Dane Evans

Classroom

Dane Evans graduated in four years with a degree in exercise and sports science and is currently working on a second degree in management with 3.243 GPA. Evans was named once to the president’s list (4.0 GPA), three times to the dean’s list (3.50-3.99 GPA), and five times to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (3.0-3.49 GPA). He also was named to the American Athletic Conference’s All-Academic Team in each of Tulsa’s two years in the league.

Character

From Tulsa Head Coach Philip Montgomery: “In my two seasons at Tulsa, Dane has shown a commitment not only on the football? field, but in the classroom and the community. As a head coach, you always want your? quarterback to be a true leader on and off the field, and that is exactly what Evans ?optimizes.”

On the football field, Evans has an opportunity to become the school’s all-time passing leader, but that is not of his concern. He is focused on his day-to-day improvement and? the team’s improvement as a whole. In the last year he has mentored? some of the younger players and has always taken the time to share his insight. Evans stays involved in the community and is receptive to every request that may be asked of him.

Community

Evans has been named to the 2016 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, one of the most coveted off-the-field honors in college football. In 2012, Evans was apart of Feed My Starving Children where he packed food that was sent overseas?. He also has read to students at Chisholm Trail Elementary School in Sanger, Texas,? and participated in Team Relief through which a group of football student-athletes were involved in pick-up after the Joplin (Missouri) tornado. He has participated in the Martin Luther King Day Parade in downtown, volunteered over six hours each semester at University School in Tulsa and volunteered at Physical Education Class at Chisholm Trail Elementary in Sanger, Texas. On top of that, Evans has visited patients at St. Francis Children’s Hospital in Tulsa?, sorted and packed food for the Kendall-Whittier School food pantry? and read to students at Dunn Elementary School in Arlington, Texas?. He also is very involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and spoke at the FCA Rivalry event at the Church at Midtown.

Competition

Evans played in 36 career games and has 33 starts through his junior season. Through nomination time, he had completed 691 of 1,226 passes for 8,939 career yards and 56 TDs during his time at Tulsa. He currently ranks fourth on the school’s all-time passing and TD passes charts and has 8,995 career total offense yards to rank fourth on the school’s career chart. Evans completed 62.9 percent of his passes for 4,332 yards and 25 TDs to rank second on the school’s single-season passing list in 2015. He also threw for 300-plus yards in nine games in 2015 and has 13 for his career, including four career 400-plus passing games. Evans has the school’s ninth (438), 11th (427), 13th (424) and 14th (421) most passing yard games in Tulsa football history and has been named this year to the preseason watch lists for the Davey O’Brien Award and the Manning Award, as well as the Wuerffel Trophy and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award watch lists.