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Track & Field

Julien Alfred becomes first Longhorn to sweep USTFCCCA Track Athlete of the Year awards

Julien Alfred becomes first Longhorn to sweep USTFCCCA Track Athlete of the Year awards

Lindsey Plotkin, Senior Sports Reporter July 3, 2023

Despite being the first Texas Longhorn in history to sweep the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Track Athlete of the Year awards, Julien Alfred is still not satisfied....

Texas Women's track and field athletes make Bowerman Watch List

Texas Women’s track and field athletes make Bowerman Watch List

Lauren Hightower, General Sports Reporter June 15, 2023

In collegiate track and field, there is not an A-list.  Instead, there’s the B-list, or The Bowerman Watch List, which names the top 10 male and female athletes across all events during each month...

Texas women’s track and field finish out season with fifth championship title

Texas women’s track and field finish out season with fifth championship title

Katie Borchetta, Senior Sports Reporter June 11, 2023

Texas track and field finished off its season on a positive note by earning a women’s championship win and a men’s 13th place ranking in the NCAA Outdoor Championships, with the Forty Acres hosting...

Jeremiah Nubbe views Texas as ‘best of both worlds’

Jeremiah Nubbe views Texas as ‘best of both worlds’

Gabby Norman, General Sports Reporter April 13, 2023

Co-valedictorian of his high school class, three-time outdoor track and field national champion, two-time Washington state Gatorade Performer of the Year in 2020 and 2022, and an alternate on the USA U20...

Senior Leo Neugebauer propels himself above a pole vault lath during the  94th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays Thursday, March 24, 2022, at Mike A. Myers Track and Soccer Stadium. Neugebauer, a native of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, holds the title of being a three-time All-American.

Leo Neugebauer, Kristine Blazevica shine in first half of Texas Relays

Lia Hoang, General Sports Reporter April 2, 2023

No. 10/1 Texas track and field started the first two days of the 95th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays with some of its best performances of the season.  Wednesday’s events were filled with stiff competition...

Former Texas track star finding her way through sports media in rural Wisconsin

Former Texas track star finding her way through sports media in rural Wisconsin

JT Bowen, General Sports Reporter March 6, 2023

Snow falls outside Serenity Douglas’ window in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, an exceedingly common and not yet welcome sight for the ex-sprinter accustomed to Austin’s warm winters. Now a sports reporter...

Texas track and field claim victories in field events at Longhorn Invitational

Texas track and field claim victories in field events at Longhorn Invitational

Aakriti Singla, General Sports Reporter March 5, 2023

Coming off its second and third placements at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in Lubbock, No. 8/1 Texas track and field kept up its momentum at the Longhorn Invitational on Saturday. Saturday’s early...

Texas track and field takes home bronze and silver at Big 12 Indoor Championships

Texas track and field takes home bronze and silver at Big 12 Indoor Championships

JT Bowen, General Sports Reporter February 27, 2023

Texas men’s and women’s track and field placed third and second respectively at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in Lubbock, Texas this weekend. While it wasn’t the sweep of first place Texas completed...

Marcellus Moore’s decision to transfer is paying off

Marcellus Moore’s decision to transfer is paying off

JT Bowen, General Sports Reporter February 21, 2023

Less than a year and a half ago, Marcellus Moore wasn’t sure what the future held as a dual-sport athlete at Purdue. While football was his first love and what had gotten him this far, it wasn’t panning...

Texas sprinter Julien Alfred is finding joy in her success

Texas sprinter Julien Alfred is finding joy in her success

Elijah Garcia, General Sports Reporter February 17, 2023

Sprint queen. That is the title that Saint Lucia lovingly gives to Texas graduate sprinter Julien Alfred. Alfred continues to shatter records and run herself into NCAA history, but the decorated sprinter...

Longhorn Track and Field set records in Boston, South Carolina over weekend

Longhorn Track and Field set records in Boston, South Carolina over weekend

Gabrielle Norman, General Sports Reporter February 12, 2023

Texas returned to competition this weekend with a split team, as the distance runners headed to the Valentine Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts and the rest competed in the Tiger Paw Invite in Clemson,...

Alfred’s record breaking performance leads Longhorns at New Mexico Collegiate Classic

Alfred’s record breaking performance leads Longhorns at New Mexico Collegiate Classic

JT Bowen, General Sports Reporter February 6, 2023

Just two weeks after setting collegiate records at the Albuquerque Convention Center, Texas women’s sprinter Julien Alfred approached world records in the same building this past weekend. Alfred and...

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