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1981 NBA Finals

Following the 1981 season, the Celtics drafted Danny Ainge of BYU, who became the team's starting shooting guard after a brief career in baseball with the Toronto Blue Jays.

1987 All-American Bowl

BYU had one last shot at a go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes, but Covey was stopped two feet short on a fourth-down run by defensive end Sean Scott.

2003 UCLA Bruins football team

Maurice Drew's 83-yard touchdown run tied for ninth longest run from scrimmage in UCLA history, tied with Derek Ayers (1993 vs. BYU) and Jackie Robinson (1939 vs. Oregon).

2006 Arizona State Sun Devils football team

Brennan also set the WAC single-season record for most passing yards (5,549), which was previously held by BYU's Ty Detmer in 1990.

Alan Cherry

He expressed his religious zeal in part by doing a BA and an MBA at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he was an original member of the Young Ambassadors, a touring performing group.

Arnold Green

Arnold H. Green, BYU professor and historian who specializes in Tunisia

Brandon Doman

He was the offensive coordinator at BYU in 2011-2012 before being replaced in 2013 by Robert Anae.

Brent W. Webb

On 1 February 2011 Webb was made academic vice president of BYU replacing John S. Tanner.

Brett Salisbury

Brett Jon Salisbury (born October 11, 1968 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former college football quarterback at University of Oregon, BYU, and Wayne State College.

Bronco Mendenhall

He is also the younger brother of former BYU and Washington Redskins player, Mat Mendenhall.

In response, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe interviewed Mendenhall first in the re-opened search.

BYU choirs

BYU Singers has been featured on eight solo recordings, including two collections of works by Eric Whitacre, and on several other recordings with the combined choirs at BYU.

BYU Division of Continuing Education

In establishing the center, Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of BYU, and Joseph Fielding Smith, chairman of the executive committee of the BYU Board of Trustees, sent a letter in which they emphasized that the institution was geared toward adult continuing education programs and not meant at all to compete with Weber Junior College.

BYU Radio

During regular season, BYU Radio also broadcasts live coverage of BYU football and basketball games through the BYU Cougars Sports Network.

BYU Research Institutes

This organizations was formed in 1972 at BYU by people from BYU's Instructional Research Development Department and the University of Texas at Austin's CAI Laboratory.

BYU–Hawaii Seasiders

The BYU–Hawaii Seasiders (also Brigham Young–Hawaii Seasiders and BYUH Seasiders) are the 11 varsity athletic teams that represent Brigham Young University–Hawaii, located in Laie, Hawaii, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

Christopher E. Crowe

Prior to joining the BYU faculty in 1993 Crowe had been a professor at Himeji Dokkyo University and Brigham Young University Hawaii.

David O. McKay School of Education

The David O. McKay School of Education began in 1913 as an integral part of BYU named the Church Teachers College with Edwin S. Hinckley as the first dean.

Debra H. Sowell

She danced with the BYU Theatre Ballet and later with the Cambridge Court Dancers, where she studied and performed Renaissance dance with Ingrid Brainard.

She received her B.A. cum laude and with High Honors from the Honors Program at BYU, where she majored in humanities and emphasized French literature.

Dee Allsop

Allsop was made president of the BYU Alumni Association at the beginning of 2009, replacing Bruce L. Olsen.

Eugene L. Roberts

It was here, watching the procession of 5000 to worship atop a mountain near Einsiedeln that Roberts conceived the idea of an annual Mount Timpanogos hike, an idea he later implemented while on the BYU faculty, with the first hike occurring in 1912.

Frank Arnold

BYU made it to the NCAA Final 8 with a team starring future NBA players Danny Ainge, Greg Kite and Fred Roberts.

Franz M. Johansen

Franz M. Johansen (born 1928 in Huntsville, Utah) is a Latter-day Saint sculptor and an emeritus professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Harold I. Hansen

In 1977 Hansen was replaced as director of the Hill Cumorah Pageant by Jack Paul Sederholm, who had studied at BYU and was then chair of the communications art department at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

Howard W. Hunter Law Library

The Howard W. Hunter Law Library is the library of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah.

James A. Toronto

James Albert Toronto (born 1951) is a professor of Arabic language and Islamic religion at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Kim S. Cameron

At BYU, served as Student Body Vice President, was a basketball player, and dated Ann Davies (who later married Mitt Romney).

Kyle Van Noy

He was college roommates and a mentor to football star Ziggy Ansah and best friends with BYU basketball star Brandon Davies.

LaVell Edwards

Robert Anae former University of Arizona offensive coordinator / current BYU offensive coordinator (BYU offensive lineman)

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Part of the largest collection of Jurassic period fossils in North America, housed at BYU, was stored underneath the east bleachers of the stadium until 2005.

Lloyd D. Newell

He is also a professor of religion and family life at Brigham Young University (BYU) and was formerly an anchor for CNN and at WSEE-TV.

Martin B. Hickman

Hickman first became dean of the College of Social Sciences at BYU in 1970, not long before the end of the Ernest L. Wilkinson administration.

Maui Cluster Scheduler

Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. (now Adaptive Computing) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U.S. Department of Energy, PNNL, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah (CHPC), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), University of Southern California (USC), SDSC, MHPCC, BYU, NCSA, and many others.

Merrill Bradshaw

He worked closely with Ralph Laycock, BYU's orchestra conductor, and Ralph Woodward, the conductor of BYU's premier choir, in getting his various compositions performed.

Merrill Bradshaw (18 June 1929 in Lyman, Wyoming – 12 July 2000 in St. George, Utah) was an American composer and professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) where he was the John R. Halliday Professor of music.

Merrill J. Bateman

Bateman's academic assignments included lecturer in economics at the University of Ghana, 1963; assistant professor of economics at the United States Air Force Academy, 1964–1967; associate professor of economics at BYU, 1967–1969; professor of economics at BYU, 1969–1971; and former dean of the BYU business school, now the Marriott School of Management, 1975–1979.

Naufahu Tahi

Tahi is cousins with former BYU and former NFL fullback Fui Vakapuna.

Nauvoo University

His wife, Vivien Robison, who had been a part-time faculty member at BYU and sang in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, was also on the faculty.

Among the members of Nauvoo University's faculty as of summer 2010 was Clayne Robison, former director of BYU's Opera Program.

PhpLDAPadmin

The project began in Fall of 2002 when Dave Smith, a student from Brigham Young University (BYU) and lead developer, needed a robust web application to manage his LDAP servers.

Ralph Hancock

Ralph C. Hancock, professor of political science at Brigham Young University (BYU)

Roger Reid

Reid became a member of BYU coach Frank Arnold's staff in 1978 and stayed on as an assistant when LaDell Andersen replaced Arnold.

Russell T. Osguthorpe

Osguthorpe has served in the LDS Church as president of the South Dakota Rapid City Mission from 2003 to 2006, an area seventy and member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy from 2007 to 2009, and as president of the BYU 18th Stake from 1997 to 2002.

Student life at Brigham Young University

In February 2012, a YouTube video called "What do you know about black history?" of students at BYU surfaced, exemplifying some students' knowledge about Black History Month and African Americans in general.

Todd Watkins

Watkins ended his college career with a strong showing against California in the Las Vegas Bowl: 5 catches for 93 yards and late fourth-quarter touchdown in BYU’s 35-28 loss.

However, with a new head coach (Bronco Mendenhall) and a new offensive coordinator (Robert Anae), BYU’s offense relied heavily on shorter passing routes and Beck threw fewer deep passes to Watkins.

Tony Bergstrom

His cousin Ryan Roberts played professional baseball for the Chicago White Sox and is currently an assistant baseball coach at BYU, although many internet writers have confused him with Ryan Roberts, who plays baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Travis Hansen

During his tenure with BYU, he was also known as "Elder 8 Mile", for his similar appearance to rapper, Eminem.


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