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Victoria Lucas was in disheartened disbelief. After four years of unwavering dedication, the final indoor season of her collegiate career had been stopped unexpectedly short.
“Watching the live results, I was just sitting there really upset and I thought, ‘This isn’t worth it — to not be happy.’”
On a team ranked No. 2 in the country, it can be difficult to stand out. Senior swimmer Neil Caskey has done this and more for the Longhorns all season long.
Caskey has dominated the competition this season, winning at least one event in every meet except one. To those closest to the team this comes as no surprise.
As if things couldn’t get any tougher for the Longhorns, now they have to prepare for a battle against one of the most storied programs in college basketball, No. 7 Kansas.
Coming from a heartbreaking loss to Kansas State marred with turnovers, Texas dropped to 2-3 in Big 12 play while Kansas is fresh off a victory against the third best team in the country, Baylor. Everyone knows head coach Rick Barnes is dealing with a young squad, but the expected growing pains are really starting to hurt.
The learning curve for this Texas basketball team (12-5, 2-2 Big 12) is steep considering the light-years ahead the elite Big 12 teams are in terms of experience and size, and assistant coach Chris Ogden knows it.
“Offensively we haven’t been very good and it has cost us some games, we think,” Ogden said. “And its a lot of different factors. It’s no one player or no one person. When you’re young like this it takes a little longer.”
Oklahoma State Cowgirls’ head coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna died late Thursday night when the private, single-engine plane carrying them on a recruiting trip crashed just west of Little Rock, Ark.
Budke has been the coach at Oklahoma State all four years that Texas’ Gail Goestenkors has been the head coach for the Longhorns, and they developed a relationship through conference play and on the recruiting trail.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A day after the former Penn State assistant football coach who is charged with sexual abuse of boys declared his innocence in a television interview, an email surfaced from a key witness against him, saying he stopped an alleged attack in the team’s showers.
This weekend, two Texas alumni return to Red and Charline McCombs Field. However, neither will be wearing burnt orange and white and neither will be rooting for the Longhorns. Olympic gold medalist and former star pitcher Cat Osterman and former NCAA all-American Lindsay Gardner will be watching the Longhorns from the visitor dugout as recently named coaches for the St. Edwards University softball team.
What happens here won’t change the world. But it could change yours.
The Longhorn Wrestling Club is a place that offers more than wrestling. Despite a short existence, it has already made an impact.
“The program has been around for six years,” said president John DeMis. “We’ve won four state titles and finished in the top four of our division every year.”
Last weekend, fans at UFCU Disch-Falk Field roared as Corey Knebel ripped the final pitch that popped up safely to center field and secured the Longhorns a 4-2 win and a trip to the College World Series. As ESPN cameras showed Knebel thrust a triumphant fist pump toward home plate, the Georgetown native’s friends at home saw someone they didn’t recognize.
TULSA, Okla. — Every time the video montage is played prior to a Texas home game, someone will either glance over at assistant coach Kenton Paulino and smile or give him a little nudge.
One of the highlights that plays on the Frank Erwin Center screen is Paulino’s game winning buzzer-beater against West Virginia to send Texas to the Elite Eight in the 2006 NCAA Tournament.
“I can watch it over and over again,” Paulino said. “I don’t think it will ever get old.”
In what was their last chance to prove their worth to the NCAA selection committee, the Longhorns couldn’t make it past the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Championships, as they fell to a well-rested Aggie squad 77 to 50 Wednesday night.
“The body of work has been done,” said assistant coach LaKale Malone. “Do we wish we could go back and change a little? Yes, but we have fought and fought this season.”
What looked like an ugly day of delays and cancellations at the Heart of Texas Regatta turned into a perfect afternoon for Texas to show off its roster. After an early morning lightning scare shuffled up the schedule, the skies cleared up at Lady Bird Lake, enabling the Longhorns to take the top four spots in the Varsity eights, and the top three spots in the novice eights and novice fours final.
Texas football lost a pioneer Thursday with the passing of Emory Bellard, 83, after his battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Regarded as the father of the famed wishbone offense, Bellard found success in every capacity. He played football for the Longhorns in the 1950s, then became an assistant coach for his alma mater. At Texas, Bellard invented the widely-successful wishbone rushing attack, which the Longhorns rode to two national championships with Bellard on staff. Bellard then went on to become the head coach at Texas A&M and Mississippi State.
The Longhorns will split up again this week as part of the team heads to the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque and the remainder competes in the Husky Classic in Seattle.
No. 8 Texas distance runners will face the top distance teams at the invite-only Husky Classic. Other teams participating include No. 1 Oregon, No. 5 Tennessee, No. 7 BYU, No. 9 Auburn and many others.
The Longhorns don’t feel intimidated by the competition. Instead, they say it will help them improve.
The Texas women’s swimming and diving team is peaking at the perfect time.
Wednesday night’s 77-60 victory over Houston made it three in a row for the Longhorns, who appear to have put consecutive mid-season losses to Auburn and Georgia behind them.
The Longhorns were in top form as they took 13 of 17 events from the Cougars in the annual Sprint for the Cure meet at the University of Houston Natatorium.
“This was a great team effort,” Texas assistant coach Jim Henry said.
In a meet rescheduled to Saturday because of Friday’s inclement weather, Texas defeated Texas A&M 170-127.5 with 10 wins from eight different swimmers.
The confusion didn’t stop with the weather as swimmers on both teams were forced to compete in different events than initially planned as a result of the day change.
It has been a difficult year for the UT club hockey team. For assistant coach Jim White, the battles that take place on the ice have taken a backseat.
While the Longhorns have faced off against North Texas, UTSA and Texas A&M this season, White has been forced to deal with a more difficult opponent: cancer. His battle with kidney cancer has impacted his team more than any game could.
Mack Brown’s new assistant coaching staff will cost almost $3.7 million this season.
Brown, UT’s head football coach and the state’s highest paid employee, leads a nine-member assistant coaching staff. Eight of the nine assistant coaches will receive pay increases this season.
Jerry Gray was aware that a higher power might be trying to tell him something.
The Seattle Seahawks opened the preseason against the Tennessee Titans this year where, as the Seahawks’ defensive backs coach, Gray saw former Longhorn safety Michael Griffin in action. Two weeks later, the Seahawks played the Minnesota Vikings and cornerback Cedric Griffin. A week later, they finished the preseason against the Oakland Raiders and safety Michael Huff.
“That was probably a sign,” Gray said.
Texas moved one step closer to filling up its coaching staff vacancies Monday, naming Jerry Gray assistant coach and defensive backs coach. Gray, a former Longhorn defensive back, played for nine seasons in the NFL and spent 14 years as an assistant coach in the league, including five seasons as a defensive coordinator.
Newly hired assistant coach Ronald Hughey brings a simple, old-school philosophy to the Texas women’s basketball team.
“You must be agile, mobile, hostile,” he repeats multiple times at every practice.
The 15th-ranked Longhorns finished the Big 12 Championship meet in a disappointing fifth place Saturday.
“The Big 12 is a very competitive league, and if you blink, then someone is going to come and do better,” said assistant coach Stephen Sisson.
Riding the momentum of a three-game winning streak, Texas faces the meat of its Big 12 schedule at home this weekend against undefeated No. 5 Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.
Texas is currently in fifth place in the Big 12 at 3-2-2 and hopes to continue its recent midseason success.
The team has an excellent chance of making the Big 12 playoffs, which requires that they stay in the top eight in standings. The Longhorns hope to improve their seed this weekend.
Last season, Texas lost to Oklahoma State, 1-0, and beat OU in overtime, 2-1.
This Saturday, the Longhorns will take part in the Princeton Invitational and Concordia Invite in Cedar Park.
While the matches won’t be filled with top teams, they are equally important to helping assistant coach John Hayes accomplish his goals.
“Our teams are looking just fantastic, with new people and returning experience,” Hayes said. “Our depth is getting better, and I’m prepared to see who’s going to be out in front.”
This Saturday, the Longhorns will take part in the Princeton Invitational and Concordia Invite in Cedar Park.
While the matches won’t be filled with top teams, they are equally important to helping assistant coach John Hayes accomplish his goals.
“Our teams are looking just fantastic, with new people and returning experience,” Hayes said. “Our depth is getting better, and I’m prepared to see who’s going to be out in front.”
