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lance lahnert - inductee #182

hall of fame Fast Fact:

Lance Lahnert wore No. 1 and then No. 13 in his playing days. He says his new favorite numeral is 182, his PSHOF induction number.

Lance Lahnert

Lahnert, a native of Colorado Springs, came to Texas as a sportswriter for the Canyon News in 1981. After one year, he was hired by the Amarillo Globe-News where he would spend the next 36 years. His tenure in the Globe-News sports department is the third-longest in the newspaper's history.

He spent his first 23 years as a sportswriter. In 2005, he added the duties of assistant sports editor, and then in 2006, would become sports editor for the next 12 years until his retirement in September 2018.

His first beat was covering girls volleyball. For the next three decades, he covered every local beat, from the multiple sports in high school athletics to West Texas A&M football and basketball to the independent minor league baseball Amarillo Dillas.

He also filled the sports pages with columns and features, and his "Thumbs Up" column in the last 10 years became a reading staple for readers of the sports pages. Lahnert covered nine Masters tournaments, a Final Four, and numerous Dallas Cowboys games that included an NFC championship game.

Lance was twice awarded the Putt Powell Award, given by the Texas High School Coaches Association for the state's high school sportswriter of the year. 

After retirement, Lance has kept his five-days-a-week sports talk show on KGNC, as well as some sports reporting and consulting for KFDA-TV.


Former Amarillo Globe News Sports Editor, Lance Lahnert, flips a coin before the Amarillo High/Tascosa football game in 2018. Photo provided by John Moore.

Kale Steed, with the Amarillo Globe News, penned a great article about the 182nd member of the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame, Lance Lahnert.

Click here to read Kale's story.