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University of Texas Athletics
AUSTIN, Texas - Thirteen distinguished and decorated former University of Texas student-athletes and staff will
John Bianco through the year at Texas.
be inducted this October into the Men's and Women's Athletics Halls of Honor. John Bianco, associate AD for media relations who has served in Texas men's media relations since 1992, will be one of the inductees under the category of Special Selections.
Bianco, who received a CoSIDA 25-Year award this past June for a quarter of a century of service to athletic communications, has worked at UT since 1992 when he was hired as assistant SID handling men's track & field and swimming & diving while serving as media coordinator for the Texas Relays. In the the mid-1990s he assumed a significant role with Longhorn football. He managed the campaign for Heisman Trophy winner and College Football Hall of Famer Ricky Williams, Heisman Trophy runner-ups/National Players of the Year Vince Young and Colt McCoy while working with football head coaches John Mackovic, Mack Brown and Charlie Strong. Bianco also promoted three recipients of the Maxwell Award, three Walter Camp Football Foundation National Players of the Year and two Nagurski Trophy (national defensive player of the year) winners, as well as more than a dozen other national individual award recipients.
The induction luncheon for the women's inductees take place on Friday, Oct. 14 while the banquet for the 2016 men's class will be held the evening of Oct. 14.
The new members of the hall will receive a special salute during the Texas Football game vs. Iowa State on Saturday, Oct. 15.
Read the full Hall of Honor release at this link.