ODESSA, Texas – Graduate Student Hayden Kelly, graduate student Kenny Hrncir and Kris McCullough were honored by Dave Campbell's Texas Football.

The 2023 All-Texas Non-FBS team named McCullough as Coach of the Year and Hrncir as Offensive Player of the Year.  Kelley was selected to the team as well.

McCullough had an amazing season.  The Falcons went 8-0 in the LSC, winning the first conference championship in program history and 10-2 overall.  UTPB beat three nationally ranked teams this season (Angelo State, Central Washington and Texas A&M Kingsville), had the first winning season in program history and hosted a first round game in the NCAA Division II Football Championships.  All of this after being picked to finish seventh in the LSC pre-season poll.

Hrncir completed 55.37% of his passes for 2878 yards and 30 touchdowns while adding 682 yards and eight scores on the ground for 3560 yards in total offense.  Hrncir earned the J.W. Rollins Award, given to the Offensive Player of the Year in the Lone Star Conference (LSC).

Hrncir was named LSC Offensive Player of the Week four times and set the single-season school records for passing touchdowns, passing yards and total offensive yards.  He is ranked  eighth in total offense (296.67 ypg), 11th in passing TD's and 23rd in passing yards per game (239.83) for NCAA DII.

Kelly had 68 solo tackles with 46 assists for 114 total tackles, 13.5 tackles for a loss, 1.5 sacks, recovered a fumble and forced a fumble.  Kelly was a two-time Lone Star LSC Defensive Player of the Week, LSC Linebacker of the Year and All-LSC first team and ranks 4^th in solo tackles per game (5.8) and 13^th in total tackles per game (9.7) in the country.

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