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05/11/2008

Track and Field: Mean Green fall short to Hilltoppers
North Texas made a run on the final day of the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships only to come up short in the team race at Fouts Field. The Mean Green came into the day hoping to chase down Western Kentucky and made some headway thanks to a solid day in the sprinting events before the Hilltoppers pulled away. WKU won the women's team title with 143 points to outdistance UNT, which had 115. The Hilltoppers also won the men's title to complete the sweep of the team championships.

Track & field: Doubling up

For the Denton Record-Chronicle/David Minton

UNT freshman Alysha Adams runs a preliminary heat of the 100-meter hurdles during the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Chamionships on Saturday at Fouts Field.

After working her way through the perhaps the toughest event in the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships, one would have assumed that Alysha Adams was completely out of energy. The freshman showed that wasn’t the case after an impressive double on Saturday at Fouts Field.

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05/10/2008

Track and field: Stickler back in discus form
Before he became a wide receiver for North Texas, Brock Stickler was a national class competitor in the discus. Stickler traveled the country to compete in the top meets and had his choice of schools to sign with after finishing second in one of the most prestigious meets in the country. Stickler always wondered how his career would have unfolded if he had decided to stick with track after signing a football scholarship with UNT. Friday, the junior took the first step toward finding out if track is really where his talents lie during the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Champ-ionships at Fouts Field.

05/08/2008

Track & field: Relay could hold key to UNT hopes
North Texas will begin the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships today at Fouts Field with what amounts to an ace in the hole. UNT has several athletes who are expected to compete for individual championships and was picked to finish second in the women's team race in the coaches' pre-meet poll. If the Mean Green performs to expectations, it could be in position to put its title hopes in the hands of its 4x400-meter relay team.

05/09/2008

Softball: Mean Green ousts FAU at Sun Belt tourney
TROY, Ala. — Freshman Mallory Cantler hit a walk-off home run to give the North Texas softball team a 4-3 victory against Florida Atlantic on Thursday in an elimination game at the Sun Belt Conference tournament at the Troy Softball Complex.

05/08/2008

Track: Adams goes from walk-on to track star
Every once in a while, Alysha Adams ponders what her life would be like if she hadn’t taken a risk by lacing up her track spikes for what could have been the final time earlier this year. Adams was a star athlete at Houston Westside and had scholarship offers to play volleyball or basketball at junior colleges and Division II schools her senior year and even picked up a couple of Division I track offers after a standout performance in summer track nearly a year ago.

Softball: UNT falls in 1st round of Sun Belt tourney
TROY, Ala. — Tanya McLean knocked in the game-winning run with a sacrifice fly to give Troy a 4-3 win against the North Texas softball team in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament on Wednesday afternoon at the Troy Softball Complex.

05/06/2008

Football: Academic report costly for UNT

Rick Villarreal

The North Texas football and men’s basketball teams will be a little shorthanded next season after the NCAA handed both teams scholarship penalties for falling short of the benchmark score in its Academic Progress Rate report released Tuesday. The UNT football team lost five scholarships, the highest total in Texas and in the Sun Belt Conference, while the basketball team lost one scholarship.

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Softball: Dad cooks up luck for Muller
Bernhard Muller barely had a chance to stretch his legs after an all-night flight from Beijing two years ago when he climbed into a car bound for Houston. His eyelids felt heavy and his body exhausted as he made the four-hour trip for one of those rare moments in his life that he will never forget.

05/07/2008

Women's basketball: Hayes joins UNT women’s basketball coaching staff
Former Wiley College head coach Johnetta Hayes has joined the UNT women’s basketball team’s staff as an assistant coach, head coach Shanice Stephens confirmed Tuesday.

Athletic banquet: Arno-Templet honored during athletic awards banquet
Decorated TWU gymnast Courtney Arno-Templet was given another honor on Sunday when she was presented with the President’s Award at the TWU athletic department’s 2007-08 awards banquet.

05/06/2008

Men's basketball: UNT basketball to lose one scholarship

Johnny Jones

The North Texas men’s basketball team will lose one scholarship today when the NCAA releases its Academic Progress Rate report, a source close to the situation said Monday. The report measures a school’s ability to keep its athletes in school and eligible and also rates each individual program. The formula the NCAA uses to calculate the APR gives each student-athlete a point for remaining eligible and another for remaining in school.

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05/04/2008

College track and field: UNT track strong in final tune-up before SBC championships
ARLINGTON — The University of North Texas track and field team posted four first place finishes and eight season best Saturday at the UTA Open in Arlington. The meet served as final run-through for the Mean Green before it hosts the 2008 Sun Belt Outdoor Track and Field Championships next weekend.

05/03/2008

Stephens’ salary raises bar for UNT
New North Texas women’s basketball coach Shanice Stephens will earn 14 percent more in her first season with the Mean Green than former head coach Tina Slinker did in her final campaign at UNT. Stephens signed a five-year contract on April 16 after agreeing to take over the program. The contract was made available Friday.

05/02/2008

Swimming & diving: UNT swimming and diving team adds eight to class
UNT head coach Joe Dykstra announced that he has added eight athletes to his 2008 recruiting class, a group that includes diver Delia Covo.