Former Howard Payne quarterback Jason Bachtel returned in January to take the Yellow Jackets coaching job, and between the spring season and a 3-0 start this fall, the move looks like a winner for everyone in the Howard Payne family. Brian Lester has more in a D3football.com feature.
Jason Bachtel, a former Howard Payne quarterback and graduate assistant, is returning as head coach. He takes over four weeks before the Yellowjackets' season starts.
After four seasons as an affiliate member of the SAA expires at the end of this academic year, Austin College is coming back to an old home: the American Southwest Conference.
Hunter Sims took over the athletic director role shortly after he was named head football coach. After Howard Payne's season, Sims will start another job search and will hire his replacement. On the sidelines.
One of the questions we've focused on in our offseason podcasts is to ask coaches what it would take for their school to get to the next level. What would it take for St. Thomas to join the Mount Union/Whitewater tier? That, plus two other interviews and Pat and Keith's Top 25 take, in the July podcast.
Roger Geise, the defensive coordinator for a Yellow Jackets team that went 1-9 this past season, takes over as head coach following the departure of Steve Fanara.
Each week during the regular season we look at some of the key statistical performances from the weekend in Division III football, highlighting one per region.
Mary Hardin-Baylor has been predicted to win its fifth straight American Southwest Conference title in 2010 after a vote by the league's head coaches, SIDs and selected media members, the conference office announced.
2010 World Indoor Championships 4x400m relay gold medalist and former Howard Payne football standout Greg Nixon captured his first USA Outdoor men's 400 meter title.