{"id":339599,"date":"2026-06-17T08:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339599\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:27:26","slug":"letter-from-president-schovanec-communications-office-of-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339599\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from President Schovanec | Communications | Office of the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening, Texas Tech University Board of Regents Chairman Cody Campbell<br \/>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/click.communications.ttu.edu\/?qs=ABB7InYiOjEsImQiOjQ5MDl9AAsAAAAAAgOU7aodwirN7SVJw8_TelXTKK0_1jvu1Kq39qrrCEhtoHC0-WZlOKKbZ845if0V0FUV2UNGdoESNwpVAoutyO7W24nG-32RESe62Rc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">issued an update<\/a> on Brendan Sorsby and announced that he will not be a member of the Red Raider football<br \/>\n                  team this fall.<\/p>\n<p>When Brendan\u0092s lawsuit resulted in the granting of a temporary injunction, we found<br \/>\n                  ourselves in a difficult situation. With his health and wellness as our top priority<br \/>\n                  we supported him in spite of very different perspectives and opinions. Our position<br \/>\n                  was challenged by many but our support for him never changed. We will continue to<br \/>\n                  extend all available resources that Brendan had as a student and athlete to ensure<br \/>\n                  his transition is as successful as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We heard from many Red Raiders and we appreciate your passion. Please know that Texas<br \/>\n                  Tech will continue to be a constructive voice in matters related to health and well-being<br \/>\n                  for all students.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p class=\"signature-name\">Lawrence Schovanec<br \/>President, Texas Tech University<\/p>\n<p>               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ttu.edu\/president\/images\/Hocutt-Kirby-signature.svg\" alt=\"Signature of Kirby Hocutt\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"signature-name\">Kirby Hocutt<br \/>Director of Athletics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this evening, Texas Tech University Board of Regents Chairman Cody Campbell issued an update on Brendan Sorsby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-339599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}