[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 5084-5085]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            IN RECOGNITION OF THE RETIREMENT OF OVAL JAYNES

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 4, 2011

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to a 
very special Athletic Director today, Oval Jaynes.
  Jaynes has served as Athletic Director at Jacksonville State 
University in Jacksonville, Alabama for the past three years and on 
April 30, 2011, Jaynes will retire.
  JSU enjoyed much success Jayne's leadership, winning numerous Ohio 
Valley Conference Championships and advancing to NCAA postseason play, 
and more than 300 student-athletes posted a 3.0 grade point average or 
higher in the classroom. Jaynes, who spent more than 20 years in 
coaching, including three years as the head football coach at Gardner-
Webb, began his administrative career as an Assistant Athletic Director 
and Associate Athletic Director at Auburn University from 1981-1986.
  He was Athletics Director at Colorado State for five years before 
taking over at the University of Pittsburgh. He led the Panther 
athletic department from 1991 until 1996, when he moved to Director of 
Athletics at the University of Idaho. He then spent five years at 
Chattanooga as Director of Athletics and then another year at UTC as 
Special Assistant to the Chancellor.

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  Fourteen of his former staff members went on to serve as Athletic 
Directors at Division I Institutions, including Jay Jacobs at Auburn 
University and Mark Hollis at Michigan State University.
  Forty of his former staff members and players have gone on to become 
head football coaches, including Skip Holtz and Urban Meyer, and 61 
have become NFL assistant coaches. Additionally, three of his former 
coaches went on to become head coaches in the NFL.
  Jaynes has served on different NCAA committees, the NCAA Council, the 
Nominating Committee and chair of the District VII Post-Graduate 
Scholarship Committee. In 1999, he received the General Robert R. 
Neyland Award for Lifetime Achievement by the All-American Football 
Foundation and in 2002, the Bill Wade Unsung Hero Award. In 2008, he 
was inducted into the Burke County Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown 
of Morganton, N.C.
  Jaynes was born on July 25, 1940, and is a graduate of Appalachian 
State University. Jaynes is married to Pricilla and has two sons, Lee 
and Brandon and three grandchildren. I'm proud to congratulate Oval 
Jaynes on his retirement and thank him for his service to JSU.

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