Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Remembering the
File Photo 2021 marks the 20 year anniversary of the Remember The 10 plane crash at OSU.
Lasting Legacy Will Hancock’s memory continues to impact others 20 years later
Ryan Breeden
in 2002 for aspiring sports information students, and 13 have been awarded the scholarship since its creation. Maguire served as the recipient three years in a row, from 2010-2012, a period that came at a perfect time for Maguire. “In our field, going on and being a grad assistant is the first step to working in a career, so getting that scholarship enabled me to do that and enabled me to take those steps to get to where I am today,” Maguire said. Several people who were close to Hancock are still at OSU today, and they’re doing their part in keeping his memory alive. Maguire is the only three-time winner in the award’s 18-year history, and those who were close with Hancock feel that the scholarship honor is fitting. “Sean kind of epitomizes the way Will was,” said Mike Noteware, who worked alongside Hancock and now serves as the athletic learning center coordinator. “I was surprised to hear that he won the scholarship three straight years, but he was the most deserving of
Sean Maguire hurried into the media workroom at Gallagher-Iba Arena. As the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications, he has a busy schedule. But he’s never too busy to look at that one plaque on the wall, the one listing each Will Hancock Memorial Scholarship winner. Maguire’s name makes the list. Three times. Oklahoma State has done many things to honor the 10 members of the men’s basketball traveling party who tragically lost their lives 20 years ago Wednesday in a Colorado plane crash. In a way fitting for the person Hancock was as OSU’s media relations coordinator at the time, he is not only being remembered, he’s changing people’s lives still. People like Maguire. The Will Hancock Memorial Scholarship was formed See Lasting on pg. 2
The date Jan. 27 stands special at OSU, marking the anniversary of the 2001 plane crash that took the lives of 10 members of the basketball traveling party returning from a game at Colorado. So we Remember The Ten: two members of the basketball team, Nate Fleming and Daniel Lawson, trainer Brian Luinstra, manager Jared Weiberg, play-by-play announcer Bill Teegins, radio engineer Kendall Durfey, pilots Denver Mills and Bjorn Fahlstrom, director of basketball operations Pat Noyes and basketball media relations director Will Hancock.
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Keeping the tradition Teubner reflect on the Will Hancock Memorial Scholarship
By Chris Becker
to me, helped me realize that I was doing things the right way,” Teubner said. “Anytime you get a scholarship, the money is great, however, it’s solidifying the hard work and the dedication you put in.” Teubner was employed as a student sports information director working with Hancock and credits him with teaching many valuable lessons of what he knows. One day, Teubner was transcribing quotes after a football game to include in the next game notes for OSU and rushed through the work and sent it off to his boss. When Teubner went back to the office the next week, Hancock called him into his office and told him what he did wrong. “I had a nice conversation with Will, the moment he was in the office and I was there,” Teubner said. “He called me and he taught me the errors of my ways. From that point forward, you better believe I made sure all punctuation was right.” Knowing Hancock, learning from him and how he went about his life made the award even more special to Teubner. “It was definitely an honor, for sure, Will was one
Ryan Teubner sat at a friend’s house, casually watching TV, when a picture of his mentor Will Hancock flashed across the screen amid breaking news. Hancock was dead, one of the fatalities in the tragic 2001 plane crash that claimed all 10 members of the Oklahoma State traveling party returning from the Cowboys game at Colorado that Jan. 27 night. Hancock and Teubner were close while they worked together in OSU;s sports information department. A year after the loss of Hancock’s life, a scholarship was made in his memory. Teubner was named as the first recipient of the Will Hancock Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship was designed to be given to a hard-working individual in the sports information office at OSU and has been given out to one student each year since Teubner. “I think the scholarship, See Keeping on pg. 3