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Raider Power: Honor, Respect, Pride, Tradition
Athletic spirit and sportsmanship campaign.
The Raider Power campaign is designed to enhance school spirit and promote sportsmanship, even at away games.
In 2007, Texas Tech Athletics unveiled its Raider Power Spirit and Sportsmanship Campaign designed to enhance school spirit and promote healthy sportsmanship across the university campus and the City of Lubbock.
The Raider Power Campaign is a joint effort on behalf of athletics, the university, the City of Lubbock, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce and various community leaders. This is the first official organized spirit/sportsmanship campaign through athletics and has been officially adopted by Mayor David Miller on behalf of the City of Lubbock.
Sportsmanship across the landscape of sports is increasingly becoming an issue that numerous organizations at the high school, collegiate and professional ranks are being forced to address. The Big 12 Conference has adopted a spectator code of conduct and Texas Tech’s campaign follows closely along the guidelines set forth by the league.
“Sportsmanship is an issue that is very important to us,” said Gerald Myers, director of Athletics. “I think we have a very loyal and outstanding fan base but there are many areas in which we can grow and improve when it comes to sportsmanship. We want to make sure we maintain our home field/home court advantage in all sports. However, we want our fans to understand the importance of cheering for our teams and not against our opponents. When you cheer for your team, you raise their performance level.”
The objective of the campaign is to promote spirit and sportsmanship by defining a popular Red Raider cheer “Raider Power” as: Honor, Respect, Pride and Tradition. Through these four simple words, Texas Tech hopes to maintain a distinct home field advantage yet unify Red Raider fans through this objective.
“Through education of fans of all ages, we hope to increase their love and respect of the game and the student-athletes from both teams who devote their time and energy for our enjoyment,” said Myers.
This comprehensive campaign will set forth to educate our fan base on the importance of being a good sportsman and raising the bar in regards to school spirit. Passion and rivalry both play major roles in the excitement of college sports but that energy should be used in a positive manner that celebrates the accomplishment and sacrifices of all student-athletes.
Through this effort, Texas Tech brings together its student-athletes, coaches and fans to rally under one common ground and make Lubbock, Texas the home of the best fans in college athletics. Raider Power.
More Academic Honors
For the past seven years, Texas Tech Football has been recognized as having one of the top graduation rates of all Division One Programs in the country by the American Football Coaches Association.
No other school in the Big 12 has been honored more times.
Current football graduation rate is 79% (as measured by the NCAA), which is top 10 in the country among all public Division One institutions.
In addition, 10 of Texas Tech's 13 sports have graduation rates above 75%, and 92% of all student-athletes who exhaust their eligibility have graduated.
We're proud of the effort our student-athletes put into their academic studies, and we want to say thank you to all faculty and staff for your continuous effort assisting all students.
Texas Tech student-athletes are known for their outstanding performance in Big 12 sports –but did you know they also excel in the classroom?
In 2006-2007, Texas Tech student-athletes received numerous honors.
- 330 listed on the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (3.0 GPA or better)
- 96 listed on the Dean's List (3.5 semester GPA)
- 50 listed on the President's List (4.0 GPA)
- 68 selected as Academic All Big 12
- 7 selected as Academic All District
More than 50% of all student-athletes received a 3.0 or greater GPA following the spring 2007 term.
For the 2006-2007 academic year, student-athletes have outperformed the Texas Tech student body in average GPA.
- Female student-athletes 3.10 vs. female student body 3.07
- Male student-athletes 2.81 vs. male student body 2.79
Additional points of Merit:
- 14 student-athletes in 2006-2007 were completing their eligibility while pursuing graduate degrees.
- 4 student-athletes were inducted into the inaugural Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.
If you have any comments or suggestions for ways to help our athletes become more successful students, please contact John Anderson, Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Academic Services, at (806) 742-0150.
Story produced by the Office of Communications and Marketing, (806) 742-2136.