In mid-October of 2019, Texas secured the commitment of arguably the best middle-distance runner in the state of Texas. Graydon Morris, from Aledo, announced his intention to run track for the Univer...

Texas Women’s Track and Field and success go hand-in-hand. The program has won a total of 11 NCAA championships (six indoors, five outdoors.) and 45 conference championships (23 indoor, 22 outdoor....

On March 20, UT Track and Field received a commitment from long jump and triple jumper, Blake Harris. Less than a month later, UT landed another highly sought after track and field recruit in pole va...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NCAA is planning to extend the eligibility of athletes on spring sports teams by one year to make up for the season lost to the new coronavirus. The details of how the extra eli...

The Texas women won their third consecutive indoor track and field team title at the Big 12 Championships this weekend, setting a conference record with an astounding 180.33 points across all event d...

Throughout Black History Month, the American-Statesman will take a daily look at the black athletes who have had a lasting impact in Texas’ athletic department. Today, we are writing about track an...

Throughout Black History Month, the American-Statesman will take a daily look at the black athletes who have had a lasting impact in Texas’ athletic department. Today, we are writing about track an...

Throughout Black History Month, the American-Statesman will take a daily look at the black athletes who have had a lasting impact in Texas’ athletic department. Today, we are writing about two-spor...

The Texas track and field program finished up split-squad competition Saturday, coming away with two wins and another school record. The Longhorns competed at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitatio...

The Texas track and field teams picked up five individual wins and two relay triumphs at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational in Houston on Friday. Micaiah Harris won the men’s 400 meters in 46...

Fourteen athletes affiliated with the University of Texas track and field program traveled to Doha, Qatar last week to compete at the IAAF World Championships, where they earned five medals in six di...

Austin’s hometown running hero Leo Manzano has retired from professional track and field. The 34-year-old middle-distance runner, who won silver in the 2012 Olympic 1500m, was a national champion a...

Perhaps the best run of Texas freshman Jonathan Jones’ life will not count. FloTrack reported on Friday that Jones was one of three runners that did not realize that a false start had been called i...

Ashtin Zamzow may not be done making history at Texas. Zamzow, a senior heptathlete, was named a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award on Wednesday. Since 2009, the Bowerman Award has been given to th...

Texas track athletes Ashtin Zamzow and Teahna Daniels both earned honors ahead of the NCAA Championships, which will begin at Myers Stadium on Wednesday. Zamzow is the U.S. Track & Field and Cros...

Jonathan Jones set a school record in the 400 meters and the Longhorns made it 11 total qualifiers for the NCAA Championships in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday night. Jones broke a 27-year-old record ...

The Longhorns have a total of 45 entries in the NCAA West Preliminaries, it was announced Thursday. The competition will take place at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif., on May 23-25. To qualify f...

In Oklahoma over the weekend, Texas sophomore Tripp Piperi proved for the second straight outdoor season that he is the Big 12’s best in the shot put. Piperi wasn’t his family’s only standout o...

The Texas track and field team swept the javelin events to highlight the first day of the Big 12 Championships in Norman, Okla., on Friday. Ashtin Zamzow and Trevor Danielson came away with the wins ...

Ashtin Zamzow earned the honor of Big 12 track and field athlete of the week after becoming the first Longhorn to win the heptathlon at the Texas Relays. Zamzow broke the school’s record in the pro...

The Texas track and field team recorded two wins and 10 personal bests at the Roadrunner Invitational on Saturday at UTSA in San Antonio. Anna McDonald won the 3,000 meters while Abby Guidry picked u...

The Texas track and field team kicked off the outdoor season with a pair of wins at the UTSA Invitational on Friday night. Texas won both the men’s and women’s javelin event. Trevor Danielson too...

Two members of the Texas track and field team reached the podium on the first day of the NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday. Tripp Piperi and Ashtin Zamzow highlighted the day f...

The Texas women picked up two wins and scored in multiple events on the way to winning their second straight Big 12 Indoor Championship in Lubbock on Saturday. Teahna Daniels and Kynnedy Flannel each...

Various Texas athletes competed at the Aggie Twilight meet in College Station, with one securing a win Saturday night. Jake Johnson won the mile with a personal-best time of 4 minutes, 14.21 seconds....

Adding to a pair of school records and various personal bests over the weekend, the Texas track and field squad took another win to close out competition at the Texas Tech Shootout Saturday. Elena Br...

The Texas track and field team picked up five wins on the final day of the Charlie Thomas Invitational in College Station Saturday. Tripp Piperi now sits behind only Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Crouse...

The Texas track and field team finished up action at the Houston Invitational and the UW Invitational Saturday, posting a pair of wins in the process. Distance runners competed at the UW Invitational...

The Longhorns added three wins and a school record on the final day of the Clemson Invitational in Clemson, S.C. Saturday. Elena Bruckner recorded a second-place finish on the way to setting a school...

Crayton Carrozza will resume running at Texas. Texas’ track and field program has announced the signing of Carrozza. A senior at St. Stephen’s Episcopal in Austin, Carrozza was the Southwest Pre...

All-American Tara Davis has joined the Texas track and field program after a contentious transfer from Georgia, the school announced on Wednesday. Davis, who is currently a sophomore, must sit out th...

The Texas track and field team recorded seven top-five finishes at the Reveille Invitational at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium in College Station on Saturday. Teahna Daniels came away with the only win...

Three Texas hurdlers scored points for the Longhorns and Ashtin Zamzow recorded the best finish in the heptathlon in UT history at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. Saturday. The Longhor...

The Texas track and field team had a handful of qualifying performances in hurdles to highlight the second day at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. Thursday. The Texas women have yet to ...

Tripp Piperi took fourth place in the shot put as UT began competition at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Wednesday. Texas was 15th with seven points through one day. Georgia led w...

Steele Wasik became the second athlete to win back-to-back Big 12 titles in the decathlon and the Longhorns track and field teams took four wins overall on the second day of the Big 12 Championships ...

For most high school seniors on a visit to their future college, the go-to souvenir is likely a t-shirt. Yoakum senior Joshua Moore opted for a gold medal on Friday. Competing in the University Inter...

Steffin McCarter and Tripp Piperi highlighted the Longhorns track and field squad performances at the NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station on Friday night. McCarter finished in fifth place in...

Texas will be represented in 12 events at the NCAA Indoor Championships, beginning March 9 at Texas A&M. The men will compete in seven events while the women will represent UT in five. George Pat...

The Texas Longhorns came away with three Big 12 titles and a little bit of history after the first day of the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships in Ames, Iowa on Friday. The women lead with ...

The Texas track and field teams took second place at the Texas A&M Quadranguler on Saturday in College Station. The men won nine events on the day, but the Aggies came out victorious. Texas A&amp...

George Patrick had a dominating performance in the decathlon at the Pan American Junior Championships in Trujillo, Peru, on Saturday. The Longhorn won six of the 10 events on his way to scoring 7,514...

The Texas track and field program will be represented by six current and former Longhorns at the IAAF World Championships in London in August. Three others qualified as alternates for Team USA. Three...

Texas ex Trey Hardee once again won the national title in the decathlon at the USATF Championships in Sacramento, Calif. on Friday. He scored 8,225 points, edging out Zach Ziemek by just 70 points. I...

Numerous current and former Longhorns kicked off action at the USATF Championships as well as the Jamaican National Championships Thursday. The USATF Junior Championships also began with various Texa...

Over the weekend, two hurdlers helped Texas leap over its competition at the Big 12 outdoor track and field meet. Competing in Lawrence, Kan. on Sunday, Texas junior Spencer Dunkerley-Offor and sopho...

The Texas track and field team kicked off the Longhorn Invitational with a couple of field events that included a win in the javelin. Haley Crouser posted a mark of 165 feet, 8 inches to take the top...

The Texas Longhorns track and field team picked up a win and 11 overall top-5 finishes at the Michael Johnson Invitational in Waco on Saturday. The Longhorns just sent field competitors to the event....

Freshman sprinter Rushelle Burton was named the Big 12 athlete of the week for her performance at the Texas Invitational over the weekend. She finished second in the 100-meter hurdles, losing only to...

The relay teams recorded top-5 finishes and Barrett Poth won the pole vault event to highlight a solid day for the Texas track and field team at two meets on Saturday. At the Tyson Invitational in Fa...

Aldrich Bailey Jr. and the 1600 meter relay teams put on strong performances on the final day of the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. Saturday. Bailey Jr. won the 200 meters in 20.9...

A contingent of distance runners made the trip to New York for the Armory Track Invitational and posted personal records in the process on Friday and Saturday. Alex Rogers took second place in the me...

The Texas Longhorns track and field team took a win as competition began at the Rod McCravy Memorial, hosted by the Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington on Friday. Texas won their second distance medley re...

The Texas Longhorns indoor track and field season began with a second place finish for the men and a third-place performance from the women in College Station on Saturday. The Longhorns took 11 victo...

Texas sprinter Courtney Okolo is one of three finalists in the running for the Bowerman Trophy, which will be awarded to the nation’s top male and female student-athletes for 2016 in Orlando Fr...

Olympic champion Michelle Carter was among five former Longhorns to be inducted into the Texas Women’s Athletics Hall of Honor Friday at the Erwin Center. Also among a strong group of athletes ...

Despite not running in the women’s 400-meter relay final, Morolake Akinosun earned a gold medal as Team USA crossed the finish line in 41.01 seconds at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Friday nig...

Morolake Akinosun, a Team USA sprinter who just completed her senior season at UT, anchored the women’s 400-meter relay team to a time of 41.77 seconds at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Thur...

Longhorn Byron Robinson placed third in his heat in the men’s 400 meter hurdles preliminary round to advance to the semifinals Monday in Rio de Janeiro. Robinson had the 12th fastest time in th...

Alexis Duncan, a future Longhorn, had a personal best performance at the IAAF World Junior Championships as she took fourth place in the 100-meter hurdles in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday. Duncan finis...

Texas junior Byron Robinson outpaced a former Olympic silver medalist to take silver in the men’s 400-meter hurdles and Texas Ex Ashley Spencer placed second in the women’s 400-meter hurd...

Six former and current Longhorns runners battled the rain to advance in their events on Friday at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. Ashley Spencer and Byron Robinson both advanced in the 400-me...

Reese Watson, who qualified for Monday’s pole vault final, was unable to compete after the quad injury he suffered on Saturday flared up during warmups at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore...

On a night when Allyson Felix cruised on auto-pilot in the 400-meter qualifying round to keep her chance at a 200-400 double alive, Sanya Richards-Ross bid a tearful adieu to the fans, after pulling ...

Former Texas thrower Ryan Crouser was named a semifinalist for the men’s 2016 Bowerman Award by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Thursday. Crouser, a...

Courtney Okolo was named a semifinalist for the 2016 Bowerman Award by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Wednesday. Okolo joins nine other female student at...

Senoj-Jay Givans became just the second Texas runner to post a top-three finish in a NCAA 100 meter title race on Friday night at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Running into a...

Senoj-Jay Givans qualified with the best time (9.96 seconds) in the men’s 100-meter semifinals at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. on Wednesday night. Givans was the onl...

The Texas Longhorns track & field team qualified many at the NCAA West preliminary round in Lawrence, Kan. on Friday. In all, 13 Longhorns qualified for the NCAA Championships which will be held ...

The Texas men and women picked up some points with good performances in field events as well as distance races at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships on Friday at Lowdon Track in Fort Worth. Barrett Pot...

The Texas women’s track team tied Baylor for first place at the 107th Drake Relays Saturday in Des Monies Iowa. The women’s team won two titles and the Texas men’s team got vic...

UT’s Courtney Okolo shattered her own collegiate record in the 400 meters on Saturday at the LSU Alumni Gold meet in Baton Rouge, La. Okolo clocked a time of 49.71 seconds to break&nb...

Former Longhorn receiver Marquise Goodwin announced on social media Friday that he’s giving up football, at least for now. But rest assured, he’s not retiring from sports. Instead, he&rsq...

UT’s Courtney Okolo and former Texas runner Ashley Spencer won gold in the 4×400 meter relay and Texas-ex Michelle Carter broke an American record to take gold in the shot put at the IAAF...

The Texas track and field teams won five NCAA titles and broke a number of school records on Saturday at NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Birmingham. UT’s Ryan Crouser won his fou...

The Texas women’s track team won its third straight Big 12 indoor track and field title and the Texas men’s team finished second, just 1.5 points behind Oklahoma State, on Saturday at the...

The Texas Longhorns track and field team performed well at two different events on Friday. The sprinters and jumpers competed at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark. while the distance runner...

Senior Texas sprinter Courtney Okolo on Tuesday was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I national athlete of the week. Okolo ran the fastest time in the w...

Texas freshman Teahna Daniels set a meet record in the 60 meter dash as the Texas women’s track and field team opened the 2016 indoor season with a team victory at the Texas A&M 11-Team Inv...