Head Football Coach Gary Patterson was named winner of this year’s Chancellor’s Staff Award at the Opening Luncheon Friday in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. made the presentation. The annual honor, originated in 2002, affirms the important contribution that staff make to the mission and vision of the University.

 

Since taking over the helm of the Horned Frogs in December 2000, Gary Patterson has become synonymous with TCU football. This year, his winning team brought TCU and Fort Worth into the national spotlight by guiding the Horned Frogs to a 12-1 record, No. 6 national ranking and their first BCS appearance. In the process, Patterson was selected for nine national coaching honors.

 

The No. 6 ranking in season-ending polls by the Associated Press and USA Today gave the Frogs their second straight top-10 finish and third in the last five years. TCU had its highest season-ending ranking since 1955, when it was also sixth, and has posted back-to-back top-10 appearances in final polls for the first time since the 1958-59 campaigns. The Frogs finished seventh in 2008.

 

In 2009, TCU posted just the second 12-win season in its history, matched only by its 1935 national championship team which also went 12-1. The Frogs had their first undefeated regular season since their 1938 national championship campaign.

 

A photo portrait of Gary Patterson will soon join the gallery display of Chancellor’s Staff Award winners outside the Wright Boardroom on the third floor of Sadler Hall.