Event Description

Coach Barry Switzer

to Receive Paul "Bear" Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award

at American Heart Association Dinner

January 15, 2009, 6:00 PM

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Downtown Houston

1200 Louisiana Street

Coach Barry Switzer will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Paul "Bear" Bryant College Football Coaching Awards Dinner, Thursday, January 15, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Houston. The award recognizes excellence in coaching on and off the field during a career, allowing recipients to take their place in history alongside such legends as Bryant. Recent Lifetime Achievement recipients include Tom Osborne, Glen "Bo" Schembechler, Darrell Royal and Lou Holtz.

Also at the dinner, the Paul "Bear" Bryant 2008 College Football Coach of the Year will be awarded.

The Paul "Bear" Bryant Awards honor excellence in coaching while raising funds to fight heart disease and stroke. Bryant himself suffered a heart attack prior to his death in 1983. Funds raised benefit research, community education and outreach programs for the American Heart Association.

How To Purchase Tickets

Tickets are $250 each (other VIP ticket and table sponsorships are available).

For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact :

Kristin Rodriguez, American Heart Association

713-610-5026

Kristin.Rodriguez@heart.org

Please tell Kristin you want to sit at an OU table!

This is an American Heart Association Event

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Coach Barry Switzer

Coach Switzer became the head coach at Oklahoma in 1973, leading the team to undefeated seasons that year and next. Oklahoma won national championships in 1974, 1975 and 1985 under Switzer's leadership. The team won or shared the Big 8 championship every year from 1973 to 1980. During his sixteen years as head coach at Oklahoma, his teams won eight of the thirteen post-season bowl games they played. Switzer was known as an outstanding recruiter of high school talent; 54 of his players were selected as All-Americans. In 1978, Billy Sims won the Heisman Trophy. Switzer left Oklahoma with one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history. His overall record was 157-29-4.

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