• TTU Sports Hall of Famer Robert Aylward passes away
    September 22, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – One of the legendary figures of Tennessee Tech’s rifle program has passed away, with Robert Aylward fighting the good fight against cancer to the last day earlier this month. Aylward was a four-time All-American with the Golden Eagleyes program, helping the team win its first National Collegiate Rifle Team Championship in 1971 – the NCAA did not sponsor the sport until 1980 and Tech won the first three national championships under the NCAA’s direction, built on the foundation Aylward and his teammates built over the years.
  • Six selected for 2025 TTU Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class
    September 16, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – A coach with a championship legacy, record holders and champions – the selections for the golden anniversary year of the Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame run across the spectrum with success on every level. The Class of 2025 honors five former Tech student-athletes and a former coach, all of whom put together amazing careers while representing the Purple and Gold. Selected for induction into the 51st class of the TTU Sports Hall of Fame are Wayne Angel (cross country/track and field), Jeff Daughtry (football), Drake Fenlon (spirit), Kelsey Gray (volleyball), Bobby Hudson (men’s golf) and Dennis Ogbe (men’s basketball).
  • Battle of the Birds is on NOW!
    August 28, 2025
    The Battle of the Birds Giving Challenge begins NOW! From now through noon on Aug. 30, Tennessee Tech and Cumberland University will face off in a 48-hour competition to see which school's alumni and friends can give the most.
  • Cumberland going head-to-head with Tech in Battle of the Birds fundraising initiative
    August 25, 2025
    The sky isn't big enough for two birds... Golden Eagles -- mark your calendars. From noon Aug. 28 to noon Aug. 30, Tennessee Tech will go head-to-head with Cumberland University in the Battle of the Birds Giving Challenge.
  • SoCon commissioner welcomes Fox, Golden Eagles to the league
    August 19, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – A week since Tennessee Tech announced that it would join the Southern Conference in 2026, the news is still resonating across Cookeville and the Upper Cumberland. With dignitaries converging on the Leslie Town Centre to welcome new Tech Director of Athletics Casey Fox, it was a great chance for Southern Conference commissioner Michael Cross to extend a warm welcome to Tech Athletics’ new leader and the Golden Eagles themselves.
  • Tennessee Tech Athletics to join Southern Conference in 2026
    August 13, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech University’s road to future athletic success will accelerate through the South, as the university joins the famed Southern Conference (SoCon). Tech’s official arrival on July 1, 2026, will make the SoCon an 11-team conference, joining East Tennessee State University, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Citadel, Furman University, Mercer University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Samford University, Virginia Military Institute, Western Carolina University and Wofford College.
  • Meredith Nye selected as OVC's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee
    August 11, 2025
    Former Tennessee Tech women's soccer player Meredith Nye has been selected as the nominee from the Ohio Valley Conference for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Established in 1991, the award recognizes female student-athletes for excellence in academics, athletics, community service, and leadership throughout their college careers. The NCAA Woman of the Year program is an important opportunity to honor and reflect on the impact of women on intercollegiate sports.
  • Golden Eagles get 150 on OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll
    August 04, 2025
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference continued its annual recognition of academic success as the league announced its OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll on Monday. Tennessee Tech received 150 honorees on the list for the 2024-25 academic year among the overall list, which included a record 1,792 student-athletes – breaking the previous mark of 1,718 during the 2020-21 academic year. That total also included 89 student-athletes who compete in non-OVC championship sports that do not compete in another conference.
  • Golden Eagles earn 34 OVC Academic Medals of Honor
    August 01, 2025
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference celebrated academic excellence on Friday as the league announced its annual OVC Academic Medal of Honor winners. When the final tally was revealed, Tennessee Tech had 34 student-athletes receive the award for the 2024-25 academic year. The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieve the highest grade point average in a conference-sponsored sport. Every Academic Medal of Honor recipient for the 2024-25 academic year achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
  • Tennessee Tech Athletics to opt in to House settlement
    June 27, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As the NCAA enters a new era following the House v. NCAA settlement, new Tennessee Tech Director of Athletics Casey Fox has announced that the University’s Department of Athletics will opt into the terms of the settlement starting in the 2025-26 academic year. “This week, we made the decision for Tennessee Tech to opt in to the NCAA settlement,” Fox said. “After carefully reviewing the final terms, we believe this choice is in the best long-term interest of our athletic department. “The recent finalization of the roster grandfathering provision played a key role in solidifying our decision. By opting in, we position ourselves to better adapt to the evolving collegiate athletics environment, while also creating greater flexibility to leverage opportunities around Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) and potential revenue sharing.”
  • Tennessee Tech welcomes Casey Fox as Director of Athletics
    June 19, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech University announced the hire of one of the top deputy athletic directors in the nation to lead its NCAA Division I athletics program. Casey Fox, most recently the deputy athletic director at Montana State University, was welcomed as Tech’s new director of athletics at a campus press conference on June 19. 
  • Tennessee Tech to introduce new Director of Athletics at June 19 press conference
    June 17, 2025
    Golden Eagles to embark on new era with transformational leader bringing 25+ years of experience in NCAA Division I athletics
  • Sixteen Golden Eagle student-athletes named 2025 President's Award winners
    June 16, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Sixteen student-athletes have been chosen as the outstanding representatives of their teams at Tennessee Tech University and are the winners of the 32nd annual President's Awards, presented by the TTU Athletics Department. Fifteen of the 16 student-athletes are first-time winners for their respective sports, with one capturing the honor for a second straight year.
  • Grimes, Maxwell named 2024-25 OVC Community Service Award winners
    June 11, 2025
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The recipients of the 2024-25 OVC Community Service Awards have been announced. The awards, first bestowed in 2022-23, are based on activities that took place during the 2024-25 academic year and recognize outstanding student-athletes for the contributions they make away from the playing surface, both on campus and in the community.
  • Deadline for submitting 2025 Hall of Fame nominations approaching on Monday, June 30
    June 09, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Every year, the Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame inducts some of the legendary figures over more than a century of Golden Eagle Athletics. These spectacular student-athletes have woven a rich tapestry of incredible feats and left a tremendous legacy for those who currently don the purple and gold.
  • 283 Tech student-athletes named to Spring 2025 Athletic Director's Honor Roll
    June 06, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech's student-athletes continued their impressive work in the classroom, closing out the 2024-25 academic year with yet another incredible semester with a spring GPA of 3.477 GPA collectively.
  • Golden Eagle student-athletes record 33rd straight semester with a 3.0 or better GPA
    June 05, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech's student-athletes continued to raise the bar in the classroom during the Spring 2025 semester, securing Golden Eagle Athletics' 11th-straight semester with a departmental GPA of at least 3.20.
  • OVC selects Nye as 2024-25 Steve Hamilton Award winner
    May 23, 2025
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The first soccer student-athlete to earn five All-OVC honors, Meredith Nye proved to be a winner on the pitch, in the classroom, and in the community throughout her Tennessee Tech tenure. The Ohio Valley Conference recognized her efforts Friday morning, announcing the Golden Eagle midfielder as the league's Steve Hamilton Sportsmanship Award winner for 2024-25.
  • Isringhausen named 2024-25 OVC Female Athlete of the Year
    May 21, 2025
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – The record-shattering dominance of Madolyn Isringhausen's senior campaign on the volleyball court came full circle for the Tennessee Tech star on Wednesday morning, as the Ohio Valley Conference announced the Golden Eagle outside hitter as the league's Female Athlete of the Year for 2024-25.
  • Ridge-Runner Riffs & Eagle-Eye Encores: A Concert Almanac for Tennessee Tech
    May 08, 2025
    Cookeville, Tennessee sits in the sweet spot where Appalachian foothills yield to cedar-lined pastures, and where a Thursday-night thunderstorm can ride the Cumberland Plateau farther than any Wi-Fi signal. That geography also gifts Tennessee Tech students a stealth advantage: they’re a single interstate hop from two of America’s liveliest music capitals—Nashville to the west and Knoxville to the east—plus a constellation of outdoor amphitheaters tucked inside quarry walls, riverside parks, and football cathedrals. Golden Eagles can wrap a biomechanics lab, toss jeans into a duffel, and—before the steam has faded off the campus eagle statue—be scanning digital tickets at the gates of a Grammy winner’s sound-check. To turn that spontaneity into a semester-long game plan, the guide below spotlights fifteen mega-touring artists likely to circle Middle Tennessee this year, paired with four venues that funnel them to our backyard.
  • Coming home: Winningham rejoins alma mater as Head Athletic Trainer
    May 05, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who bleeds Purple and Gold more than Jennifer Winningham Owens. So when the opportunity arose for Winningham to return to Tennessee Tech as its newest Head Athletic Trainer, the decision was an easy one. “There has always been hope that I would someday get to return home to Tech in this position,” Winningham said. “I am super excited to be returning to Cookeville and Tennessee Tech. “This isn’t just a job for me. This is coming back to my alma mater that I have had such pride in since starting school in 1999. You will not find anyone with more Tech pride than the Winningham family.”
  • Mark Wilson resigns as Tennessee Tech University Director of Athletics
    April 27, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Following 21 years leading the Tennessee Tech athletic department to new levels of success across the playing fields, the classroom, and the community, Mark Wilson is resigning as director of athletics for the Golden Eagles effective June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
  • Field is full, waitlist now open for 2025 Pepsi Bobby Nichols Golden Eagle Scramble presented by Michelob Ultra
    March 31, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It didn't take long for the excitement and anticipation for the annual Pepsi Bobby Nichols Golden Eagle Scramble presented by Michelob Ultra to live up to the bidding, as the 2025 edition of Tennessee Tech Athletics' fundraising event boasted a full field less than two hours after opening for registration on Monday, Mar. 31.
  • Dr. Samantha Bates named recipient of OVC's Thurston Banks Award for Distinguished Academic Service
    March 25, 2025
    BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Dr. Samantha Bates of Tennessee Tech University has been named one of two recipients of the 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Thurston Banks Award for Distinguished Academic Service.
  • Clear bag policy in effect for NCAA regional games in South Carolina
    March 20, 2025
    COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For fans traveling down to South Carolina for the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team's game against the Gamecocks in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament, please be aware that Colonial Life Arena has a clear-bag policy.
  • Tech March Madness gear now available
    March 20, 2025
    COOKEVILLE. Tenn. -- If you're looking for that souvenir to celebrate the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team's historic march to the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, you can order now through the University Bookstore and Spirit Shop! Follow this link -- https://tennesseetech.prestosports.com/general/2024-25/releases/20250320ky5wai  -- to order your March Madness gear now! The Golden Eagle women take on top-seeded South Carolina Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Central.
  • Wings Up Pregame continues in South Carolina at The Placery
    March 17, 2025
    COLUMBIA, S.C. – While the Tennessee Tech women’s basketball team is going dancing, the party’s not stopping either as the Wings Up Pregame rolls on to South Carolina for the NCAA Women’s Tournament. With Friday’s tipoff against top-seeded South Carolina set for a 4 p.m. Eastern/3 p.m. Central start, the Wings Up Pregame will be at The Placery in the Hyatt Place Columbia (819 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.).
  • Pepsi Golden Eagle Scramble presented by Michelob Ultra set for June 6-8, registration opens March 31 at 8 AM
    March 11, 2025
    COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Save the dates! The Pepsi Golden Eagle Scramble presented by Michelob Ultra is officially back for 2025, with Tennessee Tech Athletics announcing the dates for the popular fundraising event.
  • Wings Up Pregame events to be held at Evansville's Tiki on Main
    March 04, 2025
    EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Fans heading up to Evansville for the 2025 Ohio Valley Conference Basketball Championships cane meet up with fellow Tennessee Tech fans, grab a quick bite and get ready for the excitement at Tiki on Main as the Wings Up Pregame events will be held there for the third straight season. Each Wings Up Pregame will be approximately two hours before each tipoff at the restaurant (524 Main Street, Evansville) with the first one Wednesday at 4 p.m. before the Tech men’s tournament opener against UT Martin at 6 p.m. from the Ford Center. Friday’s Wings Up Pregame will be at 11 a.m. before the Golden Eagle women play in their semifinal contest. The Wings Up Pregame is the official spot for Golden Eagle fans during the tournament with performances by the Tennessee Tech Spirit Squads and the Golden Eagle brass. Tickets for the OVC Basketball Championships are on sale now – call (931) 372-3940, visit the Hooper Eblen Center ticket office or order online at TTUsports.com or OVCsports.com.
  • Broadway Marvels and Comedy Revels: A Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles Entertainment Extravaganza
    March 03, 2025
    From legendary Broadway productions to laugh-out-loud comedy acts, each of these incredible shows and performers on tour this year offers a memorable journey. Let’s take a look at a spectacular variety of shows and comedy sets, each with its own captivating story and extraordinary history.
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