Sports
Larry Uland honored as Kedric Couch Award recipient
By Austin College media release
Jul 8, 2008
SHERMAN – Larry Uland, a 1961 graduate of Austin College, has been named this year’s recipient of the Kedric Couch Coach of the Year Award. The award is bestowed annually by Austin College to a distinguished alumnus who has excelled in the field of coaching at the high school, college, or professional level during the last academic year.
Uland was named the 2007-2008 TAPPS 3A Coach of the Year after leading his Greenville Christian football team to the 2007 TAPPS Division I Sixman Football Championship, their second state title since 2004.
Over the course of his career at Greenville Christian, Uland has amassed a 95-44 overall record along with a 47-12 record against district opponents. Uland’s teams have also gone 24-8 in the playoffs in his time as coach, reaching the state finals five times and winning six district championships. He was also the 2004-2005 TAPPS 2A Coach of the Year.
In addition to his excellent record at Greenville Christian, Uland has also won 113 games in 11 man football. This year he served as the Texas delegate to the NFL Youth Football Summit in Canton, Ohio, and he has been nominated for the NCAA Hall of Fame for coaching.
Along with his success coaching on the gridiron, Uland also boasts a 67-30 record with five playoff appearances as a basketball coach. As a baseball coach, Uland has won more than 200 games and has taken his teams to seven consecutive playoff appearances. In addition, while at Thomas Jefferson High School in 1989 he coached both a state and national champion in power-lifting.
Uland will be honored as the Kedric Couch Coach of the Year on Sunday, July 20 at the annual Austin College Legends Awards Gala.
Austin College athletic teams participate as a member of the NCAA Division III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Austin College is a leading national independent liberal arts college located approximately 30 minutes north of the greater Dallas metroplex in Sherman, Texas. Founded in 1849, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Texas operating under original charter and name, the college is related by covenant to the Presbyterian Church (USA). Recognized nationally for academic excellence in the areas of international education, pre-professional training, and leadership studies, Austin College is one of 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope’s influential book Colleges that Change Lives.