| Title: | Sports Information Director |
| Email: | gstallard@angelina.edu |
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his 18th season with Angelina College. Following a career in the U.S. Marine Corps, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 20 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/ photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in multiple years. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by-play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate.
Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.