Belton, Texas – University of Mary Hardin-Baylor head football coach Pete Fredenburg has been nominated for the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Fredenburg is one of 20 nominees on the primary ballot to become the Texas Sports Hall Of Fame's Class of 2016.
Fredenburg has spent the last 17 years as head coach of the Cru football team after starting the program from scratch in time to open play with the 1998 season. Fredenburg has led UMHB to a 170-36 overall record in those 17 seasons and has guided the Cru to 12 American Southwest Conference Championships and 13 NCAA Division III National Championships appearance. UMHB has advanced to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl once and has played in five National Semifinal games during Fredenburg's tenure. He was voted Liberty Mutual NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year following the 2013 season and has also been named Division III National Coach of the Year by American Football Coaches Monthly magazine. Fredenburg is a nine-time ASC Coach of the Year and has eight American Football Coaches Association Region III Coach of the Year honors in his career at UMHB.
Before joining UMHB, Fredenburg also spent 13 seasons as an assistant coach at Baylor University. He was named Southwest Conference Defensive Coach of the Year following the 1990 season and coached in the Cotton Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Copper Bowl, John Hancock Bowl and Bluebonnet Bowl during his time with the Bears. Fredenburg also coached in the collegiate ranks at Louisiana State University and Louisiana Tech University. He also made high school coaching stops at New Braunfels Canyon, New Braunfels and Giddings High Schools. Fredenburg is a 1970 graduate of Southwest Texas State University and was a three-year football letterman. He is also a member of the Southwest Texas State University Athletics Hall of Honor.
"It is an incredible honor and it means an awful lot to me," Fredenburg said. "You have to share it with all of the coaches and players who've been there to help us succeed over the years and to help put my name on this ballot. I am just so thankful and so honored."
The official announcement of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2016 will come in September with the enshrinement banquet scheduled to take place in early 2016 at the Hall of Fame in Waco. Generally, six primary ballot nominees and two veteran ballot nominees are selected for enshrinement.