Category: Sports
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Women’s soccer team enlists champion
New assistant coach plans to push athletes toward championship After months of searching, head coach Kanute Drugan announced Sterling Mueller as the new assistant coach for the soccer program. Mueller began her duties on May 19. She will also be the assistant coach for the women’s tennis team. There were more than 75 applicants who…
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Baseball team falls to Condordia in ASC tournament
The baseball team lost in a 5-2 contest to Concordia, knocking them out of the ASC tournament. The top-seeded Tornados only outhit the Comets 7 to 6 , but the major difference was the 3 errors committed by UTD. Concordia will advance to play for the ASC championship against LeTourneau. The Tornados hosted the tournament…
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Baseball team heads to ASC tourney
The baseball team will begin postseason play Wednesday, May 7, against the Sul Ross State Lobos at Concordia University in Austin. Concordia, who has the No. 1 seed in the tournament, will host the tournament as a reward for clinching the ASC’s regular season championship. The Comets, who finished the season with a 19-13 conference…
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UTD coach selected to assist U.S. collegiate national volleyball team for second time
For the second year in a row, head volleyball coach Marci Sanders will be an assistant coach to the U.S. Collegiate National Team. USA Volleyball selected 36 athletes to participate in the U.S. Collegiate National team program, and Sanders will train the athletes and help them prepare for the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships…
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Golfer more than a great shot
Freshman golfer Gina Brannon is optimistic about her future in golf after making her first hole-in-one during a practice round at the ASC Championship Tournament. Brannon was 150 yards out from the hole and could not see where the ball landed when everyone around her started cheering. “I had no idea it went in,” she…
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Gay athletes left unrecognized in Division III
Media, community must do a better job at showing proper support to pioneering athletes who play for lesser known schools Gay athletes coming out are being highlighted at the highest echelons of athletics but are still being ignored at the lower levels of college sports. In the past year, three athletes at the highest levels…
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Inexperienced softball team improving in spite of recent losses
The UTD softball team defeated the University of Dallas in two nonconference games on April 1 before losing three conference games to UT Tyler on April 4 and 5. The first game against the University of Dallas ended in just five innings after the mercy rule was invoked, as the Comets led 9-0. The team…
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Consistency key to ASC success
Baseball team looks to end unpredictable form in final stretch of regular season to prepare for post-season tourney As the season starts to wind down, the baseball team is working to be more consistent as it makes a run for the ASC tournament. The Comets have their eyes set on closing out the regular season…
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NCAA must reform fiscal rules
Student-athletes should be treated as university employees, must receive pay, health benefits A blow has finally been struck in the fight for the rights of student-athletes against the NCAA. On March 25, after players led by former quarterback Kain Colter petitioned to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, director for Region 13 ruled…