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In 1975 UTEP won both the NCAA Men's Outdoor and Indoor National Championships. UTEP is only one of a handful of universities to win at least 21 NCAA national championships in multiple sports. The campus expanded in 1976 with the completion of the Engineering-Science Complex. That same year, the College of Nursing was founded.
The UTEP Miners is the name given to the sports teams of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). They are informally referred to as the Miners , UTEP , or Texas–El Paso . UTEP was a member of the Western Athletic Conference from 1967 to 2005, when they joined Rice , Tulsa , and SMU in leaving the WAC for Conference USA . [ 3 ]
Daniel Chacón (born 1962) is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas. [1] He chairs the University of Texas at El Paso creative writing graduate program, the country's only bilingual MFA program. [ 2 ]
Texas Western Press of the University of Texas at El Paso was founded in 1952 by Carl Hertzog, internationally renowned typographer, book designer, and printer. [1] The distinctive Hertzog colophon and his incomparable touches continued to appear in Texas Western Press publications until his death in 1984.
Born in the U.S. to Canadian parents, Joy lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, from age 9 to 17.. Competing for the UTEP Miners track and field team, Joy won the 1975 and 1977 high jump at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, with a best mark of 2.22 m at the 1977 edition.
Todd won the Asia Golf Circuit Order of Merit in 1996, [1] which qualified him on the Japan Golf Tour, where he played in 1996 and 1997. He won three times on the Canadian Tour between 1991 and 1997. Todd was the head coach at his alma mater, UTEP, from 1999 to 2011 and was named WAC Coach of the Year in 2001.
The Don Haskins Center (capacity 11,892) is the home of UTEP Miners basketball. With fans seated extremely close to the playing floor and the UTEP student section located near the opponent's bench, "The Don" is so notorious as a tough place for opponents to win that UTEP has historically had difficulty convincing top-rated teams to play there ...
The Miners compiled a 4–5–1 record that year. [63] UTEP tied I-AA UC Santa Barbara by a score of 14–14 in the season opener. [64] After defeating New Mexico by a score of 44–15 on September 21, [65] UTEP lost three straight to No. 19 Arizona State, [66] Arizona in a shutout, [67] and I-AA opponent Long Beach State. [68]