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The UTEP men’s program for both cross country and track and field ranks 10th in the nation announced by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Tuesday evening.
The USTFCCCA Program of the Year Award is given annually to the most outstanding cross country and track and field programs in each of the NCAA’s three divisions. In order to be eligible for the award, teams must qualify for each of the NCAA Championships.
The rankings honor the institutions that achieve the most success each academic year over all three seasons (cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field), based on the school’s finishes at the NCAA Championships.
UTEP’s cross country team finished 29th at the 2016 NCAA Cross Country Championships. The track and field team finished 22nd at the indoor NCAAs and 23rd at the outdoor NCAA Championships. The Miners tallied a total of 77 points.
UTEP is the only Conference USA representative in the rankings.
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FILE: UTEP’s Tobi Amusan in the Women’s 100 Meter Hurdles at the 2017 UTEP Invitational, Kidd Field El Paso, TX
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EL PASO – UTEP’s Tobi Amusan has been named one of 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman Award, announced by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Wednesday afternoon.
In her second appearance at the NCAA Championships Amusan, the 2016 runner-up in the 100m hurdles, captured the 2017 title with the fourth-best performance in the event in collegiate history. Her time was 12.57 seconds. The last Miner to win the event at the NCAAs was Kim Turner (1984). Amusan edged defending champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.58).
The Nigeria native broke the UTEP school record in the event earlier this year at the UTEP Springtime Meet, stopping the clock at 12.63. Her time of 12.57 demolished that record and set a personal best.
Amusan is the first UTEP female on The Bowerman Watch List since Blessing Okagbare on May 7, 2010.
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Travel arrangements are in place for the UTEP men’s basketball team’s trip to Costa Rica Aug. 15-20.
The Miners have games scheduled versus McGill University on Aug. 16 and Aug. 17 (both at 7 p.m.), and the University of British Columbia on Aug. 18 (11:30 a.m.). All three games will be played at the Ciudad Deportiva, Av. Francia Hatillo #2 in San Jose and all games will be governed by FIBA rules.
Cultural aspects of the trip will include a city tour, visits to the Holy Spirit Orphanage and Crocodile Bridge, and a Zip Line experience.
The Miners will play three games on their first foreign tour in 12 years.
The Miners will leave El Paso on Tuesday morning, Aug. 15, and fly to Dallas. They will connect on American Airlines Flight #986 to San Jose (Costa Rica), departing DFW Airport at 2:50 p.m. Arrival at San Jose Juan Santamaria International Airport in Costa Rica is set for 6:02 p.m. local time.
The team hotel for the first three nights (Aug. 15-17) is the Costa Rica Marriott San Jose. The team hotel for the last two nights (Aug. 18-19) is the Los Suenos Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort. The Miners will return to El Paso on Sunday, Aug. 20. The return flight to Dallas from San Juan (Costa Rica) is American #2436, departing at 6:55 a.m.
The Miners will scrimmage at the Don Haskins Center on Saturday, Aug. 12 prior to embarking on their trip. Details will be announced in July.
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UTEP Basketball 2017-18 Season Tickets are now on sale. Miner hoops fans can get on board for an action-packed campaign with Omega Harris, Matt Willms and the Miner men, or the UTEP women under the direction of first-year head coach Kevin Baker.
Fans who renew their season tickets (men’s or women’s) by Aug. 4 will be entered into a drawing to win one of four fabulous prizes. The earlier the renewal, the greater the opportunity to win! Payment plans are available.
The UTEP men return five of their top six scorers from last year’s squad that charged to a 13-4 record in its last 17 games and tied for third place in Conference USA. Buoyed by the addition of a top-flight recruiting class, the Miners are looking to contend for the league title in 2017-18. UTEP will feature a potent inside-outside combination in seniors Harris (17.0 ppg), a 1,000-point scorer, and Willms, who ranks ninth in school history with 98 blocked shots.
The Miners’ non-conference home schedule features matchups with arch-rivals NM State and New Mexico, as well as Pac-12 squad Washington State.
With the third-best winning percentage among all schools in the state of Texas since 2007, the UTEP women’s program has established itself as a proven winner. The task on continuing that run of success now falls on Baker, who was announced as the eighth head coach in program history on April 24.
Baker has an outstanding track record, setting school records for wins at every stop of his career. He is an eight-time coach of the year. Baker has a combined college coaching record 122-30, including 50-14 in two seasons (2015-17) at Angelo State University. Overall he is 344-131, which included 10 years as a high school head coach at four schools in Texas.
Call (915) 747-6150 today or visit UTEP Athletics on line to sign up.
Raise the Pick
“Raise the Pick’ is a MAC initiative focused on generating the necessary financial support to provide UTEP student-athletes a first-class athletic and academic experience.
Three ways YOU can “Raise the Pick”:
- Current season ticket holders can add to the donation portion of their season ticket.
- As a suggestion, your donation increase could be 10%/20%/30% that you can add towards your invoice.
- New donors donating this year towards student-athlete scholarships. (Minimum $100).
- Refer a friend to join the MAC for the first time. (Minimum $100).
By joining the “Raise the Pick” initiative you will receive a special invite to the “Raise the Pick” appreciation pre-game basketball dinner in the Larry K. Durham Center. [Date TBD]
For any questions or more information please call the Season Ticket Office at 747-6150 or go online.
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Ivan Fernandez, who served as head coach at NM State for the last seven years and led the Aggies to four consecutive berths in the Western Athletic Conference championship match, has been named women’s tennis head coach at UTEP.
“Ivan is a great fit for us,” said UTEP Director of Athletics Bob Stull. “He has annually had NM State in the Western Athletic Conference championship picture, and he’s looking forward to leading UTEP Tennis to a new level of achievement. He brings a built-in knowledge of our program and players that will allow him to really hit the ground running, recruiting and planning for the 2017-18 season. He and his wife love this part of the country. He’ll bring stability to our program and he can’t wait to get started.”
“After more than 15 years in collegiate coaching, I am very excited to be named the next women’s tennis head coach at UTEP,” Fernandez said. “I bring many years of experience as a head coach and much-needed stability to a program with a great history. I have been part of the tennis community in this area for the last 12 years and know how important the community is to the success of any program. I am committed to returning UTEP tennis to its former glory and with the continued support of UTEP, Director of Athletics Bob Stull, and the entire athletic department, I know that I will be provided all of the resources necessary to achieve this goal.”
Fernandez’s Aggies played for the WAC title in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015 NM State captured the league crown and earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. In 2016 the Aggies were the WAC regular season champions with an undefeated league mark.
NM State boasted the WAC Player of the Year in 2016 (Ashvarya Shrivastav) and 2017 (Rimpledeep Kaur). Kaur was first team All-WAC this past season. The Aggies also had a first team All-Conference doubles tandem in Kaur and Marie-Pier Thiffault. In 2010, NM State had the first nationally ranked doubles tandem in school history in Aleksa Costa and Sophia Marks.
Overall, the Aggies tallied 18 All-WAC honors and 42 Academic All-WAC selections under his tutelage. Fernandez has also coached numerous Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team members.
Under his direction, NM State women’s tennis received a Public Recognition Award from the NCAA in May for posting a perfect 1,000 multiyear Academic Progress Rate (APR). The Aggies fashioned a 3.5 grade point average, annually ranking among the best of the Aggie athletic teams in the classroom.
Fernandez also served as director of the NM State Tennis Center, which hosted the WAC Championship three times during his tenure as head coach.
Fernandez spent 12 years at NM State in all, including five as an assistant coach (2005-10).
He previously was a volunteer men’s and women’s assistant coach at NM State (2000-03), a women’s assistant coach at FIU (2003-04) and a men’s assistant coach at East Tennessee State (2004-05) prior to returning to Las Cruces. The Buccaneers won the 2005 Southern Conference Championship with a 13-0 record and secured an NCAA Tournament bid. Fernandez was a tennis professional in Las Cruces from 1999-2003.
Fernandez is a P1 Certified Tennis Professional with the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) and has taught tennis since 1990.
A Puerto Rico native, Fernandez received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas in 1996. His wife’s name is Lausanne.
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The UTEP track and field program received multiple Mountain Region awards for this season announced by the USTFCCA (U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association) on Monday.
Emmanuel Korir and was named male Mountain Region Track Athlete of the Year, Tobi Amsuan was named female Mountain Region Track Athlete of the Year, men’s assistant coach Paul Ereng was named the Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year, women’s assistant coach Lacena Golding-Clarke was named the Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
Korir showed incredible talent during the season. He ran the second fastest 800m in collegiate outdoor history (1:43.73). The freshman is just one of three athletes in the world to have run sub-45 in the 400m and sub-1:45 in the 800m. Korir set the school record in both the 400m (44.53) and the 800m (1:43.73).
Korir clocked 1:45.88 at the West Region Preliminaries to qualify for the NCAA Championships. The Kenya native will run on Wednesday in the 800m semifinal starting at 7:45 p.m. MT on ESPN2.
Ereng, in his 15th year with the program, has guided an impressive 1-2 punch in the 800m with Emmanuel Korir and Michael Saruni clocking 1:43.73 and 1:45.82, respectively this season. Korir’s time is the second-fastest in collegiate history and a 44.53 in the 400m, along with a 43.34 4x40m relay split as landed the freshman on The Bowerman watch list. His athletes scored three Conference USA crowns this season.
Amusan set an NCAA Division I West Prelims record in the 100m hurdles with a wind-aided time of 12.57, a time that doubled as the sixth-fastest time in the world in the event on the season. The native of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria, totaled 24.5 points to help lead the Miners to the program’s first ever outdoor conference title.
The sophomore makers her return to the NCAA Championships after placing runner-up last year. Amusan will compete in the semifinals for the 100m hurdles on Thursday at 6:32 p.m. on ESPN2.
Golding-Clarke, in her sixth year with the program, guided Tobi Amusan to an NCAA Division I West Prelim victory in the 100m hurdles with a wind-aided time of 12.57. Amusan also totaled 24.5 points at the C-USA Championships to help the Miners claim the team title, thanks in large part to Golding-Clarke’s guidance.
Both coaches were important to helping seven individuals and the men’s 4x400m relay team qualify to the NCAA Championships held at Hayward Stadium in Eugene, Ore., starting June 7-10.
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Emmanuel Korir was named to The Bowerman Watch List for the third time this outdoor season announced by the USTFCCCA (U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association) on Monday night.
Korir gives UTEP its 17th Watch List mention in program history – which is the seventh most by a men’s program in Watch List history. The freshman caught the nation’s attention when he clocked a time of 44.78 in the 400m on April 22 at the UTEP Invitational.
Less than one week later, Korir challenged Donavan Brazier’s year-old collegiate record at 800m. The Kenya native negative split the race at the Brutus Hamilton Challenge in Berkley, California, and crossed the finish line in 1:43.73 (Brazier’s mark stands at 1:43.55).
Korir is just one of three athletes in the world to ever run a sub-45 over 400m and sub-1:44 over 800m. In his first collegiate season, Korir holds school records in both the indoor (1:46.50) and outdoor (1:43.73) in the 800m and the outdoor 400m with at time of 44.53.
Korir won gold at the Conference USA Championships in the 400m (44.53) and helped the 4x400m relay team to a second place finish with a time of 3:06.94. The mid-distance runner carried his momentum into the West Region Preliminaries by earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships in the 800m by winning his heat and setting a meet record with a time of 1:45.88. Korir anchord the 4x400m relay with a split time of 43.34 and helped the Miners to a second place finish in their heat, earning the team an automatic bid to the national stage.
The next Bowerman Watch List update will come on June 15 where 10 athletes will be cut down to four as the semifinalists. One week later, the winner will be announced in Phoenix, Ariz., at the annual USTFCCCA Convention.
Seven Miners and one relay team will make the trek to Eugene, Ore., for the NCAA Championships starting June 7-10. You can watch the 2017 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships live on the ESPN family of networks. Both the final day of the men’s championship and women’s championship will be aired in prime time on ESPN.
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