Simon Elfrink Sports Editor selfrink@murraystate.edu On Sunday, March 21, Murray State Athletics commemorated the new Racer Room in Dennis Jackson’s honor. Jackson, the first Black student-athlete in Murray State history, is a 2007 Murray State Hall of Fame inductee, having played for Murray State’s track team and the football team from 1960-64. “Murray State University: Read More
Laci Hawthorne Contributing Writer lhawthorne@murraystate.edu Murray State will honor Dennis Jackson, the first Black student-athlete at the University by naming the Dennis Jackson Racer Room in his honor. The celebration will take place at 12:30 p.m., March 21 in the newly dedicated room. The event is estimated to finish just before Racer football hosts Tennessee Read More
Story by Adam Redfern Staff writer aredfern@murraystate.edu Two Murray State sport giants in Margaret Simmons and Dennis Jackson held a Q&A forum and looked back on their careers at Murray State at the Wrather West Kentucky Museum on Thursday. The event was held to celebrate the opening of the new sports display inside the museum Read More
Alicia Steele, Assistant News Editor The Murray State Alumni Association hosted its annual 2016 Distinguished Alumnus award dinner Friday in the Murray Room of the CFSB Center. This year, Murray State recognized four graduates as distinguished alumni: David Beck, class of 1977; Bill Cunningham, class of 1966; Janice Padgett Harper-Smith, class of 1963 and 1968; Dennis Read More
Meet the award-winning former Racers leaving their mark on the world. Dennis Jackson Staff Report Dennis Jackson, Murray State’s first African-American student-athlete and 1966 alumnus, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award on the 60th anniversary of desegregation at Murray State. “It is quite an honor and means a great deal when you put hard work Read More