From staff reports

San Marcos — The Texas State “T” Association recently announced that Paul Borreson, Bob Hackney and Tim Staskus have been selected to be inducted into the Texas State Athletic Hall of Honor on Nov. 20, 2009. The Induction ceremony will take place in the Sac N Pac Room that is located inside the End Zone Complex at Bobcat Stadium.

The Hall of Honor is the highest athletics honor given to former Texas State letter winners. Each person selected is nominated by their fellow letter winners and selected for induction by the “T” Association Board of Directors.

Borreson was a basketball letterman from 1977-79 and played an instrumental part in helping Texas State win a pair of Lone Star Conference championships both seasons. He served as the sixth man for the 1978-79 team and helped the Bobcats reach the semifinals of the NAIA national tournament the same season. A member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Borreson graduated with a bachelor degree in criminal justice. Upon graduation, Borreson has contributed to Texas State Athletics for more than 30 years, and been a tireless volunteer for the “T” Association. He also served on the Board of Directors for the “T” Association.

Borreson currently serves as a regional manager for Brown Distributing in Austin and is the head of marketing for Brown Distributing with Texas State. He spearheaded one of the longest and most productive partnerships in the history of Bobcat Athletics with Brown Distributing annually contributing more than $50,000 to Texas State Athletics. 

Bob Hackney was a two-year letterwinner for the Bobcat Track and Field program in 1947 and 1948, and set a pair of school records that lasted more thsn a decade. His first record came at the 1947 Drake Relays when he was a member of the distance medley relay team that place first. The second came at the 1948 Lone Star Conference championships when he was the high jump champion.

He originally enrolled at Southwest Texas State in 1943 as a member of the track and field team, but was called to serve his country as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943-47. After re-enrolling, he went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education while continuing to serve as a lieutenant, spending a total of 10 years in the USMC. In 1950, Hackney was wounded in action at the Chosen Reservoir, 40 miles from the Yalu River in North Korea. After leaving the Marine Corps, Hackney was a teacher and coach for 34 years in the Brazosport ISD and a past president for the Brazosport Teachers Credit Union. Currently, he is the co-owner of Buccaneer Apartments.

Hackney is a 60-year member of the American Legion VFW Purple Heart Disabled Vets organization. He has served as commander of the Caldwell, TX VFW Post 4458 for four years, chaplain of the American Legion Lake Jackson Post and Board Member at First National Bank of Lake Jackson.

He also continues to support the Bobcats with lifetime gifts totaling more than $165,000, ranging from sport specific gifts to the Hackney Family endowed scholarship. 

Hackney currently resides in Clute, TX, with his wife of 62 years, Bobcat alumnus Betty M. Hackney.  There are three generations of Bobcats in the Hackney family, including Betty’s mother Nora Jordan who attended Southwest Texas Normal College in the early 1900’s.  Bob and Betty have two sons, Gary (56), who is married to Bobcat alumnus Ruth Ann, and Greg (58).  The Hackney’s have two grandsons, Carl Daniel (21) and Clint (19).

The third member of this year’s Hall of Honor class is Tim Staskus, who played for the Bobcat football team from 1980-83. He lettered all four years at Texas State and was a member of the school’s two NCAA Division II national championship teams.

A graduate of Bellaire High School in Houston, Staskus was a two-time Kodak and Associated Press All-American, and chosen All-Lone Star Conference First Team honors in both 1982 and 1983 as a linebacker, and named to the LSC All-Academic Team twice. He also earned Texas State’s J.C. Kellam award, which is given to the team’s outstanding senior player in 1983, and named the school’s defensive Player-of-the-Year in 1982. He also earned the Erwin 50 Yards Award and the Lone Star Conference Award for top defensive and outstanding lineman.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Staskus was a salesman with Brown Distributing in San Marcos, and worked with several prominent companies such as Labatt USA, InBev USA, and Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Recently, Anheuser-Busch appointed him as a senior accounts manager. 

He received the Texas State Department of Geography’s Distinguished Service award in 1996 and 2004, the Department of Geography’s Distinguished Alumni award in 2004 and the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Alumni award in 2008. He also is a member of the College of Liberal Arts Development Advisory Board.

Staskus has served in charity events for the Children’s Miracle Network, Muscular Dystrophy, United Way and United Cerebral Palsy.  He also was the 2005 group director in the United Nations’ Sian Kaan World Heritage Site Beach Clean Up project. 

Staskus and his two siblings established an endowed scholarship in the Geology department in memory of their father, Phillip A. Staskus, with Tim donating more than $20,000 to the endowment. He and his wife, Lynn, have been married for eight years and currently reside in Chandler, Ariz.