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Senior Malaika Rapolu lunges to hit the ball during singles against Oklahoma on March 3, 2024. Rapolu defeated Ava Catanzarite 6-2, 6-2, to help the Longhorns defeat the Sooners.

Texas women’s tennis senior Malaika Rapolu combines experience, ferocity to blossom in final season

Anna Ambrose, General Sports Reporter April 12, 2024

As her senior season comes to a close, senior Texas women’s tennis player Malaika Rapolu has worked her way to the top of the stat sheet. From Cedar Park, Texas, Rapolu holds a 32-5 record in singles...

Jared Thomas swings a pitch from Abilene Christian University, giving the horns an extra run during the game on April 2, 2024.

Texas baseball falls to Texas State 7-3 to split midweek series

Lindsey Plotkin, Associate Sports Editor April 11, 2024

Just 30 minutes after the conclusion of its first game against Texas State, Texas baseball took the diamond again, this time for a full game. The game was the opposite of last night, where the 9-1 game...

Infielder Joely Mitchell runs to home base to score a point for the Longhorns during Texas game against Texas State on April 10.

Texas softball defeats Texas State in intense mid-week game

Zach Davis, General Sports Reporter April 10, 2024

It was windy, cold and quiet. In a packed Red and Charline McCombs Field, you could hear a pin drop.   No. 25/22 Texas State, fresh off of their 35-minute bus drive, loaded the bases in the top of...

Redshirt senior Cleeve Harper shouts after scoring a point on January 18, 2024. Harper and doubles partner Eliot Spizzirri won their doubles match against Virginia.

A tale of two halves: How doubles change sparked momentous win streak

Karthik Nemmani, General Sports Reporter April 10, 2024

Tied at 3, the closest match of the season for both Texas and TCU came down to a final set. A top 15 matchup headlined by No. 1 senior Eliot Spizzirri, with a chance at a momentous win for the Longhorns. But...

Jared Thomas runs to third base during Texas game against San Diego on Feb. 18, 2024.

After weather delay in San Marcos, Texas baseball defeats Texas State 9-1

Lindsey Plotkin, Associate Sports Editor April 10, 2024

Just as the Tuesday storms in Austin rolled south towards San Marcos, Texas baseball was first to roll through the Bobcats, leaving Bobcat Ballpark with a 9-1 lead as play was suspended ahead of the ninth...

Women’s golf freshmen Lauren Kim, Farah O’Keefe wrap up first Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance

Women’s golf freshmen Lauren Kim, Farah O’Keefe wrap up first Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance

Ben Wells, General Sports Reporter April 9, 2024

Texas women’s golf freshmen Lauren Kim and Farah O’Keefe finished up at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur last Saturday, finishing tied for 14th and 20th places, respectively.  The tournament...

No. 18 Texas men’s golf finishes runner-up at Augusta Haskins Award Invitational

No. 18 Texas men’s golf finishes runner-up at Augusta Haskins Award Invitational

Ansley Denison, General Sports Reporter April 9, 2024

Bouncing back from its 10th place performance at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational in late March, the No. 18 Texas men's golf team earned a runner-up finish at the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational...

Professional golfer Scottie Scheffler sets up his ball and tee at the Dell Match Play tournament on March 26.

Golf odyssey of Texas women’s associate head coach Kate Golden

Perla Paredes Hernandez, General Sports Reporter April 8, 2024

Women’s golf associate head coach Kate Golden boasts an 18-year tenure on the LPGA tour and is currently in her 14th season coaching at her alma mater, but it all started with the help of a golf legend. “When...

The Texas mens tennis team chants before the match against Virginia begins on Jan. 18, 2024.

Texas men’s tennis head coach Bruce Berque on leading a ‘generational team’

Ryan Hopper, General Sports Reporter April 8, 2024

In 1988, before his illustrious coaching career spanning three and a half decades, Bruce Berque, then a recent college graduate from Haverford College in Southern Pennsylvania, decided he wasn’t quite...

Former ASU head coach Bob Bowman announced as Texas’ next swimming and diving director, men’s head coach

Former ASU head coach Bob Bowman announced as Texas’ next swimming and diving director, men’s head coach

Meaghan English, General Sports Reporter April 8, 2024

The swimming world has held its breath all season long in anticipation of the successor to Texas head coach Eddie Reese. In a press conference on April 2, that successor was officially announced as...

Guard Rori Harmon plays against Baylor University on Feb. 6, 2022.

SEC in NCAA Tournament overview: how Texas women’s basketball’s future conference opponents held up

Isa Almeida, Senior Sports Reporter April 8, 2024

The 2024 NCAA women’s basketball season came to an end on Sunday as South Carolina was crowned national champion. Texas wrapped up its season in the Elite Eight versus NC State, but the season was nothing...

Sophomore Viviana Martinez and freshman Kayden Henry reach for ball during game against Oklahoma on Friday.

No. 4/5 Texas softball breaks No. 1 Oklahoma winning streak with series win

Lauren Hightower, General Sports Reporter April 8, 2024

No. 4/5 Texas broke No. 1 Oklahoma’s series winning streak ‘sooner’ than they might have expected.  Since 2011, the Sooners had not lost a series. But after a 2-1 defensive battle similar to...

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