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Texas has its fair share of great coaches.
Few college coaches have produced bodies of work with one school as men’s swimming and diving head coach Eddie Reese has at Texas.
Reese is coming off of yet another exceptional finish to the season, his 34th at UT. The Horns falling just short of a claiming an 11th national title en route to a second place finish at the NCAA Championships, Reese’s resume deserves a comparison to some of his head coach counterparts here at the 40 Acres.
A game against Texas State – who owned the nation’s best ERA coming into this week and who strung a 57 2/3 consecutive scoreless inning streak together earlier this season – did not seem like the best way to revive a struggling Texas offense.
Omaha — the Mecca of college baseball, the site of the College World Series and the expected destination for Longhorn baseball teams every year.
This promising group of Longhorns is off to a great start, establishing incredible momentum which they certainly hope to carry through the season. The 2012 team has rocketed off to one of their best starts in the 2000s. Not only have they won their first five games but they have shut out their opponent in every game, outscoring them by an astonishing 60-0 margin. Tonight, they look to do the same against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
It's only fitting that the Longhorns face one of their oldest rivals during a time when the their tournament chances are up in the air.
Roger Clemens won 25 games on the mound for Texas between the 1982 and 1983 seasons. This weekend, he’ll try to win one from the Disch-Falk Field dugout.
It’s been two years since junior Aeriel Ellis won the ITA Texas Regional Championship, and Texas is poised to win it’s first ITA title this season in Fort Worth. The tournament will feature every NCAA Division I team in Texas, competing in singles and doubles.
Editor's note: In the spirit of our friendly rivalry with the University of Oklahoma, the editorial boards of The Daily Texan and The Oklahoma Daily have exchanged editorials. In anticipation of Saturday's football game, both editorials are running in Austin and Norman today.
Welcome to big-time college football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners.
Sort of.
“It’s kind of like going from a Cadillac to an economy car,” said former Oklahoma State offensive lineman Patrick Hoog, who transferred to UTSA this fall. “But it’s still going to get me where I want to go.”
Although her season ended almost three months ago, junior Karlee Bispo is still reaping the rewards of her performances both in the pool and in the classroom.
This season has been one to remember for the Longhorns, and a strong finish could land Texas in a position it has never been in since going Division I in 1998. Since Texas sent its top varsity boat to the NCAA Championships in back-to-back seasons in 2003-2004, the qualifications for the championships have changed to allow only complete teams, and not at-large individual boats, to be sent to the annual May event.
We have seen what they can do in the water, but most recently, Texas has been making headlines in the classroom. On Tuesday, 18 rowers were named to the inaugural All-Big 12 At-Large Team. Unlike other sports, this all-conference team recognizes 161 student-athletes from Big 12 schools participating in nontraditional sports such as horseback riding, bowling, men’s gymnastics and rowing.
Texas Tech fired head coach Pat Knight Monday after another disappointing season for the Red Raiders.
“I appreciate everything Pat has done for our university, not only as a head coach, but also throughout his career as an assistant,” said Texas Tech president Guy Bailey in a prepared statement. “I wish him success and the best moving forward.”
Longhorn senior Bobby Hudson is one of 26 collegiate golfers recently named to the watch list for the 2011 Ben Hogan Award.
The Hogan Award is regarded as the most prestigious award in men’s amateur golf, and is annually presented to the top golfer in Division I, II, or III, NAIA or NJCAA. Last year’s winner was University of Washington’s Nick Taylor.
In head coach Augie Garrido’s utopia, the leadoff batter always finds a way to get on base. The next man up always lays a good sacrifice bunt, taking the out but advancing the runner to second. A few pitches later, the leadoff batter is always crossing home plate, thanks to a hit from either the three- or four-hole man. Runs are always on the board and rallies are never-ending.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association added Marquise Goodwin to The Bowerman Watch List. The Bowerman is given yearly to the top male and female track and field athletes in the nation.
The Texas sophomore is one of 11 Division I men’s track and field athletes to be named to this prestigious watch list. Goodwin is also one of five true sophomores on the annual list, as well as one of two athletes added after the January preseason selections.
Rick Barnes got his 500th career win Tuesday night as No. 22 Texas beat Sam Houston State 84-50.
Barnes, who got sentimental after the game, is the 12th active men’s basketball Division I coach and 50th coach in NCAA Division I history to reach the 500-win milestone.
Texas swimmer Laura Sogar was named <a href="www.collegeswimming.com"><em>CollegeSwimming.com</em></a>’s Division I swimmer of the week on Wednesday for her performance last weekend in a meet at California.
Sogar won the 100-meter backstroke in 1:00.97 and the 200-meter backstroke in 2:10.15, a new Texas record and the fastest time of the season in that event by nearly three seconds.
She also finished second in the 400-meter individual medley as the Longhorns defeated Cal in their season opener.
The UT women’s volleyball victory against Long Beach State on Saturday night was a near thing. The 15 women on Texas’ team won the first two sets, lost the third and fourth and triumphed, finally, in the fifth, 15-11. In spite of its closeness, the win was particularly sweet — it marked Texas’ 1,000th volleyball win since the program’s inception in 1974.
For the third straight game, top-ranked Texas was pushed to its limit by a conference foe — but this time the Longhorns’ luck ran dry, their shots rimmed out, their free throws did not fall and their stars did not step up in a 71-62 loss at No. 10 Kansas State (16-2, 3-1 Big 12).
Texas (17-1, 3-1) dropped its first game of the year, leaving No. 2 Kentucky as the only unbeaten team in Division I.
