{"id":46481,"date":"2022-06-21T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=46481"},"modified":"2022-06-23T07:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:56:01","slug":"tarleton-president-james-hurley-re-elected-to-wac-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-president-james-hurley-re-elected-to-wac-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton President James Hurley Re-elected to WAC Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tarleton President James Hurley<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, June 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University President James Hurley will serve as the 2022-23 Past Chair of the Western Athletic Conference Executive Committee. Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez was elected Chair, and California Baptist University President Ron Ellis will be Vice Chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elections were part of last week\u2019s WAC Board of Directors meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board also voted to strengthen its commitment to Tarleton and Utah Tech University by including them in all future WAC championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hurley: \u201cI look forward to working with my WAC colleagues to continue the momentum of the conference while helping Tarleton Texans achieve athletic and academic success. Special thanks to WAC Commissioner Brian Thornton and the WAC presidents for welcoming us three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since joining the WAC, Tarleton has earned bragging rights for the highest Academic Progress Rate (987) of any first-year school reclassifying to NCAA Division I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The university set a WAC record in football attendance with more than 16,000 fans at Memorial Stadium for last fall\u2019s Homecoming game, and women\u2019s tennis finished the spring 2022 season undefeated, securing Tarleton\u2019s first D-I conference championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texans faced two of the nation\u2019s No. 1 seeds (one of only four teams) in this season\u2019s NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTarleton State is a talent magnet for some of the brightest minds and most gifted student-athletes,\u201d Dr. Hurley said. \u201cOur deeply accomplished faculty, staff and coaches give us an edge, and being in the WAC helps us keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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