{"id":396176,"date":"2026-08-03T04:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396176\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:52:26","slug":"university-of-houston-athletics-benefactor-darryl-schroeder-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396176\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Houston athletics benefactor Darryl Schroeder dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Schroeder, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/cougars\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">University of Houston<\/a> athletic benefactor whose name is on the Cougars&#8217; baseball stadium, died unexpectedly Thursday, his family announced. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2003, the Schroeder family has been among UH\u2019s most generous athletic donors, playing a significant role in projects including TDECU Stadium, the Guy V. Lewis Development Facility and the baseball player development center.<\/p>\n<p>Schroeder was the CEO of Maverick Development &amp; Construction.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced at a later date, the family said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the responsibility of every alumnus to give back to our institution that helped make us a success in order for the University of Houston to continue its rise as a nationally recognized, Tier-One powerhouse,\u201d Schroeder said in a 2016 interview with the Houston Chronicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darryl Schroeder, the University of Houston athletic benefactor whose name is on the Cougars&#8217; baseball stadium, died unexpectedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-396176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396176","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=396176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}