1994 Demon All-America pitcher Reggie Gatewood and wife Tamara, and Lady Demon tennis great Vicky Simms Newsom and hubby Dr. Tommy Newsom, had their broods in tow Saturday night as they cheered on the Demons.
Tommy was our first assistant SID in 1991-92, right out of a football career at Austin College, and fell for his future bride while here. Tommy and Vicky moved to Waco, where he worked in the Sports Info office at Baylor, and he briefly was the media relations contact for the Southland Conference before entering the private sector as publisher/editor/janitor at the Little Elm (Texas) Journal.
He's come a long way. He's now president of the Art Institute of Dallas and vice chancellor of South University.
The Newsoms and the Gatewoods live near each other in McKinney, Texas. It is a small world! Joining Tommy and Vicky at Turpin were his parents, Don and Carol Newsom. Dad was a high school and college football coach who turned down a chance to join Jim Wacker's staff at North Dakota State for five reasons: Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, he said, the states above Texas on the way to Fargo. He wanted no part of that climate.
The photo above is Team Newsom plus the Gatewood's blonde-headed boy, Tyler, the grandson of NSU president Dr. Randy and first lady Brenda Webb.
Reggie and Tommy made the trip to Colorado Springs two weeks earlier to enjoy watching the Demons at Air Force. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Tamara and Vicky enjoyed a man-free weekend with the kids!
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