Masked Rider, 2000

Grant Speed

American
Bronze

Texas Tech University
Frazier Alumni Pavillion
Courtyard between Frazier Alumni Pavillion and Marsha Sharp Center for Student-Athletics

This life-and-a-quarter sized sculpture represents one of Texas Tech’s well-known mascots, the Masked Rider. Renowned sculptor Grant Speed captures the celebratory gallop of the university’s rider and black American Quarter Horse. The rider’s cape flows while the rider gives the “Guns Up” sign. Names of all former Masked Riders and their horses are etched near the granite base.