EL PASO, Texas – The legend of Tijuana native Jamie Munguia continues to grow with each knockout, and after Saturday’s thrashing of Kamil Szeremeta, El Paso becomes the latest stop on the tour. Before a heavily-biased crowd at UTEP’s Don Haskins Center, Munguia stayed aggressive on Szeremeta from the opening bell before the former world
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EL PASO, Texas – All UTEP Athletics sporting events for the 2021-22 season will return to 100 percent capacity, Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Friday. “We are excited to announce full capacity at our events for the upcoming year,” Senter said. “We will continue to prioritize health and safety while ensuring our venues are
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP is once again in search for a men’s golf coach. Sources confirmed to ABC-7, Derek Plucienski has left the program after only one season at UTEP. Details on why Plucienski is leaving are not known at this time. Plucienski was an All-Conference USA player at Southern Miss before rising through the
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LUBBOCK, Texas – After two hyper-productive seasons with the UTEP Miners, Bryson Williams officially has his third and final home. Williams announced his commitment to Texas Tech Sunday, where he will spend his extra year year of NCAA eligibility playing for recently promoted head coach Mark Adams and the Red Raiders. https://twitter.com/Bwillington11/status/1404224782925590531?s=20 Williams announced his
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EL PASO, Texas – After piecing together his first recruiting class with junior college and international players, Joe Golding has finally reeled in a big fish fans have waited for. Golding and the Miners added Georgetown transfer Jamari Sibley Thursday, bringing their potential starting power forward into the fold for the 2021-22 season. https://twitter.com/UTEPMBB/status/1403050232326201352?s=20 A
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EUGENE, Oregon – The UTEP Miners began their quest for gold Wednesday at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Seven Miners qualified for nationals and will compete in a total of five events over the next three days. On Wednesday, four of those Miners took to the track on day one of
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners will get another shot at finishing what they tried to do back in March. That’s pull off an upset on the hardwood against perennial powerhouse Kansas University. The Miners and Jayhawks are set to meet on the court this December. UTEP has yet to confirm the matchup, but
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP track and field team will be sending seven student-athletes to compete in five events at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., on June 9-12. The championships will be televised/streamed on a trio of ESPN Networks (ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU) throughout the week. LIVE
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EL PASO, Texas – All eyes are on Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon next week. Several members of the UTEP track & field team will get a chance at becoming national champions. The Miners will see action in five events at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships on June 9-12. UTEP’s 4X400 meter relay team
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball program is excited to announce the return of summer camps! The Miners will hold two camps at the Foster-Steven Basketball Center on July 26-30. The campers will have the opportunity to meet the Miners and be coached by current staff and players. Each camper will receive a camp
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EL PASO, Texas – Conference USA has announced its 2021 football broadcast schedule, which includes 11 of UTEP’s games that will air nationally by the league’s primary partners. All eight of the Miners’ Conference USA games will be available on ESPN Networks, while UTEP’s non-conference matchup at Boise State will be televised on FS1. “We
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EL PASO, Texas – New UTEP men’s basketball head coach Joe Golding added some international flavor to the 2021-22 roster as Kezza Giffa, a product of Paris, signed an NLI to play for the Miners. Giffa is a 6-2, lefty point guard and will have four years of eligibility for the Orange and Blue. Giffa
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – UTEP’s Roosa Yloenen advanced to nationals in the women’s javelin on day two at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminaries on Thursday afternoon at E.B. Cushing Stadium. Yloenen, a product of Hankasalmi, Finland, is the first UTEP female javelin thrower in over 10 years to advance. “The ladies opened up their
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The Mountain West announced that the UTEP-Boise State game is moving to Friday, Sept. 10 and will be televised on FS1 with kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m. MT at Albertsons Stadium. The contest was originally scheduled for a Sept. 11 date. “We’re excited to play Boise State under the Friday night lights on national
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – UTEP’s Paulo Benavides was the first Miner in over 20 years to advance to nationals in the pole vault, while a trio of sprinters – Sean Bailey, Shakeem Smith and Jevaughn Powell – earned spots in the next round on opening day in the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Athletic Department has announced the ‘UTEP Athlete Network,’ an online community for current and former student-athletes, in a new partnership with Grafted, an ed tech company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through the partnership, UTEP Athletics will be able to leverage the company’s video-first technology platform to help fulfill
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP track and field team will compete in 13 events at the NCAA West Preliminaries on May 26-29 at E.B. Cushing Stadium in College Station, Texas. Traveling for the UTEP men are Sean Bailey (400m, 4×400), Paulo Benavides (pole vault), Kevin Hewitt (4×400), Joshua Hill (4×400), Aleks Hristov (discus), Dennis Johnson
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EL PASO, Texas – New UTEP men’s basketball head coach Joe Golding announced his second recruit as Jorell Saterfield, a 6-foot-4 transfer from Ranger College, signed a letter of intent to play for the Miners on Monday afternoon. Saterfield is no stranger to the borderland after playing his high school hoops in Las Cruces, N.M., at Mayfield.
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EL PASO, Texas – Paul Benavides never pushed pole vaulting on his son Paulo. Honestly, he didn’t have to. “He kinda found some old tapes in the closet one time, some VHS tapes that type of stuff,” says a modest Paul, who after a collegiate pole vaulting career at UTEP and New Mexico set 12
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EL PASO, Texas — Imagine choosing to put an end to the pursuit of a lifelong dream when it’s closest to becoming a reality. That’s exactly what former UTEP football player Stephen Forester did. “It was a lot easier than I think it seems,” Forester said. Like most Division I college football players, his dream
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EL PASO, Texas – After serving on the Miner coaching staff for nine seasons from 2004-12, UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel announced the return of Aaron Price to the staff as the new special teams coordinator for the Miners on Thursday. Price, the son of former UTEP head coach Mike Price, returns to El Paso
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UPDATE, May 20: El Paso native and NFL star Aaron Jones’ plans to host a charity softball game next month in the Sun City featuring sports celebrities is now being postponed until next year due to a scheduling conflict, a spokeswoman for Jones’ A&A All The Way Foundation told ABC-7 on Thursday. “A little over a week
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EL PASO, Texas – Native Hawaiian Sheyliene Patolo (Aiea HS, Honolulu/LA Bulls) has signed a national letter of intent to attend UTEP and compete with the Miner soccer team beginning in the fall of 2021, head coach Kathryn Balogun announced Tuesday. A brief profile on Patolo and a quote from Balogun follows below. Sheyliene Patolo Attacking
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee- It may take a while for UTEP’s Track and Field team to get through airport security on their flight back to El Paso. But with all the hardware from the Conference USA Championships, I don’t think Coach Mikka Laaksonen will mind. Both Sean Bailey and Shakeem Smith earned three gold medals across various
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee – The UTEP track and field men’s team opened its 2021 Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with 13 points on Friday at Dean Hayes Track Complex. The Miners are ranked fourth behind UTSA (22), Rice (26) and Charlotte (38). The UTEP women’s team got off to a slow start with no points. “Not
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP track and field team will head to Murfreesboro, Tenn., to compete at the 2021 Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 13-16 hosted by Middle Tennessee. Miners will start competition on Friday at Dean A. Hayes Track Stadium. Heading to the conference championships, the UTEP men’s team is ranked second
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EL PASO, Texas – The hardwood in the Don Haskins Center is getting a new and modern design as UTEP Athletics has announced a generous $100,000 gift from the Cardwell Family. A portion of the money will be used to refinish the court – which was last done in 2015 – hang new banners in
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EL PASO, Texas – New UTEP basketball coach Joe Golding picked up a big win on the recruiting trail Monday, by securing a commitment from one of his own players! Center Tydus Verhoeven, who started every game in the 2020-21 season, announced on twitter Monday his intention to return to UTEP for the 2021-22 season.
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s not everyday an NFL superstar comes to your school, let alone gives you a pair of shoes, but it’s now happened for a second time in recent weeks in El Paso. Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones and his family, as part of their A&A Foundation, surprised some lucky
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Athletics is announcing the creation of a new courtside club area for Miner fans and donors, which will be housed in the Don Haskins Center, as a result of a $500,000 gift from the Gordon family. The premium area will be named the Gordon Family Courtside Club. “We are so
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