Bobby Hawthorne
"Sportswriting"
12:15 p.m. Luncheon, Friday Feb. 6 & 2-3 p.m. General Session Friday Feb. 6

Bobby Hawthorne began his career as a sportswriter for the Longview Morning Journal, then was a wire editor and general assignment reporter for the Tyler Morning Telegraph. In 1977, he joined the University Interscholastic League, an organization that coordinates extracurricular activities for all Texas public schools where he served as director of academics and director of journalism. His first job with the League was to patch up its miserable relationship with the press. 

He is also the author of Longhorn Football: An Illustrated History, published by the University of Texas Press. He is currently a writer and lecturer who lives in Austin, Texas.

He has received the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Key and James Paschal Awards, the National Scholastic Press Association’s Pioneer Award, and the Interscholastic League Press Conference’s Edith Fox King Award, given for distinguished service to Texas scholastic journalism.  In 1991, he was named a lifetime member by the Texas Association of Journalism Educators, and in 2000 received TAJE’s Trailblazer Award. In 2007, he received from the CSPA its Charles R. O’Malley Award for Overall Excellence in Teaching, an honor that recognizes “a sustained record of outstanding teaching.” In November, 2007, he received the Carl Towley Award, the Journalism Education Association’s highest honor.