Former Tech trainer garners National Football Foundation's top honor
Ken Murray arrived at Texas Tech in 1978 with no real plan to stay there for any set period of time.
Other than an eight-year period sandwiched between two stints at the school, Tech's longtime athletic trainer remained a Red Raider through and through.
Last week Murray received the Distinguished West Texan Award, the top honor at the National Football Foundation Tech chapter's scholar-athlete awards banquet.
"He developed an athletic training curriculum that was so good, that was so advanced," Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told a sellout crowd at the Overton Hotel & Conference Center. “It was the first holistic athletic training program that was recognized by the National Athletic Trainers Association. Not only was he a pioneer in athletic training, but he was a leader."
Murray left Tech in 1996 after being Tech's head trainer for 17 years. He became director of sports medicine at Covenant only to return to Tech in 2004 to work in the athletic department administration.