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East Texas Baptist receives its second ASC Athletic Training Staff of the Year Award. The East Texas Baptist athletic training staff consists of three members led by head athletic trainer Marcus Holliday, assistant trainers Barrett Jones and Heidi Hendrickson and graduate assistant Jeannette Utterback.
 
"This is a blessing," said Holliday. "To be recognized by your colleagues for an award like this is an honor."
 

Joe Elerson, Athens Daily Review

Athens graduate Jeremy Bateman signed a baseball college letter of intent Wednesday making him the third player to sign from last year's class.

Bateman will be joining the East Texas Baptist University Tigers in Marshall. He leaves for the first day of class Aug. 17 to get ready for his studies as a physical therapist.

MARSHALL, Texas - Awards keep piling up for the 2016 East Texas Baptist University baseball team as they have been named an ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) Team Excellence Award winner. This honor goes to programs that have a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale.

ETBU was just one of four programs in Texas that earned the award in NCAA Division III. They were also just one of two ASC (American Southwest Conference) teams to be recognized. Mary Hardin-Baylor and SCAC programs Southwestern University and Schreiner University also earned the honor. 

CoSIDA: AUSTIN, Texas (6/1/16) – Finishing out a stellar year of awards for East Texas Baptist University baseball, Conner Combs has earned the highest academic award by CoSIDA for NCAA Division III. Selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), he has been voted the Academic All-American of the Year for NCAA Division III baseball and is also an Academic All-American.

ABCA: MARSHALL, Texas (5/31/16) – In just two days, East Texas Baptist University now has another All-American and three on the year as Conner Combs and Tyler Bates were voted onto the ABCA/Rawlings All-American second-team. It is the first time that ETBU has had an ABCA All-American since 2005 and is only the second time in program history producing ABCA All-Americans. On Thursday, Combs was named a D3baseball.com All-American on the third-team.