years tied for ninth at the NCAA Championship. The team MVP as a senior when the NCAA Tournament expanded to 24 teams, she led the Longhorns to nationals that year as well. A graduate of Boston’s Noble and Greenough School, she graduated from UT with a degree in English in 1988 and spent five seasons on the professional tennis circuit after that. During her pro career, she competed in doubles competition at Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open.
A key member of the early days and one of the most dominant stretches of the Eddie Reese dynasty, Stackle helped lead Texas to three-straight National Championships from 1988 to 1990. He won three NCAA individual titles, claiming the 200-breaststroke in 1988 and the 100-breaststroke in back-to-back years in 1989 and ’90, while setting UT records in both the 100 and 200-breaststrokes that stood for more than a decade. A 16-time All-American, he was also a part of two NCAA winning relay teams as well, swimming a leg on the victorious 400-medley relay in 1988 and ’90, while the 1990 squad set an American, NCAA and Meet Record in the process. An All-American all four years at Texas, he earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team in 1988, qualifying to compete at the Seoul Games in the 200-breaststroke. His achievements on the international level also included a silver medal in the 200-breaststroke and a bronze in the 100-breaststroke at the 1990 Goodwill Games. He climbed to as high as the No. 2-ranked 200-breaststroker and No. 3-ranked 100-breastroker in the world in 1990. On the conference level, Stackle won five Southwest Conference individual titles, winning the 200-breaststroke three times (1988-90) and touching in first in the 100-breaststroke twice (1988, ’90). The Longhorns won all four SWC Championships as a team during his time as well. A native of San Diego, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1991. Still an avid swimmer, he’s competed at master’s swimming competitions and also serves as a coach and trainer. He’s also active in the community, volunteering time with the Swim Across America organization that is dedicated to raising money and awareness for cancer research, prevention and treatment through swimming-related events.
