Its one of our absolute favorite traditions, the 8th annual Pawscar awards as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam honor the best University of Houston athletes, teams, coaches, and moments from the 2024-25 athletics year that was!

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Oh hey its a throwback pawd, as the gang of 3 current and emeritus Pawdcast hosts convene to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Revealing our categories/nominees for the 9th edition of our season-ending Pawscar Awards
• Top performances from Cougar track & field athletes at the NCAA Outdoor championships
• A big football recruiting update earlier this month from consensus 5 star QB recruit and UH commit Keisean Henderson & the 2026 football class at large starting to take some shape

It may be mid June and by any definition, the dog days of summer, but the boys are still back to talk everything current in the world of Houston Cougar sports, including the following topics:

• Reacting to UH's newest head coach: Chrissy Schoonmaker, previously of George Washington. What we like (the pitching track record & not being Kristin Vesely) and still are unsure about with this hiring process (lots)
• Previewing Cougar track & field's entrants at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field championship
• A quick look at a group of new assistant coaching hires from the baseball, soccer, and tennis programs
• At the end the boys treat themselves to a little general sports talk during this lighter month of college sports

The boys are back (echoing) the boys are back, and on this pawd where the month turns to June on the calendar, there are still Cougar sports topics to kick around and the regular co-hosts talked the following topics:

• UH's unsurprising, but not wildly encouraging decision to bring back baseball HC Todd Whitting for a 16th season in 2026
• What the lack of an update on the softball head coach tells us about who UH might be hiring
• Track & Field sends several athletes and a relay to NCAA Outdoors, with some heartbreaking near misses and one injury absence
• Kicking around some interesting Coog-related questions from our followers on the slime infested waters of social media... a summer tradition of sorts around here