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Richard Quick is on the 2010 ballot for the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

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(Waco) – The Texas Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee, comprised of media members around the state and chaired by Dave Campbell of Texas Football Magazine fame, has set the final ballot of nominees (see attached) to be voted on for induction in early 2011 in Waco. Generally six nominees from the primary ballot and two from the veterans’ ballot will comprise the Class of 2010.

Official Voting Members of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame (open to the public) will once again be able to help the selection committee determine the newest class. Those who have joined the museum’s Official Voting Member Program (OVM) will receive their ballots by the end of this month. The OVM sign-up deadline to be able to vote for the upcoming class is August 1st, 2010. The public can join and receive an official ballot by going to the museum’s website, http://www.tshof.org/. The official announcement of the Class of 2010 will be made in September. Again, the ceremonies to enshrine the Class of 2010 will take place in early 2011 in Waco.

2010 PRIMARY BALLOT NOMINEES

GARY BLAIR - Women’s Basketball / Texas A&M
TREVOR BRAZILE - Rodeo / Decatur, TX
C.O. BROCATO - NFL Scout Houston Oilers & Tennessee Titans
CECIL COOPER - Baseball / Brenham native
JACOB GREEN - Football / Texas A&M
LOUIE KELCHER - Football – SMU
JUSTIN LEONARD - Golf - Dallas native
DONNA LOPIANO – Former Women’s Athletic Director / University of Texas
BOBBY MOEGLE - HS Baseball / Lubbock Monterey
G.A. MOORE JR. – High School Football Coach / Pilot Point & Celina
KEITH MORELAND - Baseball / University of Texas
EDDY PEACH - High School Football Coach / Arlington Lamar
DREW PEARSON - Football - Dallas Cowboys
RICHARD QUICK (dec.) - Swimming / SMU
JOHN RANDLE - Football / Texas A&I
LOVIE SMITH – Football Coach / Chicago Bears
STUART SMITH - Mountain Climbing
JIM SUNDBERG - Baseball / Texas Rangers
EMMITT THOMAS - Football / Angleton native
LAURA WILKINSON - Diving / Houston native

2010 VETERAN BALLOT NOMINEES

MARTY AKINS - Football / University of Texas
LUCIOUS “LUKE” JACKSON / Basketball / Pan American College
CHARLEY JOHNSON - Football / Big Spring native
CHARLIE KRUEGER - Football / Texas A&M
OLLIE MATSON - Football / Trinity native
DAVE MARR (dec.) – Golf / Houston
CLINT MURCHISON (dec.) - Administration / Dallas Cowboys
RED MURFF (dec.) - Baseball
DAVE PARKS - Football / Texas Tech
TOBIN ROTE (dec.) - Football / San Antonio native
DON TRULL - Football / Baylor
WILLIE WELLS (dec.) – Baseball, Negro Leagues / Austin native

Richard's résumé:

Texas Sports Hall of Fame

Nominee: Richard Quick

Sport: Swimming

Summary: Richard Quick began his swimming and coaching career in Texas. He was an All-American swimmer at Highland Park High School and Southern Methodist University. His coaching career began with six straight state titles at Houston’s Spring Branch Memorial high school. Richard’s college career coaching career includes thirteen NCAA championships, the most in Division I history, and includes five at the University of Texas. He coached six Olympic teams and was a head coach on three of them. Among his many honors are his induction into the University of Texas Women’s Athletics Hall of Fame, the Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame, The International Swimming Hall of Fame, designation as a Distinguished Alumnus of Southern Methodist University and the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award by the College Swim Coaches Association of America. Richard Quick passed away in Austin, TX, June 2009 from brain cancer at the age of 66.

Nomination: Deep Eddy Pool in Austin, Texas was where Richard Quick first learned to swim. Later he became one of the most respected swimmers to ever graduate from Highland Park High School where he earned All-American honors before continuing a stellar All-American collegiate career at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1964.

His desire to coach swimming began at Houston's Memorial High School (1965-71) where he guided his team to six state championships. While in Houston, he also coached the AAU Houston Dads Club, bringing them to a ranking of sixth in nation and qualifying seven swimmers for the 1968 Olympic trials. One of these swimmers, Keena Rothammer won a Gold Medal in the 1972 Olympics.

Richard returned to SMU, where he served as an assistant coach on the men's side for four years (1971-75) before starting the SMU women's program in 1976. There he began his ascent as one of the most respected names in the world swimming and diving community. After serving as head coach of the SMU women’s swim team in 1976-1977, he was recruited to be the men’s head coach at Iowa State University. After a brief but successful stint at Auburn University, Richard Quick was named head women’s coach at the University of Texas and led the Texas women to a then-unprecedented five straight NCAA titles (1984-88). He was inducted into the University of Texas Women’s Athletic’s Hall Of Honor in November of 2004 for his coaching accomplishments with the Longhorns.

Moving to Stanford University in 1988, he extended his coaching of NCAA championships to six in a row in the 1988-1989 seasons. Richard served as the head coach of the women's swimming team at Stanford for a total of 17 seasons, from 1988-2005. While he was at Stanford, he led the Cardinal to seven NCAA Championships, in 1989 and 1998 as well as five consecutive titles from 1992-96. Stanford also won 14 Pacific-10 Conference crowns under his direction including 11 consecutively from 1989-99. He retired as their coach in 2007 to return to Austin to live.

Richard was called out of retirement in 2007 to return to Auburn University as Director of Aquatics and head coach of both the Auburn Men and Women’s swim teams. His Auburn Men won the 2009 NCAA Championship giving Richard’s teams 13 NCAA titles-seven at Stanford University, five at The University of Texas at Austin and one at Auburn University -- the most in the history of Division I coaching. In addition to him being a five-time NCAA coach of the year, in 2009 he was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the College Swim Coaches Association of America. He is also a member of The International Swimming Hall of Fame, the Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame and was designated a Distinguished Alumnus of Southern Methodist University.

Richard’s coaching prowess in swimming extended beyond the borders of the United States. He was the head coach of the United States team at the 1988, '96, and 2000 Olympic Games and also served as an assistant coach at the 1984, '92, and 2004 Olympics. His reputation as an outstanding coach and his efforts as an assistant coach in the 1984 Olympics led to his first Olympic head coaching assignment at the 1988 Games in Seoul. There the American men and women brought home 17 medals. At the 1996 Games in Atlanta, his women’s team garnered seven gold, five silver and two bronze medals, while the men's and women's swimming squads combined for a total of 26 medals, the most by any team at the 1996 Olympic Games. His 2000 club in Sydney brought home 16 medals, including seven gold.

As an assistant at Athens in 2004, Team USA easily won the swimming medal count as the men's and women's team combined for 28 medals while at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the United States captured 27 medals.

A list of other international coaching assignments for Richard include four consecutive World Championships as the head coach in 1986, 1990 and 1994, and an assistant in 1982. He has also coached at the 1990 Goodwill Games, three Pan Pacific Games (1983, `85, and `87), the 1985 World University Games and the 1979 Pan American Games.

His most successful collegiate and Olympic swimmer was Jenny Thompson who has won eight Olympic gold medals. Other notable Olympians coached by Richard include Keena Rothammer, Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, Steve Lundquist, Summer Sanders, Dara Torres and Misty Hyman.

In December of 2008, Richard was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and passed away in Austin, TX, June 2009, but only after he was able to celebrate with his Auburn Men’s swimming team their NCAA championship, his thirteenth.

RICHARD QUICK FACTS

Collegiate Coaching Career

· Auburn Men's and Women's Head Coach (2007-2009)

· Stanford Women's Head Coach (1988-2005)

· Texas Women's Head Coach (1982-88)

· Auburn Men's and Women's Head Coach (1978-82)

· Iowa State Men's Head Coach (1977-78)

· Southern Methodist Women's Head Coach (1976-77)

· Southern Methodist Men's Assistant Coach (1971-75)

Collegiate Coaching Honors

·Lifetime Achievement Award by the College Swim Coaches Association of America

·Five-time NCAA Coach of the Year (1984, '85, '86, '89, '92)

·Four-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1989, '92, '95, 2001)

·Southwest Conference Coach of the Year (1985)

High School Coaching Career

· Spring Branch Memorial High School (Houston, TX) Head Coach (1965-71) –six straight state championships

International Coaching Career

· U.S. Men's and Women's Head Coach (Olympics - 1988)

· U.S. Women's Head Coach (Olympics - 1996, 2000)

· U.S. Men's and Women's Assistant Coach (Olympics - 1984)

· U.S. Women's Assistant Coach (Olympics - 1992, 2004)

· U.S. Women's Head Coach (World Championships - 1986, '90, '94)

· U.S. Women's Assistant Coach (World Championships - 1982)

· U.S. Women's Head Coach (Goodwill Games - 1990)

· U.S. Women's Head Coach (Pan Pacific Championships - 1983, '85, '87)

· U.S. Women's Head Coach (World University Games - 1985)

· U.S. Women's Assistant Coach (Pan American Games - 1979)

College Education

· Bachelor's Degree, Physical Education, Southern Methodist, 1965

· Master's Degree, Physiology of Exercise, Southern Methodist, 1977

Richard Quick Year-By-Year Collegiate Coaching

Year	School	Dual Record	Conference Finish	NCAA Finish
2008-09	Auburn (m)	4-1	1st SEC	1st
2008-09	Auburn (w)	3-3	2nd SEC	6th
2007-08	Auburn (m)	4-2	1st SEC	5th
2007-08	Auburn (w)	7-1	1st SEC	2nd
2004-05	Stanford	7-1	1st Pac-10	5th
2003-04	Stanford	5-2	1st Pac-10	5th
2002-03	Stanford	8-2	2nd Pac-10	6th
2001-02	Stanford	8-0	1st Pac-10	3rd
2000-01	Stanford	6-1	4th Pac-10	2nd
1999-00	Stanford	6-1	2nd Pac-10	3rd
1998-99	Stanford	9-2	1st Pac-10	2nd
1997-98	Stanford	7-0	1st Pac-10	1st
1996-97	Stanford	10-0	1st Pac-10	2nd
1995-96	Stanford	6-1	1st Pac-10	1st
1994-95	Stanford	8-0	1st Pac-10	1st
1993-94	Stanford	6-0	1st Pac-10	1st
1992-93	Stanford	8-0	1st Pac-10	1st
1991-92	Stanford	5-0	1st Pac-10	1st
1990-91	Stanford	10-0	1st Pac-10	2nd
1989-90	Stanford	8-0	1st Pac-10	2nd
1988-89	Stanford	6-0	1st Pac-10	1st
1987-88	Texas	9-0	1st SWC	1st
1986-87	Texas	9-0	1st SWC	1st
1985-86	Texas	6-2	1st SWC	1st
1984-85	Texas	4-1	1st SWC	1st
1983-84	Texas	6-1	1st SWC	1st
1982-83	Texas	8-1	1st SWC	3rd
1981-82	Auburn (m)	4-2	3rd SEC	11th
	Auburn (w)	7-1	3rd SEC	4th
1980-81	Auburn (m)	6-2	3rd SEC	6th
	Auburn (w)	3-2	3rd SEC	7th AIAW
1979-80	Auburn (m)	6-2	3rd SEC	5th
	Auburn (w)	3-4	N/A	12th AIAW
1978-79	Auburn (m)	7-2	3rd SEC	5th
	Auburn (w)	0-6	N/A	21st AIAW
1977-78	Iowa State (m)	9-1	3rd Big 8	DNC
1976-77	SMU	2-2	N/A	DNC
Totals		230-41	23 Conference Titles	13 NCAA Titles

*All teams were women's teams unless noted with an (m) for men's teams.

Special thanks to Bob Groseth for passing along this important info!