Grant Teaff To Be Breakfast Speaker

Grant Teaff, well known Texas Baptist layman, current executive director of the American Football Coaches Association and former head coach and athletic director at Baylor University, will be the speaker for the ninth annual Texas Baptists Committed breakfast.

The breakfast will be at 7:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 11, in the Palmer Auditorium in Austin. Tickets are $15.00 and an order form is found on page 11 of this newsletter.

“We are thrilled that an outstanding layman like Coach Teaff, who has been very active in Texas Baptist life and is one of the most sought after speakers in the country, has agreed to be our breakfast speaker,” said David R. Currie, coordinator of TBC. “Coach Teaff was a great football coach at Baylor University but those close to him know he is an even more outstanding Christian and Baptist. He set an example that inspired us all in the way he conducted himself as a Christian coach.”

“We have asked Coach Teaff to specifically speak on the subject of Integrity in One’s Personal and Professional Life,” Currie added. “He has always been a man who walked like he talked and lived out his faith in his professional and personal relationships.”

Teaff, a member of First Baptist Church, Waco, has also served as a vice-president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, Chairman of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Board of Trustees, and Chairman of the American Football Coaches of America Ethics Committee.

Teaff is also a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Southwest Conference Hall of Honor and has received numerous coaching awards and honors, including being named Southwest Conference Coach of the Year six times.

Coach Teaff is a native West Texan, reared in Snyder, and a graduate of San Angelo Junior College (now Angelo State University). He earned his undergraduate degree in physical education at McMurry in Abilene in 1956 and one year later an M.S. in Administrative Education. He received a Doctor of Humanities degree from McMurry in 1975.

Teaff and his wife, Donell, a former Texas Tech cheerleader, have three daughters and two grandchildren. He is known as one of the finest motivational speakers in the country and is also the author of four books: I Believe, Winning, Seasons of Glory and Coaching in the Classroom.

September 1997