{"id":356282,"date":"2026-06-30T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356282\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:14:11","slug":"the-origin-story-of-texas-state-universitys-iconic-supercat-logo-hillviews-magazine-texas-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356282\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin Story of Texas State University\u2019s Iconic SuperCat Logo : Hillviews Magazine : Texas State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Brad returned to San Marcos in 2009, earning a bachelor of science in geography and environmental studies with a minor in geology in 2011, and launching a new career as an environmental investigator for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Throughout the years, no matter where life and work took him across the state, Brad never lost his connection to the logo he&#8217;d created or the community that had adopted it. One moment stood out above all others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BradMonk036.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Monk with Abby Gevara.\"\/>Brad and Abby<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;When we went back for Bobcat Bonanza in 2016, getting out on that new field and the logo was everywhere, and we were walking on it\u2014that was cool,&#8221; said Abby, whose surname is now Gevara. &#8220;That was the first time we&#8217;d been out on the field with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When Brad Monk passed away in 2019, Bobcat Athletics supported the family by making a fitting personal tribute to his legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;When he passed, we had T-shirts made in memory of him,\u201d Abby said. \u201cWe superimposed his signature with the logo he created, for all of his friends and family. We&#8217;re so grateful the school let us do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad returned to San Marcos in 2009, earning a bachelor of science in geography and environmental studies with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-356282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356282","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=356282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}