Cathy Capps (2022) - Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame - Texas A&M Athletics

Cathy Capps

Induction:
2022
Class:
1985

Cathy Capps ’85 served the Texas A&M Lettermen’s Association for 26 years. She acted as the assistant athletics director and executive director of the association. Capps worked countless hours working with current and former student-athletes in achieving their career and academic goals. She ended her career at Texas A&M when she retired in the spring of 2022.

Capps was a conduit to getting former players back to campus to be honored as shoutouts on the video boards as well as honorary captains at various events. She came up with the Aggie Legends event at halftime of the spring football game in order for those former players to have another chance to perform and be recognized on Kyle Field.

She never sought attention or fame, but always valued and respected everyone in the organization and especially honored those who came before. One of her first projects after being named the director was to gather all of the living members of the 1939 Football National Championship team and provide championship rings and honor the group at the 1998 Texas A&M vs. Nebraska game at Kyle Field.

In addition to her role with lettermen’s and athletics, Capps has been a member of The Texas A&M University Thornton-McFerrin Coaching Academy Advisory Board. She was a 2007 Fish Camp namesake, and she co-authored the book “What It Means to Be An Aggie” along with Rusty Burson. She has volunteered the past 26 years as the advisor for one of the oldest female student organizations at Texas A&M, the baseball Diamond Darlings. She has also served as an advisor to Aggie Team 12, a student organization that supports Aggie athletics and lettermen’s.