304 Number of assists by senior Reggie Anthony during his career, becoming only the 14th Bison basketball player to reach that milestone. 10 Number of 20-win seasons in Lady Bison basketball program history. The team went 21-9 in 2018-19 during the fifth 20-win season for head coach Tim Kirby. 8.42 Senior James Bowie’s season-best time in the indoor 60-meter hurdles. Bowie owns nine of Harding’s
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By Ashlyn Quesinberry, reprinted from The Bison After 32 years, Sandra Harris Boaz (’69) retired as the volunteer bookkeeper for the men’s basketball team. In 1964, Boaz and her family moved to Searcy so that she and her three siblings could enroll at Harding Academy. Boaz’s father, Bill Harris, was a life insurance agent who officiated track and football and became an instrumental volunteer at
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50 | Number of consecutive games started by football center Bryce Bray, a school record. Bray received the Rimington Trophy in December as the best center in Division II football. 26:21.0 | Freshman Dylan Douglas’ time at the 8K GAC Cross-Country Championship in Edmond, Oklahoma. Douglas led the Bisons and placed 11th overall. 6 and 7 | Number of goals (6) and assists (7) by
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By Scott Goode, assistant athletic director for sports information It was unseasonably warm on Monday, Dec. 13, 1965, in Searcy. The high was in the low 60s and the sky clear. Nationally, people were paying attention to goings on in Vietnam and to the Gemini 6 and 7 space missions that would rendezvous more than 100 miles above the earth two days later. In Searcy,
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8 Number of times in 194 at-bats senior Grant Guest struck out, making him the second toughest player to strike out in NCAA Division II. 49 Number of Bison football games men’s Berryhill Award-winner Gavin De Los Santos played, including 39 career starts. A 2017 Associated Press first-team All-American offensive tackle, De Los Santos earned three Academic All-GAC honors and was a semifinalist for the
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Every year, the athletic department brings more than 100 new student-athletes to the University. To help fans get to know some of these newcomers, this magazine introduces you to five who have unique interests and backgrounds. Jenna Akins Jenna Akins, a freshman triple jumper on the track and field team, plays an instrument invented in the 1800s. She learned to play the banjo in a
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40.6 Percentage senior guard Zac Ward shot from 3-point range in his career, the 10th-best marksmanship in men’s basketball history. 1,571 Career points scored by senior Sydney Layrock, fifth-most ever by a Lady Bison. Layrock joined Kristen Celsor Johnson as the only two players with more than 1,500 points, 700 rebounds and 100 3-pointers. 8:01.34 Time freshman Nehemia Too ran the indoor 3,000 meters to
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She thought she’d won a coloring contest. On Feb. 27, 11-year-old Alissa Carter, a Searcy resident who has tuberous sclerosis complex, a rare genetic condition, headed to Rhodes-Reaves Field House to collect her prize — a chance to meet Harding’s athletic teams and receive a gift from each. Alissa received a gift, but it was much bigger than she expected. Thanks to the work
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130 | Tackles by junior linebacker Sam Blankenship, the most by a Harding player in a single season since the NCAA standardized tackle stats in 2000 30 | Conference championships won by men’s cross-country. No. 30 came this season as the Bisons defeated six other teams to win their second Great American Conference championship and first since 2013. 8 | Number of women’s cross-country runners
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After losing their first three games, most concluded the end of the regular season would be the end of the road for the 2017 Bisons football team. But the Bisons went on a roll, responding with eight-straight wins including a 24-17 road victory over Arkansas Tech University in Russellville in the regular season finale. The Bisons, under first-year head coach Paul Simmons, had only appeared
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