2024-25 Tennessee Tech News
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As the NCAA enters a new era following the House v. NCAA settlement, new Tennessee Tech Director of Athletics Casey Fox has announced that the University’s Department of Athletics will opt into the terms of the settlement starting in the 2025-26 academic year. “This week, we made the decision for Tennessee Tech to opt in to the NCAA settlement,” Fox said. “After carefully reviewing the final terms, we believe this choice is in the best long-term interest of our athletic department. “The recent finalization of the roster grandfathering provision played a key role in solidifying our decision. By opting in, we position ourselves to better adapt to the evolving collegiate athletics environment, while also creating greater flexibility to leverage opportunities around Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) and potential revenue sharing.”
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Sixteen student-athletes have been chosen as the outstanding representatives of their teams at Tennessee Tech University and are the winners of the 32nd annual President's Awards, presented by the TTU Athletics Department. Fifteen of the 16 student-athletes are first-time winners for their respective sports, with one capturing the honor for a second straight year.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The recipients of the 2024-25 OVC Community Service Awards have been announced. The awards, first bestowed in 2022-23, are based on activities that took place during the 2024-25 academic year and recognize outstanding student-athletes for the contributions they make away from the playing surface, both on campus and in the community.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Every year, the Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame inducts some of the legendary figures over more than a century of Golden Eagle Athletics. These spectacular student-athletes have woven a rich tapestry of incredible feats and left a tremendous legacy for those who currently don the purple and gold.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech's student-athletes continued their impressive work in the classroom, closing out the 2024-25 academic year with yet another incredible semester with a spring GPA of 3.477 GPA collectively.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech's student-athletes continued to raise the bar in the classroom during the Spring 2025 semester, securing Golden Eagle Athletics' 11th-straight semester with a departmental GPA of at least 3.20.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The first soccer student-athlete to earn five All-OVC honors, Meredith Nye proved to be a winner on the pitch, in the classroom, and in the community throughout her Tennessee Tech tenure. The Ohio Valley Conference recognized her efforts Friday morning, announcing the Golden Eagle midfielder as the league's Steve Hamilton Sportsmanship Award winner for 2024-25.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The record-shattering dominance of Madolyn Isringhausen's senior campaign on the volleyball court came full circle for the Tennessee Tech star on Wednesday morning, as the Ohio Valley Conference announced the Golden Eagle outside hitter as the league's Female Athlete of the Year for 2024-25.
Cookeville, Tennessee sits in the sweet spot where Appalachian foothills yield to cedar-lined pastures, and where a Thursday-night thunderstorm can ride the Cumberland Plateau farther than any Wi-Fi signal. That geography also gifts Tennessee Tech students a stealth advantage: they’re a single interstate hop from two of America’s liveliest music capitals—Nashville to the west and Knoxville to the east—plus a constellation of outdoor amphitheaters tucked inside quarry walls, riverside parks, and football cathedrals. Golden Eagles can wrap a biomechanics lab, toss jeans into a duffel, and—before the steam has faded off the campus eagle statue—be scanning digital tickets at the gates of a Grammy winner’s sound-check. To turn that spontaneity into a semester-long game plan, the guide below spotlights fifteen mega-touring artists likely to circle Middle Tennessee this year, paired with four venues that funnel them to our backyard.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who bleeds Purple and Gold more than Jennifer Winningham Owens. So when the opportunity arose for Winningham to return to Tennessee Tech as its newest Head Athletic Trainer, the decision was an easy one. “There has always been hope that I would someday get to return home to Tech in this position,” Winningham said. “I am super excited to be returning to Cookeville and Tennessee Tech. “This isn’t just a job for me. This is coming back to my alma mater that I have had such pride in since starting school in 1999. You will not find anyone with more Tech pride than the Winningham family.”
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Following 21 years leading the Tennessee Tech athletic department to new levels of success across the playing fields, the classroom, and the community, Mark Wilson is resigning as director of athletics for the Golden Eagles effective June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It didn't take long for the excitement and anticipation for the annual Pepsi Bobby Nichols Golden Eagle Scramble presented by Michelob Ultra to live up to the bidding, as the 2025 edition of Tennessee Tech Athletics' fundraising event boasted a full field less than two hours after opening for registration on Monday, Mar. 31.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Dr. Samantha Bates of Tennessee Tech University has been named one of two recipients of the 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Thurston Banks Award for Distinguished Academic Service.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For fans traveling down to South Carolina for the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team's game against the Gamecocks in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament, please be aware that Colonial Life Arena has a clear-bag policy.
COOKEVILLE. Tenn. -- If you're looking for that souvenir to celebrate the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team's historic march to the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, you can order now through the University Bookstore and Spirit Shop! Follow this link -- https://tennesseetech.prestosports.com/general/2024-25/releases/20250320ky5wai -- to order your March Madness gear now! The Golden Eagle women take on top-seeded South Carolina Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Central.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – While the Tennessee Tech women’s basketball team is going dancing, the party’s not stopping either as the Wings Up Pregame rolls on to South Carolina for the NCAA Women’s Tournament. With Friday’s tipoff against top-seeded South Carolina set for a 4 p.m. Eastern/3 p.m. Central start, the Wings Up Pregame will be at The Placery in the Hyatt Place Columbia (819 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.).
