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Patriot Baseball’s Breakthrough 2025 Season Ends on World Series Stage

June 10, 2025 Chase Upton

By CHASE UPTON/Sports Editor The University of Texas at Tyler’s baseball team made history this year, reaching the NCAA Division II College World Series for the first time since moving to DII in 2021 and [Read More…]

Patriots Make History with Second Straight NCAA Division II Softball Championship

June 10, 2025 Chase Upton

By CHASE UPTON/Sports Editor The Patriots have done it again, and this time, they’ve made history. The University of Texas at Tyler softball team claimed its second straight NCAA Division II national championship on Thursday [Read More…]

Patriot Baseball Sweeps Opening Round of LSC Tournament in Dominant Fashion

May 6, 2025 Chase Upton

By CHASE UPTON/Contributor The University of Texas at Tyler’s nationally ranked baseball team opened the Lone Star Conference Tournament May 4 with a near-perfect sweep of Texas A&M-Kingsville, winning the first game 10-1 and securing [Read More…]

UT Tyler’s Hurdlers Jump at Chance to Compete at Nationals

April 28, 2025 The Patriot Talon

By JULIANE FRUEH/Contributor Two UT Tyler hurdlers are fighting for spots at the DII Outdoor Track & Field National Championships May 22-24 in Pueblo, Colorado. Brandon Arenas, a junior kinesiology major, and Ashton Turner, [Read More…]

Athletes Say Online Abuse Shouldn’t be Part of Game

April 24, 2025 The Patriot Talon

By EMILY CLARK/Contributor Social media connects people from across the globe but it’s also a platform on which college athletes increasingly are subjected to harmful and abusive messages. A recent NCAA study found that a [Read More…]

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

March 21, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Video Editor Assistant Texas A&M Kingsville baseball coaches watch from the dugout as they fall to defeat Feb. 22 at Irwin Field. Photo by ORION BAKER. Pitcher Rawley Hector [Read More…]

Women’s Soccer Team Goes Through Offseason Training

March 11, 2025 The Patriot Talon

By EMILY CLARK/Contributor Note: Emily Clark is a member of the soccer team. The UT Tyler women’s soccer team members are putting in fitness training in the offseason to improve their performance. Each semester, the [Read More…]

Soccer Player Brooke Mullins Honored for Excelling Both on Field, In Classroom

March 11, 2025 The Patriot Talon

By EMILY CLARK/Contributor Note: Emily Clark is also a member of the women’s soccer team. Brooke Mullins, a junior soccer player at The University of Texas at Tyler, was named the Lone Star Conference Academic [Read More…]

UT Tyler Record-Setting Hurdler Reflects on Track Career

March 11, 2025 The Patriot Talon

By JULIANE FRUEH/Contributor Editor’s Note: Juliane Frueh is on the track team. Ashton Turner is the university’s record holder in the 60-meters hurdles. He ran 7.88 in Albuquerque, N.M., on Feb. 22. He placed second [Read More…]

UT Tyler’s Track and Field Team Pushes to Break Records

February 24, 2025 The Patriot Talon

By JULIANE FRUEH/Contributor Editor’s Note: Juliane Frueh is a member of the track team. Ever since David Kaiser and Nick Anthony began coaching UT Tyler’s track and field team six years ago, team members have [Read More…]