I hated my first semester here.
I told Ezra Siegel that I wanted to try out for the Sports department and gave him my email address. My email ended in .net, he wrote down .com.
I never heard...
Erica Routt has always looked up to her daughter, Shae.
Shae never quits. The Austin native is a natural athlete and was drawn to sports at an early age. She had tried soccer, softball, gymnastics,...
No one took a shot or made a pass, but the night was all about basketball.
Former Longhorn Imani McGee-Stafford had spent the whole day talking. She had made appearances with the media, smiled her way...
Nobody wanted to get ahead of themselves.
Entering the season, the Longhorns could have been riding high. Junior center Jatarie White was finally available after sitting out all of the 2016-17 season...
Alecia “Sug” Sutton was all smiles.
Texas had just been named as a No. 2 seed in the Kansas City Regional. Sutton grew up 250 miles east in St. Louis. To make the Sweet 16 would mean playing...
Kianna Ibis could not be stopped. Pick-and-pop jumpers, streaks to the rim, spot-up threes — everything was falling in the Arizona State junior forward’s favor.
Texas junior guard Lashann...
The Longhorns filed into the Frank Erwin Center on Saturday dressed out in their warm-up gear. They didn’t take the floor, though.
Instead, Texas’ players and coaches gathered behind the...
No. 2-seeded Texas cruised to an 83-54 victory over No. 15-seeded Maine on Saturday evening in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. With the win, the Longhorns will take on No. 7-seeded Arizona State...
Texas head coach David Pierce remembers the first time he crossed paths with former head coach Augie Garrido.
Pierce was a restricted earnings coach for Rice. Garrido was the head coach for Cal State...
March 12, 2018
5:27 p.m.
A security guard in a bright yellow jacket opens the double doors of the Lone Star Room of the Frank Erwin Center. He’s three minutes early.
One hundred or so fans...
Texas had to wait 36 minutes to hear its name called, but for good reason.
At 6:36 p.m. on Monday, the Longhorns were named the No. 2 seed in the Kansas City Regional of the NCAA tournament. The team...
Lashann Higgs had one less thing to worry about.
In No. 8 Texas’ past two games against No. 2 Baylor, Higgs was assigned to Baylor senior guard Kristy Wallace on defense. It didn’t go well...
It was a long plane ride home for Jatarie White.
The Longhorns had just come off a 72-59 road win over Iowa State on Feb. 24. White’s performance wasn’t nearly as strong as her team’s.
The...
It was a different kind of film session.
During the 2015–16 season, Texas head coach Karen Aston called her team into the film room. The players expected to see clips from their most recent game....
Sweat and tears rolled down Ariel Atkins’ and Brooke McCarty’s faces.
The then-freshman guards had just barely made it through the team’s toughest practice of the 2014-15 season. Things...
Lashann Higgs couldn’t quite perfect her form.
Prior to No. 6 Texas’ 72-59 victory over Iowa State on Saturday, the junior guard had made just one 3-pointer in February. Her 14-point performance...
Rellah Boothe provides spark off the bench
Freshman forward Rellah Boothe entered the game earlier than expected after junior center Jatarie White got into foul trouble.
Boothe played the final three...
Joyner Holmes’ name blasted through the Frank Erwin Center. She ran out of the tunnel onto the hardwood, horns raised and grinning ear-to-ear.
She was finally a starter.
The sophomore forward...
Jatarie White went exploring.
The junior center typically roams the paint, scavenging inside for easy buckets no more than a step or two away from the rim. Texas Tech made them hard to come by early...
Chasity Patterson couldn’t catch a break.
At a practice on Dec. 5, 2017, the Longhorns scrimmaged against an all-male scout team. Patterson held her own on offense.
But on defense, Patterson...
Even as No. 6 Texas began to pull away during a 73-55 victory at the WVU Coliseum on Monday night, the Mountaineers refused to slow down.
After surrendering seven unanswered Texas points to start the...
No. 8 Texas has lost to four different teams this season, but TCU was different.
When TCU sophomore guard Kianna Ray hit a pair of free throws to take a 79-77 lead over the Longhorns on Jan. 10 in Fort...
Everything was offbeat for the Longhorns.
Late in the fourth quarter against the Horned Frogs on Jan. 10, TCU junior forward Amy Okonkwo set a screen on Texas senior guard Brooke McCarty’s right...
WACO, Texas — Three looks inside and zero points to show for it.
Late in the second quarter of No. 6 Texas’ 81-56 loss to No. 3 Baylor on Thursday night, sophomore guard Alecia Sutton received...
Early in the third quarter of Saturday’s 75-50 win over Kansas State, Baylor senior forward Dekeiya Cohen lobbed a high-arching post feed to Kalani Brown. The ball would have soared out of bounds...
Head coach Karen Aston kept her head held high. No. 9 Texas had just battled with the top-ranked team in the country — and lost.
No. 1 UConn rolled past the Longhorns on Monday night just...
In front of a crowd of over 11,000, the Huskies got hit in the mouth.
Early in the first quarter of No. 9 Texas’ 75-71 loss to No. 1 UConn on Monday night, junior wing Katie Lou Samuelson got...
Joyner Holmes was frustrated.
The sophomore forward spent nearly half the season serving a semester-long suspension in the fall. When she returned, she was relegated to the bench despite starting in...
On Wednesday against TCU, with 1:48 left to play and Texas ahead by two points, senior guard Brooke McCarty zig-zagged her way into the paint and raced toward the rim for a layup.
She’s performed...
When junior guard Lashann Higgs went to the bench with 3:41 left in the first quarter, she took all of Texas’ offense with her.
Early in their 75-64 win over Kansas State at the Bramlage...
The Longhorns just couldn’t dial in the distance.
No. 20 Oklahoma State stifled their way to a seven-point lead with 5:58 left in the fourth quarter. No. 8 Texas entered the game shooting 33.6...
Texas started its home game against Northwestern State on Wednesday night in a familiar position.
No junior forward Khaleann Caron-Goudreau. No junior forward Jordan Hosey. No senior guard Brooke McCarty....
A layup from senior guard Ariel Atkins with 2:07 remaining in the fourth quarter left Texas down 73-69. After a free throw from Tennessee freshman guard Anastasia Hayes, Atkins hit a jumper to cut the...
It took Jatarie White two dribbles to get where she needed.
During the third quarter in a game against Georgia on Dec. 3, the junior forward squared up with the rim, bounced the ball once to move to...
No. 2 Texas has already established itself among the national elite this season, going 7–0 and winning by an average margin of 36.5 points to start the season. The Longhorns punctuated the hot streak...
During the halftime of Texas’ game against Louisiana Tech on Thursday night, former Longhorns Jody Conradt and Nell Fortner sat at midcourt reminiscing about their first game at the Frank Erwin Center.
Forty...
Freshman forward Rellah Boothe missed her first free throw, high fived a few teammates, then lined back up to take her second. The streak was close to ending.
The Longhorns were up 29-12 over the University...
Texas wins if
Nic Shimonek hadn’t had a bad game.
The Texas Tech senior quarterback had never completed less than 60 percent of his passes, never thrown for less than 200 yards and never...
Texas wins if
It’s become impossible to win in the Big 12 without a good quarterback.
Oklahoma State senior Mason Rudolph leads the nation in passing yards, followed by Oklahoma redshirt senior...
At a Longhorns’ practice two weeks ago, head coach Karen Aston was irked.
The Longhorns were running a free throw drill in which the players needed to get an offensive rebound against the scout...
Texas wins if
Nearly a year has passed and not much has changed for Texas and Kansas.
The Longhorns finished fifth in total offense and seventh in total defense in the Big 12 at the end of...
When senior guard Brooke McCarty rises up for a hesitation dribble, she always makes the same face.
She raises her eyebrows to her forehead. Her eyes grow big. She stares like a deer in the headlights...
On Saturday, head coach Karen Aston was looking for a defensive stopper — someone who had the confidence to take on a talented offensive player from the opposing team and make her life miserable....
Texas wins if
Before its game against Baylor, Texas had gone five straight games without a single running back gaining 50 yards rushing.
On Saturday, however, two backs were able to do...
Texas wins if
Though the show ended before he was born, Sam Ehlinger is still showing “Growing Pains” every week.
The freshman quarterback has shown some promise. He’s completed...
Last Saturday, head coach Karen Aston asked her players to give themselves a grade based on the team’s performance — the Longhorns had just finished a closed-door scrimmage against a scout...
The Longhorns were unable to slow down redshirt senior quarterback Baker Mayfield and the potent Sooner offense in a 29-24 loss to then-No. 12 Oklahoma last week.
Mayfield completed 17 of 27 passes...
Texas wins if
Last week, Iowa State handed then-No. 3 Oklahoma its first loss of the season, which dropped the Sooners nine spots in the AP Poll to No. 12.
The Cyclones didn’t do anything too...
Texas wins if
It’s been nearly a month since the Longhorns last played at home, but they’ll need to recapture the offensive firepower they found in a 56-0 win against San Jose State...
On Monday, Big 12 officials named freshman setter Ashley Shook the Big 12 Freshman of the Week, the first award of her career.
In a pair of wins over Baylor and Kansas State last week, Shook led No....
Texas wins if
The Longhorn defense has been incredibly polarizing through three games. They allowed 51 points against Maryland in Week One, then proceeded to shut out San Jose State the next week.
In...
In a conversation with her trainer, former Longhorn Tiffany Jackson-Jones was adamant that she needed to continue her routine.
“If I’m not calling you, I need you to call me,” Jackson-Jones...
Texas wins if
This season, Texas has allowed less total points and yards to opposing teams than No. 4 USC. Granted, the Trojans have faced a much steeper level of competition.
Sam Darnold and company...
Texas wins if
If the Longhorns plan on avoiding a second consecutive upset, they must keep the ball out of the Spartans’ hands. The easiest way to do so is to pound the rock early and often.
Last...
Karen Aston began planning the Longhorns’ trip abroad two years ago.
Texas’ head coach wanted to take her players on an expedition that would expose them to different cultures and...
Texas wins if
The Longhorns will be successful against Maryland if they can slow down the Terrapins’ high-octane ground game. All seven of the Longhorns’ starting defensive front from last...
College football season is still a few weeks down the road, but fans are already buzzing with excitement over the upcoming season. Coaches and players from each Big 12 school – along with Commissioner...
After an impressive showing at preliminaries in which 23 Longhorns qualified for nationals, the stage was set for Texas to put on a show at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. However, the...
As soon as the starter pistol popped at the NCAA West Preliminaries on May 27, sophomore John Burt and senior Spencer Dunkerley-Offor found themselves at opposite ends of their 110-meter hurdles quarterfinal...
O’Brien Wasome has a specific routine before he attempts a long or triple jump. He starts by clapping his hands, encouraging the crowd—and his competitors—to join in. Then, after leaning...
During his junior year of high school, Alan Zapalac applied to work for a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Wallis, Texas. He was told they weren’t hiring and went looking for work elsewhere.
“My...
Strong winds coming up from the south flowed through Mike A. Myers Stadium all day Saturday at the Longhorn Invitational. Though conditions were less than desirable, Texas head coach Mario Sategna expected...
Sitting inside the McFerrin Athletic Center at Texas A&M, senior sprinter Chrisann Gordon had her face buried in her hands.
She had just taken sixth place in the women’s 400 meters finals...
The field, sprints and distance crews each travel to different meets this weekend. While splitting up is common during the indoor season, it doesn’t typically occur outdoors.
“It always...
Prior to the Texas Invitational, head coach Mario Sategna said he was excited to see how some of the field athletes would perform. They didn’t disappoint.
Discus throwers, freshman Elena Bruckner...
Zola Golden made the journey south from her home in the suburb of Lagrangeville, New York, to the Bronx at least three times a week when she was younger.
It was all for one goal — to improve her...
Ryan Crouser refreshed his phone screen of the women’s shot put final results this summer in Rio.
He refreshed it again and again.
He was waiting to see if fellow Longhorn Michelle Carter could...
Longhorn seniors and former Olympians lined the center of the field at Mike A. Myers Stadium as their names and accolades were called over the loudspeakers.
This was it. For the seniors, it was...
Friday was a game of “survival of the fastest” as the sprints took flight in the early morning.
After seniors Morolake Akinosun and Courtney Okolo graduated last year, the Longhorns looked...
After an impressive first day at the Texas Relays by the Longhorns’ multi group, Texas was snared by a few setbacks on day two.
Junior Steele Wasik, who set personal records in four events Wednesday,...
Of the 7,700-plus athletes who entered to compete at the Texas Relays this week, 18 of them are freshmen for the Longhorns.
Two of them, Virginia Preiss and George Patrick, made their respective...
Sitting on the bleachers on the south side of the Mike A. Myers Stadium, sophomore Teahna Daniels took a deep sigh and raised her finger to point at the opposite end of the track.
“It was right...
Despite being on the road this weekend, Charles Anumnu feels he still has the home advantage at the upcoming Victor Lopez Classic.
The meet, which begins on March 24, takes place at Rice, less than...
COLLEGE STATION—After taking fifth place in the preliminary round of the 60-meter hurdles on Friday, freshman Rushelle Burton once again found herself in uncharted territory: the final round of the...
The Longhorns travel to College Station this weekend to take on the nation’s top competitors at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 10 and 11.
With both the men and women’s...
In every season since 2013, at least one of Texas’ track and field teams have won the conference championship. This year, it was the men’s turn.
The men came away with their third Big 12...
A pregnant woman and the soon-to-be father of her child lay asleep one night. Neither of them knew the sex of the baby, as is custom in Native American tradition. Suddenly, the man woke up from his dream.
“It’s...
The Longhorns achieved solid performances all around at a pair of meets over the weekend and proved once again they are not to be overlooked.
Senior mid-distance runner Mary Beth Hamilton shed a full...
Texas entered a weekend full of track and field action ready to kick its season off to a hot start.
Head coach Mario Sategna said his team needed to set the tone for the remainder of the season.
“The...
Iowa State drops the ball versus Vanderbilt
Everything went according to plan for Iowa State early in Saturday’s game. The Cyclones jumped out to an early 11-point lead in the first half,...
The Longhorns are set to kick off another indoor track and field season with goals to improve upon last season’s success.
At the 2016 NCAA Indoor National Championships, the men and women placed...
Before the annual NBA All-Star Game is played, fans are encouraged to vote for their favorite players to start for each conference’s team. This season is the first time the NBA is allowing media...
One month into the NBA regular season, teams now have a decent sample size of games under their belts and their rosters have started to gel. While still early in the year, many players have already exceeded...
The San Antonio Spurs storm into the Bay Area on Oct. 25 to play the Golden State Warriors on the opening night of the 2016-2017 NBA regular season.
The matchup features the two teams that finished...
