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Longhorns Bring Home 16 Medals from the 2024 Paris Olympics

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Swimmer Carson Foster. With Texas being named the No. 1 Athletic Department in the nation by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics—winning...

 
 

Longhorns Look to Make History at 2016 Rio Olympics

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More than 10,000 athletes will represent their respective counties at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, set to begin on Aug. 5. And 18 of the esteemed student-athletes...

 
 

Revealing the Stories Behind the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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Growing up in pre-Nazi Germany, Gretel Bergmann skied, skated, and swam. And she claims to have she learned it all on her own. “Nobody ever taught me anything....

 
 

Texas Ex Sets American Record at Swimming World Championships

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When former Texas Longhorn swimmer Michael McBroom, BA ’13, set a new American record and took the silver medal in the 800-meter freestyle in Barcelona last...

 
 

Sanya Richards-Ross to Deliver Commencement Speech

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UT’s Class of 2013 will get some gold-medal advice on graduation day: Olympian and Longhorn Sanya-Richards Ross will give this year’s commencement speech. Richards-Ross...

 
 

UT Commemorates 40 Years of Title IX

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“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under...

 
 

Olympian Ricky Berens Swings By Texas Exes Tailgate

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You never know who will show up at a Texas Exes tailgate. Case in point: former Longhorn swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist Ricky Berens, BBA ’10,...

 
 

Longhorns in London

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Emily McKee, BA ’06, BS ’06, Life Member, and Andrew Garcia, BS ’05, proudly displayed the Longhorn flag on their trip to the London Olympics....

 
 

Final Tally: Longhorn Olympians Bring Home 13 Medals

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After a giant fluorescent octopus, the Spice Girls, and the Who passed the Olympic torch from London to Brazil in last night’s closing ceremony, the 2012 London...

 
 

Sanya Richards-Ross Clinches Olympic Gold

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It’s been four years in the making, but Sanya Richards-Ross has finally closed the deal. When the starting gun fired yesterday in the Olympic Stadium, memories...

 
 
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