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After main the Longhorns to a volleyball nationwide championship in 2022, Texas graduate Logan Eggleston has been named a Massive 12 NCAA Lady of the Yr Nominee in addition to a semifinalist for the Newbie Athletic Union Sullivan Award.

Eggleston concluded her Longhorn profession because the 2022 NCAA Championship Most Excellent Participant and AVCA Nationwide Participant of the Yr, being the primary athlete in Texas historical past to assert the title. She completed off her fifth and remaining 12 months for Texas with 407 kills and 42 aces. 

Coming to Texas at solely 17 years outdated from Brentwood, Tennessee, Eggleston performed for 5 years, now with 493 units underneath her belt. She averaged a hitting proportion of .305, together with 1,921 kills, 981 digs and 293 profession blocks. And to complete out her remaining season, Eggleston broke the Massive 12 profession aces file with 208 complete aces.

In her departure letter to Texas volleyball, Eggleston expressed her gratitude to the Longhorns and to the town of Austin for giving her a second house. 

“Thanks for trusting that 17-year-old child and welcoming her into Gregory Gymnasium with open arms,” Eggleston mentioned. “I’ve continued to really feel the help each single day and it has made my expertise a lot greater than I may have ever dreamed.”

The Texas graduate is certainly one of two Massive 12 NCAA Lady of the Yr Nominees, alongside Oklahoma gymnast Olivia Trautman, and each have been chosen by Massive 12 Senior Lady Directors. Out of the 619 feminine scholar athletes being thought of for the award, the highest 30 candidates might be introduced in October, with the highest 9 being introduced in November. From these finalists, the NCAA Committee of Ladies’s Athletics will make its choice in January of 2024.

This achievement is awarded to a senior feminine scholar athlete who has distinguished themselves in all areas of their tutorial and athletic careers, together with being energetic in group service, to which Eggleston has gone above and past in carrying out. 

Alongside along with her success on the courtroom, Eggleston has additionally helped create the DNA fund, a company that raises cash for use towards athletic gear and sporting occasions for underprivileged Austin youth. She can be a contributor of the LEAD initiative, which administers funds from Texas Athletics to nonprofit organizations and teams working for various communities.

Eggleston was additionally a four-time First Staff Educational All-Massive 12 member when she completed her time on the Forty Acres with a Bachelor of Enterprise Administration and Administration, and he or she is at the moment striving towards her grasp’s diploma in sports activities administration.

“I discovered my identification exterior of my sport and my voice,” Eggleston mentioned. “Volleyball has introduced me extra alternatives and opened my eyes to extra issues than I may have ever imagined.”

Apart from this main accomplishment, Eggleston is at the moment a semifinalist for the Amatuer Athletic Union Sullivan Award. Named after James E. Sullivan, founder and former president of AAU, this honor commemorates the nation’s greatest athletes and depends on the general public’s vote to appoint a winner.

Some memorable names from the checklist of Sullivan Award winners are Caitlyn Jenner in 1976, Michael Phelps in 2003, Ezekiel Elliot in 2014 and the primary volleyball participant to win the award, Lauren Carlinim in 2016. The 93rd annual award ceremony is ready to be held on September 19, the place Eggleston hopes to listen to her identify known as if she turns into a finalist.

Eggleston at the moment performs for the Galatasaray HDI Insurance coverage Ladies’s Volleyball Staff situated in Istanbul, Turkey, the place she continues to encourage younger athletes world wide whereas additionally making time to symbolize the Texas Longhorns on a number of platforms, together with her most up-to-date endeavor of talking on the White Home for NCAA Nationwide Champions throughout School Athlete Day in June.

The U.S. Division of State and the Fulbright International Scholarship Board selected 4 UT workers and school members to obtain awards from the Fulbright U.S. Students Program. 

The 4 chosen included postdoctoral fellow Julia York, professors Tia Madkins and Hannah Williams and South Asian research librarian Mary Rader. They are going to every obtain assets outlined by their respective awards to proceed to work on their initiatives and analysis internationally. This system presents greater than 400 awards every year in additional than 135 international locations.

York, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience, will journey to Chile with the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia and the Chilean Antarctic Expedition to conduct analysis on the evolution of temperature sensation in teams of Antarctic fish and fish across the Chilean coastal waters. Her deliberate analysis interval spans November 2023 to February 2024.

“It’s been my dream to go to Antarctica for fairly some time now,” York stated. “Due to the pandemic, it’s fairly troublesome to go do new initiatives and get new initiatives funded to go do fieldwork in Antarctica. So I really feel actually fortunate to have the ability to get this chance, and I’m going to attempt to profit from it.”

Madkins, training professor of curriculum and instruction, acquired a Fulbright Flex Grant permitting her to conduct her analysis in Brazil for 2 visits of two-month durations with a 60-day return to the U.S. between them. She and her staff on the REM-NE community on the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz will probably be specializing in Ok-8 arithmetic educating and studying and implementing lecturers’ equity-focused arithmetic practices in Brazil. She’s going to do analysis from July to September 2023 and November to January 2023.

“It was a dream come true,” Madkins stated. “This was an necessary a part of increasing my work and trainer training and arithmetic training analysis. I’ve been eager to develop my work exterior of the U.S. and disrupt U.S.-centric notions about what educating and studying ought to appear like.”

Williamson, human improvement and household sciences assistant professor, was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain to be a visiting scholar on the Universidad de Granada and collaborate with their school. They are going to work on validating Spanish language measures of information assortment and publishing them so individuals within the area can begin accumulating knowledge from Spanish-speaking contributors and consider how financial pressure impacts relationships.

“I couldn’t consider that we’re going to Spain for the 12 months,” Williamson stated. “I got here out of my workplace and was leaping up and down and (my daughter) stated, that’s probably the most excited that she has ever seen me and was a little bit bit bowled over truly, and I advised her that we’re transferring to Spain.”

Rader, head of the Arts, Humanities and International Research Engagement Staff and South Asian research liaison librarian, acquired the Fulbright-Nehru Educational and Skilled Excellence Fellowship. She’s going to go to India and discover archival materials not held in public areas and collaboratively contemplate with the individuals holding these archives what they need carried out with them.

“Not all the things is definitely out there in our establishments,” Rader stated, “And that’s when the true enjoyable comes from me as a librarian and an assistant to analysis to suppose by way of how we’re going to discover these sorts of issues.”

Regardless of being the primary Texas Longhorn in historical past to comb the USA Observe & Subject and Cross Nation Coaches Affiliation Observe Athlete of the Yr awards, Julien Alfred continues to be not happy. Alfred is the primary Texas athlete, male or feminine, observe or discipline, to win each the indoor and outside Athlete of the Yr awards in the identical yr, after securing the outside award on Sunday.

Alfred is an 11-time USTFCCCA All-American, two-time indoor NCAA champion, two-time outside NCAA champion and two-time indoor NCAA file holder. Alfred, who’s at the moment coaching for the World Athletics Championships, continues to be hungry for extra.

“Every little thing I’ve achieved up to now, it reveals my exhausting work,” Alfred mentioned. “I feel there’s a much bigger objective to be a world champion.”

Alfred, additionally a Bowerman award finalist, mentioned she wouldn’t have had the success she did with out the assistance of her coaches. Led by head coach Edrick Floréal, often known as Coach Flo, Alfred helped Texas girls’s observe and discipline win its fifth outside nationwide title. 

She mentioned that on the workforce’s facet, they barely confronted any difficulties with profitable the nationwide championship. 

“We actually have nice chemistry, we have now work ethic and I feel everyone works exhausting,” Alfred mentioned. “If one particular person determined to slack off, all of us picked up for one another and we additionally believed in one another.”

Nonetheless, Alfred confronted just a few struggles on her personal with staying targeted mentally, however turned to her coaches to assist her keep optimistic and work via her psychological block. Alfred hopes that the workforce continues its sturdy mentality and work ethic to steer themselves towards one other nationwide championship win. 

“We had such an awesome workforce this yr, and I’m hoping that the athletes coming in may simply see how exhausting this yr was,” Alfred mentioned. “To get to that time and simply by no means be comfy with the sensation of understanding you already received championships as a result of I imply, everyone desires to beat Texas now.”

For Alfred, being the primary Longhorn to win each the indoor and outside observe athlete of the yr just isn’t the whole legacy she desires to go away. 

“It means lots, and I’m hoping it might encourage athletes right here at Texas to do the identical and present them that it’s doable — not solely at UT, but in addition at dwelling,” Alfred mentioned. “No matter you set your thoughts to, you’ll be able to obtain. Having good communication and trusting in your coach and in your self goes a great distance.”

Alfred, a St. Lucia native, desires to encourage younger athletes like her to have the ability to obtain their targets. She mentioned if she might inform her youthful self something, she would inform herself to maintain working exhausting and never hand over on her targets. 

“At the moment, I used to be attempting actually exhausting to get into a brand new surroundings and simply to be in Jamaica and in some unspecified time in the future, I wished to surrender,” Alfred mentioned. “I’ll inform my 14-year-old self that ‘It will get higher and don’t hand over on your self now. It can take loads of exhausting work, dedication and sacrifices to get to the purpose you’re at proper now.’”

With all of her success in faculty, Alfred is simply now getting her skilled profession began. She is at the moment coaching for the World Athletics Championships that start Aug. 19 whereas working towards her objective of being the quickest girl on the planet, with no plans to decelerate any time quickly.  

Grace Xu, Normal Information Reporter
June 25, 2023

The inaugural 2023 Longhorn 100 awards celebrated the 100 quickest rising Longhorn-run companies on this planet, connecting generations of Longhorn enterprise leaders and present college students. 

The occasion, held by Texas Exes on Might 18, “creates a possibility to broaden networks with enterprise leaders, encourage fellow longhorns and lift consciousness of the unimaginable entrepreneurship that begins on the Forty Acres,” in line with their web site. Chuck Harris, the CEO and government director of Texas Exes, mentioned the Longhorn 100 awards actually started about two years in the past, with the conception of the Longhorn Enterprise Community.

“I’ve lived in Washington D.C., and LA and completely different locations, and I’m at all times working my companies,” Harris mentioned. “I’ve by no means had a Longhorn that wouldn’t take my name or take a gathering. So, it simply occurred to me that we’ve a number of Longhorn founders, entrepreneurs on the market and we don’t actually have a scalable approach to join all of them collectively.” 

Award winner Kristy Owen, founding father of 365 Issues Austin, mentioned she felt it was vital to search out these connections with individuals and different companies early of their careers to make sure success. 

“Plenty of our group has a manner of serving to one another out and connecting rather well,” Owen mentioned. “Having the Longhorn 100 is sort of like having a golden community of those that need to see you succeed.”

Harris mentioned that such networks are “invaluable” for potential entrepreneurs. He mentioned connecting with individuals who may also help others keep away from their errors is the best present in enterprise.

“It’s cool seeing a few of these companies from UT,” occasion attendee Christian McWilliams mentioned. “I’ve met a number of individuals in my main and it’s good to see how some individuals have progressed and have made a big effect on the world round them.”   

As a pupil presenter, McWilliams, an environmental science and Plan II junior, was amongst what most of the attendees thought of to be the celebs of the present. 

“Simply being round college students is simply great,” mentioned Edward Charrier, co-founder, CEO and President of Fractilia. “It’s energizing. You get to see everybody’s (pleasure) about what they’re doing and the probabilities of the long run.” 

For the way forward for Longhorn 100, Harris mentioned he hopes to see it collaborate extra with pupil entrepreneurship facilities and lift consciousness on the huge variety of CEOs, founders and creators graduating from the College.

“In a yr or two, we’ll have tales that say these two firms discovered one another on the Longhorn Enterprise Community or the Longhorn 100,” Harris mentioned. “(UT) is the place to return to if you wish to be an entrepreneur, founder or work with a crew of people that need to try this.”