• February 23, 2026

Tennessee Tech Athletics announces ticket prices for the reimagined Tucker Stadium, delivering a top gameday experience at Tech Football games.  Cookeville's premier entertainment venue promises new levels of excitement and luxury for sports, concerts, meetings, and festivities in the stadium built to be a destination.  

• January 13, 2026

Tennessee Tech student-athletes post the highest GPA (3.5097) outside of the Spring 2020 COVID semester in program history.

• December 22, 2025

Tennessee Tech Athletics and Taymar have signed a multiyear agreement for the firm to maximize revenue generation across ticketing and sponsorship.

• December 12, 2025

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – With a tremendous amount of hard work on the playing field and in the classroom, Tennessee Tech Athletics celebrated its newest graduates on Friday during the University’s Fall Commencement ceremonies in the Hooper Eblen Center. In all, 41 Tech student-athletes and support staff earned degrees.

• December 05, 2025

After the completion of the fall sport championships, Tennessee Tech leads the 2025-26 Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner's Cup all-sport trophy standings; the Cup is a symbol of overall athletic excellence in Conference-sponsored championships.

• November 19, 2025

Tennessee Tech Student-Athletes Continue Outstanding Graduation Success with a rate of 87%.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.”

• 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. 

• June 17, 2025

Golden Eagles to embark on new era with transformational leader bringing 25+ years of experience in NCAA Division I athletics

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.”

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.