Texas Tech University Athletics
Clint Bryant Elected to Lubbock ISD Hall of Honor
February 10, 2017 | Baseball, Double T Varsity Club
Red Raider baseball All-American Clint Bryant to receive Lubbock school district distinction.
LUBBOCK, Texas – Former Texas Tech baseball standout Clint Bryant has been elected to the Lubbock Independent School District Hall of Honor, the Board of Directors announced.
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Bryant is one of seven included in the 2017 class, who were nominated by members of the Lubbock community. The seven nominees will be inducted into the Hall of Honor during a June 17 ceremony to be held at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
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Bryant played third base for the Red Raiders from 1993-96, earning a total of four All-America honors during his playing career. He was the first Red Raider to earn back-to-back first team awards. Along with All-American accolades, Bryant racked up a slew of Southwest Conference awards such as Most Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year in 1996 and two Player of the Year trophies, while earning first team all-conference honors in all four years. He was also a two-time finalist for the R.E. "Bob" Smith Award by the National College Baseball Writers Association and a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award by USA Baseball.
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He is the all-time SWC leader in hits (340) and RBIs (271) and one of only two SWC players to collect 100 RBIs and 100 hits in the same season. Over his four-year career in the scarlet & black, Bryant helped lead the Red Raiders to a 171-64 record. He etched his name at the top of nine individual career records while at Tech: games played, at-bats, runs scored, hits, doubles, home runs, runs batted in, total bases and bases on balls. The Red Raiders advanced to the postseason in each of Bryant's final two seasons, falling one win shy of a College World Series berth in 1995.
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After being drafted in the 21st round of the 1995 MLB June Amateur Draft by the Detroit Tigers, Bryant returned to Lubbock for his senior campaign. In 1996, he jumped up the draft boards to become a seventh-round pick by the Colorado Rockies and played three years professionally in the Rockies' system. A few years later in 2000, Texas Tech retired his No. 23 jersey, making him one of only two Red Raider players to be honored in such form.
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Texas Tech inducted Bryant into the Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006, while the Southwest Conference did the same in 2014.
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As a high school student-athlete at Monterey, Bryant was named All-District, City Player of the Year, South Plains Player of the Year, All Region First Team and Academic All-State. Bryant is still the all-time career leader in stolen bases at Monterey, and is the only player in the school's history to have seven steals in two different games. He was voted MVP by his coaches and teammates his senior season. On the 1992 MHS baseball team, Bryant was named All-City (Player of the Year), All-District, All South Plains, and All-State.
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Bryant is one of seven included in the 2017 class, who were nominated by members of the Lubbock community. The seven nominees will be inducted into the Hall of Honor during a June 17 ceremony to be held at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
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Bryant played third base for the Red Raiders from 1993-96, earning a total of four All-America honors during his playing career. He was the first Red Raider to earn back-to-back first team awards. Along with All-American accolades, Bryant racked up a slew of Southwest Conference awards such as Most Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year in 1996 and two Player of the Year trophies, while earning first team all-conference honors in all four years. He was also a two-time finalist for the R.E. "Bob" Smith Award by the National College Baseball Writers Association and a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award by USA Baseball.
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He is the all-time SWC leader in hits (340) and RBIs (271) and one of only two SWC players to collect 100 RBIs and 100 hits in the same season. Over his four-year career in the scarlet & black, Bryant helped lead the Red Raiders to a 171-64 record. He etched his name at the top of nine individual career records while at Tech: games played, at-bats, runs scored, hits, doubles, home runs, runs batted in, total bases and bases on balls. The Red Raiders advanced to the postseason in each of Bryant's final two seasons, falling one win shy of a College World Series berth in 1995.
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After being drafted in the 21st round of the 1995 MLB June Amateur Draft by the Detroit Tigers, Bryant returned to Lubbock for his senior campaign. In 1996, he jumped up the draft boards to become a seventh-round pick by the Colorado Rockies and played three years professionally in the Rockies' system. A few years later in 2000, Texas Tech retired his No. 23 jersey, making him one of only two Red Raider players to be honored in such form.
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Texas Tech inducted Bryant into the Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006, while the Southwest Conference did the same in 2014.
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As a high school student-athlete at Monterey, Bryant was named All-District, City Player of the Year, South Plains Player of the Year, All Region First Team and Academic All-State. Bryant is still the all-time career leader in stolen bases at Monterey, and is the only player in the school's history to have seven steals in two different games. He was voted MVP by his coaches and teammates his senior season. On the 1992 MHS baseball team, Bryant was named All-City (Player of the Year), All-District, All South Plains, and All-State.
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