EL PASO, Texas – For years now UTEP track has had a storied history, but this past weekend at the World Athletic Championships, the pedigree was taken up a notch. Tobi Amusan (2016-2017 at UTEP) won the 100-meter hurdles and broke a 6-year-old world record twice (semifinals, 12.12 and finals, 12.06 aided by wind) becoming
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EL PASO, Texas — Former UTEP Miner star, Tobi Amusan breaks a world record and then sets a new world record in the same day to win the 100-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championship. The Nigerian clearly finding her stride at the right time. During Saturday’s heat the former Miner set a new African
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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 – 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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EL PASO, Texas — Many students starting college or university are in a unique situation. They spent a significant portion of their high school years learning online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And now they have to be ready for higher education. UTEP had its new student orientation Friday. UTEP’S new student orientation welcomed all incoming freshmen into the university, with a
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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.
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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 – 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 – 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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EL PASO, Texas – The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Athletics and The Brandr Group (TBG) have established a group licensing agreement for the university’s student-athletes covering all of the Miners’ 17 sports. This partnership creates new opportunities for UTEP student-athletes to profit off their Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) using the school’s official
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EL PASO, Texas – Jim Bowden’s road to the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame was filled with a lot of hard work and determination. Nothing came easy to the former Eastwood Trooper and former UTEP Miner. Bowden fell in love with the game of basketball, and it was that sport that helped shape the
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EL PASO, Texas — We’re less than 70 days away from the first UTEP football game of the season and the Miners are rallying the troops, via the Miner Caravan series. “It’s really good cause we’re getting a lot of passersby coming to see things and hoping to expose our program to more people in
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP track and field’s Jevaughn Powell was named the 2022 Conference USA Men’s Track Athlete of the Year on Thursday as voted on by the league’s head coaches “Jevaughn had a fantastic year and he made a big leap forward as an athlete during this outdoor season,” UTEP Head Coach Mika Laaksonen said. “He
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball filled an important piece of the frontcourt puzzle for next season with the signing of Georgia Southern transfer Thaniya Marks, head coach Kevin Baker announced on Tuesday. Marks will have two years of eligibility left for the Miners. Marks shot 57.8 percent from the floor during the 2021-22 campaign
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Thursday that Steve Sims has been named the new women’s golf head coach for the Miners. Sims comes to El Paso after spending nearly a decade as an assistant at UCF where he helped lead the Knights to six team and two individual NCAA Regional
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EL PASO, Texas – When Kenneth Lucero was a senior at Coronado High School, he had a decision to make. Focus entirely on basketball, or try something new and join the track and field team. Throughout his first three years at Coronado, coaches tried to persuade him to run cross country and run track, but
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EUGENE, Oregon – Suleiman Nyambui, a 15-time national champion at UTEP from 1978 to 1982, will receive the prestigious honor of being inducted into the inaugural Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame. The presentation will take place Monday night, June 6 starting at 8:30 p.m. MT/7:30 PT at the Hult Center for Performing Arts in Eugene, Ore., two
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EL PASO, Texas – On the 75th anniversary of the area code that identifies El Paso, UTEP Athletics is introducing a “915” promotional campaign that will encompass all 17 of its sport programs during the 2022-23 season. The mission of the “915” campaign is to embrace and engage the greater El Paso community while generating
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – At the request of Conference USA, UTEP at Rice, originally scheduled for Nov. 5, has been moved to Thursday, Nov. 3. Additional information will be provided at a later date. UTEP last played a regular-season game on Thursday in 2012 when the Miners played at Tulsa on Oct. 11. The Miners defeated the Owls
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EL PASO, Texas – Fred DeBernardi (track and field), John Furman (football), Johnnie Lee Higgins, Jr. (football), Jennifer Smit (track and field), the 1974-75 women’s basketball team and the 1974 volleyball team form the 19th induction class into the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame. This year’s class will be honored at the Miners’ football game
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The UTEP track and field team captured 13 medals, including four gold medals on the final day at the 2022 Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at UTSA Park West Athletics Complex on Sunday. Overall, the UTEP men’s team finished in second place with 124 points behind C-USA Outdoor Track and
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team has snagged George Mason transfer Otis Frazer III, head coach Joe Golding announced Friday. A brief profile on Frazier III and a quote from Golding follow below. Otis Frazier III Guard/Forward 6-6 George Mason Buckeye, Ariz. Two-year letter winner for George Mason who appeared in 34 games
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Basketball 2022-23 Season Ticket Memberships are now on sale! This year, the Navy section has been rebranded the “915 Section” for men’s basketball with a season ticket price of just $91.50. This is a nearly 50 percent reduction from the lowest men’s basketball season ticket price of $170 last season.
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Beach Volleyball Head Coach Ben Wallis announced the addition of former New Mexico volunteer assistant coach Daniel Foo to the Miners’ coaching staff on Wednesday. Foo will work side-by-side with Wallis as the Beach Volleyball associate head coach beginning in August. The Albuquerque, N.M., native started out playing baseball at Flagler
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EL PASO, Texas – Jon Dorenbos, long snapper on the 2000 Western Athletic Conference champion UTEP football team who later became a 14-year NFL veteran, motivational speaker and professional magician, will headline the 2022 edition of “Orange Fever Fiesta Presented by Madrid Law Firm.” Returning to an in-person event for the first time in three years,
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