EL PASO, Texas – It’s been a fun ride so far for the UTEP women’s basketball team. The Miners had a successful run through their conference schedule ending the season with a 13-5 C-USA record, 16-7 overall. Now it’s tournament time, and the Miners are ready to run the table and punch their ticket to
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EL PASO, Texas – Prior to the pandemic-revised season, Kevin Baker and the UTEP Women’s Basketball team set their goal to reach the top four in the Conference USA standings by the end of the regular season. That mission has been accomplished, and now it’s on to a bigger prize at the Conference USA Tournament
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EL PASO, Texas – No. 5 Western Division-seed UTEP (12-11, 8-8) will take on no. 4 Eastern Division-seed Florida Atlantic (12-9, 7-5) at the 2021 Conference USA Men’s Basketball Championship on Wednesday, March 10. The Miners and Owls are set to tipoff at 8:30 p.m. CT/7:30 MT at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Fans
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP softball team will not participate in this weekend’s Lopes Up Classic in Phoenix, Ariz., due to positive COVID-19 tests within the program and subsequent contact tracing. The Miners would have played a total of five games in the event versus Northern Illinois, Grand Canyon and Baylor Friday through Sunday
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GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — El Paso native and former UTEP standout Aaron Jones will be an NFL free agent. The Green Bay Packers didn’t use their franchise tag on the star running back before Tuesday’s deadline, ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted. The decision doesn’t necessarily mean his days in Green Bay are over, as Schefter said
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EL PASO, Texas – Souley Boum and Bryson Williams were named to the All-Conference USA Third Team as announced by the league on Monday. Boum currently ranks third in the C-USA and leads UTEP, averaging a career-best 18.6 points per game. The redshirt junior leads the league in free throws made (124) and attempted (152), while
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP sophomore Katia Gallegos has been named to the 2020-21 All-Conference USA women’s basketball first team, the league office announced on Monday. This marks the second straight year Gallegos has been honored by the league after she was named to the All-Freshman Team last season. Gallegos started all 23 games for the
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EL PASO, Texas – As the official home of the UTEP Miners, ABC-7 is committed to bringing UTEP fans coverage of all UTEP sports. I recently got a chance to speak with the coach of the UTEP women’s rifle team, Austin Litherland. Litherland recapped the 2021 season, and what he hopes to accomplish as he
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP junior Sabine Lipe was voted to the five-member Conference USA Women’s Basketball All-Academic team, the league office announced on Friday. This marks the second straight year a Miner has been honored on the league’s All-Academic Team after Katarina Zec was named to the squad last season. In the classroom, Lipe is
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LAWRENCE, Kansas – The UTEP Miners came close to pulling off a monumental upset against #13 Kansas Thursday night in Lawrence, Kansas. However, close doesn’t translate to a win. Despite leading the majority of the game, UTEP fell to the Jayhawks in the closing seconds by a final score of 67-62. UTEP dominated the first
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EL PASO, Texas – Miner fans can now claim free tickets to the 2021 UTEP Spring Game, which is set for 7 p.m. MT on Friday, April 9 in the Sun Bowl. The 2021 Spring Game is a free event open to the public, but all attendees will be required to claim a ticket beforehand to attend. Tickets will
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP’s Audrey Haddad has been named the Conference USA Women’s Golfer of the Week following her performance for the Miners at this week’s GCU Spring Invitational. This marks the first C-USA Golfer of the Week honor of Haddad’s career. Haddad, a senior on this year’s team, shot 4-over par in the
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EL PASO, Texas – Before competing at the Conference USA Championships next week, the UTEP men’s basketball team will square off against the 13th-ranked team in the nation. UTEP will make its first ever trip to Lawrence to take on no. 13 Kansas on Thursday, March 4. The Miners and Jayhawks are slated for a 6 p.m. tip time in Allen
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PHOENIX, Arizona – The UTEP Women’s Golf team wrapped up the final round of action at the GCU Spring Invitational with the Miners finishing 8th as a team on Tuesday at the GCU Championship Course in Phoenix, Arizona. UTEP opened play on Monday with a first-round team total of 301 to finish the morning tied for fifth. In the
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EL PASO, Texas — Monday, the UTEP football team officially kicked off their 2021 campaign with the start of spring practices. This will be the 4th season for UTEP head coach Dana Dimel. Dimel and his Miners are coming off a 3-5 record last season, the most wins for coach Dimel during his time at
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DENTON, Texas – The last time the Miners walked out of North Texas with a win was 1994 when Norm Brandl was head coach. Five coaching changes later, UTEP found its victory inside the cramped North Texas Volleyball Center under head coach Ben Wallis in his second year. “It felt amazing,” Wallis said. “I’m proud
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Men’s Golf has announced the signing of Laurenz Kubin to the 2021 class, it was announced by the program on Monday. Kubin, a native of Austria, will join the Miners after competing for College Sports America and the Austrian National Team. In 2019, Kubin was named the Player of the Year
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EL PASO, Texas – If Sunday was the last time we see Bryson Williams on the floor at the Haskins Center, he certainly went out in a way emblematic of his Miner career. Williams poured in 23 points on his Senior Day, and Souley Boum the same scoring total as UTEP thrashed Charlotte 77-62 to
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EL PASO, Texas – Maybe the UTEP Men’s Basketball team is peaking at the right time. In their first game in two weeks, the Miners showed zero signs of letdown as they thoroughly dominated the 49ers from tip-to-buzzer to close out a 70-47 win Saturday at the Haskins Center. UTEP (11-10, 7-8) forced 17 Charlotte
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EL PASO, Texas – After being off for a week, the UTEP soccer team will make its return to the pitch when it hosts LA Tech to open Conference USA play on Sunday, Feb. 28. The Miners (1-2-1) and Lady Techsters (6-2-0) are set to kick off at 11 a.m. at University Field and will be
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – UTEP women’s basketball (15-7, 12-5 C-USA) fell behind early in the first half was never able overcome a large deficit as the Miners fell to Charlotte (9-7, 8-3 C-USA), 62-53, on Friday at Halton Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 49ers led from start to finish and capitalized on a 9-0 start to
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team will play at no. 17 Kansas on March 4 before heading to Frisco for the Conference USA Championships. The Miners and Jayhawks are slated for a 6 p.m. MT tip time in Allen Fieldhouse. The game will be televised on Big 12NOW on ESPN+. UTEP (10-10, 6-8 Conference USA)
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EL PASO, Texas – As the official home of the UTEP Miners, ABC-7 is committed to bringing you complete coverage of every UTEP sport. This week, ABC-7’s Adrian Ochoa speaks with UTEP women’s golf coach, Jere Pelletier. Pelletier enters his 26th season as the coach of the women’s golf team at UTEP. The Miners have
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EL PASO, Texas – Middle blocker Kenidy Howard dealt an ace with the Miners up 16-14 in the third set, inching the team towards victory. Howard celebrated accordingly, stroking her hair and pursing her lips with a facial expression that screamed, “I just did that.” UTEP volleyball (4-3, 3-1 C-USA) went on to win the third
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team will return to the court this weekend following last week’s news of a positive case of Covid-19. Saturday, UTEP announced a positive case of Covid-19 within the men’s basketball team. As a result, UTEP’s final two road games of the season against Florida Atlantic were cancelled.
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners had no time to dwell on their 9 game winning streak coming to an end. The Miners were back on the court a little more than 24 hours later for game two against the Florida Atlantic Owls. Monday’s result at the Don Haskins Center was a more satisfying
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EL PASO, Texas – Outside hitter Paulina Perez Rosas entered the second set off the bench with thoughts of UTEP’s history versus UTSA in the back of her head. “My mindset was going hard and physical,” Rosas said. “This is our house and we’ve got to win.” UTEP volleyball (3-3, 2-1 C-USA) defeated UTSA (3-6,
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EL PASO, Texas – Riding high on a 9 game winning streak, the UTEP women’s basketball team was supposed to take care of business against Florida Atlantic Sunday. Unfortunately no one told the Owls, who built a 17-point first half lead and held on for a 67-62 victory at the Don Haskins Center to snap
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EL PASO, Texas – After a winless weekend against stiff competition, the UTEP softball team showed plenty of encouragement in splitting a Friday/Saturday series with Northern Colorado. On a beautiful Saturday afternoon at the UTEP Helen of Troy softball complex, the Miners dropped Game 1 by a score of 10-7 but rebounded nicely to take
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MIAMI, Florida – The UTEP men’s basketball games at Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton this weekend have been canceled because of a positive Covid-19 test and subsequent contact tracing within the program, the university’s Athletics Department announced. The announcement was made in a short media release issued Saturday morning. The Miners (10-10 overall, 6-8 in
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