Southland extends Commissioner Burnett to 2022

Published 9:19 pm Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The Southland Conference extended its contract with Commissioner Tom Burnett through June 2022.

Burnett has served in the role since late 2002 and is now the longest–serving commissioner in Southland history. The conference was founded in 1963.

“The presidents continue to recognize the Southland’s steady growth under his watch, including an unprecedented expansion of television coverage, the recent development of a conference-wide strategic plan, the increased quality of championship events, and improvement in the collective academic standing and well-being of Southland student-athletes,” Southland Board of Directors Chair and Sam Houston State President Dana G. Hoyt said.

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I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

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