End-of-year roundtable: highs and lows, biggest surprises from a wild year in Tech athletics

Texas Tech athletics never fails to produce talking points, whether good, bad or flat-out unbelievable.

We witnessed it all in the 2020-2021 sports season, and now that we’ve made it into summer, we wanted to take some time to reflect on the highs and lows we encountered as Red Raider fans.

What was the high point of the academic calendar year?

Mike Macon: I have to say beating Texas in Austin on the back of Mac’s game winner stands out to me. I grew up a Longhorn fan so I don’t have the usual hate for that school, but there was something special that even with their best team in ages Tech ripped their hearts out in Austin.

Jack Bell: For me, my high point was the Tech baseball team sweeping the Lubbock Regional. Tech had heard all week about how they weren’t good enough to host, then promptly

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John A. Vallini | Information, Athletics, Careers

John A. Vallini, 71, acknowledged as “Doc” to lots of, died at his home surrounded by quite a few caring friends on Could 15, 2021.

Born on March 9, 1950, in Flatbush, Brooklyn, he was the son of John and Marie (Emilio) Vallini. His mom and dad predeceased him.

John graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute with a diploma in chemistry and commenced his graduate reports in polymer chemistry at the College of Connecticut at Storrs. Shortly immediately after, however, he commenced his vocation in images. Immediately after apprenticing with two different New York Metropolis photographers, he operated Vallini Productions for 17 years. His purchasers ranged from Hasbro Toy Enterprise to trend and make-up ads (Maybelline and Cover Girl). His Tv accounts included getting nevertheless photographs for the motion picture “The Working day After” and appearing on “The Regis Philbin Show” to shoot Regis’ portrait are living on the air.

Through

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