{"id":30682,"date":"2016-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/texas-gov-abbott-honors-tarletons-basketball-coach-with-proclamation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:20:15","slug":"texas-gov-abbott-honors-tarletons-basketball-coach-with-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/texas-gov-abbott-honors-tarletons-basketball-coach-with-proclamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Abbott honors Tarleton’s basketball coach with proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gov. Abbott Presents Proclamation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, April 21, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas\u2014During the Tarleton State University men\u2019s basketball season celebration on April 19, head coach Lonn Reisman was presented a proclamation of achievement for 600 career wins from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m honored and humbled to have been recognized by Gov. Abbott for 600 wins at Tarleton State University,\u201d said Reisman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texans\u2019 head coach won his 600th career game on Jan. 2 with a 71-61 victory over Cameron in Wisdom Gym. With 613 victories, Reisman is the winningest active NCAA head coach in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gubernatorial proclamation states: \u201cI am pleased to congratulate you on your outstanding achievements, reflected in your 600\u2014and counting\u2014career victories. To have earned nearly all of those wins in your 28 years at Tarleton State is an especially impressive accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThrough the years you have coached many young men to great success on the basketball court. Even more important, though, is the role you played as a mentor, educator and friend,\u201d the proclamation continues. \u201cWins will live on forever in the record books, but the impact you have had on your players is the greater victory. Thank you for your commitment to excellence and to the Lone Star State\u2019s next generation of leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year Reisman and his coaching staff led the Tarleton Texans to the program\u2019s fourth NCAA Division II Elite Eight appearance\u2014a Lone Star Conference record. This year\u2019s squad compiled a 24-9 record before its season-ending loss to eventual national champion, Augustana, in the national quarterfinal held in Frisco, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reisman coached the Texans to its second-straight NCAA South Central Region championship as Tarleton marked its 13th NCAA tournament appearance all-time and its seventh straight trip to the post-season. Tarleton made its first tournament appearance in 2002 with Reisman at the helm, and in that stretch the Texans have won four regional championships and reached the NCAA Final Four twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about Tarleton State basketball, visit www.tarletonsports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarleton, a member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow\u2019s professional leaders. With campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contact: Nathan Bural \u2013 Director of Athletic Communications
254-968-1802
bural@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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