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Track & Field

Sydni Wilkins finds her stride in her freshman season with Texas cross country

Sydni Wilkins finds her stride in her freshman season with Texas cross country

Liv Elizondo, General Sports Reporter October 21, 2024

Frisco local Sydni Wilkins shined in her collegiate debut contributing to Texas’ wins in all four women's regular season meets. But her biggest goal is currently still a work in progress: finding her...

Graduate student Isaac Alonzo leads the Texas Cross Country team down the first 100-meters of the Stormy Seas Opener course on Aug. 30, 2024.

Competing year-round, distance runners pace themselves race-by-race, month-by-month

Tyler Firtel, General Sports Reporter October 15, 2024

In the midst of his senior year cross country season, distance runner Isaac Alonzo is navigating life as a fall in-season student athlete. But he prepares to do so in the spring as well.  Each year...

Chrystal Herpin warms up at the Texas Invitational on April 26, 2024. Herpin took second place in discus with a throw of 55.55 meters.

Texas shot putter Chrystal Herpin reflects on past 3 years as student athlete

Ariel Doss, General Sports Reporter September 30, 2024

As Texas shot putter Chrystal Herpin anxiously awaits the first meet of her senior year, she’s been reflecting on how the Texas Athletics program has changed her not only as an athlete but as a person. After...

The women's Track & Field/Cross Country team chants before heading to the starting line at the Cowboy Jamboree Meet on September 23, 2023. The Longhorns placed second as a team with a score of 52 points.

Making world watch: former Longhorn Tara Davis-Woodhall wins long jump gold

Lauren Hightower, Senior Sports Reporter August 12, 2024

Showing the crowd how she wanted them to clap for her, Longhorn alumna Tara Davis-Woodhall stared down the purple long jump runway in Paris. “I do that so I can have the world watch,” Davis-Woodhall...

Ryan Crouser during the Spring 2013 Texas Relays.

Ryan Crouser wins unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in shot put

Isa Almeida, Sports Desk Editor August 8, 2024

Former Texas track and field star Ryan Crouser became the first athlete to win three consecutive gold medals in the Olympic shot put, a story that started right after Crouser left Austin. The 2015-2016...

Leo Neugebauer prepares to throw a discus at Mike A. Myers Stadium on March 28, 2024.

Texas track and field wins four medals so far at Olympic Games

Isa Almeida, Sports Desk Editor August 8, 2024

Four medals came out of the Longhorns in the various Olympic track and field events. Out of five past and current athletes sent by the program, three medaled and one still has an opportunity to step onto...

Julien Alfred makes Texas, Saint Lucia history in Paris Olympics

Julien Alfred makes Texas, Saint Lucia history in Paris Olympics

Isa Almeida, Sports Desk Editor August 5, 2024

The Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia sent four athletes to the 2024 Olympic Games. The island, which first appeared in the tournament in Atlanta in 1996, had never won a medal in any sport – but one...

On the field for Texas, in the field of law: Texas javelin thrower Cooper Tyler talks balancing act between athletics, law school

On the field for Texas, in the field of law: Texas javelin thrower Cooper Tyler talks balancing act between athletics, law school

Ylver Deleon-Rios, General Sports Reporter July 18, 2024

Graduate student Cooper Tyler finds himself in a peculiar situation that not many UT athletes are in. He is a part of the University's track and field team, competing in the javelin event. The difference...

Texas track and field sends 10 past, present Longhorns to Paris for Summer Olympics

Texas track and field sends 10 past, present Longhorns to Paris for Summer Olympics

Sophia Sandoval, General Sports Reporter July 1, 2024

It was a busy weekend for the current and former stars of the Texas track and field team, as numerous federations held their Olympic trials to determine their teams for the Summer Olympic Games this month....

Leo Neugebauer, Ackelia Smith make history at NCAA outdoor track and field championships

Leo Neugebauer, Ackelia Smith make history at NCAA outdoor track and field championships

Sophia Sandoval, General Sports Reporter June 9, 2024

The Texas track and field team finished off its season this weekend with a third-place finish in the women’s meet and 12th in the men’s at the NCAA outdoor championships in Eugene, Oregon.  The...

Texas women’s track and field signs three new athletes

Texas women’s track and field signs three new athletes

Sophia Sandoval, General Sports Reporter April 24, 2024

The Texas women’s track and field team signed three new athletes this past November, helping usher in a new era of the program. Among the recruits, two athletes will arrive in the fall, while the other...

Senior Yusuf Bizimana waves to the crowd after running the anchor leg of the sprint medley relay on March 29, 2024, at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. Bizimana led his relay team to a first place finish, with a final time of 3:15.03.

Yusuf Bizimana reflects on observing Ramadan as a student athlete

Jacob Shaw, General Sports Reporter April 23, 2024

This year, the recognition of the Islamic holiday Ramadan lasted from March 10 through April 9, with those who participated fasting each from sunrise to sunset, and emphasizing good deeds, religious discipline,...

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