WBB | In just the second year of postseason eligibility at the NCAA Division II level...
After inheriting a program that went 3-37 in the first two seasons against Division II competition...
Head coach Rebecca Alvidrez leads
@UTTylerWBB
to a South Central Regional Title!
GEN | TODAY IS THE DAY!
The University of Texas at Tyler is officially a full-fledged Division II member as of today! We are
#TYLERMADE
for Division II!
REGIONAL CHAMPIONS‼️
@uttylerbaseball
scored four runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to win the NCAA Central Regional and advance to the NCAA DIII Championship in Appleton, Wisconsin for the first time in program history.
RETWEET to congratulate
@Patriot_sb
on another amazing season! UT Tyler's year ended on Saturday at the NCAA DIII Softball Championship, but not before the Patriots won 44 games, two ASC titles, regional and super regional championships and had five all-Americans!
#PatriotPride
SB | THE PATRIOTS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!
With a 10-1 victory over
#13
Western Washington.
@Patriot_sb
has claimed the 2024 NCAA Division II Softball National Championship!
#SWOOPSWOOP
SB | With this afternoon's 4-1 season-opening win,
@Patriot_sb
head coach Mike Reed notched his 800th career win.
Reed is 800-168 over the span of his 22-year career.
Simply one of the best in the business on and off the field.
Congratulations coach Reed!
#SWOOPSWOOP
Louis Wilson has been named the fourth
@uttylermbb
Head Coach in program history! He comes to UT Tyler with 26 season of coaching experience at the NCAA Division I and NCAA Division II levels.
STORY:
CHAMPIONSHIP RECAP:
@uttylerbaseball
earns NCAA DIII National Championship title by sweeping through No. 6 TLU on Tuesday to cap an 11-2 postseason run that ended with a dog pile here in Appleton, Wisconsin.
📰
With an
@Patriot_sb
victory to end 2019, Head Coach Mike Reed recorded his 700th career victory! He is the quickest NCAA Division III head coach to reach the mark and his .824 win percentage ranks fourth-best in NCAA history across all divisions.
STORY:
NCAA CENTRAL REGION CHAMPIONS‼️
@uttylerbaseball
advances to the NCAA DIII Baseball Championships in Appleton, Wisconsin after winning five straight elimination games for the program's first regional title.
📰
VB | A little bit of nerves...
BUT THE PATS ARE IN!
@uttyler_vball
is selected into the NCAA Division II National Tournament! UT Tyler will take on no. 3 seeded Colorado Mesa in the South Central Regional Tournament!
#TYLERMADE
UT Tyler is the 2021
@LoneStarConf
Softball Champion!!!
@Patriot_sb
's 1-0, 8-3 sweep of
#9
-ranked Texas A&M-Commerce clinched the 2021 LSC title with 2 games to play.
#TYLERMADE
AWARD:
@Patriot_sb
freshman Ashley Perez earns ASC Offensive Player of the Week after finishing her first week with 12 RBI, two home runs and three doubles in a 5-0 week for UT Tyler. Perez and the Patriots host Concordia this weekend in a three-game series at Suddenlink Field.
BASE | AUSTIN OCHOA ENDS IT!
@uttylerbaseball
upsets
#2
Angelo State by a 3-2 final in the bottom of the 13th on this solo homer from Austin Ochoa!
What a start to the series!
#SWOOPSWOOP
BASE | WHAT A WAY TO END IT!
Kyle McShaffry walks it off for
#24
@uttylerbaseball
with this three-run shot deep into the East Texas woods beyond the right field wall!
CU - 3
#24
UTT - 6
FINAL
#TYLERMADE
SB | 49-9 on the year.
National Semifinalists.
South Central Regional Champions.
LSC Regular Season Champions.
All in the first year of full Division II status.
@Patriot_sb
has so much to be proud of in an incredible season!
#TYLERMADE
SB | 📸 from this evening's celebration as
#1
@Patriot_sb
wins the South Central Region and secures their spot in next week's Division II World Series in Denver, Colo.!
#TYLERMADE
AWARD:
@CoachPorche
has been named the ABCA/Diamond NCAA Division III West Region Coach of the Year after leading
@uttylerbaseball
to the NCAA DIII National Championship this season.
📰
The field is set! Congratulations to the eight teams advancing to the
@NCAADIII
Softball Championships May 23-28 at Suddenlink Field here in Tyler, Texas
BASE | THE PATS ARE IN!
For the first time in the DII era
@uttylerbaseball
will compete in the NCAA Division II National Tournament as the no. 4 seed in the South Central Region!
#SWOOPSWOOP
The UT Tyler softball team claimed the first
#NCAAD2
national ranking for Patriot Athletics, as
@Patriot_sb
climbed to 4th in this week's
@NFCA
rankings.
#TalonsUp
Story:
WBB |
@UTTylerWBB
IS ELITE EIGHT BOUND!
UT Tyler wins the NCAA South Central Regional Tournament with a 67-64 win over Lubbock Christian in double overtime!
#SWOOPSWOOP
FINAL (11 Inn.) |
@uttylerbaseball
10, Southwestern 8
Two all-time Patriots records are broken by Blake Wilson tonight. He has now appeared in more games than any other UT Tyler Baseball player and broke the career hits record when he drove in the go-ahead run with this double.
SB | THE PATS STAY IN IT! UT TYLER WINS!
@Patriot_sb
scores two runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and moves on to face Rogers State at the NCAA Division II World Series!
#3
AUM - 3
#1
UTT - 4
FINAL
#TYLERMADE
Just when everyone thought the
@uttylerbaseball
season was over, they defied the odds and are now here in Appleton, Wisconsin where they will play Oswego State at 10 a.m. on Friday. The team practiced at Fox Cities Stadium this afternoon and now all that's left is
#allthetears
.
BASE | PATS WIN!
@uttylerbaseball
explodes at the plate for 19 huge runs and runs away with the rubber match against Texas A&M-Kingsville to move on to the second weekend of the LSC Tournament!
#TYLERMADE
⚾️FINAL⚾️
@uttylerbaseball
3
@Aggies_BSB
0
Austin Schneider tossed a complete-game 2-hit shutout, striking out a school-record 👀1️⃣7️⃣👀 to earn the win.
HE'S DONE IT! Blake Wilson gets career hit
#220
with an RBI double to give the Patriots an 8-7 lead in the top of the 11th inning and break the
@uttylerbaseball
record for career hits.
BASE | Congratulations to
@uttylerbaseball
head coach Brent Porche for recording his 300th career win with today's 7-2 victory over Texas A&M-Kingsville!
#TYLERMADE
FINAL:
@uttylerbaseball
is ONE WIN away from winning the NCAA DIII National Championship after securing an 8-1 victory over TLU in the first game of the best-of-3 series. Game Two of the series will start at 2 p.m. here in Appleton, Wisconsin.
SB | THE PATS ARE GOING TO DENVER!
#1
@Patriot_sb
wins game three by a 6-4 final score and punches their ticket to the NCAA Division II World Series as champions of the South Central Region!
#TYLERMADE
The 2019-20 Male Athlete of the Year is Austin Schneider (
@uttylerbaseball
), who led the Patriots to a 20-3 record & final top-20 national rank, finishing among D2 national leaders with 63 strikeouts. He was 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA & set a school-record with 17 strikeouts in 1 game.
August 22nd is now UT Tyler Baseball National Champions Day in the City of Tyler!!
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Mayor Martin Heines made the proclamation before this morning's City Council Meeting
Thank you to Bob Irwin who has had an incredible impact on
@uttylerbaseball
from the beginning of the program! We would not be who we are today without the generosity of Bob and Mary Irwin and are forever grateful for both of them who we share this National Championship with!
ICYMI: Ashley Perez earned NFCA All-America, Schutt Sports/NFCA National Freshman of the Year, Diamond Sports/NFCA Cather of the Year, ASC Player of the Year and ASC Freshman of the Year. She had 19 homers (single-season record), 69 RBIs and hit .462 for
@Patriot_sb
this season.
VB |
#12
@uttyler_vball
will play for the school’s first Lone Star Conference Championship at 6 pm tomorrow night in the championship match!
UAFS - 22
#12
UTT - 25
FINAL
#TYLERMADE
WSOC | UT TYLER PULLS OFF THE UPSET WIN OVER DIVISION I STEPHEN F. AUSTIN!
Kiersten Ehler's 63rd-minute goal lifts
@soccerpatriots
to a 1-0 road win on Friday night. The win is the first for the program over a Division I opponent!
#TYLERMADE
NATIONAL BASEBALL COACH OF THE YEAR‼️
AWARD:
@uttylerbaseball
's
@CoachPorche
has been named the ABCA/Diamond NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year after leading the Patriots to the 2018 NCAA DIII National Championship.
📰
PRESEASON POLL:
@uttylerbaseball
picked to win its fourth straight and seventh overall ASC championship in 2018. The Patriots are coming off a 39-win season and begin practice next Tuesday and the season on Feb. 8 at Irwin Field.
📰
ARE YOU READY?⬇️
BASE | Win no. 350 and counting.
@uttylerbaseball
head coach Brent Porche collected win no. 350 of his career in tonight's 10-6 victory over Cameron!
One of the best on and off the diamond, congratulations coach Porche!
#SWOOPSWOOP
Congrats to Jared Pauley who established a new
@uttylerbaseball
single-season record with 19 stolen bases, Bowie Farris who has 16 doubles which is the second most and Blake Wilson's 75 hits are the fourth most in a year by a Patriot.
BASE | PATS WIN!
@uttylerbaseball
takes both games of the doubleheader against
#5
Angelo State! Mitchell Lee gets his second save of the day after shutting down the Rams in the bottom of the seventh!
#TYLERMADE
BASE | PATS WIN!
@uttylerbaseball
scores three runs in the top of the ninth inning to force extra innings and then wins it with a Kyle McShaffry sacrifice fly in the top of the 13th inning!
#TYLERMADE
WBB | Officially introducing the sixth head women's basketball coach in the history of UT Tyler, Rebecca Alvidrez!
Welcome to the Patriot family
@CoachRAlvidrez
#TYLERMADE
TOURNAMENT BOUND:
@uttylerbaseball
has earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Baseball Championship tournament. More details will be available later this afternoon. 📰
“They are the definition of toughness and grit. They weren’t going to be denied. It’s been so fun to watch and I’m so proud." said National Champion
@CoachPorche
of his
@uttylerbaseball
team.
BASE | PATS WIN!
@uttylerbaseball
gets a career performance from Garrett Arredondo as he goes 8.2 innings with 9 strikeouts in the win as we will head to a winner take all game on Sunday!
#SWOOPSWOOP
Help us WELCOME BACK
@uttylerbaseball
tonight around 8-9 p.m. at the
@UTTyler
Alumni House. The Patriots will fly out of Wisconsin this afternoon and arrive back on campus as NATIONAL CHAMPS! We'll have a more solid time for you later, but start making plans now to be there.