Atlee Alan Cockrell

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Alan Cockrell was an outstanding football and baseball player. For three years Cockrell successfully quarterbacked the Parkwood Bears wishbone attack and led the Bears to a 31-3 record culminating in an undefeated (14-0) state championship season in 1980. He was named twice to first-team all state.

Cockrells career statistics included 1,541 yards rushing with 36 touchdowns and 3,499 yards passing with 44 touchdowns. He also converted on 154 of 172 extra point kicks and booted 8 field goals. Overall, he finished with a total of 396 points scored.

He originally received a scholarship to Oklahoma State but later transferred to Tennessee University. Cockrell was a record-setting quarterback at Tennessee and starred in the outfield for the Vols baseball team. Cockrell was an All-American at Tennessee, where he was the Volunteers starting quarterback for two years (1982-83)a third-team All-American on the gridiron in 1983, Cockrell helped the Vols to the Citrus Bowl championship.

Cockrell was a first-round draft pick by the San Francisco Giants. ( The Location Of Onmylist.com ) The ninth overall pick by the Giants in the 1984 June draft out of the University of Tennessee, Cockrell was a minor league outfielder for 13 seasons from 1984-96.

His only Major League action came in nine games for the Rockies in September of 1996. Cockrell's Major League debut came Sept. 7, 1996 at the Astrodome, a pinch strikeout against Billy Wagner. His first big league hit was a pinch double off Tom Glavine on Sept. 10, 1996 vs. Atlanta at Coors Field.

The four are Alan Cockrell (1981), Payton Manning ('94), Casey Clausen (2000) and James Banks, who started one game for an injured Clausen in 2002.

"I coached Todd Helton, Seth Smith (Old Miss) who had the winning hit the other night and Alan Cockrell is the hitting coach.

1982 Tennessee Alabama
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Tennessee 35 Alabama 28 October 16, 1982 Attendance: 95,342 Bama rolled into Neyland Stadium ranked #2 in the nation having just beat traditional power Penn State. Tennessee came out in their all orange uniforms. Nice! The Tide jumped out early and it took a 52 yard TD from Alan Cockrell to Willie Gault to bring the Vols to life. Chuck Coleman’s 34 yard touchdown run put the Vols up 14 with 7:21 to play in the game. Alabama wasn’t done. Only down seven points, they had a fourth down pass into the endzone with 17 seconds remaining in the game but it was intercepted by Mike Terry. The fans would rush the field and the goal posts would come down. Cockrell finished 18-29 for 192 yards and two touchdowns while Chuck Coleman rushed for 139 yards and a touchdown. That week UPI named Johnny Majors the coach of the week and Alan Cockrell the Southeast Player of the Week.

Two Rockies players backed up a Manning brother as a quarterback in the Southeastern Conference. Todd Helton played behind Peyton Manning at Tennessee, and Seth Smith was the backup to Eli Manning at Mississippi. The best quarterback of all, though, is probably the Rockies’ hitting coach, Alan Cockrell, an all-American at Tennessee who led the Volunteers to a Citrus Bowl victory in 1983.

Come On Colorado

Alan Cockrell, who’s in his first full season as hitting coach of the Colorado Rockies, has been named to the Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame.

Cockrell, an outfielder during his playing career in professional baseball. is the first member of the Colorado Springs Sky Sox — the Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate — named to the Colorado Springs shrine.