EL PASO, Texas – Get your first look at the 2022 UTEP Volleyball team at the Orange vs. Navy Scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 13. First serve for the scrimmage is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Memorial Gym and admission is FREE. After the scrimmage, UTEP Volleyball will host a post-match autograph session. For fans coming to the
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP football’s Praise Amaewhule is one of 85 defensive standouts in Division I FBS to be selected to the 2022 Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List as announced by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) on Tuesday. Amaewhule was named to the 2021 All-Conference USA first team. The redshirt junior, who started all 13
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Locomotive FC were hoping to get their season back on track Saturday night, but it just wasn’t in the cards. The Locomotive fell to Louisville City by a final score of 1-0. It was the first ever meeting between the two clubs. Louisville is currently in first place
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EL PASO, Texas – A slate of nine games and one exhibition will comprise the non-conference portion of the UTEP women’s basketball schedule, head coach Kevin Baker announced on Friday. Prior to formally getting underway with the new season, the Miners will host Western New Mexico on Nov. 5 in an exhibition contest. The campaign
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EL PASO, Texas – Less than 10,000 tickets remain for the UTEP football team’s season opener against North Texas on Aug. 27 at 7 pm. UTEP is closing in on selling out a game in the Sun Bowl for the first time since 2008. The current stadium capacity is 45,971. Fans have been able to
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ATLANTA, Georgia – UTEP running back Deion Hankins is one of 115 players from college football’s Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) to be named to the 2022 Wuerffel Trophy Watch List on Thursday. The Wuerffel Trophy is College Football’s Premier Award for Community Service. Hankins, heading into the 2022 season as a redshirt sophomore, ranked tied
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP football fans can preview the highly-anticipated 2022 season and enjoy a delicious breakfast on the field in the picturesque Sun Bowl at “Morning with the Miners” on Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 7:30 am. This is the second edition of “Morning with the Miners” and the first since 2019. UTEP Coach
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP football’s Praise Amaewhule is one of 85 defensive standouts in Division I FBS to be selected to the 2022 Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List as announced by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) on Tuesday. Amaewhule was named to the 2021 All-Conference USA first team. The redshirt junior, who started
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Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive (9-8-6, 33 points, West-5) fell 1-0 against San Antonio FC on Saturday night at Southwest University Park. Locomotive Midfielder Liam Rose made his debut for El Paso as a starter, going on to play 61 mintues. “We weren’t clinical tonight at all, we were not
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EUGENE, Oregon – Former UTEP Miner Emmanuel Korir has done it again. Korir became a world champion after winning the 800 meter event Saturday in Eugene, Oregon. Korir, who represents his home country of Kenya, had never won gold at the World Championships. Now he can check that off of his list of accomplishments. The
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EUGENE, Oregon – Emmanuel Korir is on pace to possibly bring home another gold medal. Thursday, at the World Track and Field Championships in Eugene , Oregon, the former UTEP Miner won his semi-final race in the 800m run. It was a great turnaround for Korir who on Wednesday finished with a less than impressive
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EL PASO, Texas – The Miner Caravan returns to central El Paso on Saturday! Meet student-athletes from the UTEP men’s basketball, football and volleyball programs at Cielo Vista Mall (8401 Gateway Blvd. West) on Saturday (July 23) from 12-3 pm. Scheduled to attend are Otis Frazier III, Jamari Sibley, Jamal Sumlin and Malik Zachery from
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s running back duo of Ronald Awatt and Deion Hankins were recognized to the 2022 Doak Walker Award Watch List as announced by the PwC SMU Athletic Forum, which released the preseason candidates on Wednesday. The prestigious Doak Walker Award was created in 1989 to recognize the nation’s premier running back for
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EL PASO, Texas – A UTEP assistant soccer coach has been nominated for an ESPY award. Kate Ward was named a finalist for the ESPY for Best Athlete With A Disability in Women’s Sports. Ward is hard of hearing, but she doesn’t let her disability get in the way of her love of soccer. She’ll soon
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP track and field great Anthony Rotich, a four-time national champion, was inducted into the Conference USA Hall of Fame Class of 2022 as announced by league officials on Monday. Rotich concluded his track and field career as the most decorated runner in conference history. His impressive resume includes a trio of NCAA
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EL PASO, Texas — Former Coronado grad Ivan Melendez gets drafted as the No.43 overall pick in the second round of the MLB Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. “This is super special,” Melendez said on MLB Network immediately after being drafted. “I’ve been dreaming if this since I was a little kid. It’s just a
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive signed defender Miles Lyons from the prestigious Barca Residency Academy in Casa Grande, Arizona, the club announced today. Per Club policy, details of the signing have not been publicly disclosed and is pending league and federation approval. “We invited Miles [Lyons] in for pre-season after our friendly
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EL PASO, Texas – The game of football has been nothing but kind to brothers Chuck and Scott Veliz. The El Paso natives are now on a mission to give back to the game the love, and also their community. This week the Veliz brothers hosted their annual football camp at Canutillo High School. The
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP tennis team has garnered ITA All-Academic Team status for the sixth straight year, it was announced by the organization Monday. Furthermore, seven of the eight members of the squad were named ITA Scholar Athletes. The Miners have now been recognized for their achievements in the classroom by the ITA for
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC defender Eder Borelli has earned an appearance on the USL Championship Team of the Week for Week 18, the club and league announced on Tuesday. This is Borelli’s first appearance in the Team of the Week Starting XI in the 2022 season having earned a
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(Courtesy: Charles Hill) EL PASO, Texas – Things were getting back to normal, if anything today can be called normal. Athletic teams were able to play full schedules and the UIL and TAPPS were able to have complete state championship competition in all sports. Some of the highlights in the El Paso area were:*San Elizario
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP soccer officially unveiled the list of 14 student-athletes who have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Miners this fall, head coach Kathryn Balogun announced on Wednesday. In total, nine incoming freshmen join the program from the high school ranks, while five transfers have been added to the roster.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso college baseball star Ivan Menendez is being recognized by the City Council Wednesday for his achievements at the University of Texas this season. City representatives will vote on making the month of July ‘Ivan Melendez month.’ Melendez was the first Texas Longhorn to win the Golden Spikes Award, which is awarded
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EDINBURG, Texas – El Paso Locomotive (8-6-5, 29 points, West-4) took its first point away from H-E-B Park as a nine-man Locomotive side held Rio Grande Valley FC to a scoreless draw on Wednesday night. Goalkeeper Evan Newton made four saves to earn back-to-back clean sheets. A quiet opening 15 minutes gave way to
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EL PASO, Texas – Bryen Spriggs (former chief of staff) has been promoted to an assistant coach while Austin Cox (chief of staff), Brandon Decker (strength and conditioning coach) and Rian Stubbs (special assistant to the head coach) are joining the UTEP men’s basketball program, head coach Joe Golding announced Wednesday. Spriggs was with the Miners
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EL PASO, Texas – Canutillo running back LJ Martin has had a change of heart. Back in April, the 3 star recruit verbally committed to play football at Texas Tech. But the thing with verbal commitments is you can always change your mind. Tuesday, Martin announced via Twitter that he’s committed to Stanford instead. Martin
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EL PASO, Texas – Monday was decision day for Tyrone McDuffie. The Parkland High School offensive lineman made his decision on where he will be playing college football after graduation. McDuffie chose the University of Colorado. Four offers were on the table for McDuffie, all of them were from Division 1 schools. McDuffie had offers
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP has finalized its 2022 football promotional schedule. The Miners will kick off the 2022 campaign on “915 Night” versus North Texas on Aug. 27. UTEP is seeking its first capacity crowd in the stadium in 14 years for the “Sun Bowl Sellout” game against the Mean Green. To date, over 30,000
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Locomotive FC had no problems Saturday night against New York Red Bulls II. The Locos picked up three points as they defeated the Red Bulls by a final score of 5-0. El Paso would score 4 goals in the first half and then add their 5th and final
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EL PASO, Texas – Aaron and Alvin Jones returned to their old stomping grounds Saturday to host a free football camp. Several young football players gathered at Burges High School to learn from the current Green Bay Packer running back, Aaron Jones and his brother Alvin. Jones also recruited some teammates from the Packers, as
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