The Yellow JacketMarch 31, 2016 Howard Payne University. Brownwood, TX Volume 106, Issue 9

A decades-long tradition Winning Spring Sing performance was written by a student while studying abroad

Howard Payne Univer-sity is rich in traditions. One classic HPU event that participating students an-ticipate with both excitement and dread is Spring Sing.

Every spring semester, or-ganizations on campus have the opportunity to write, cast, direct, and perform an original musical act. Students spend weeks revising their show script and late nights practicing their performance for the weekend production.

A show theme is chosen by the Spring Sing committee and groups are given creative liberty to create a 10-minute musical show that incorpo-rates the theme and is com-posed of 50 percent singing.

According to Dr. Robert Mangrum in his encyclope-dia on HPU’s history entitled For Howard Payne My All, the Spring Sing that HPU debuts today emerged from “All School Sing.” In the 1990s, the annual production was renamed Spring Sing.

HPU’s first musical com-petition is recorded in the 1962 Lasso year book. At that time, the competition was held in mid-November and involved a faculty group in addition to 11 student groups. A percentage of the ticket sales provided for the prizes.

This year’s Spring Sing was undoubtedly differ-ent from the first show that was produced over 50

years ago. Nearly 425 cur-rent students, alumni, fac-ulty, staff, and community members came to the Spring Sing shows on March 18-19.

“The tradition of the show is what brings people back. Alumni from the University remember their late nights practicing and want to come see how their chapter is still doing,” said Francie Clark, Spring Sing adviser and direc-tor of Student Activities. “Plus it is a family friendly event!”

This year’s theme was “The High Notes of History,” and five student organizations competed for first-, second-, and third-place prizes spon-sored by the HPU Alumni Association, HPU Student Government Association and HPU Student Activities.

Juniors Shaefer Church, a Bible major from Farm-ington, New Mexico, and Daniel Palacios, a Practi-cal Theology major from Kaufman, were the emcees

this year. The dynamic duo brought energy to the stage with an entertaining open-ing act and jokes through-out the night. In between shows, the audience was in-volved with a history trivia.

Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, the national band fraternity and sorority, fused their musical talents and cre-ative juices to open the show with their performance titled “Vive La Alamo.” The show incorporated theatre and lit-erary history by using some of the music and characters from Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” as well as Tex-as history with the account of the Battle of the Alamo.

Delta Chi Rho, a local Greek sorority, took a dif-ferent approach with their show called “All-American Girl,” which was about the first woman baseball player, Mary Nesbith. Historical facts about women’s place in athletics and society in the

mid-twentieth century were woven throughout the pro-duction and complemented by music and dances from the Broadway shows Hair-spray and Grease. Rho’s hard work was rewarded with the third-place prize of $300.

The national honorary dra-matic fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega, produced “Astro-NOTS.” The musical com-edy looked at the space race through the lens of a movie set. References to American film history were incorporat-ed with characters from Star Wars and Toy Story. Although Alpha Psi’s forte is acting, they kept the musical element vibrant and entertaining with original lyrics to Disney’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” from Mulan and other hits.

“The Magic School Bus Makes Music History” by Chi Alpha Omega, a local Greek

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edItIonEditor-in-Chief Column...2Facing trials and adversity is what makes us stronger

in life.

HPU Fest..........................3A preview of the April 9

HPU Fest.

Speech and Debate.........5The SSB team competes at

a national competition.

Theatre Awards............6-7Three HPU students re-ceive certificates at the

CUTF.

Spring Sing...................8-9The competition in photos.

Prom Dresses................10The Social Work Club’s

annual Prom Dress Drive turns 10.

Mock Trial.......................11Two Mock Trial students re-ceive awards at the regional

tournament.

New Athletic Director....14Hunter Sims named new

athletic director.

New Coach.....................15The HPU women’s soccer team gets a new coach.

Dandy Danyel...........15-16A look at the career of Lady

Jackets’ basketball star Danyel Bradley. Spring Sing→ Page 7

Jaclyn Bonner

Staff Writer

Photos by Aimee Orozco and Rebekah LytleSigma Theta Phi (above and right) won first place at this year’s Spring Sing.

More Spring Singphotos on Pages

8 and 9.

Overcoming adversity is what makes us stronger

Think about your closest friends. Think about how you met.

If they’re the friends you met that nerve-wracking first week of Jacket Jour-ney, your union probably looked something like this:

You met in some crazy team game, kind of kicked it off, and spent the rest of the evening in each other’s rooms spilling your life stories to each other. You barely knew each other, so why not start at the beginning? You told them about your fam-ily, all the major events, and all the trials and tribulations.

And that’s probably when you bonded the most – when you got some insight into what your newfound friends had faced and overcome in life. You got vulnerable for a moment and shared about the troubles you had faced and the conflict you had beaten.

I was at a Bible study this week and my teacher said something that stuck with me: A lot of our respect and love for others comes from our knowledge of what con-flict they have faced in life.

Even if we hardly know

someone’s name, when we hear about some disaster that has burst into their life and we real-ize how hard it must have been and how far they must have come to get to this point, we feel something of a connection with them. Or at least respect.

The conflict we have been through says something about our character. While some may inadvertently create con-flict for themselves, we don’t usually have much of a say in the cards we are dealt. We do, of course, have power over our reactions to our cir-cumstances. How we spring back from tribulation says a great deal about who we are, or really something about the strength of who or what we’re

trusting in to get us through.We shouldn’t shy away from

conflict. We shouldn’t create it, but it’s important to real-ize that the only way to grow stronger is to work out; the only way to grow as a person is to go through and overcome trials. Something can be said for learning from others, but the application that comes from going through it yourself is often a more lasting lesson.

James 1:2-4 states, “Con-sider it pure joy, my broth-ers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, be-cause you know that the test-ing of your faith produces perseverance. Let persever-ance finish its work so that you may be mature and com-

plete, not lacking anything.”Trials bring maturity. They

bring you through a process that pushes you and presses you until you’re better com-ing out than you were going in. And the experience trouble brings equips us to be there for others. As 2 Corinthians 1:4 says, “[God] comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” We use what we’ve over-come to help others overcome.

So whatever conflict you’re facing right now, know that it’s making you stron-ger. Know that you can step into it with faith and God will bring you through it.

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OpinionNews Briefs

CampusThe Howard Payne University Woman’s Club will host its annual Yellow Rose Scholar-ship Luncheon on April 14 in the Bullion Suites. The guest speaker is HPU alumna Donna Clark Love, an internation-ally recognized expert, trainer and motivational speaker in the areas of bully prevention, family systems and student as-sistance. Tickets are $25 each and may be purchased online at www.hputx.edu/woman-sclub or in person at the Har-rison House, 803 Center Ave.

NationalThe FBI’s announcement that it mysteriously hacked into an iPhone is a public setback for Apple Inc., as consum-ers learned that they can’t keep the government out of an encrypted device that U.S. officials had claimed was impossible to crack. Apple, meanwhile, remains in the dark about how to restore the security of its flagship product.The government said it was able to break into an iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, but it didn’t say how. That puzzled Apple software engineers about how the FBI broke the digital locks on the phone without Apple’s help. It also complicat-ed Apple’s job repairing flaws that jeopardize its software.

StateTexas lags behind most oth-er states in preparing high schoolers for college and needs to update its readiness standards, including over-sight of dual credit courses, Higher Education Coordinat-ing Board Commissioner Ray-mund Paredes told state sena-tors this week. Paredes made the comments even though the percentage of Texas students prepared for college when they graduate high school has increased almost every academic year since 2006-07.

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March 31: Walker Memorial Library Book Sale 2016, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.March 31: HPU Senior Students Art Exhibit, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Doakie Day Center.April 1: Walker Memorial Library Book Sale 2016, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.April 1: HPU Music and Fine Arts Faculty Recital, 7:30 p.m., Grace Chapel.April 6-10: All Student Art Exhibition, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Doakie Day Art Center.April 9: HPU Fest, 3-9 p.m., Old Main Park.April 12: HPU Concert Choir Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m., FLLC.April 13-14: All Student Art Exhibition, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Doakie Day Art Center.

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Spring is finally here, and HPU Fest is coming up from 3-9 p.m. April 9 at Old Main Park.

HPU Fest is an event open to the entire HPU campus as well as the Brownwood commu-nity with various events, en-tertainment and music perfor-mances for people of all ages.

The Saturday afternoon will kick off with a “Welcome Cer-emony” at 3 p.m. followed by performances from local bands such as Love and War, James King & Joshua Varnes, Atlas Mason, and Sun City.

The evening musical perfor-mances will include a concert from main headliners JJ Heller, Jason Gray, and Josh Wilson.

JJ Heller, Jason Gray, and Josh Wilson be selling mer-chandise and signing au-tographs after the show.

Born and raised in Califor-nia, JJ Heller is an American Christian folk singer. After releasing multiple albums, she had two songs that chart-ed. “Your Hands” from her 2008 album Painted Red and “What Love Really Means” from the album “When I’m

with You” both peaked.It wasn’t until her second

year of college when she be-gan writing songs, joined a band and met her cur-rent husband, Dave Heller.

Jason Gray was born and raised in Minnesota, where he spent six years in youth ministry before pursuing mu-sic ministry full time in 1999.

In March of 2014, Gray joined The Bible: Son of God Tour alongside artists such as Natalie Grant, Fran-cesca Battistelli, and Side-walk Prophets to name a few.

Through his music works, Gray emphasizes find-ing strength in weakness.

Josh Wilson is a contempo-rary Christian musician from El Dorado, Arkansas. He is

best known for the radio sin-gles “Savior, Please” from his 2008 album “Trying to Fit the Ocean in a Cup” and “Before the Morning” from his 2009 EP, “Life is Not a Snapshot.”

Other HPU Fest events include the Chili Cook Off for Hottest Chili and Tasti-est Chili. Winners will be announced at 5:45 p.m.

Sodexo will provide the student dinner from 5:30-6:30 p.m. During that time, students can use a meal swipe, cash or check to pur-chase dinner. The Beadel Dining Hall will be closed.

Many other fun activities and booths, including cotton candy and inflatables, will be set up by various organizations.

Aimee Orozco

staff writer

HPU Fest Concert Lineup:

Love and WarJames King, Joshua Varnes

Atlas MasonSun CityJJ Heller

Jason GrayJosh Wilson

YJ File PhotoLast year’s HPU Fest was forced indoors in Mims Auditorium be-cause of inclement weather.

Students hear about child abuse at YFZ Ranch

Howard Payne Univer-sity criminal justice students were recently visited by Roy Robb, 1967 HPU alumnus and current member of the uni-versity’s Board of Trustees.

Robb, whose career in the criminal justice field spanned more than 40 years, was re-sponsible for taking care of the 400 people removed from the Yearning for Zion Ranch following the arrest of War-ren Jeffs, former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Yearning for Zion Ranch was located about 45 miles southwest of San Angelo. The last of the FLDS members living there left the ranch in 2014.

Jeffs was later brought to Texas to stand trial on charges stemming from the raid on the YFZ Ranch by law enforce-ment officers. He is currently serving a sentence of life in

prison plus 20 years. Robb, then court master for the 51st Judicial District Court, was tasked with daily briefings and written reports in the investiga-tion of Jeffs prior to the arrest.

The story about Jeffs and the YFZ Ranch made national news and captured the interest

of the nation. Having had my own personal experience with the FLDS because of my fa-ther who was a part of the raid, it was interesting to hear about what another person wit-nessed. Robb began his story from when Rulon Jeffs took over as Prophet for the FLDS

and began mandating that underage girls marry older men.

With Child Protective Ser-vices receiving a call from a girl named Sara, who said that there were children being abused, CPS along with multi-ple departments from law en-forcement took action and went in to rescue these children.

The livelihood of these people would become a great shock to those who were in-volved with the case and or-ganizations that donated their time, money, and effort to pro-vide food, care, and medical aid to all the FLDS members as well as those working the case.

Robb told the students that the children from the com-pound did not know how to play or how to have fun. He said that witnessing the dif-ference in the children from the time of the initial raid to when the children went back to the compound was amaz-ing. They began to play foot-ball with the help from a law enforcement officer and loved to catch fish and were not ready to return home because all they wanted to do was fish.

There was also trou-bling information about what the children endured at the FLDS compounds, in-cluding underage girls be-ing married to older men.

The troubling information Robb provided about how these people lived makes one grateful for the life you have. His story made an impact on all the students and en-couraged them to take steps through life that will put them in positions to make an im-pact on someone else’s life.

The students and the Crimi-nal Justice Program faculty are extremely grateful that Robb took the time to speak at HPU.

Robb’s career in criminal justice also includes establish-ing a probation system for Co-ryell, Hamilton, Bosque and Comanche Counties; serv-ing as Director of Juvenile Probation Services for Tom Green County; and being Di-rector of Adult and Juvenile Probation Services for Tom Green County, of which San Angelo is the county seat.

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Photo by HPU Media RelationsRoy Robb speaks to HPU Criminal Justice students recently about his responsibility for taking care of the 400 people removed from the Yearning for Zion Ranch following the arrest of Warren Jeffs.

Kierstyn Evans

Guest writer

by HPU Media Relations

Howard Payne students Rebeca Puente, a senior from Waskom, and Isaac Som-mers, a junior from Boerne, were among an elite group of Texas university students to receive year-end awards from the Texas Undergradu-ate Moot Court Association.

Following the pair’s suc-cessful Moot Court season, Sommers was named the second overall speaker, and Puente was named the ninth overall speaker for the year.

Moot Court offers un-dergraduate students the

opportunity to cultivate their understanding of law inter-pretation, analytical debate, jurisprudence and case prec-edents through Supreme Court argument simulation.

Puente and Sommers’ most recent tournament was the 2015-16 American Collegiate Moot Court As-sociation National Tourna-ment in California in Janu-ary. The duo advanced to out rounds and ended in the top 32. They also placed third in the brief writing component.

They qualified for the na-tional tournament after being named finalists at the Texas

A&M School of Law Region-al Moot Court tournament.

“Rebeca and Isaac have competed against hundreds of teams from universities across Texas and these year-end awards prove they are among the best in the state. I’m very proud of what they have accomplished this sea-son,” said Lorianna Kelley, assistant professor of govern-ment and Moot Court coach.

Moot Court students receive Texas year-end awards

Courtesy Photo

Rebeca Puente (left) and Isaac Sommers.

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Clark finishes second at SSB national eventYJ Submission

The Howard Payne Uni-versity speech and debate team competed at the Na-tional Christian College Forensics Association In-vitational National Champi-onships, held in early March at Point Loma Nazarene Uni-versity in San Diego, Calif.

Junior Braxton Clark, ju-nior global studies major from Southlake, won sec-ond place overall debate speaker at the tournament.

“I am very proud of Brax-ton’s performance. This is the most difficult tournament we attend, and for Braxton to be named second top speaker is outstanding,” said Dr. Julie Welker, Student Speaker Bu-reau speech and debate team coach and chair of the De-partment of Communication.

The parliamentary de-bate team of Clark and Isaac Sommers, junior Jurispru-dence; English; and Pub-lic Policy (Academy) ma-jor from Boerne, advanced to the quarterfinals round in open parliamentary debate.

Sophomore Reagan Grish-am, communication major

from Arlington, was named sixth place speaker in nov-ice parliamentary debate.

Sommers also advanced to semifinals in open extempo-raneous speaking, and team-mate Christopher Freeland, freshman biochemistry ma-jor from Bangs, advanced to the semifinals in novice extemporaneous speaking.

Freeland stated that

Student Speaker Bureau has helped sharpen his commu-nication skills with firsthand trial-and-error experience.

“As a freshman, I found parliamentary debate to be a valuable learning experi-ence, where I walked out of every debate round know-ing what worked and what needed improvement. As we competed in more and more

tournaments, my confidence (and competence) only grew, and showed me debate is a tool used for effective com-munication of ideas,” he said.

Freeland, who also com-petes in oral interpretation events of prose and poetry, added that these interpretative events have taught him about different artistic points of view.

Other students compet-ing in the tournament were Morgan Ashmore, commu-nication major from Brock; Andrea Balderas, biology major from Lytle; and Ai-mee Orozco, communication major from Sheppard. Stu-dents competed in both de-bate and individuals events over the three day tournament.

This year, 23 universities and almost 300 students from across the nation participated in NCCFI. All schools are mem-bers of the Council for Chris-tian Colleges and Universities.

“Having four of the sev-en HPU students advance or win some type of speak-er award is success by any measure. We were compet-ing against some of the larg-est and most prestigious schools in Christian higher

education. Our HPU students did a fabulous job,” said Welker.

While in San Diego, then team visited the USS Mid-way and went on a whale-watching boat tour to see the migrating whales.

“These trips are about more than just competing. We want our students to have a well-rounded education through travel and experience the culture of each city we visit. While competition is our pri-mary focus, getting out and about and networking is an im-portant part, too,” said Welker.

In her first year on the team, Ashmore said that her travels with SSB have been an important part of her learning experience.

“This semester, I have had the amazing opportunity to travel to Colorado, California, and England. Traveling with SSB has helped me develop critical thinking skills and be-come more well-rounded. Get-ting to travel to Oxford and London with SSB was easily the best experience I’ve had at HPU. I was able to make friends with students from all over the world and experience a new culture,” Ashmore said.

Courtesy PhotoThe Howard Payne SSB team competed at the National Chris-tian College Forensics Association Invitational National Cham-pionships this month in California. Team members are, from left: Braxton Clark, Aimee Orozco, Christopher Freeland, Andrea Balderas, Morgan Ashmore, Reagan Grisham, and Isaac Som-mers.

CUTF strengthens relationships as well as the Theatre Department at Howard Payne

Even with our large cast, it took some time and effort to load all the costumes, light-ing equipment, make up – and particularly the large set pieces and countless books.

Cramming our mobile li-brary into a U-Haul trailer was the first step in our journey to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, where we would spend the next three days par-taking in the Christian Univer-sity Theatre Festival (CUTF). The Company of “Inventing Montana” had been looking forward to this since January, and here it was. We couldn’t be more ready for it after a successful weekend of per-formances in Brownwood.

CUTF was started 21 years ago as a means of sharing our artistry with other Chris-tian colleges and revising response from a theatre pro-fessional. Howard Payne has hosted CUTF the last three years, so it was a delight-ful experience to travel to Wayland Baptist this year.

We left the morning of Feb. 29, and though the four-hour van drive may sound miser-able, the cast entertained each other with theatre talk, road games, and the occasional nap.

Upon on our arrival at the beautiful campus, we settled in the Wayland dorms, then excitedly headed to the cam-pus theatre to see the first play of the Festival – Wayland Baptist’s the “Rabbit Hole.”

I have been involved with the theatre for most of my life, but walking into a black-box theatre was a new expe-rience for most of the cast.

The large room was dimly lit, and the audience sat just a few feet from the “stage,” which was really just a flat floor. On stage, operatic mu-sic played from a stereo sys-tem, and as I found my seat on the front row, I was amazed at the intimacy of the theatre.

I watched an actor emerge from an on-stage door that en-tered into his house. I could see every detail as he could, and the spectacle of detail of the set was captivating. Without any main curtain to hide the set, I felt as though I was peering into the lives of these people with superhu-man vision. The rest of the cast seemed to feel the same way. The show hadn’t even started, yet we were hooked.

Written by David Lind-say-Abaire, “Rabbit Hole” is famous for its tragic story encompassing the struggles of coping with the loss of a child. As the family struggles for the return to normalcy, any attempt to regain com-fort only seems to result in more chaos. The Wayland cast directed by Marti Run-nels performed spectacu-larly, and there was never a dull moment in the show.

After the show, we con-gratulated the cast and direc-tor, then heard the critique by our respondent, Charlie Hukill. Though he was a quiet man, I knew by the si-lent way he commanded the attention of the room was an ability he was comfortable with. Hukill has been a Pro-fessor of Theatre at McMurry University for more than 30 years. His experience has led him to become the President Elect for the Texas Educa-tional Theatre Association.

Hukill gave thoughtful and

constructive critiques. He was pleasant to listen to, and humorous as well. He gave specific directorial, acting, and technical notes, demon-strating his full understand-ing of the multi-faceted the-atre. The question he posed that intrigued me most was “Whose play is this?” By this, he meant that the con-flict and development of ev-ery show can be centered around one character, and knowing which was impor-tant to explicitly display all the elements of a good story.

After Hukill’s response, ev-eryone in the theatre helped the Rabbit Hole cast take down, or “strike” the set. The blackbox theatre quickly be-came over-crowded with busy people and the sounds of drills and orders. Occasionally, I found myself idle, not certain what to help with. If I searched hard enough, I could find someone who needed help, or be recruited to carry set pieces.

Strike took less than two hours, and we returned to the dorms. Surprisingly, it was past midnight, though I didn’t feel tired. I was excited to see the next show the next morn-ing and perform that evening.

The morning of March 1 was spent again in the black-box theatre, with our Technical Director Nicholas Ewen orga-nizing the mass to reconstruct our set. The unusual stage made recreation difficult, but once the big bookshelves were finally in order the rest of the set came easily into place.

After our set was up, we headed off to Abilene Christian University, where we watched “Through My Eyes.” I had never heard of the script, which made sense after reading the headline

“Premiere Performance!” dis-played proudly on the 60’s styled playbill. The script was written by E. Don Wil-liams, who wrote a memory play centered on life in the Texas small town of Spur.

The show was more tra-ditional in the sense that it was held in an auditorium. The set featured chairs that were humorously mimed as

classroom settings, cars, and even a train at one point of the story. Hukill enjoyed the small town feel the show displayed, and other comments may have been lost to our cast, who was beginning to feel anxious about performing ourselves.

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Christopher Freeland

staff writer

Photo by Rebekah LytleBryce McWhirter received an Outstanding Achievement in Acting citation at the Christian University Theatre Festival.

CUTF → Page 7

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sorority included tunes from a children’s favorite show as well. Not only did “The Magic School Bus” theme song char-acterize Chi Alpha’s show but music hits from different decades did too. Ms. Frizzle took her class on a histori-cal field trip back in time to meet Justin Timberlake and NSYNC in the ‘90s, Dolly Parton in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and the Beatles in the ‘60s. Their performance garnered them $500 for second place.

Sigma Theta Phi, the only local fraternity to perform this

year, closed the show with their production called “The Trojan War.” The first place award-winning show’s histori-cal element centered on Greek literary history and was embel-lished by Sigma’s humor. Sati-rist and Sigma member, Adam Jones, wrote and directed the performance from overseas.

“Writing the script was not as difficult as making sure everything was turned in on time,” said Jones, who is studying abroad in London this semester. “Being overseas made it difficult to communi-cate to make sure all of the re-sponsibilities were taken care of, but I had nothing to worry

about. I have a strong sense of pride in my brothers for working so hard on the show and making it their own.”

Spring Sing is not just re-warding to the participants, but also to the committee and advisers who begin working hard in the fall semester to make it possible. “Seeing the final show on Saturday and all the students’ hard work come together is most reward-ing,” said Clark. “Their smiles and silent laughs backstage are fun memories for me.”

Overall, the show was a big success. Spring Sing will undoubtedly continue to be a classic HPU tradition.

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CUTF and HPUTheatre

We returned and prepared for our show. After a hasty dinner, we were in costume and make-up, hiding behind the Black box back curtains, awaiting our cues. Watching a show in the intimate black-box theatre is nothing com-pared to performing it. It felt like the audience was part of our world, watching as we per-formed “Inventing Montana.” We received good laughter and response, particularly from Hukill at the show’s end.

“Charlie Hukill is a won-derful Christian colleague,” said Dr. Nancy Jo Humfeld, director of theatre at Howard Payne. “Mr. Hukill had very positive comments for ‘In-venting Montana.’ He compli-mented the set, the acting, cos-tumes, and particularly liked the creative use of the scenery for different settings. For in-stance, the use of the desk for the highwayman’s carriage as well as the shop counter.”

After strike and changing into dressy modern clothes, we sat back in the audience to be presented the awards. Hukill gave “Outstanding Crew Achievement” to Brit-tany Martin, who was both

Madam Lovelock and the lights coordinator backstage.

“Outstanding Achievement in Acting” certificates were awarded to Bryce McWhirter (Montana), Hailey Green (Chi-cago), and myself in the role of Adam. It was awesome to be granted the award by Hukill with a cheering audience be-hind me. In that moment, even though Hukill was handing me an award, it was most evident that this was not a contest. Ev-eryone at CUTF was support-ive in sharing our work. These certificates was only a way to show further appreciation.

I asked other students how they felt about CUTF, and everyone enjoyed the experi-ence. For us freshmen, it was a time to further develop the friendships we started with the show. James King summed up CUTF as a bonding expe-rience in a similar fashion.

“CUTF helped me as a per-son by expanding my outgo-ing personality and knowing that no matter where you are you will always be supported by your peers,” King said.

For those who had been in CUTF for years, like Ashley Willis, it was a week to re-member. “Since it was my last CUTF, it was a bitter-sweet moment,” Willis said. “I loved getting to know ev-eryone over the years and

getting to talk and hang out with so many new people.”

CUTF really strength-en our theatre program at

Howard Payne. We grew clos-er as a cast, even as our show drew to a close after months of work. These relationships

strengthened now would last far beyond CUTF, and we look forward to future experiences together with a new show.

Photos by Rebekah LytleLeft: Brittany Martin (right) who played the role of Madam Lovelock and served as lights coordina-tor for “Inventing Montana,” received an Outstanding Crew Achievement citation.Right: Christopher Freeland received an Outstanding Achievement in Acting certificate at CUTF.

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SPRING SING 2016

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Photos by Rebekah Lytle, Aimee Orozco, and Lydia Heinrichs

Social Work Club helps Brown County high school girls find perfect prom dress

The dimly lit ballroom was filled to its capacity with up-beat high school students. All you could see were flowing, short, sparkling, elegant and delicate dresses as the girls danced across the dance floor.

After the magic of the Prom night disappears into the next

day, the dresses are hung in closets to collect dust and be forgotten. But what if the en-chantment of such a night could be passed on for someone else to experience, along with that dress that you forgot existed in the back of your closet?

Would you pass it on? Ten years ago, Desiree

Kinzer, who graduated from Howard Payne University in 2007, thought about this as the HPU Social Work Club

searched for ways to help the community. After agreeing on how to go about starting such a project, the HPU Social Work Prom Dress Drive was born.

After donating a small amount of dresses its first year, the Social Work Club has been able to bring in more and more dresses over the years.

“We only gave away about 15 or 16 dresses, maybe, our first year. Nothing like now. Some years we were able to donate more dresses, some less. The last couple of years, our donations have grown,” said Dan Humeniuk, as-sistant professor of Social Work and chair of the De-partment of Criminal Justice, Social Work and Sociology.

The club had its annual drive earlier this month and received about 32 dresses. About 30 local and area high school girls visited the Girling Center to search for the

perfect dress for their big night. Not only has the drive grown

in numbers, but also territory. The drive is broadcast to high schools from Brownwood to Santa Anna. Early High School hung flyers around its campus to spread news about the annual project before their Mardi Gras-themed event.

The members of the club also worked hard to get word out about the cause. Represen-tatives like Amy Tyler spread word of the drive through social media, hanging post-ers and more so that HPU students were able to donate gowns, and girls knew where to choose the perfect one.

The women in the club un-derstood the pain of finding a dress that perfectly suited them and wish to help other young girls to avoid these issues.

“I remember picking out my prom dress. I was so stressed to find the perfect dress to match

my body-type and personality. I went to two or three dress boutiques and searched on-line,” said HPU Social Work Club member Karina Garcia.

Even with all of the work going into the drive, the Social Work Club mem-bers still found time to have fun with the project.

“The social work mem-bers have a lot of fun with the drive. The members dress up and put on a show while help-ing girls to find dresses that they love,” said Humeniuk.

From an idea shared by one student with her friends and fellow club members came a good cause that helps girls all over the Brown County area. The Social Work Club has succeeded in sharing the gift of peace during one of the most stressful times in ev-ery girl’s high school career.

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lazhay winn

staff writer

Photos by Andria Garza and Lazhay WinnThe 2015-16 HPU Social Work Club sponsored the Prom Dress Drive for the 10th consecutive year earlier this month.

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Howard Payne recently competed in the Ameri-can Mock Trial Association (AMTA) regional collegiate tournament in Dallas. Host by UT Dallas, the tournament included 23 mock trial teams competing from 11 schools.\

This is the second re-gional tournament in which HPU has competed, and the first one compet-ing as two separate teams.

Team A was captained by sophomore Sky Schoolfield, with her associate attorneys Zach Eller and Lainee Hasty. They won two ballots in their very first round against Sch-reiner University by 37 points.

Team B was captained by sophomore Jakob Morgan, with Andy Zambrano and Josh Dykes serving as associate at-torneys. They also won two ballots their first round, beat-ing UT Austin by nine points.

Team members and witness

actors TJ Counce, a senior, and Rachel Hughes, a sopho-more, were both among the participants who were award-ed top witness awards at the regional tournament. Counce, serving on team A, won 19 out of a potential 20 points, while Hughes, serving on team B, won 17 out of 20 points.

“I’m very proud of TJ and Rachel’s successes. They worked hard in preparing for

the tournament and repre-sented the university well,” said Lorianna Kelley, assis-tant professor of Government and Mock Trial team sponsor.

Mock Trial provides an educational replica of the US lower-courts and how their trials work. During competi-tions, attorneys and witnesses act our roles against another team, creating a courtroom drama for the judges. After

each trial, which would last a little less than three hours, the two or three judges present would give the teams feed-back on their performance.

This year, the competition trial was particularly diffi-cult because there were two defendants. That meant that the lawyers on each team

had to learn four different tri-als; defense and prosecution for each defendant. It also meant each of the witness ac-tors had to learn two parts.

Through Mock Trial, stu-dents learn legal proce-dures as well as gain expe-rience in public speaking and quick, critical thinking.

Mock trial teams shine at regional tournamentRachel Hughes

Staff Writer

Photo by Dr. Kevin KelleyThe HPU Mock Trial team consists of back row from left: Ty-ler Olin, Andy Zambrano, Katherine Hailey, Jakob Morgan, Zach Eller, Josh Dykes, Rachel Hughes, and Caleb Kostreva; and front row from left: Sierra Mendez, Sky Schoolfield, Caleb Throckmorton, Amy Baskin, TJ Counce, and Lainee Hasty.

Photo by Dr. Kevin KelleyWitness actors Rachel Hughes and TJ Counce with their speaker awards.

The work of Howard Payne senior art students Molly Hull of Brownwood, Cantrell Miller of Rochelle and Emily Peisker of Cedar Park is on exhibit through 4 p.m. today (Thurs-day) in the Dorothy and Wen-dell Mayes Art Gallery inside the Doakie Day Art Center.

The three students are scheduled to graduate in May. A reception honoring the artists was held last week.

Each student’s works of art are original artistic statements

based upon topics as directed by HPU’s art faculty members including David Harmon, pro-fessor of art and chair of the Department of Art; Susan Har-mon, adjunct instructor of art; Julie Mize, adjunct instructor of photography; and Tim Coo-per, instructor of multimedia communications and com-puter information systems.

“The faith and devotion to their artist crafts is evidenced in this three-person exhibi-tion,” said David Harmon. “All three artists have been insightful students, not set-tling for easy solutions but

compelling creative ones re-sulting in this fine exhibition.”

The art media includes drawing, painting, design,

photography, graphic design and other studio art areas.

Gallery hours during school sessions are 9 a.m. to

4 p.m. The art center is lo-cated on the HPU campus, on Center Avenue, near Lip-scomb Street in Brownwood.

Senior art students’ exhibit concludes today by HPU Media Relations

Courtesy PhotoThe artwork of three graduating HPU seniors is on exhibit through 4 p.m. today at the Dorothy and Wendell Mayes Art Gallery inside the Doakie Day Art Center.

4 honored in Christian ethics and theologyby HPU Media Relations

Four Howard Payne stu-dents were honored as Cur-rie-Strickland Scholars in Christian Ethics and Theol-ogy at the university’s ninth annual Currie-Strickland Dis-tinguished Lectures in Chris-tian Ethics event last month.

Those honored include Shaefer Church, senior Bi-ble major from Farmington, New Mexico; Cheney Cover, junior cross-cultural stud-ies major from Troup; J.T. Hurt, a 2015 HPU alumnus and current graduate student from Brownwood; and Tom Kyle, junior cross-cultural studies major from Salado.

Dr. Donnie Auvenshine, pro-fessor of Christian studies and dean of the School of Christian Studies, presented the awards.

“At these lectures, we hon-or these good students. But the reality is that they honor the Lord and us every day as

they faithfully serve and study with us,” said Dr. Auvenshine.

Each year, the honorees are selected based on an evaluation of achievement in their classes

and on the ways that they have excelled in their thinking in the fields of Christian ethics and theology. This year, each student received a certificate

and three books: “Do Justice, Love Mercy” by Phil Strick-land; “Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?” by Brian

McLaren; and “A New Reli-gious America” by Diana Eck.

“Our faculty are privileged to teach many fine students at HPU, but these four have excelled above and beyond what is required,” said Dr. Derek Hatch, assistant profes-sor of Christian studies. “We are all very proud of them and happy to honor them.”

The four students plan to pursue ministry-related goals after graduation. Church hopes to go to seminary and then overseas to be a mission-ary. Cover wants to minister to refugees in an urban envi-ronment. Hurt is currently a student in the Master of Arts in Youth Ministry program at HPU and plans to pursue youth ministry. Kyle plans to attend the Graduate Insti-tute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas to study transla-tion and linguistics. He also wants to work overseas with Wycliffe Bible Translators.

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Courtesy PhotoDr. Donnie Auvenshine (left), professor and dean of HPU’s School of Christian Studies, is pictured with Currie-Strickland Scholars Shaefer Church, Tom Kyle, Cheney Cover and J.T. Hurt.

BSM Spring Break Mission Trip to Oregon

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Looking back at HP’s spirit songs and yells

The gems I want to share with you today come from little booklets mea-suring 4 1/8 by 6 inches.

Variously entitled “Songs and Yells” or “Yell Book,” these little booklets speak of the extracurricular activi-ties at Howard Payne from 1913 to 1938. For instance, in the 1913-1915 booklet we find the song “The good old Howard Payne Line” – be-fore it was given to Baylor. A different variation was found in the 1936-38 book-lets. It was sung to the tune “good Old Summer Time:”

All together now, let’s sing:

The good old Howard Payne Line

The good old Howard Payne Line

Where will Daniel Baker be,

When our Stars begin to shineThey’ll wish they were at home

againDone up in turpentine

The day our backs come down the field

With the good old Howard Payne Line.

If you liked that one, how about the lyrics below to the tune of “Yankee Doodle?”Daniel Baker comes on the

field a thinkingThey’re a wonder, Howard

Payne hits the Line and knocks them all to

thunder.Howard Payne keep it up, Howard Payne’s a dandy,

Daniel Baker’s on the run,Oh! Have the doctor handy.Add to the above songs

a bit of a yell like this:Quinine! Strichnine!Down with the foe!

Paint ‘em with Iodine!Stick ‘em down below!

Howard PayneOr:

Wis was wus we’re allowed to

fussBut nevertheless we must con-

fessThere’s nothing the matter

with us.In addition to the dated book-

lets, there was one without a date, which of course, is the historian’s nightmare. There we found these words to a song which seems somewhat famil-iar. See if you might agree:Howard Payne, its hail to thee

Thy praises we shall sing.We’ll be true as true can be

And your battles help you winThy sons and daughters true

We shall ever be to you.We will love thy name

And help give you fameHail to thee, dear Howard

Payne.Hail to the blue and gold,

Hail Alma Mater.Long may your colors in tri-

umph wave;Loyal each one of us,

Howard Payne forever,Victory crown the blue and

gold,

Loyal each one of us,Howard Payne forever,

Victory crown the blue and gold.

In the 1936 booklet, we find the song “For Howard Payne My All.” So which came first the slogan or the song? Actually the slogan, which dates from the teens.Oh, see those Yellow Jackets

Just watch those Yellow Jack-ets.

Heads up and heavy and strong

We’re true to Yellow JacketsGold Blue for Yellow JacketsGiving our hearts in a song!Take up, you Yellow JacketsBreak up, you Yellow Jackets

Now let the enemy fall–Gold! Blue! We’re backing

youFor Howard Payne, My All!Finally, one more song

from 1938, titled “Stinging Bunch of Yellow Jackets.”We’re a stinging bunch of Yel-

low Jackets,

And we’re from Howard Payne,

We’ll sting ‘em and we’ll sting ‘em,

Till they never look the same,Say, we’ll keep on stinging,

Till we win this football game.We’re a stinging bunch of Yel-

low Jackets,And we’re from Howard

Payne.We’ll close this pep

rally with the follow-ing song, date unknown.

We’ll chaseUp a sour apple tree,

We’ll chaseUp a sour apple tree,

We’ll chaseUp a sour apple tree,As we go marching by

Chorus:Cheer up, cheer upCheer up, cheer up Cheer up, cheer up

For the worst is yet to come.Well, I hope this semes-

ter doesn’t find your worst yet to come. Until next time, “Sting ‘em Jackets!”

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Dr. Robert Mangrum

university historian

Resurrection Week

YJ Staff Photos

SPRING SPORTS

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SportsHPU Sports Update

BaseballRecord: 9-8, 5-4 in ASCMarch 24: HPU 4, Ozarks 3March 25: HPU 4, Ozarks 2March 25: HPU 8, Ozarks 3March 29: McMurry 6, HPU 3April 1: Sul Ross at HPU, 1 p.m.April 2: Sul Ross at HPU (dh), 12 p.m.April 5: HPU at SW Assemblies, 2 p.m.

SoftballRecord: 11-15, 8-13 in ASCMarch 24: HPU 5, HSU 4March 24: HSU 2, HPU 1March 25: HSU 6, HPU 3April 1: HPU at UT Dallas (dh), 2 p.m.April 2: HPU at UT Dallas, 12 p.m.April 8: HPU at Belhaven (dh), 1 p.m.April 9: HPU at Belhaven, 11 a.m.

Men’s TennisRecord: 1-9, 0-1 in ASCMarch 19: Texas Lutheran 9, HPU 0March 25: UT Dallas 9, HPU 0April 1: HPU at Concordia, 2 p.m.April 2: HPU at UMHB, 10 a.m.April 5: McMurry at HPU, 1 p.m.April 8: HSU at HPU, 1 p.m.

Women’s TennisRecord: 4-6, 0-1 in ASCMarch 19: Texas Lutheran 8, HPU 1March 25: UT Dallas 8, HPU 1April 1: HPU at Concordia, 2 p.m.April 2: HPU at UMHB, 10 a.m.April 5: McMurry at HPU, 1 p.m.April 8: HSU at HPU, 1 p.m.

Men’s GolfThe men’s golf team finished third at the Hal Sutton Intercollegiate last week in Bossier City, Louisiana. HPU shot a two-round to-tal of 641 to finish third, just behind Ty-ler Junior College and California Lutheran.Ben Alonso tied for 10th, individually, with a 154 two-round total. Andrew Errico was tied for 15th at 158. Jose Hernandez shot 165, Guy Ekstrom shot 169, and True Matthews shot 172.Next week HPU will compete in a tournament in Georgetown hosted by Southwestern University.

Women’s BasketballFinal Record: 18-10, 10-4 in ASC

ASC TournamentHPU 80, UT Dallas 73HPU 82, LeTourneau 75UT Tyler 77, HPU 70

by HPU Sports Information

Howard Payne announced Tues-day that Hunter Sims, the new head football coach, has been named athletic director for the university.

Sims will serve a dual role as coach and athletic director begin-ning in fall 2016 and will report to Dr. Magen Bunyard, vice president for student life and dean of students.

Sims was named head foot-ball coach at the end of the fall 2015 semester. He additionally served three years as an assis-tant at HPU before being pro-moted to offensive coordinator and assistant head coach in 2012.

Sims’ offenses have been some of the best in the American South-west Conference, setting a new HPU record for total offense in a game in 2014 with 720 yards in a 54-53 road victory. He has coached current HPU career record-holder for field goals Joshua Martinez and wide receiver standout Col-by Mica, who recently broke the HPU career receptions record.

Sims is a 2007 graduate of Mc-Murry University with a degree in education and a minor in his-tory. In 2010, he finished a mas-ter’s degree in sports management.

As a player, Sims was a three-year letterman and two-time Academic All-Conference se-lection at quarterback at Mc-Murry. After his college playing career was over, he served as a student assistant working with wide receivers and quarterbacks.

During his tenure at HPU, Sims has served as president of the Staff Council as well as on the Fellow-ship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Leadership Board. He has worked football camps around the state and spent extensive time work-ing with the FCA as a camp coun-selor. He and his wife, Shannon, have two children, Sage and Finn.

Dr. Bill Ellis, HPU presi-dent, said Sims’ dedication to his sport is admirable but not to be compared with his devo-tion to God and his commit-ment to the students he coaches.

“Coach Sims’ priority is not just to win games, but to be a godly ex-ample in the lives of the young men he coaches,” said Ellis. “For this reason and many more, I am confi-dent that he will do fantastic work as HPU’s next athletic director.”

Sims named new athletic director

Hunter Sims

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The Howard Payne Uni-versity Athletic Depart-ment announced earlier this month the hiring of Bran-don Badgeley as the new head women’s soccer coach.

“I’m extremely excited to get an opportunity to work with the ladies and be a part of the growth of this program,” Badgeley said. “I’m ready to be a part of this family again. I hope we are able to see an excitement build within the team, their families, and the Howard Payne community.”

Badgeley, a 2009 HPU graduate, assisted in the start of the Yellow Jackets’ and Lady Jackets’ soccer pro-grams in 2005. As a student, he was assigned the task of developing a business plan that was presented to the HPU Board of Trustees that initiated HPU’s first Division

III intercollegiate men’s and women’s soccer programs.

Badgeley then served as a student assistant coach to both the men’s and wom-en’s teams under full-time coaches Sam McCutcheon and Kevin Wright in the pro-gram’s first three seasons.

Now Badgeley has now come back to help the women’s soccer team gain the confidence and skills for this fall’s season.

Two current members of

the women’s soccer team played for Badgeley in high school. Kaitlyn Har-rison and Dayane Gutier-rez, who will be sophomores on the 2016 team, attended Haltom High School while Badgeley coached there.

“I’m really excited for him to be here, and I think he is what this program needs to progress,” said Harrison.

The HPU women’s soc-cer team has put up a record of 69-94-11 overall and 51-61-8 in American Southwest Conference games since the program was started in 2006. The Lady Jackets have posted four winning records overall and four winning records in ASC games. The last overall winning record was 10-8-1 in 2014, and the last ASC win-ning record was 9-3-0 in 2011.

The farthest the Lady Jack-ets have advanced into the postseason were reaching the semifinals of the ASC tour-nament in 2010 and 2011.

The Lady Jackets’ pro-

gram also has had three head coaches in its first 10 sea-sons. The players hope Bad-geley has the commitment and drive to lead the program to consistency and victory.

“This will be my fourth coach here at HPU, and I think this will be our best season yet. I feel like he genuinely cares for the pro-gram and this school, being a graduate, and will be here for the long haul,” said se-nior midfielder Darbi Frazier.

Prior to being hired as HPU’s new coach, Badge-ley coached at two Class 6A high schools. He was a coach at Haltom High, where he produced the school’s first double-digit win season in 17 years. From there, Bad-geley went to Cedar Hill and increased its season win total by seven games.

“Brandon and his wife both have a great love for Howard Payne, and I know he is a great fit for the uni-versity,” said John Nick-

ols, interim HPU athletic director. “He has built two 6A high school programs and has numerous recruiting contacts that will be a benefit to the women’s program at HPU.”

Badgeley and his wife Lind-say, who also attended HPU, will moving to Brownwood along with their three children.

While a student at HPU, Badgeley was involved in many organizations, includ-ing the soccer programs. He was also a member of Sigma Theta Phi, and in his senior year, served as its presi-dent. His wife, Lindsay, was also in Greek life and was a member of Delta Chi Rho.

The women’s team is back to spring training. Badgeley will be attending practices and training sessions when he can while still in the process of moving. Eanna O’ Gorman the women’s soccer gradu-ate assistant coach, will be helping with practices while Badgeley is in transition.

Vanessa Albert

staff writer

Brandon Badgeley helped start soccer at HPU; now he’s coaching it

Brandon Badgeley

From Page 16:Danyel Bradley

Daniels is ahead of Bradley in many rankings in the How-ard Payne record books, but there won’t be a one-on-one game anytime in the future.

“We don’t play like one on one, but sometimes when the coach come out on play with us in practice, we’d guard each other. It might take a minute for me to come across challenging her to a game, but I might do it be-fore I leave,” Bradley said.

While this past season did not go as planned – the Lady Jackets didn’t win conference or make the NCAA playoffs –

Bradley still was able to col-lect All-American honors for the second straight year. After leading the nation in scoring last season with 22.3 points a game, she followed up this season at 19.9 points a game. Not bad for the 5-foot 4½ shooting guard from Desoto.

“I feel like the season went very well. Obviously I think it could have went better than how it ended. Senior Night was my favorite memory from this season, not because it was all about us, but be-cause of how the other girls celebrated us,” Bradley said.

Photo by Rebekah Lytle Danyel Bradley (third from right) with family and friends on Senior Day.

Bradley finishes basketball career as one of Lady Jackets’ best all-time players

The spark at Howard Payne women’s basketball games in the Brownwood Coliseum the last four seasons didn’t come from a player plan-ning to play beyond college.

The spark was provided by a young lady whose main plans after basketball include a stint in the United States Military – an honorable choice for Danyel Bradley, one of the best play-ers in HPU women’s history.

Calling Bradley one of the best players in school history isn’t a reach. She has earned All-America status for the last two seasons. She ranks in the Lady Jackets’ all-time top 10 in 17 of 21 recorded statisti-cal categories. Those include No. 2 overall in steals, No.

2 in highest point total in a game, No. 3 in points scored, and No. 3 in 3-point goals.

Having such a decorated ca-reer, Bradley has accumulated some great memories at HPU.

“My favorite memory would have to be the UMHB (Mary Hardin-Baylor) game last year (Jan. 24, 2015) at their place. I scored 45 points and most of them weren’t off free-throws. Everything I threw up just kind of went in. I shocked myself as well,” Bradley said.

Even with such an amazing game, Bradley was no strang-er to scoring. She averaged around or above 20 points a game her three seasons as a starter. Even at her size – 5-foot-4½ according to assis-tant coach Mercedes Corona – Bradley was always getting rebounds and out-jumping players. Which helped her grab a spot in the top 10 best

rebounders in school history.“I just play with a lot of

heart and wanting to do it. I just go out there wanting to play hard and wanting to win. Just trying to make your team-mates better,” Bradley said.

Looking at this coaching staff, it’s hard not to produce great players with the great coaching. The head coach, Meia Daniels, and Bradley had a very strong relation-ship. Starting from the day she walked on campus and far off into the future, Bradley and Daniels have grown close.

“Our relationship was very cool. She would tell me sto-ries about when she played here, and really helped me play to the best ability at my height,” said Bradley.

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chad anders

sports columnist

Danyel was a DandyCareer Rankings

How Danyel Bradley ranks all-time in HPU women’s basketball history:

Statistic Bradley HPU RankPoints 1,896 3rdField Goals 650 4th3-Point Goals 131 2ndFree Throws 465 3rdSteals 287 2ndRebounds 633 7thAssists 312 7th

Noteworthy Single Games• 45 points vs. UMHB on Jan. 24, 2015, is No. 2 all-time at HPU.• 18 field goals vs. UMHB on Jan. 24, 2015, is No. 1 all-time.• 10 assists vs. HSU on Feb. 16, 2016, is No. 1 all-time.• 7 3-point goals vs. Louisiana College on Feb. 15, 2014, is No. 2 all-time.• 14 free throws recorded twice are No. 2 all-time.

Courtesy PhotoDanyel Bradley looks for a driving lane to the basket.

Courtesy PhotoHPU senior Danyel Bradley shoots a free throw.

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