Texas Iron Spikes

10/28/12

SOTX Over The Edge

This past weekend Texas Iron Spikes donated $1,000 to Special Olympics of Texas at their Over the Edge event. In honor of this donation SOTX sent Texas Iron Spikes' very own Eric Gardea repelling down the side of the Hilton hotel downtown! Giving back definitely has its advantages and Eric was a direct beneficiary of our donation. Special thanks to SOTX for making this event possible! Check out the photos below of Eric going Over the Edge!

Of course we had some Spikes out their in full force helping out with the event. This event is great every year and we can't wait to get even more involved with other SOTX events!

Spike's Semi-Formal

This past weekend Texas Iron Spikes had their first date event of the Fall semester, Semi-Formal. We rented out a boat and floated across lake Austin and witnessed Austin's sky-line from the water. It was a great time and we're already looking forward to it next year!

Pictured L-R: Michael Todd, Jackson Gould, and Patrick Warwick

Pictured L-R: Jake Lawrence, Cameron Lawrence, Collin Wolf, and Jeremy Traylor

10/8/12

Alumni Weekend

This past weekend Texas Iron Spikes hosted our Alumni for the West Virginia vs. Texas tailgate. It was great getting to spend time with all the Alumni and catch up with those who had just recently graduated. This was our very first Fall Alumni event and after this past weekend we believe this will become an Iron Spikes tradition! Some Iron Spikes were lucky enough to meet local celebrity, Scott Fisher, and Longhorn Legend and Heisman Trophy winner, Ricky Williams!

Here are a few photos from the weekend:

Pictured: Spikes Alumni/Actives

Pictured L-R: Gabe Zolayvar, Jonathan Lugo, Scott Fisher, Andrew Mills and Ryan Ewald

Pictured L-R: Jonathan Lugo, RICKY WILLIAMS, Blake Barber and Kyle Gardner

This was a phenomenal weekend that we are already looking forward to it again next year. We're excited to see our alumni again this coming Spring and also pumped to re-match West Virginia in Morgan Town next year! See you soon Mountaineers!

Hook'em

9/24/12

Footballing

9/21/12

Fall 2012 Rookie Class

Recruitment this semester was very competitive. Tons of great guys came out and it resulted in Spikes taking our largest rookie class ever. We are very excited with the group of guys we have chosen and we know that these 20 young men will lead Texas Iron Spikes in the right direction.

Texas Iron Spikes would like to introduce the Fall 2012 Rookie Class:

Alex Young

Austin Franks

Brandon Lindenman

Bryson Banks

Cody Smith

Danny Austgen

Ike Etoama

Jake Josephson

Javier Mendoza

Josh Willis

Mason Hunter

Mike Seitz

Nathan Tamburello

Nathan Zaremba

Nikolaj Plagborg

Rishi Gomatam

Scott Garzone

Shawn Rahman

Alex Batista

Michael Martinez

CONGRATULATIONS FALL 2012 ROOKIES!

9/16/12

Spikes Fundraising and Tailgating

This weekend the Texas Iron Spikes were out to help raise money for our primary philanthropy, Special Olympics of Texas. Spikes helped organize and run the Danol Lam Olympics, an all day competition that featured popular lawn games. It was $100 per team to enter and all of the proceeds were donated directly to the Special Olympics of Texas. We had a wonderful time at this event and look forward to helping out next year as well!

Pictured: Iron spikes with the founder of Danol Lam Olympics

While some Spikes were fundraising for SOTX others followed the Texas football team all the way to Oxford, Mississippi! A handful of Spikes as well as Spikes Alumni were in Mississippi this past Saturday to support the Horns as they faced the Ole Miss Rebels. Spikes and alumni brought Texas tailgating to the Grove and then cheered on the Longhorns to a 66-31 stomping of the Rebels. Hook'em!