12th Man KickOff Team

Chad Adair, the first of the four-year members of the 12th man team, lives in Houston, Texas. He is director of operations for Sharps Compliance, Inc.

Cory Allen lives near Victoria, Texas. He is assistant general manager for the South Texas Electric Cooperative.

Tom Arthur lives in Houston, Texas. He serves as business manager for Gulf Energy, a chemical and fuel blend stock trading company.

Danny Balcar lives in Corinth, Texas. He is the Manager of Engineering Services for TEMSCO, located in Lewisville, Texas, and has obtained his Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Warren E. Barhorst lives in Houston, Texas. He owns Barhorst Insurance Group, LTD, which provides expert solutions for the insurance and financial needs of its clients. Securities are offered through Warren E. Barhorst as a Registered Representative of Nationwide Securities.

Spencer Baum, DDS, owns and operates the Baum Dental Clinic in Mineral Wells, Texas.

Dean Berry lives in Abilene. He and his brothers, Greg and Ray, work for the family business, BML, Inc., founded by his father, Powell, in 1981. BML is a crude oil marketing and gathering company that operates from Eastern New Mexico to the Fort Worth Basin.

Tom Bevans lives in College Station, Texas. He is a partner in the Risk Management & Security Consulting Firm of McConnor-Meade. The primary office is located in The Woodlands, near Houston.

Russ Birdwell, MD, lives in Garland, Texas. He is a general surgeon at Baylor Hospital in Dallas.

Tommy Bolcerek lives in Brenham, Texas. He serves as the Business Unit Manager for Small Parts and also manages the shipping department for MIC Group, a precision manufacturing facility.

Bobby Bostic lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He works in industrial and equipment financing for Coactiv Capital Partners.

Jeff Boutwell supervised construction programs for parks througout Texas before going to Iraq with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and building wastewater plants for cities with a population of 40,000.

John Bulovas lives in The Woodlands, Texas. A DVM, he opened The Animal Hospital, a 6,500-square-foot free-standing facility, in 2006. It provides advanced veterinary medicine to dogs and cats, as well as routine boarding and grooming services.

Tom Bumgardner lives in Alpharetta, Georgia. He is president of a $100 million company, SIMOS Insourcing Solutions, which has more than six thousand employees. The firm provides engineering, management, and labor for such nationwide companies as Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Yamaha, NIKE, and Williams Sonoma.

John Burnett is vice president of sales for Fox Sports Network in Dallas, Texas. FSN is a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group.

Dennis Burns is in the United Emirates, working for Lockheed Martin.

Brian Carpenter became a podiatrist after a podiatrist in College Station built a special boot to protect his injured ankle as a member of the 12th man team. He is a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine at the North Central Texas Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Decatur, Texas. He also works with the Department of Orthopaedics at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

Rene Casas lives in his hometown of Freer, Texas. He, his father, and younger brother operate four companies: Freer Iron Works, Duval Lease Service, and STX Process Equipment Company with 175 employees in South Texas. They also own an Ace Hardware Store in Zapata, Texas.

Trent Childress lives in Temple, Texas, where he is vice president and general manager for Lock Joint Tube, a company that manufactures and processes steel tubing and sheet products. The firm has 102 employees and $38 million in annual sales.

Tom Christner coaches freshman football and teaches science at Augusta Middle School in Augusta, Kansas.

David Coolidge lives in Houston, Texas. He owns an energy commodity trading fund, specializing in natural gas, called Velite Capital Management. He launched the firm in 2006 with $22 million of assets under management and presently manages more than $750 million. He previously worked for Coastal Gas Marketing and Reliant Energy, then became a trading principle for AAA Capital Management.

Robert M. Crouch lives in Sunnyvale, Texas. He is owner and president of Crouch Construction, involved with commercial construction across the state of Texas and works with BioEnergy Partners LLC, producing renewable energy.

Alec Cuellar lives in San Antonio. He is an applicant engineer in consulting/sales for Capital Machine Technologies, a metal fabrication equipment company. Dennis Descant lives in West Houston. Professionally, he is a shareholder in Brady Chapman Holland & Associates, a Houston-based insurance agency. He manages the surety operations of the firm.

Blake Dwoskin lives in Houston as president and partner of Cayo LP. . He has been involved with the marine construction industry since graduation from Texas A&M, working in Hawaii, Maryland, Florida, Texas, Wyoming, Arkansas, Louisiana, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Mississippi, and Guantanamo Bay. Projects have included demolition, rehabilitation, and construction of wharfs, piers, dams, platforms, and pipelines on, in or underwater.

Ashley Eddington presently resides in San Antonio, Tx. After transferring from TAMU (1988) he completed his Accounting degree at University of Texas at San Antonio in August of 1988. He is working on a MBA at the University of Phoenix. He is the President of the Eddington Group, Inc. / Accounting & Financial Consulting Company, Eddington Enterprises & Investments / Investment Company and Ashton Bear Properties, Real Estate Investments. Wife, Susan Eddington is TAMU Class of '86. They have four children: Jordan, 21, Junior at The Naval Academy, plays football, #52, Linebacker; Paige, 18, Freshman at San Angelo State University, Cheerleader; Taylor, 16, Junior at Warren High School, Dance Team & Track; Sean, 13, Seventh Grade at Jordan Middle School, Football and Basketball. Other Accomplishments for Ashley include: Board of Directors / Community Advocates for Teens & Parents, 2005; Career Point College / Advisory Board, 2006; Rolle Ambassadors Ministries, Inc / Advisory Board, 2007; State of Texas two time Grant Award Recipient for Outstanding Training / Under the Smart Jobs Program

Brian Edwards teaches social studies and serves as the head boys and girls golf coach for Dumas High School in Dumas, Texas. He and his wife also own a Tex-Mex restaurant in town called Chica Blanca.

David Fronk lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He is regional sales manager for Cantex, Inc., which manufactures electrical conduits and fittings.

David Fry went back to school after recording a 0.0 grade point average during his first two semesters of playing on the 12th man team, raised his grades dramatically, and graduated from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine with a 3.48 GPA. He owns his own Equine Veterinary Practice "Fry Equine Health "in Marble Falls, Texas.

Ronnie Glenn lives in West Houston and, since 1994, has been with Tri-anim Health Services, selling specialty anesthesia, critical care, and respiratory equipment and supplies.

John Gregg lives in Round Rock, Texas. He is a senior buyer for Golfsmith, International.

Charles Hillje, after graduation, received his wings at the Naval Aviator flight school in Pensacola, Florida, and flew the CH53-D Sea Stallion, a large transport helicopter. Presently, he is first officer for UPS Airlines, having flown by domestically and internationally for the company.

Harold Huggins lives in San Antonio. He serves as a teacher and assistant football coach at Claudia Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson High School.

Larry Johnson lives in Aledon, Texas. His a manager for VersaCold Logistics, a company that offers refrigerated logistics services " storage and transportation " to the food industry.

David Joiner serves as Boys Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach for Magnolia West High School in Magnolia, Texas. His kickoff team still uses the same scheme developed for the 12th man team.

Brian Katara lives in Sun Valley, Idaho. He is general manager for Davis Embroidary, an ad specialty company.

T. Douglas Lawson is president of Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine, Texas. Several years ago, it was discovered that Lawson had Stage 4 Hodkins Disease. He said, I dug down deep and practiced everything I had learned during my days on the 12th man team. I visualized getting rid of the cancer just as I visualized making a tackle. After chemo and radiation treatments, the cancer was gone, and Lawson spent the next decade building cancer programs at hospitals across the country.

Dan Leyendecker lives in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is president of LNV Engineering and a partner of the company, along with fellow 12th man kickoff team member, Derek Naiser, and another A&M graduate, Robert Viera. LNV Engineering is a 70-prson firm with disciplines in Water, Wastewater, Transportation, Structural, Environmental, Architectural, and Surveying.

Ike Liles, who is a licensed engineer in Oklahoma and Texas, lives in Clyde, Texas. He is the distribution manager for the Abilene District of Texas for American Electric Power, a utility company that provides electric service to about five million customers across eleven states.

Corey Linscombe, is living in Weatherford, Texas and is a Program Manager on the F-22 Fighter Aircraft program at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth. He has been at Lockheed Martin since graduation in 1986 and has made major contributions to systems and software flying on both the F-16 and the F-22 today.

Paul Luedtke is Traffic Operations Manager of HDR/WHM Transportation in Dallas, Texas.

Andy McDonald lives in Fredericksburg, Texas, and is president and co-owner of Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy of the Greater Texas Hill Country.

Lyn McDonald lives in San Antionio. He is the school psychologist with the Northeast School District and serves as head golf coach for Madison High School.

Bobby Middleton lives in Montgomery, Texas. He owns and operates R. Middleton Construction Company. He says of his years on the 12th man team, if it had not been for the grace and mercy of our heavenly father, I would not have played football or finished school.

Doug Middleton, lives in Brenham, Texas. He is ingredient processing manager of Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham.

Larry Motley lives just south of Azle, Texas. He is a Senior Project Engineer for Enbridge, a natural gas and oil company. He works in the natural gas gathering and processing division of the company, located in Springton, Texas. He previously worked for Mid-Valley Pipeline and ConocoPhillips.

Dennis Mudd lives on a ten-acre farm in West Chambers County, Texas. For more than two decades, he has worked with Mobil Corporation, now ExxonMobil, which included a five-year family assignment in the Middle East. He has held multiple positions with the company but is presently Emergency Preparedness/Response and Security manager for the company's Baytown manufacturing complex.

Derek Naiser lives in San Antonio. He is one of three owners of LNV Engineering, a Civil/Structural/Transportation/Environmental/Surveying consulting firm with offices in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Austin. The company has grown from seven employees when it was established in 2000 to seventy.

Keith Newton is president and chief operating officer of Concentra, the nation’s largest primary care provider for occupational health care with 320 locations in forty states. The company, with more than 150,000 employees, is centered on improving the quality of life by making health care accessible and affordable.

Sean Page lives in San Antonio. He is an attorney and partner with the law firm of Thornton, Biechlin, Segrato, Reynolds & Guerra, practicing civil litigation in San Antonio. The Thornton Law Firm is a Member of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms.

Vince Palasota lives in Denton, Texas, and is one of the owners of several companies. However, he spends the majority of his time as the Chief Executive Officer for Med Pharmex Animal Health. He also works with entrepreneurs to develop marketing strategies and business plans to help launch new products. He and his partners recently built a Christian orphanage in India to support more than 400 children left orphans by the Tsunami.

Tony Pollacia lives in Plano. He is vice president of field sales for the Rug Doctor in Dallas.

Kirk Pierce lives in Frisco, Texas. He works as a Hospitalist/Physician Assistant Mid- Level Practitioner in Denton, Texas.

Dan Pollard lives in San Antonio. He is vice president of corporate services, working as a commercial real estate broker with The Staubach Company "Central Texas.

Tom Ray still lives on the old family ranch near Floresville. After fighting one drought too many, he turned his attention from ranching and bought the 43-year-old Wiatrek’s Meat Market in nearby Poth.

Edward Silverman, DVM, owns and operates his own veterinarian service in San Antonio.

Scott Slater lives in Fort Worth. With seven years of experience in the global investment bank Morgan Stanley, he joined Developers Resources, LLC, a hospitality financier focused on the financing of developers of extended stay hotel sites around the United States. Slater previously served as an officer and Naval Aviator in the United States Marine Corps. He flew in Operation Southern Watch over Iraq and earned a single mission Air Medal for landing a jet aboard an aircraft carrier with a complete hydraulic failure and the jet's landing gear still in the position.

Shawn Slocum is assistant special teams coach with the Green Bay Packers, and he also assists in coaching linebackers. Previously, he coached at Texas A&M, the University of Southern California, and the University of Mississippi. He was serving as special teams coach at Texas A&M when his father, R. C. Slocum, guided the Aggies to three straight Southwest Conference Championships.

Garry Sorrell lives in Lufkin, Texas. He is a Plant Manager for the Diboll Lumber Operation of Temple Inland, a manufacturing company strong in building products and containers. He is responsible for managing a top-quartile performing operation.

Barry Stevens is an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stationed in Dallas, Texas. He has worked with all branches of the military, conducting more than two hundred official interrogations of high-level Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rick Tankersley lives in McKinney, TX. He has had a fantastic career in Real Estate which includes working for Centex Homes as one of the top sales professionals in the industry. He also created and manages multiple limited partnerships in real estate.

Mike Tolleson lives in Sunnyvale, Texas. While at Texas A&M, he began an operation he called the Free Pizza Club, offering students, for a ten-dollar membership, two pizzas for the price of one, a deal he had established with pizza parlors throughout College Station. He remained in the business after graduation, founding CiCi's Pizza.

Mark Wurzbach lives in Dallas, Texas. A twenty-year employee for Rockwell Automation, he serves as the Business Unit Manager for a company that manufactures Industrial Automation software solutions.