Aakriti is a sophomore majoring in biology and minoring in journalism from Dallas, Texas. Currently, she covers the women’s tennis beat as a general sports reporter and previously worked in the social media department. She loves the Dallas Cowboys.
As a young girl, Kate Knifton would watch her dad row. A former Texas alum who competed on club and national teams after college, Knifton’s dad encouraged her to follow in his footsteps. But before she...
After spending four years at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, graduate student and women’s tennis athlete Tanya Sasnouskaya has found her new home in Austin. Announced on June 8 by Texas...
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...
Aakriti Singla, General Sports Reporter
• February 12, 2023
After a 4–0 sweep against Washington on Friday evening, No. 1 Texas fell short in the quarterfinals against No. 14 Iowa State, losing 4–1. The Longhorns concluded the ITA National Team Indoor Championships...
After securing a 3–0 season start last weekend, No. 1 Texas women’s tennis continued to fight in the ITA Kick-Off weekend games. Texas played Fresno State on Friday and Baylor on Saturday, sweeping...
Aakriti Singla, General Sports Reporter
• January 23, 2023
No. 1 Texas women’s tennis delivered in its first home games this weekend, defeating North Texas, SMU and Tulane consecutively to improve to a 3–0 start.
The Longhorns’ successful weekend started...
Aakriti Singla, General Sports Reporter
• January 13, 2023
Former Texas baseball head coach Cliff Gustafson passed away at the age of 91, but his legacy lives on at the Forty Acres.
Gustafson played for the Longhorns in the early 1950s as a middle infielder,...
When Carlette Guidry-Falkquay was in middle school, she read the inspirational story of Wilma Rudolph, an Olympic track and field champion who overcame the struggles of polio and paralysis in her legs...
On a hot August evening in 2019, three freshmen anxiously awaited by the goal post for their first tryouts with the Texas men’s club soccer team.
Three years later, the seniors look back and have...
Despite being in its first year, student-led Indian dance team Hook’em Bhangra is already finding its beat on campus.
Bhangra, a form of traditional folk dance from the Punjab regions of India and...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 22 flipbook.
The former four-time Big 12 champion has one piece of advice for those who wish to walk in her shoes: “When you stick to it,...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 11 flipbook.
As a middle schooler in Arlington in the 1980s, Mike Adams stayed up late on the porch during the summer surrounded by friends...
Four seconds left on the shot clock. Texas and Tennessee tied at 59. All eyes are on Tennessee junior guard Jordan Horston and Texas junior guard Aliyah Matharu.
The pounding screams of the audience...
